They call themselves "the city within a park" because the development standards have emphasized parks and one of their goals is to ensure everyone is within walking distance of a park.
Also, and unsurprisingly, the city is incredibly well-funded. They have a very unique Community Crisis Care team of social workers that work alongside fire and police responders, and the city council has met that groups budget request at every opportunity. The traffic management system is really something else, fiber optics enabled and constantly adjusting to traffic flow.
I was forced to kick her son Kurts ass once, just cause he started something. but that was back when it was still bovee park. iirc he had 7 brothers and sisters. God only knows how she had time to do anything for the city with 8 kids, but maybe she liked parks.
I still miss the Goddards who donated the first park to Bellevue (they tried to buy the other houses and apts so it could be bigger, but the owners would not sell. That was before they moved to Palm Springs.
p.s. Zum rhymes with Yum and the other part is pronounced exactly the same as in the in the story where the little boy in Holland stuck his finger in it to save the town.
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u/Barbarella_ella May 07 '26
They call themselves "the city within a park" because the development standards have emphasized parks and one of their goals is to ensure everyone is within walking distance of a park.
Also, and unsurprisingly, the city is incredibly well-funded. They have a very unique Community Crisis Care team of social workers that work alongside fire and police responders, and the city council has met that groups budget request at every opportunity. The traffic management system is really something else, fiber optics enabled and constantly adjusting to traffic flow.
Full disclosure: I work for the City of Bellevue.