1. OVERVIEW

The Rose Hill Neighborhood is located between I-405 and the City of Redmond, and extends north to the Totem Lake Business District and south to the Bridle Trails neighborhood. It contains the neighborhoods of North and South Rose Hill, separated by NE 85th Street. Two commercial centers are located in the Rose Hill Neighborhood: the Rose Hill Business District along the NE 85th Street corridor and the North Rose Hill Business District at the north end of the neighborhood (the neighborhood also contains a portion of the Bridle Trails Neighborhood Center). The Rose Hill Business District straddles NE 85th Street and connects downtown Kirkland with downtown Redmond. At the north end of Rose Hill, a portion of the North Rose Hill Business District and the Lake Washington Institute of Technology are within the Totem Lake Urban Center, the major employment, retail and service center in the City. See the Totem Lake Business District Plan for more discussion about the Urban Center.

While land use in the neighborhood is primarily residential, the Rose Hill Business District is second only to the Totem Lake Business Center in generating the most sales tax revenue for the City.

The NE 85th Street Subarea Plan, North Rose Hill and South Rose Hill Neighborhood Plans were previously standalone plans. The NE 85th Street Subarea Plan included the south portions of North Rose Hill and the north portions of the South Rose Hill Neighborhoods. While both neighborhoods and the subarea were combined into one Rose Hill Neighborhood Plan in 2018, the Plan continues to address issues unique to each neighborhood. As a result of the 2018 update, the term Rose Hill Business District replaced the name NE 85th Street Subarea, and the boundary of the Rose Hill Business District was revised to exclude low-density residential land uses.