If you live in anywhere in Bellevue, chances are you would be impacted. If you are already concerned about Redmond Silver Cloud and Kirkland La Quinta Inn & Suites , these amount to nothing yet compared to what city of Bellevue plans to offer to its own residents. Bellevue Planning Commission is planning to change the zoning code to allow homeless shelters IN ALL SINGLE FAMILY NEIGHBORHOODS. This LUCA change proposal Supportive Housing and Emergency Shelter LUCA tells all.
Planning Commission Meeting – Wednesday February 23, 2022 – 6:30 p.m.
Agenda Land Use Code Amendment (LUCA) to establish regulations for Permanent Supportive Housing, Transitional Housing, Emergency Housing, and Emergency Shelter in the Land Use Code (LUC)
Here is Strike-Draft of Proposed LUCA
Webinar ID: 963 3288 0076
Password: 906599
Phone number to access the meeting is (253)215-8782
Please contact them and make your voices heard, and please provide your public comments at the beginning of the meeting.
Contact Person: Thara Johnson, Comp Planning Manager,
Telephone (425)452-4087 Email PlanningCommission@bellevuewa.gov
For more meeting details and agendas, please visit https://bellevuewa.gov/city-government/departments/community-development/planning-commission
This is no longer just an issue with one area or two, it’s becoming a common issue across eastside cities. Please spread the words out to your families, friends and coworkers, post to social media. All concerned residents are welcome to Join Us – Safe Eastside .
By the way, please think twice next time when you get to vote on any tax or levies, do you really want to give the government any more of your money ? Sure the ballot titles would always look lofty, shiny and appealing. Think about what the government has been doing with our tax money. Snatching up hotels and soon single family houses around yours would be just a piece of cake if Bellevue’s plan goes ahead and even gets replicated in other cities. All in the name of trying to “solve” Seattle’s failure.
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17 Comments
PeiYong Zhang · February 5, 2022 at 1:23 pm
Do something to stop it
Betsi Hummer · February 6, 2022 at 5:59 pm
his is actually a Public Hearing. Comments will be taken after Staff presentations. Email Your input to planningcommission@bellevuewa.gov so they hear you before and during the meeting. Be sure to give a doable solution, i.e. require a Conditional Use Permit for every Supportive Housing application, require Good Neighbor Agreement Committee like Homeless Services Uses Land Use Code 20.20.455, require similar operating procedures as included in the Homeless Services Uses Land Use Code 20.20.455 https://bellevue.municipal.codes/LUC/20.20.455. Please look up the HSU and determine which 2 or 3 guidelines would work. This is State Mandated, so it will pass. Also, there is already an Interim Official Control in place that expires in June; Planning Commission doesn’t have any urgency to approve it right now. Ask for PC to research applying the HSU to the LUCA. Also, ask about research into what other jurisdictions have done to comply with State Law. Here is a link to the Strike Draft of the Land Use Code https://bellevue.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10426418&GUID=096DB81D-AF89-4FDE-83DD-DE08E79E9D27
Larry Severn · February 5, 2022 at 5:48 pm
This is leadership and forward thinking at its finest. Way to go Bellevue!
Betsi Hummer · February 6, 2022 at 6:00 pm
his is actually a Public Hearing. Comments will be taken after Staff presentations. Email Your input to planningcommission@bellevuewa.gov so they hear you before and during the meeting. Be sure to give a doable solution, i.e. require a Conditional Use Permit for every Supportive Housing application, require Good Neighbor Agreement Committee like Homeless Services Uses Land Use Code 20.20.455, require similar operating procedures as included in the Homeless Services Uses Land Use Code 20.20.455 https://bellevue.municipal.codes/LUC/20.20.455. Please look up the HSU and determine which 2 or 3 guidelines would work. This is State Mandated, so it will pass. Also, there is already an Interim Official Control in place that expires in June; Planning Commission doesn’t have any urgency to approve it right now. Ask for PC to research applying the HSU to the LUCA. Also, ask about research into what other jurisdictions have done to comply with State Law. Here is a link to the Strike Draft of the Land Use Code https://bellevue.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10426418&GUID=096DB81D-AF89-4FDE-83DD-DE08E79E9D27
Mark Marianna Gershovich · February 9, 2022 at 4:37 pm
The idea of breaking the single-family neighborhood culture in Bellevue did not come overnight.
The latest push under guise of allowing homeless shelters in the midst of single-family zoning is just that, the guise.
There is a Big money behind all these efforts.
What is at stake it’s the American way of life, the American dream of having a house with a yard, security, privacy, being a good neighbor and having a good one next door.
Majority of Bellevue homeowners are middle class hardworking people. Their houses are their biggest investment in their lives.
This proposal is to sacrifice the middle-class dreams and aspirations at the altar of big business and social justice warriors.
Diana · February 6, 2022 at 6:53 am
What solutions are there for the most in need part of our community?
What solution is there besides this?
We are all vulnerable to the horrific challenge of being homeless.
Let’s solve this issue humanely.
Betsi Hummer · February 6, 2022 at 6:00 pm
his is actually a Public Hearing. Comments will be taken after Staff presentations. Email Your input to planningcommission@bellevuewa.gov so they hear you before and during the meeting. Be sure to give a doable solution, i.e. require a Conditional Use Permit for every Supportive Housing application, require Good Neighbor Agreement Committee like Homeless Services Uses Land Use Code 20.20.455, require similar operating procedures as included in the Homeless Services Uses Land Use Code 20.20.455 https://bellevue.municipal.codes/LUC/20.20.455. Please look up the HSU and determine which 2 or 3 guidelines would work. This is State Mandated, so it will pass. Also, there is already an Interim Official Control in place that expires in June; Planning Commission doesn’t have any urgency to approve it right now. Ask for PC to research applying the HSU to the LUCA. Also, ask about research into what other jurisdictions have done to comply with State Law. Here is a link to the Strike Draft of the Land Use Code https://bellevue.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10426418&GUID=096DB81D-AF89-4FDE-83DD-DE08E79E9D27
Sophie · February 6, 2022 at 9:41 am
Who wants to see East side becoming like Seattle? Nobody. We say NO to crimes, no to drug addicts, which leads to NO Homeless and NO shelters.
