“Anybody can play,” Mary Ballantine says.
Should the city grow up and out through annexation and new, bigger developments? Or should it put on the brakes and maintain its small-town suburban feel?
It’s an interesting time, indeed, with Kirkland currently working through an identity crisis.
A potential controversy over Bridle Trails State Park was avoided last week when Seattle City Light agreed to drastically reduce the number of trees it would cut down to protect power lines running through the park’s center.
A citizens group opposed to the “preferred” Parkplace redevelopment option has asked the city to redo sections of a state-mandated study that must be completed before the project can gain approval.
In a letter sent to the Kirkland Planning Commission on May 16, Kirkland Citizens for Responsible Development (Kirkland CRD) cited serious flaws in the traffic and parking studies, along with a failure to account for all funding sources, in its request for a revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS).
I learned a new word this week: NIMBY. As in Not In My Back Yard. As in “the NIMBYs don’t really have a good reason why they don’t want this project, they just know they don’t want to be next to it.”
Already focused on Kirkland as the possible source of eight cases of measles in Grant County, local public health officials said last weekend that another Grant County resident who visited the area at the end of April has contracted the disease.
Lucky for me Mary Harris is from South Africa.
