Kirkland is all but assured that its city center will be designated as a Regional Growth Center. In November, the King County Council took action to approve and ratify the designation, which means that it is now a recognized Urban Center in the Comprehensive Plan and will be incorporated in
The Eastside is going to get a bicycle and pedestrian trail that will be the envy of the trail users throughout the region. Last Tuesday, the plan to build a Eastside Rail Corridor (ERC) trail took a step forward. We were not there, well, because it was in Bellevue, but
Editor’s Note: King County 2030 is a series analyzing King County’s future through the lens of growth targets for the County’s Metro and Core cities. Topics in the series include: density, sprawl, apportionment of jobs and housing, traffic patterns, greenhouse gas emissions, and more. For other articles