U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) today praised the City of Bellevue’s
Bel-Red Corridor at a hearing of the Senate Transportation
Appropriations Subcommittee, which she chairs. The hearing was held to
examine the Obama Administration’s plans to encourage sustainable
community development across the country.
Murray, who visited the Corridor last year, held
Bellevue’s project up as a national model for the type of comprehensive
approach to sustainable, environmentally-conscious development that
needs to be encouraged across the country.
“The Bel-Red Corridor is a perfect example of the type of
comprehensive approach to sustainable, environmentally-conscious
development we are trying to encourage with the Sustainable Communities
initiative,” Senator Murray said while chairing the hearing. “The city
of Bellevue has done a great job of melding plans for housing,
transportation and private investment to support economic growth and job
creation. We need to make sure federal policy is supporting great local
initiatives like the Bel-Red Corridor.”
Murray directed her remarks at U.S. Department of
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan who were witnesses at the
hearing.
“The Bel-Red vision is ambitious. Taking the vision to the
next step requires substantial public and private investments in all
types of infrastructure”, said Bellevue Mayor Don Davidson. “We think it
is exactly the type of program envisioned by the Sustainable
Communities Partnership.”
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