The Architecture Institute of Seattle is offering a series of educational events centered around designing for livability in urban settings. This is your opportunity to learn how we can better improve our city through design. Perhaps the City of Kirkland is sending a healthy contingent?...

SRM Development has filed a petition with the Superior Court of Washington against the City of Kirkland and Citizens for a Vibrant Kirkland (CiViK) claiming a violation of constitutional rights in the appeal of SRM's Bank of America/Merrill Gardens...

Shortly after Kirkland annexed the North Rose Hill neighborhood from King County in 1988, it stopped maintaining a system of ditches that had been in place and maintained by King County for near a century or more. An infrastructure that had been considered...

On Sunday morning at 7:30 the first wave of over 150 swimmers left the shores of Magnuson Park and swam across Lake Washington toward O.O. Denny Park -- a distance of one and a half miles. The event was the 4th Annual Cross Lake Washington Park to Park Swim, benefitting...

It’s time for Kirkland citizens to get past the city’s budget propaganda. Is there a deficit or not? Only if you don’t know what’s going on. Budgets are created to tell the citizens just how much the council needs to run the city. Audits make sure the budgets are ...

I’ve lived here since 1968 and have watched Kirkland add fantastic waterfront parks, underground the massive overhead wires on Market Street, and oversee the vital developments at Carillon Point, Park Place, Juanita Village, the Performing Arts Center and Peter Kirk Park. I don’t think that any of these actions...

The City of Kirkland has a vacancy on the Kirkland Park Board for a youth member. Applicants must have attained the grade level of Sophomore or Junior by September of the appointment year, be under the age of eighteen and reside within the city limits of Kirkland or Kirkland’s...

The City of Kirkland has just released the Downtown Kirkland Retail Strategy: Interim Report produced by outside consultants, E.D. Hovee & Company, LLC. The report is a part of a strategic retail study for downtown Kirkland being conducted with the Downtown Advisory Committee...

Peter Kirk Park was awash with swimmers and their families, dogs, tents, coolers, and anything else they could bring for the Craze Swim League Championship Meet held at Peter Kirk Pool. The crowds were enormous for the "micro-olympic" event for swimming kids of all ages including the Kirkland Orcas Swim ...

I just wanted to pass along my dismay to you and the Kirkland Views readers about an email I received earlier this week from the Seattle Seahawks regarding Metro and mass transit options to Qwest Field on home game days. The Seahawks received one bid...

King County encourages Bothell to move swiftly in considering adoption of the Kirkland Potential Annexation Area (PAA). King County Executive Ron Sims has written to the Bothell City Council encouraging them to adopt Kirkland's PAA...

The Kirkland Reporter has posted an advertisement for a new position: Editor. Sound Publishing, publisher of the Kirkland Reporter, posted this job listing on JournalismJobs.com which states, "The Kirkland Reporter (WA) is looking for an energetic editor to oversee their newsroom...

In case you missed it, here are a few photos we took downtown on Sunday evening at the Kirkland Criterium. It was thrilling to watch the racers speed past the spectator-lined streets. It is amazing there were not more crashes. We were especially impressed by the athleticism...

Nine out of the 50 King County businesses named as the “Best Workplaces for Recycling,” are based in Kirkland, Washington and eight of them are participating in the City’s Green Business Program. The following Kirkland businesses were recognized by King County’s...

The recent Kirkland City budget controversy reminded me of some lessons that we all learned in civics class. These lessons are timeless but they seem to get forgotten every now and then. It is important that we remember from where...

The City of Kirkland has conducted a Tax Burden Analysis to help the City Council make decision with regard to Kirkland's $13.8 million budget shortfall. Some interesting numbers show up in the report. Of particular interest is Exhibit 5: Residential and Commercial Contributions to Major...

Dear Editor: Costco wants to build a gas station way back in the neighborhood next to I-405. That's great for visibility. That's terrible for our recently enacted NE 85th Street Rezone, which calls for developement along NE 85th and not back in the neighborhood where...

An urban geographer uses un-rose-tinted glasses in peering into the crystal ball. He finds that we will not be able to do much about growing income segregation, congestion, gentrification in Seattle, and leapfrog development. Nor will rail transit help make things better...

A group calling itself, Kirkland Recall, has ended its effort to call for the resignation or recall of Kirkland Mayor Jim Lauinger, and previously Councilmember Tom Hodgson. The protagonist of the group, John Gilday, has written the following statement...

The City of Kirkland has just released an Assessment of the sustainability of Kirkland’s economy. Many of you participated in the online survey. This report summarizes the results of the Assessment, including findings from qualitative...