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Redmond council adopts Redmond 2050 code updates, approves related ordinances and resolutions
Summary
The Redmond City Council approved a consent agenda implementing the Redmond 2050 comprehensive plan update, adopting zoning and development regulation changes and ordinances including protections for the city’s aquifer and updated affordable housing measures.
The Redmond City Council voted 6-0 on June 17 to approve a consent agenda that implements the Redmond 2050 comprehensive plan update and adopts multiple ordinances and resolutions affecting zoning, design standards and environmental protections.
Council President Kritzer said the action “takes a major step forward in implementing the vision for Redmond” and thanked staff and the Planning Commission for work dating to 2020.
The consent package, approved by voice vote, included Resolution No. 1606 (submitting countywide growth-center and industrial-center applications, including a Southeast Redmond industrial center called SEMIC); Ordinances No. 3218, 3219, 3220 and 3221 (amending chapters of the Redmond Municipal Code to implement Redmond 2050, update zoning designations and adopt the Downtown Redmond Center plan); Resolution No. 1607 (an updated affordable-housing payment-in-lieu schedule); and Ordinances No. 3222 and 3223 (technical code changes and a restriction on temporary construction dewatering in critical aquifer recharge areas).
The council recorded a 6-0 voice vote with six members present and one member, Nueva Camino, excused. Those recorded as voting in favor were Council President Kritzer; Council Members Fields, Forsyth, Slahuddin, Stewart and Anderson.
City officials said the package simplifies the zoning code, updates use regulations, incorporates mandatory green-building and universal-design provisions, establishes new incentives for housing and transit-oriented development, updates affordable-housing requirements, and adds measures to protect groundwater by limiting temporary construction dewatering in sensitive aquifer areas. Council member Stewart highlighted that the dewatering limits were the result of multi-year work to protect Redmond’s drinking water.
No individual ordinance was pulled from the consent agenda for separate debate. Council members and the mayor praised the long-running public-engagement process and the role of staff and volunteer Planning Commission members in reviewing the code changes.
The code amendments take effect according to the effective dates listed in each ordinance and resolution; the council did not take any additional separate motions beyond approving the consent agenda.
