Neighborhood plans for Factoria and Eastgate
Next with the City Council · Tuesday 10 November
The city lists it as “Council review of the neighborhood area plans for Eastgate and Factoria as recommended by Planning Commission”
Why it matters
These two plans set the city's long-term policies for Factoria and Eastgate, from housing and shops to parks and streets. They become part of Bellevue's Comprehensive Plan once the Council adopts them. source
Where it stands
- 5 November 2025City gives notice of both plan updates sourceDone
- 24 June 2026Commission reviews the Factoria plan and sets a hearing sourceDone
- 23 September 2026Commission hearings. It recommends both plans unanimously, Eastgate with one amendment sourceDone
- TodaySunday 8 November
- 10 November 2026Council study session on both plans (agenda item 26-631). Not the adoption vote sourceNext
- Date not setCouncil adoption by ordinance sourceLater
What’s been said
“A motion to amend the motion to add the issue of public safety to Policy S-EG-N17 was made by Commissioner Khanloo.”
Minutes, on the Eastgate plan · Draft minutes of the 23 September hearings, page 7
“subsequent City Council action on the Commission's recommendation would constitute final city action on the amendment”
Minutes, on Chair Lu · Draft minutes of the 23 September hearings, page 7
Transcripts of these sessions are coming. Until then this quotes only the city’s written records.
What we’ve said and written
What this site has published on it
- Factoria Mall: its shops, T&T and the apartments to come The shops, errands and food around Factoria Mall, T&T's arrival and Amazon Fresh's exit, and the approved plan to rebuild the mall with apartments, a hotel and offices.
Next step and how to weigh in
Tuesday 10 November · City Council · Agenda not posted yet
The Council reviews the two neighborhood plans the Planning Commission recommended after its 23 September hearing. The plans take effect when the Council adopts them by ordinance. The 10 November agenda lists them as a study session item, so that night is a review, not the adoption vote.
How to comment
Email [email protected]; the city takes email to the Council at any time. Its budget page asks for the subject line “Written Communications” and for comments by 3 p.m. on the meeting day, which here is Tuesday 10 November. To speak instead, sign up on the oral communications page from noon that day; each speaker gets three minutes. Whatever you send becomes a public record.
How this was checked
Meetings and agenda items come from Bellevue’s Legistar meeting calendar, read by plat’s agenda watcher, which keeps items on housing, land use, parking and streets and leaves out the rest. It last read the city’s calendar on Sunday 8 November. Agenda headings and the city’s glossary of agenda terms are left out. An item is matched to a published story only where the watcher’s fixed topic list says the story speaks to it.
Each decision’s stages come from the city’s project pages, staff memos and minutes, linked beside each one. A date the city expects but has not fixed is marked expected. Quotes are copied from the city’s PDFs and checked word for word against the page they cite on every build; minutes marked draft are not yet approved.
Who wrote in counts the letters on the item in the meeting packet. Organisations, firms and property owners are named with what they asked for. Residents who wrote are counted, with what they wrote about, and not named.
Decided items come from the actions the city records on each agenda item. A decision this page followed stays under Decided for good; an agenda item it only linked a story to stays 30 days.
Our comments are quoted from the text that was sent. Whether one was taken up is filled in from the meeting record after the decision.
Sources: Planning Commission page, read 25 October; City Council page, read 25 October; Council oral communications page, read 20 October; Budget public involvement page, read 24 October; Great Neighborhoods page, read 24 October; Draft minutes of the 23 September hearings, read 25 October.