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Council has the ten-year street list, and a sales tax and car-tab fee could pay for more of it

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AI illustration: Downtown Bellevue's lit towers at blue hour seen across the still water of Meydenbauer Bay from the Meydenbauer Bay Park pier
Downtown Bellevue from Meydenbauer Bay Park. AI illustration of the real place, checked against street-level imagery, November 2026.

At Tuesday's budget session, staff laid out three scenarios for 2027–2036 transportation projects. The first uses existing revenue ($294 million). The second adds a 0.1% sales tax through the Transportation Benefit District (about $11 million a year, $398 million in all). The third also adds a $20 vehicle fee, which raises another $2 million a year for neighborhood projects ($418 million in all). Next: October 13 (utility rates), a hearing on October 27, and adoption on November 17. Source

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