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Staff introduce Redmond zoning code cleanup package; public hearing set for June 11
Summary
City staff presented a 2025 annual zoning code cleanup package that clarifies nonconforming parking rules, corrects a public‑hearing table for Type 5 permits, adds a culvert definition and makes several appendix corrections; staff scheduled a public hearing for June 11 and may return with a recommendation by late June.
City planning staff on May 28 introduced a 2025 zoning code cleanup package and said they will hold a public hearing on the package at the Planning Commission’s June 11 meeting.
Jeff Churchill, planning staff, told commissioners the package is limited to minor technical amendments — typos, incorrect references and clarifications — and does not propose new policy. "My purpose here tonight is to introduce those items in preparation for a public hearing that is scheduled at your next meeting on June 11," Churchill said.
The package contains six items (three require planning commission review and three were handled administratively in appendices), including:
- A clarification on nonconforming parking quantities so that a change of use does not, by itself, trigger a requirement to add parking spaces if the building footprint does not change; staff said the intent is to make retenanting existing buildings feasible without mandatory parking expansion.
- A correction to a table that erroneously stated Type 5 permit applications do not require a public hearing; the text of the code requires a hearing and the table will be fixed to match the code.
- A new definition for "culvert," proposed by public‑works engineers, to reduce ambiguity in development review (a structure under a roadway, rail line, trail or embankment used to convey flow from a natural channel or drainage ditch).
- Appendix corrections: a terminology fix changing an erroneous reference to "0 rise floodways" to the correct term "0 rise floodway," an update to references moved into RCC 15.24 following a prior council ordinance, and removal of an isolated gendered job title in Appendix 3.
Churchill said the technical committee already approved the appendix updates; the three code changes in the body of the zoning code will come forward for a June 11 public hearing, and staff anticipates the commission could be ready to make a recommendation on June 25 depending on comments.
Commissioners asked clarifying questions about how the nonconforming‑parking clarification would function in practice and about floodplain terminology. Staff offered to provide written follow‑up on the FEMA/floodway language and to include examples and the history of communication about the nonconforming‑parking change in the issues matrix. No final votes were taken on the cleanup package at the May 28 meeting.
Next steps: public hearing at the planning commission meeting on June 11; staff to return with any requested clarifications and a recommendation timeline for council review.
