MEMO TO: Mayor and Members of the City Council
FROM: Rob Odle, Director, Planning and Community Development
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Downtown Redmond Link Extension Project Refinements Letter to Sound Transit Board
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION
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Authorize the City Council President to finalize the draft comment letter to the Sound Transit Board (Attachment A), consistent with Council direction provided at the June 6 Council meeting.
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II. DEPARTMENT CONTACTS
Rob Odle, Director, Planning and Community Development 425-556-2417
Nina Rivkin, Chief Policy Advisor 425-556-2103
Colleen Kelly, Assistant Director for Community Planning 425-556-2423
Don Cairns, P.E., Transportation Planning and Engineering Manager 425-556-2834
Jeff Churchill, AICP, Transportation Strategic Advisor 425-556-2492
III. DESCRIPTION/BACKGROUND
On June 22, 2017, the Sound Transit Board is scheduled to approve proposed refinements to the Downtown Redmond Link Extension concerning the station locations and vertical profile (at grade, elevated, etc.) of the guideway. The Board's action will focus the environmental review to be conducted over the remainder of the year. After completion of this environmental review, the Board will take action next year to update the "project to be built." This memo:
1. Summarizes the Council's discussion of potential refinements to the Downtown Redmond Link Extension,
2. Summarizes community input on potential refinements, and
3. Describes a draft comment letter to the Sound Transit Board that communicates the City Council's recommended refinements to the project.
The Existing Project to be Built
Sound Transit selected a "project to be built" for all of East Link - from Seattle to Downtown Redmond - in 2011, at the conclusion of several years of environmental review and alternatives analysis. The project is memorialized in the East Link Record of Decision (ROD) issued by the Federal Transit Administration. The extension from Overlake to Downtown ...
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