At the November 13, 2008 meeting of the Kirkland Planning Commission, the majority voted to recommend to the City Council the approval of: Touchstone Parkplace Private Amendment Request (PAR) Costco Private Amendment Request (PAR) The first part of the meeting was a study session ...

  Molly Michner, right, was caught sneaking around Kirkland Parkplace trying to find any discarded pumpkin seeds from the 600 pound behemoth parked between Mark's Hallmark and Weldon Barber. If everything goes as planned, Molly will ...

The Planning Commission held the final public hearing on the Touchstone Parkplace PAR on Thursday night in Council Chambers at City Hall. The room was packed with thoughtful, impassioned people, many of whom were sporting "Green Light" buttons or "See the Blue Sky" ...

  The Kirkland Planning Commission will conduct two public hearings to consider the Public Amendment Requests (PARs) for Parkplace, Altom and Orni. These are the final scheduled public hearings prior to these PARs are sent to ...

Touchstone and Citizens for Responsible Development have submitted 200-word rebuttals to each other's arguments which have been amended to their respective Point and Counterpoints. You can read them here: Point/Counterpoint: Touchstone on Kirkland Parkplace Social and Economic Impact Point/Counterpoint: CRD on Kirkland Parkplace Social ...

Today, the City of Kirkland Planning Department released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the City of Kirkland Downtown Area Planned Action Ordinance (PAO) prepared in accordance with the State Environmental Policy Act. The Proposed Action being considered includes three ...

While community is primarily about people, it’s also interesting to look at how buildings can contribute to community. Can new buildings make an already great community even more solid by providing resources to the city, places where people can connect, and improved quality of life and environment? For certain.

In the 1960s, our city leaders envisioned Kirkland with open space and lakefront parks that would be gathering places for our community. Peter Kirk Park was founded with a HUD grant and later a library and community centers were added. It’s not only a gathering place, it was ...

  Touchstone and Citizens for Responsible Development have submitted 200-word rebuttals to each other's arguments which have been amended to their respective Point and Counterpoints. You can read them here: Point/Counterpoint: Touchstone on Kirkland Parkplace Traffic Point/Counterpoint: CRD on Kirkland Parkplace Traffic     The entire three-part ...

SEATTLE—October 7, 2008— The permit has been finalized for Park Place North, a 62,000 s.f. commercial construction project in Kirkland’s Norkirk neighborhood, immediately north of the Park Place development. Designed to LEED® Silver standard, Park Place North will be unique in ...

The Kirkland Citizens for Responsible Development (CRD) have released a document listing various reasons why they oppose the development plans for Kirkland Parkplace. The four-page document, "Professional Economics/Urban Design Critique Parkplace Zoning Amendment", was produced by R.W. ...

Traffic analysis can be a complex issue. Touchstone understands that many Kirkland residents are deeply concerned about the potential traffic impacts of the Parkplace redevelopment. While a project of this scale can cause some people to be alarmed, there is a straightforward methodology to measure traffic impacts that is applied ...

Imagine a Downtown Kirkland so gridlocked on weekday afternoons, that you will avoid shopping or driving through downtown to get to I-405. How will this affect your current lifestyle and quality of life? From the Draft Environmental Impact Study (DEIS), we know that approximately 5,800 cars (office employees, office visitors, ...

Touchstone and Citizens for Responsible Development have submitted 200-word rebuttals to each other's arguments which have been amended to their respective Point and Counterpoints. You can read them here: Point/Counterpoint: Touchstone on Kirkland Parkplace Parking Point/Counterpoint: CRD on Kirkland Parkplace Parking

The proposal by Touchstone Corporation to redevelop Parkplace provides for grossly inadequate parking. If approved as proposed, the parking shortfall will deliver a lasting, negative impact to the residents and businesses around downtown...

Throughout the public-review process of Touchstone’s proposed redevelopment of Kirkland Parkplace, parking has been one of the primary topics of discussion among local residents, business people and other community stakeholders...

The Kirkland Parkplace opposition group, Kirkland Citizens for Responsible Development (CRD) has produced a mailer announcing an open house the group will be holding. The mailer will be sent to 4,000 plus households in the Moss Bay, Highlands, Norkirk and Market neighborhoods. ...

Downtown Bellevue has a new Safeway in a mixed-use project and there are lessons for Kirkland Parkplace to learn from this first of its kind store on the Eastside. The "flagship lifestyle store" includes underground parking that stands out as superior to some...

The arguments both for and against the three Parkplace development options before the Commission were well reasoned and often filled with passion. Excellent points were made by both the Kirkland CRD and Touchstone sides during the public hearing and the hope is this input will help improve the project.

For the Planning Commision, this is about as big as it gets. We expect the place to be filled to the rafters. Come give your two cents worth. Whatever your stripe, your opinion counts. Express yourself. The future of Kirkland Parkplace is at stake.