TO: Members of the City Council
FROM: Mayor Angela Birney
DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR CONTACT(S):
Planning and Community Development
Carol Helland
425-556-2107
DEPARTMENT STAFF:
Planning and Community Development
Seraphie Allen
Deputy Director
Planning and Community Development
Jeff Churchill
Long Range Planning Manager
Planning and Community Development
Lauren Alpert
Senior Planner
TITLE:
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2025 Legislative Conformance, Business Improvement, and Fences Zoning Code Amendments
OVERVIEW STATEMENT:
recommendation
Staff recommend that the City Council adopt an ordinance amending the Redmond Zoning Code related to 2025 Legislative Conformance, Business Improvement, and Fences.
2025 Legislative Conformance
In 2025 the state legislature enacted several new laws affecting local development regulations. This amendment package will result in updates to the Redmond Zoning Code to address new state laws. It will also address several clean-ups related to Redmond 2050. Topics include subdivision regulations, zoning for childcare centers, parking, permitting timelines, building conversions, and miscellaneous corrections.
Business Code Improvements
The City's Economic Development team monitors business interaction with our development regulations. Annually, staff prepared a package of code amendments proposed to improve business use of these regulations. This package includes:
* Ensuring commercial floor area is provided in mixed-use developments by removing opportunity for deviation from adopted code requirements;
* Requiring placement of "Businesses Open" where pedestrian access to businesses are impacted by sidewalk closures;
* Simplifying and clarifying opportunities for Food Truck and Pop-Up Retail Courts and for Publicly Accessible Enhanced Amenity Spaces (PEAS); and
* Improving definitions of allowed business uses.
Fences and Retaining Walls
The fence updates are intended to synchronize and add clarity to fence requirements, and to evaluate the purpose and intent ...
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