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 ...

The Planning Commission sent this letter to the Kirkland City Council on October 7th requesting that the Council "adopt a review process that fosters broad community involvement and support and one that can be concluded within a reasonable period of time." They offered to assist the Council toward ...

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" ...

At the Kirkland City Council meeting last night, two public hearings were conducted with regard to downtown development: Ordinance No. 4149 Relating to Land ...

  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 ...

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. ...

The City Council will conduct two public hearings regarding the building moratorium, both on October 7, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall Council Chamber, 123 5th Avenue. These hearings will be open to the public ...

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.

A Kirkland Views reader sent in these drawings representing the three options for Kirkland Parkplace which are before the Planning Commission and upon which our most recent poll was based. Don't forget to mark your calendar for Thursday, June 26 at 7:00 PM to be at City Hall for what ...

Kirkland Parkplace as we know it will soon be history. The owner of the property has applied for a variance on the current zoning to allow for a planned mixed-use office/retail/hotel complex. In short, there are three possible scenarios for the future of Parkplace: 2 of them are mixed-use and ...

The hearing started with comments on the Orni and Altom PARs. Parkplace was by far the dominant issue. Those who signed up to speak but were not able to do so by the end of the evening will be first on the list for June 26th.

UPDATE: The Planning commission has announced a second public hearing on this issue to be held on June 26, 2008 at 7:00 PM. The public will have the opportunity to speak at both events.   The next Planning Commission public hearing on the proposed zoning changes for the Kirkland Parkplace development is to be ...