https://plat.house/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00Z Land use findings from public records, East King County. https://plat.house/stories/bellevue-overdoses/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00Z 2026-11-07T00:00:00Z

Overdoses treated in the East region, Bellevue's overdose deaths, who died and which drugs, and where to get help. Public Health data, explained.

https://plat.house/stories/bellevue-failing-intersections/ 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z 2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

[Updated] Bellevue's plan forecasts 18 intersections busier than the city's limit at the evening rush by 2045, mostly beside I-405 downtown and on 148th Avenue. The Transportation Commission takes up the list on 12 November.

https://plat.house/stories/bellevue-homelessness-by-month/ 2026-11-05T00:00:00Z 2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Homelessness reports filed through Bellevue's MyBellevue app fell 40% in January to September 2026 against the same months of 2025, while police calls coded behavioural health rose 35%; neither counts homeless people, and why reports fell is not known.

https://plat.house/stories/bellevue-permit-fees/ 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z 2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

[Updated] Bellevue's permit fees come to $24,606 for the city's example new house and $8,705 for a small commercial project. The city proposes about 6% more on each for 2027, with hourly review rates up about 9.5% and some flat fees up by a third or more; the Council is scheduled to adopt the budget on 17 November.

https://plat.house/stories/reading-king-county-homelessness-data/ 2026-09-09T00:00:00Z 2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

[Updated] In January 2024 East King County had 1,910 homeless people, 1,114 of them outside, by a survey estimate with no published margin of error; HUD's annual file repeats the outdoor count in odd years, so most published trend charts are wrong.

https://plat.house/stories/bellevue-surface-parking/ 2026-10-20T00:00:00Z 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z

[Updated] [Corrected] Measured lot by lot from 2023 aerial photographs, Bellevue's surface parking lots cover about 1,090 to 1,310 acres, roughly 5 to 6% of its land, as the Council writes the rules for how much parking new buildings must provide.

https://plat.house/stories/bellhop/ 2026-11-01T00:00:00Z 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z

[Updated] BellHop, the free electric shuttle around downtown Bellevue, gave 185,602 rides from 2023 to May 2026, and half its ten busiest stops are grocery stores. The preliminary 2027–28 budget keeps the city's share at $150,000 a year, the same as 2025 and 2026; the Council adopts it on 17 November.

https://plat.house/stories/belred-ethnic-groceries/ 2026-10-25T00:00:00Z 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z

[Updated] The food businesses around NE 20th Street, a dated parcel-level inspection baseline, and what BelRed’s proposed grocery and affordable-commercial incentives would mean for existing tenants.

https://plat.house/stories/eastside-police-facial-recognition/ 2026-11-03T00:00:00Z 2026-11-03T00:00:00Z

Washington has required police to file a notice, publish an accountability report and hold community meetings before using facial recognition since July 2021, with no penalty for skipping them. A search of Bellevue, Redmond, Issaquah, Mercer Island, Medina and Clyde Hill sites on 3 November 2026 found no notice or report; Kirkland and King County ban the technology for their own governments.

https://plat.house/stories/factoria/ 2026-10-24T00:00:00Z 2026-11-03T00:00:00Z

[Updated] 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.

https://plat.house/stories/inside-bellevue-collection/ 2026-11-01T00:00:00Z 2026-11-03T00:00:00Z

[Updated] A place guide to Bellevue Square, Bellevue Place and Lincoln Square North and South, with dated sources and a separate sale story.

https://plat.house/stories/three-bedroom-scarcity/ 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z 2026-10-31T00:00:00Z

[Updated] [Corrected] A family that needs three bedrooms and rents is choosing from 832 apartments in the entire city. In buildings of 20 or more units, 3.4% have three bedrooms, against 5.2% across King County.

https://plat.house/stories/belred-family-housing-bonus/ 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z 2026-10-29T00:00:00Z

[Updated] [Corrected] Wilburton's new code rewards three-bedroom apartments; BelRed's, drafted in the same package, does not, though staff proposed it in 2023, commissioners asked in 2024 and owners asked in 2026. 0.9% of BelRed's new apartments have three bedrooms, against 3.4% in Bellevue's buildings of 20 or more units.

https://plat.house/stories/redmond-bellevue-housing/ 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z 2026-10-27T00:00:00Z

[Updated] [Corrected] Redmond, half Bellevue's size, built 768 apartments a year from 2015 to 2023 against Bellevue's 525: about three times Bellevue's rate per resident, whichever record dates the buildings.

https://plat.house/stories/bellevue-downtown-park/ 2026-10-25T00:00:00Z 2026-10-25T00:00:00Z

How Downtown Park grew from school land into a public gathering place, who maintains it, how improvements are funded, and how events and everyday use share the park.

https://plat.house/stories/bravern/ 2026-10-25T00:00:00Z 2026-10-25T00:00:00Z

[Corrected] A profile of the Bravern’s shops, restaurants, apartments and offices, with a dated business directory and the distinct histories behind its connected buildings.

https://plat.house/stories/bellevue-collection/ 2026-10-07T00:00:00Z 2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

[Updated] [Corrected] The Freeman family is exploring a sale of the Bellevue Collection. A tour of what the sale covers, the shops and food, the workplaces, the hotels and homes, and the gatherings around Bellevue Way, with what a sale could change for the people who use them and a dated record of where the sale stands.