We all know that parking in downtown Kirkland can be a royal pain. If you happen to arrive at the wrong time, you are hard-pressed to find anything available. The recent influx of downtown residents has only exasperated the parking issue...

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.

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 reply of this month is by I got out...  He or she was responding to a post I wrote on May 8 titled, Help solve Kirkland's serious budget problem. The post includes a reader poll on options to balance the City budget. It is your right as the owner of this blog to create a survey but let’s acknowledge that the wording and layout of your survey will lead to predictable results. The term “raid” on the fleet suggestion will reduce people that chose that answer. I agree that is not a good source to find money, but the wording could have been more neutral.