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Christopher Randels

Christopher Randels
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Chris Randels is the founder and director of Complete Streets Bellevue, an advocacy organization looking to make it easier for people to get around Bellevue without a car. Chris lived in the Lake Hills neighborhood for nearly a decade and cares about reducing emissions and improving safety in the Eastside's largest city.
Early Tuesday morning, over 150 people packed into a fourth floor ballroom of Meydenbauer Center to attend Bellevue's annual State of the City address...
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As reported last week, Kirkland's recent updates to its tree codes have led to a lawsuit from the Master Builders' Association of King and...
UPDATE (07/05/2022) This article was updated with newly-released renderings from WSDOT of the replacement bridge and new figures for the width of the multipurpose...
an aerial view of Kirkland showing the downtown near the waterfront and some close by residential neighborhoods.
On the Eastside, cities are grappling with the often competing desires to grow housing capacity and preserve tree canopy in urban areas. Tension between...
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Bellevue is continuing the trend of Eastside cities analyzing their retail sectors, and their City Council is doing so without enacting a development moratorium....
On Tuesday evening, Mercer Island's City Council is poised to renew a moratorium that prevents the redevelopment of parcels in the southeast corner of...
With election season already around the corner, cities that want their residents to vote on November ballot measures are moving to finish necessary planning...