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Council adopts fireworks ordinance creating new civil infraction, approves associated fee schedule after debate on fines
Summary
Council adopted Ordinance 2025-07 to reclassify illegal fireworks as a separate class of civil and administrative infraction and approved a fee resolution establishing an initial fine and related fees (including marijuana dispensary application and nonprofit license fee) after amending the resolution to allow escalating fines.
The Redmond City Council adopted an ordinance and an accompanying fee resolution that change the city’s enforcement approach to illegal fireworks and add several fees to the city’s schedule.
City staff member Keith (as introduced in the meeting) told councilors the ordinance responds to community input and seeks a middle ground between allowing legal fireworks under state law and the nuisance and fire-risk posed by illegal fireworks. "The result of all that is basically a 50-50 split of whether to keep allowing fireworks or to ban fireworks outright," Keith said, summarizing the public input and the council’s approach to a compromise.
Ordinance 2025-07 amends Redmond City Code chapters 2 and 5 to create a separate class of…
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