The second phase of the Redmond Code Rewrite is well underway and the Code Rewrite Commission seeks your input!This project began in 2009 as an effort to rewrite the City’s zoning code (Redmond Community Development Guide) and will continue through adoption of a new code in spring 2011.  The Code Rewrite Commission reviews each new section of code at weekly public meetings on Monday nights at 6pm in the Council Chambers.

The Commission’s anticipated review schedule including topics, timing and appropriate staff contacts is listed below.  If you have comments or suggestions related to any of these topics, please contact the staff person listed.

• Downtown: CRC review in May/June/July 2010; contact Gary Lee at 425-556-2418 or glee@redmond.gov
• Overlake: CRC review in May/June/July 2010; contact Jeff Churchill at 425-556-2492 or jchurchill@redmond.gov   
• Land Division (including binding site plans, short plats, preliminary plats, plat alterations, plat vacations, final plats and boundary line adjustments) and Telecommunications Regulations and Performance Bonding: CRC review in July/August 2010; contact Thara Johnson at 425-556-2470 or tmjohnson@redmond.gov
• Design Manuals (including design standards): CRC review in August/September 2010; contact Steve Fischer at 425-556-2432 or sfischer@redmond.gov
• Development Standards 2 (including affordable housing, transfer development rights, transit supportive development, signs, historic and archaeological resources, parking and transitions between zones): CRC review in September 2010; contact Dennis Lisk at 425-556-2471 or dwlisk@redmond.gov.
• Development Standards 3 (including open space and recreation and landscaping): CRC review in October 2010; contact Lynda Aparicio at 425-556-2438 or laparicio@redmond.gov

You can follow the project on Facebook and Twitter, sign up for a weekly e-newsletter by emailing RCDGrewrite@redmond.gov, and get more information or provide feedback on the project website.