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Redmond staff outlines focused 2025 code amendment package to address alleys, setbacks, open space and evacuation access
Summary
Planning staff proposed a targeted amendment package to address alley widths for townhouses, rear setbacks tied to parking, contiguous usable open space standards, emergency-access thresholds and planter-strip irrigation rules, with a timeline that takes the package to the Planning Commission in October–November and to council for adoption in December.
Planning staff told the Redmond City Council they will pursue a small, focused package of 2025 development-code amendments aimed at issues raised by recent master development plans, including alley standards for townhouses, townhouse rear setbacks and off‑street parking, usable open‑space requirements, fire‑evacuation access and planter‑strip landscaping.
"We're gonna spend the next handful of minutes talking with you guys about basically finishing up 2025 with, small yet focused and hopefully effective, code amendment package," Planning staff (Speaker 3) said at the meeting, and later added that the goal is "to bring something to the council for adoption by the end of this calendar year." The staff presentation framed the package as a complement to an earlier, larger 12‑month review of neighborhood…
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