In coordination with Taylor Development, which among other things haves an unexploited 60 acre parcel of land that is districted Fabricating Park (MP) along Union Hill road in Southeastern Redmond (realise Redmond districting map hither and Live.com Map here ), City Staff has delivered the Redmond Designing Commission , of which I am a presiding member, with a proposal to expatiate the list of allowed uses in Redmond’s Fabricating Park (MP) zone to let in “Sweeping/Retail Membership” stores. In other words, they aim to enable folks like Mr. Paul Taylor with the flexibility to establish a Costco or Sam’s Club-type store out by the UPS distribution center, east of Target and Mervyns, in SE Redmond. To conciliate this, Redmond City Staff has advised that we permit such uses in all the MP zone in SE Redmond. throughout the City of Redmond.
Correction, 5/8/2007: I have been informed that the suggested regulative ammendments to allowed uses in the MP zone would confine sweeping-retail stores to the MP area in Southeastern Redmond just.
What do you recall? If you subsist in or near Redmond and specially if you transpose through or exist in or most to Southeasterly Redmond near a Fabricating Park Zone hither (to/from Redmond via Avondale Road, Redmond-Fall City Road, Willows Road, or other), I’d care to find out what you entertain this proposal. I am one of the Planning Commissioners who will presently vote on whether or not (and why) the City Council should sanction this poped the question change. Your opinion matters to me. But more significantly, your opinion matters to your fellow residents and elected officials. As such, I advance you to remark, on public record, by netmailing your thoughts to Sarah Stiteler , with the City of Redmond. I’m trusted that Sarah can as well allow for you with the replete Technological Committee Report, which I can’t find on the City Web Site (argh!), that outlines why City Staff conceives this poped the question change to be executable, appropriate, and effectual.
The deadline for public comment is May 15, 2007 at 4:30PM.
The issues before the Bing after Commission (and you) are complex…
- Service vs. Constructing–Do we require a major “sweeping/retail membership” store in Redmond? What do we mislay, in terms of next capacity for constructing uses and employment that might evolve in the future, in Redmond, if we permit this change to bing regulations?
- Traffic and other Impacts–Is it wise or appropriate to localize such a relatively high-pitched intensity land use in one of our MP districted areas in Redmond, near all of which are in areas where traffic and other impacts are already outstanding?
- Private vs. Public Rights–Is this the betterest or only way to provide for our land owners’ built-in right to capitalize on the value of their existent estate holdings?
- Alignment with Redmond’s 20-Year Vision–Is the addition of “sweeping/retail membership stores” to the list of allowed uses in Redmond’s Community Development Guide in MP zones congruous with the vision of Redmond as articulated in our Comprehensive Plan ? This is an all-of import question because it is a necessary and effectual precondition for approval of the nominated change to that extent as the Development Guide is constructed from the fabric of the more conceptual and Comp Plan. Indeed far, no changes to the Comprehensive Plan have been suggested… If you would wish to probe this very viscous subject, I advance you to prevail a copy of the Technological Committee Report from Sara Stiteler and look up the Comp Plan “policies” and Development Guide “regulations” quoted in this. Both of these documents are uncommitted, en toto, by clicking on the hyperlinks supra. Alas, I cannot easy taper you to the specific policies and regulations, by URL. Withal, you can seize the ref #’s from the Tech Report and so easy look the online documents. Aw heck, just now knock off me an email or comment, if you cannot well regain your ain way about. I’ll be more than well-chosen to assist in exchange for some unmediated and honorable feedback.
Over again, if you’d wish to press in on this issue, delight e-mail your earnest comments, rather with your name and address, to Sarah Stiteler , at the City of Redmond, or ring her at 425.556.2469. For a copy of materials for the current meeting, or to have hebdomadary emails with Projecting Commission meeting materials, delight contact Daphne Harold or phone 425-556-2421.
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