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Comprehensive Plan Update Process
Samena and mish, meaning hunter and people. Lake Sammamish, during
the 1800's, was a place where Native Americans settled and navigated the
waters. In 1887, the Compton family of Seattle joined them along
the shoreline during the summer months. Not long after, timber
interests spread along the southern and eastern shorelines. The
western shoreline became "a recreational mecca" for Seattle families.
Gateway Grove Resort, along with the resorts at Vasa Park and Idylwood
Park offered a variety of recreational opportunities and entertainment
including swim lessons, polka dancing, the famous boat races, and the
only stainless steel slide in the state at 40-feet high/64-feet in
length. West Lake Sammamish Parkway developed in 1910 and
connected families such as the Comptons, Jamesons, and LaMontagnes. (reference to Our Town Redmond
by Nancy Way, © 1989) Today, the View Point neighborhood is home to
Idylwood Park. In conjunction with a variety of homes, other
parks, open space, churches, and Audubon Elementary School grace the
shoreline and slopes of the area.
The
Redmond Comprehensive Plan
promotes the establishment of neighborhood quality and character. Within
the Plan are policies that give direction and intent
that support Redmond’s 20-year vision. To ensure that Redmond remains a
healthy and dynamic suburban community framed by a rich natural setting,
the City turns to its citizens for input in this discipline time and
again.
Neighborhood planning is one of the many methods
through which long-range visioning is sought. As projected, each of
Redmond’s ten neighborhoods is visited at an interval of approximately
seven years in order to update the respective Neighborhood Plans and
Policy Section of the Comprehensive Plan. The Neighborhoods Element of
the Comprehensive Plan contains neighborhood specific policies as
developed through the interaction with Citizen Advisory Committees.
The Comprehensive Plan document is intended to:
- Promote the general health, safety, and welfare of Redmond
citizens.
- Encourage coordination of private development, community goals,
and planned facilities.
- Identify and review City goals and policies as needed to insure
appropriateness.
- Communicate goals and policies with staff and the public in an
easily accessible form.
The current Plan is based on extensive community involvement, which
began in 1991. Forums, workshops, Citizen Advisory Committees and public
review by the Planning Commission are forms of involvement.
Additionally, the City offers open houses, City Council hearings,
neighborhood meetings, and ad hoc committee meetings to round out the
vision that builds the content of the Comprehensive Plan.
While a neighborhood plan is specific to only one of ten areas within
the City, an event such as
Redmond Design Day
2022 offered community residents and business owners an opportunity
to participate in the establishment of a citywide 20-year vision. As
listed in the Goals, Vision, and Framework Policy Element of the
Comprehensive Plan, citizens of Redmond want to:
- Conserve agricultural lands and rural areas, and protect and
enhance the quality of the natural environment.
- Retain and enhance Redmond’s distinctive character and high
quality of life.
- Emphasize choices in housing, transportation, stores and services.
- Support vibrant concentrations of retail, office, service,
residential, and recreational activities in Downtown and Overlake.
- Maintain a strong and diverse economy.
- Promote a variety of community gathering places and diverse
cultural opportunities.
- Provide convenient, safe, and environmentally friendly
transportation connections within Redmond and with other communities.
- Remain a community of good neighbors.
Neighborhood plans are an opportunity to apply and further develop
Citywide visions and goals on a neighborhood specific basis, and to
address neighborhood specific opportunities or concerns.
The Overlake Neighborhood Plan Update
was completed in 1998/1999 and
is currently going through a new update process. The
Willows / NE Rose Hill Neighborhood Plan
Update followed and was adopted by City Council in 2002. The Grass
Lawn Neighborhood Plan Update began after that in February 2003. This
plan was approved in early 2005. To learn more about the Grass Lawn process, please
refer to the Grass Lawn Neighborhood
Pages. Both the Education Hill
and North Redmond
neighborhoods undertook a plan update from 2004 to present.
Redmond's City Council adopted the North Redmond plan in November 2006
and is expected to approve adoption of the Education Hill plan in
early 2007.
To learn more about
Redmond's Comprehensive Plan update procedures.
To learn more about the individual Neighborhood Plan Update processes
that are coming for the View Point
neighborhood, please refer to the
View Point neighborhood web pages.
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