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Redmond staff outline transportation review, funding and county coordination for annexations
Summary
City staff described how annexation applications trigger Transportation System Plan reviews and traffic impact analyses, outlined funding tools for intersection improvements and raised the need to update a 2007 joint management agreement with the county.
City of Redmond staff told council that transportation impacts are evaluated early in the annexation process and that several funding and jurisdictional tools exist to manage traffic effects as land moves from county to city control.
Lindsay Crump, Public Works and Engineering, said the city requires a transportation impact analysis before master plan submittal or council action and that the analysis covers trip generation, level of service at impacted intersections, access management and crash history. "We look at crash summaries and patterns reported through the state's databases," Crump said, adding that a safety problem is defined when an intersection meets the code's specified crash threshold.
The presentation tied those reviews to the city's planning documents: the 2040 comprehensive plan, the Transportation System Plan (TSP) and other public-facility master plans. Kyle (last name not specified), planning staff, explained the sequence: pre‑development meetings, drafting annexation agreements, council review of annexation agreements, then master development plan…
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