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Staff previews General Government Facilities Plan that maps city building needs to 2050
Summary
Redmond staff presented an early draft of a General Government Facilities Plan (GGFP) to align city-owned buildings and capital needs with Redmond 2050 growth targets, outline funding options and schedule review and public hearing dates for fall.
Cameron Zapata, Senior Park Planner in the Parks and Recreation Department, briefed the Redmond Planning Commission on the General Government Facilities Plan (GGFP), describing it as the city’s high-level plan for city-occupied buildings and capital needs through 2050. The plan is being positioned as an amendment to the comprehensive plan’s capital facilities element and will follow the Type 6 process in the Redmond Zoning Code with required analysis under state planning requirements, staff said.
Zapata said the GGFP focuses on city-occupied buildings maintained by the facilities team (about 32 buildings on 13 sites, roughly 500,000 square feet) and does not include non-city-occupied structures, parks-only ancillary buildings, water/wastewater/stormwater infrastructure, transportation networks or schools. The plan will identify where new or expanding facilities may be needed, include a financing analysis and align facility needs with the comprehensive plan growth targets.
Staff previewed project timing and funding sources. The plan groups projects into near-term (now–2032, 50 projects), medium-term (2033–2040, 26 projects) and long-term (2041–2050, 17 projects). Potential funding sources listed include the general fund, real estate excise tax, grants, bonds, impact fees, developer contributions, partnerships and philanthropy. Staff said the GGFP will incorporate updated facility condition assessments completed in 2023 and will include analysis demonstrating whether the plan meets capital facilities criteria and RCW requirements when it returns for commission review.
Commissioners asked whether the GGFP replaces or extends the existing capital facilities plan; staff said this is a phase 2 that extends the earlier six-year CIP-aligned work out to 2050. Commissioners also requested clearer linkage between prior zoning-code incentive changes and facilities that could appear in this plan, an updated calculation on the cited statistic that “73% of facilities will require investment by 2030,” and a reference back to the capital facilities element and policy CF2 adopted with Redmond 2050. Zapata said those clarifications and a full analysis will be included in the upcoming study-session packet and subsequent public hearing materials.