It’s easy to understand.
Betsi Hummer · February 6, 2022 at 6:01 pm
his is actually a Public Hearing. Comments will be taken after Staff presentations. Email Your input to planningcommission@bellevuewa.gov so they hear you before and during the meeting. Be sure to give a doable solution, i.e. require a Conditional Use Permit for every Supportive Housing application, require Good Neighbor Agreement Committee like Homeless Services Uses Land Use Code 20.20.455, require similar operating procedures as included in the Homeless Services Uses Land Use Code 20.20.455 https://bellevue.municipal.codes/LUC/20.20.455. Please look up the HSU and determine which 2 or 3 guidelines would work. This is State Mandated, so it will pass. Also, there is already an Interim Official Control in place that expires in June; Planning Commission doesn’t have any urgency to approve it right now. Ask for PC to research applying the HSU to the LUCA. Also, ask about research into what other jurisdictions have done to comply with State Law. Here is a link to the Strike Draft of the Land Use Code https://bellevue.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10426418&GUID=096DB81D-AF89-4FDE-83DD-DE08E79E9D27
Sue Harms · February 6, 2022 at 9:48 am
Bellevue does NOT want to become Seattle! NO TO HOMELESS SHELTERS!
Betsi Hummer · February 6, 2022 at 6:01 pm
his is actually a Public Hearing. Comments will be taken after Staff presentations. Email Your input to planningcommission@bellevuewa.gov so they hear you before and during the meeting. Be sure to give a doable solution, i.e. require a Conditional Use Permit for every Supportive Housing application, require Good Neighbor Agreement Committee like Homeless Services Uses Land Use Code 20.20.455, require similar operating procedures as included in the Homeless Services Uses Land Use Code 20.20.455 https://bellevue.municipal.codes/LUC/20.20.455. Please look up the HSU and determine which 2 or 3 guidelines would work. This is State Mandated, so it will pass. Also, there is already an Interim Official Control in place that expires in June; Planning Commission doesn’t have any urgency to approve it right now. Ask for PC to research applying the HSU to the LUCA. Also, ask about research into what other jurisdictions have done to comply with State Law. Here is a link to the Strike Draft of the Land Use Code https://bellevue.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10426418&GUID=096DB81D-AF89-4FDE-83DD-DE08E79E9D27
Betsi Hummer · February 6, 2022 at 2:29 pm
This is actually a Public Hearing. Comments will be taken after Staff presentations. Email Your input to planningcommission@bellevuewa.gov so they hear you before and during. Be sure to give a doable solution, i.e. require a Conditional Us Permit for every Supportive Housing application, require Good Neighbor Agreement Committeees like Homeless Services Uses Land Use Code 30.20.45, require similar operating procedures as included in the Homeless Services Uses Land Use Code 20.20.45. Please look up the HSU and determine which 2 or 3 guidelines would work. This is State Mamdated, so it will pass. Also, there is already an Interim Official Control in place that expires in June; Planning Commission doesn’t have any urgency to approve it right now. Ask for PC to research applying the HSU to the LUCA. Also, what research other jurisdictions have done to comply with State Law.
Benjamin Sun · February 6, 2022 at 3:11 pm
I am all for supporting low income families and individuals but we cannot build our way out of homeless crisis. Unless I heard sound proposals to address the drug addiction and to ensure the safety of our children and neighborhood at the same time, I cannot support and homeless shelter in my neighborhood. Don’t Seattle my Bellevue!
Beth Swanson · February 16, 2022 at 2:22 pm
Well said Mr Benjamin Sun; I agree fully. Yes of course, help the poor/those working below the poverty line. Sadly these are not the ones moving in; drug addicts have already received the keys to the city of Seattle. EASTSIDE: do not welcome them with open arms to our neighborhoods too! My own daughter struggled in the past with addictions and chose homelessness for a time, and I as her own parent did not condone/support the city’s encouragement of her lifestyle. This is classic Enabling and helps NO ONE! Why do cities continue to prioritize these ‘takers’ over the actual tax-paying, hard-working, rule-following citizens?!?!
Betsi Hummer · February 6, 2022 at 5:59 pm
his is actually a Public Hearing. Comments will be taken after Staff presentations. Email Your input to planningcommission@bellevuewa.gov so they hear you before and during the meeting. Be sure to give a doable solution, i.e. require a Conditional Use Permit for every Supportive Housing application, require Good Neighbor Agreement Committee like Homeless Services Uses Land Use Code 20.20.455, require similar operating procedures as included in the Homeless Services Uses Land Use Code 20.20.455 https://bellevue.municipal.codes/LUC/20.20.455. Please look up the HSU and determine which 2 or 3 guidelines would work. This is State Mandated, so it will pass. Also, there is already an Interim Official Control in place that expires in June; Planning Commission doesn’t have any urgency to approve it right now. Ask for PC to research applying the HSU to the LUCA. Also, ask about research into what other jurisdictions have done to comply with State Law. Here is a link to the Strike Draft of the Land Use Code https://bellevue.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=10426418&GUID=096DB81D-AF89-4FDE-83DD-DE08E79E9D27
Rose · February 8, 2022 at 11:35 am
Besti, would you mind repeating that?
Harvinder Singh · February 8, 2022 at 5:29 pm
Please think next time who you vote for.
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