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WINTER 2025 NEWSLETTER
Your SRHBT Neighborhood Association Board does not want to let these news items slip through the cracks, so we’ve compiled this irregularly published newsletter to keep you up to speed.
NERTS and Taylor Fields News:
First off, Kirkland City Council recently updated the Comprehensive Plan regarding policy related to solid waste utilities to accurately reflect the latest developments. {The City’s appeal of King County Solid Waste’s siting decision on the Northeast Regional Transfer Station}. The updates help to accurately memorialize for everyone involved – the City, its residents, the site’s neighbors, and the County – the City’s long-standing positions. That policy had to be updated if it was going to accurately reflect the latest developments. And for the sake of good governance and good record-keeping, it’s important to have consistent, coherent documentation in (1) the letters the City has sent to the County and (2) the City’s own records (in this case, the Comp Plan).
Thanks to Councilmember Neal Black for alerting us to this update.
And thanks to outgoing Councilmember and former Mayor Penny Sweet. Phil Allen (Friends of Taylor Fields) credits Councilmember Sweet for her foresight in ensuring that the approximately $34 million the County set aside for land acquisition would go to whatever City was chosen to host the new transfer station.
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Second, City of Kirkland staff is following up with the appropriate parties to see that graffiti and litter at the Taylor Fields ballfields are cleaned up.
Last but not least, the Factoria Recycling and Transfer Station is undergoing repairs and will close to garbage and recycling self-haulers on weekdays through mid-February. Self-haulers are directed to Renton or Houghton midweek during the closure, so plan accordingly.
Bridle Trails State Park: Opportunity to give feedback
Thanks to our neighbors to the south–specifically the Bridle Trails Community Club–for letting us know about AT&T’s plan to construct a monopole at the south end of Bridle Trails State Park and to invite us to attend their January 28 meeting to learn more and ask questions.
Bellevue Community Club Meeting
Date: January 28, 2026
Time : Social time starts at 6:5, meeting runs 7-8:20 pm.
Place Cherry Crest Elementary School cafeteria,
12400 N.E. 32nd Street, Bellevue
All are welcome!
Welcome, Ruk Thai!
The latest to our neighborhood international cuisine scene is now open in the Bridle Trails Shopping Center.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
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