The city is dedicated to providing essential services to residents, but it focuses attention on certain issues of major importance. Hot topics include projects with or by other agencies in Bellevue that have an impact on residents.
Comprehensive Plan
Bellevue’s Comprehensive Plan is the city’s foundational policy document, guiding growth and development here for a 20-year span. We are updating the plan to cover the period from 2024 to 2044, with a growth strategy, provisions for middle housing (per HB 1110) and implementation of the Wilburton vision.
Diversity Advantage Initiative
An effort to ensure the city provides equitable services and is welcoming to a population that has seen dramatic shifts in age, race and place of birth.
East Main Transit Oriented District
Integrating the East Link light rail station under construction at the intersection of Main Street and 112th Avenue with the surrounding neighborhoods, including developing a transit-oriented district. Learn more about the East Main Transit-Oriented District.
Environmental Stewardship
Since 2006, the city has worked to protect the environment in Bellevue through policies and programs that facilitate conservation and minimize pollution.
Factoria Boulevard Stormwater Conveyance
The Factoria Boulevard Stormwater Conveyance Improvements project will improve stormwater infrastructure to reduce the risks of flooding during heavy storms in the Factoria-Richards Creek drainage basin.
Fire Station 10
The city is building a new fire station to better serve residents in the Northwest Bellevue, downtown and BelRed areas. Fire Station 10 will improve response times for fire and medical emergencies.
Grand Connection Land Use Code
Establishing a vision for a non-motorized corridor through downtown that will create new opportunities for connectivity and community identity. Learn more about the Grand connection.
Homelessness in Bellevue
With the number of unsheltered people on the Eastside growing, the city is engaged in multiple efforts to address homelessness.
Housing Affordability
Bellevue is a metropolitan center and the largest employment center on the Eastside. Bellevue is seeing unprecedented growth that is likely to continue as the nationwide trend toward urban living continues. This has resulted in a substantive increase in median home values and rentals here.
Lakemont Boulevard Culvert
The City of Bellevue declared an emergency in 2023 and completed an emergency project in June 2024 to address public safety at the Lakemont Boulevard cros
Vision Zero
Bellevue's Vision Zero initiative aims to eliminate traffic deaths and serious-injury collisions on city streets by 2030. To achieve this goal, the Bellevue City Council adopted the Safe System approach.