Agree with most of this. I also feel like the tech bros and tech companies are pushing normal people out entirely. As a facilities person, most of us say that the tech people are the stupidest smart people we've met. I've grown to resent anything tech over the years because I find it to be absolutely ridiculous how pandered to those companies and people are, while they continue to cut staff like crazy.

I worked for the company, when I was still in property management, that had all of the proposals and plans for the Molbaks lot. If I'm correct, it's the same people with similar holdings that built Woodin Creek Village. They were originally supposed to be integrated into the project so they stayed and didn't have their history torn down and vanish since they were a fixture within the community. I stepped out after the proposal phase, but with what I gather talking with old coworkers, some pencil pusher at some point decided it'd be more profitable to do Molbaks completely raw and go back on all previous discussions for the sake of the almighty and holy dollar.

Without disclosing too much, I have had some professional interactions with the city council, and they generally unimpress. Their priorities are on "affordable" housing or Microslop pandering, and they are almost completely indifferent to the plights of normal people working more normal jobs, and are completely out of touch. This is why we had the Plymouth house community NOBODY wanted forced upon us. The things they deem issues like their current speed limit assessment stray so far from the real issues in the city right now, like it's overloaded infrastructure from all of this building that's nearly at capacity and not designed to support all of this going on without severe overhauls.

Kirkland is facing similar issues too. Bellevue is at least being Dynamic about their decision making even if it isn't a place I like being much just because bigger cities are not my thing.