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Focus on Redmond - Summer 2019

Volume XXXIV No. 2 Summer 2019

Redmond

Housing Choices

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Get Connected with the City

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Growing Up in Redmond

Protecting Our Environment

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I have lived in Redmond for nearly my entire life. My neighborhood, like so many around the Puget Sound area, was a bedroom community. Most

community is an opportunity that the City’s leadership holds in high regard. We continue to work together and unify our efforts in areas such as affordable housing, environmental stewardship, and technology deployment to benefit everyone in the community so that Redmond will remain the beautiful and vibrant City we are proud to live, play, work, and invest. The Redmond City Council’s outcome- driven plan strategically advances the City’s vision and is based on priorities established by years of community involvement and through the budgeting by priorities process. This summer we will be seeking the community’s feedback on the draft 2019 Community Strategic Plan utilizing our newest community involvement tool: Let’s Connect Redmond is an online forum for the community to easily share feedback and ideas with the City. This is a digital “town hall” that provides a transparent and efficient way to empower the community and help the City accomplish four things: Listen – hear everyone’s input through simple surveys, polls, stories, and ideation tools. Inform – Give the Redmond community one place to find facts, project timelines, important documents, and results.

Transportation Topics

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Mayor John Marchione

Council Notes

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fathers left for work in unison every morning and returned at the same time each evening. The majority were employed at the region’s largest employer, Boeing. At that time, Redmond had one stop light, mostly single-family homes, the old grain silo on Cleveland Street and, Redmond’s annual tradition, Bicycle Derby Days. Reflecting on my time as Redmond’s Mayor I am proud of the foundation we built for the future and appreciative of what we have accomplished together over the decades and during the past twelve years I have served as Mayor. Today, Redmond hosts one of the region’s largest employers, Microsoft, provides different housing choices, preserved existing neighborhoods, and has created a vibrant and welcoming Downtown Redmond. As Redmond continues to transform in both big and small ways, the City remains focused on being a welcoming and inclusive community for all. Managing Redmond’s growth while continuing to foster a connected and collaborative

Parks & Recreation

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Measure – Allows the City to get to analyze comments and quantify sentiments. Build Community - participant relationships will help us grow the Redmond community with each project. We look forward to hearing from you! On Friday and Saturday, July 12 and 13, Redmond will host the 79th annual Derby Days. I hope you will join me in celebrating this tradition that continues to connect our community and honor our history.

John Marchione Redmond Mayor

MeetYour City Council Redmond has seven councilmembers who are elected by voters to adopt the City budget, establish law and policy, approve appropriations and contracts, levy taxes, and grant franchises.

Housing Choices Redmond is a diverse community that more than 64,000 people call home and where over 94,000 people find employment. As the number of people who desire to live in Redmond has increased, the supply of housing

Redmond’s Comprehensive Plan describes: • A housing supply that enables people who work in Redmond to live in Redmond. • A variety of housing types, sizes, densities, and prices to serve Redmond’s diverse community.

Jeralee Anderson Position #6

affordable at a variety of levels has not kept pace with demand. A focus of the City Council is to produce housing choices across all income levels that mirror Redmond’s workforce, which would include addressing shortfalls in affordable and middle-income units.

Angela Birney Position #5 President

David Carson Position #7 Vice-President

Focusing Efficient Growth in our Urban Centers and Preserving Our Single-Family Neighborhoods

Steve Fields Position #2

The City is working on a variety of tools to increase the housing supply: • ARCH Housing Fund: for every $1 the City contributes, $10 is leveraged • Community Development Block Grants: Approximately $100,000 a year in federal grants • Surplus Public Land: publicly owned land for affordable housing • Inclusionary Housing: 10% of dwellings made affordable • Multifamily Property Tax Exemption Program (MFTE): tax exemption • Flexible Land Use Requirements: allows for smaller homes • Federal Low-Income Tax Credits: program raises capital to reduce debt and equity requirements • State of WA Housing Trust Fund: funding toward affordable/special needs housing

Hank Margeson Position #3

Hank Myers Position #1

Tanika Padhye Position #4

Learn more about your Redmond City Council at redmond.gov/Council

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Let’s Connect! Join the Community Conversation

Visit the New Redmond.govWebsite Stay informed and enjoy some of the newest features: • Enhanced user experience • Improved look, feel, and functionality • Improved search and navigation • Mobile friendly and responsive • Improved ADA and translation features

Look for the New Online Open House Coming soon! You’ll have the opportunity to: • Learn about projects

Redmond’s decision-making is informed by robust community involvement that meaningfully and effectively engages the community early and often, focusing on key topics of interest in a manner that is equitable, barrier-free, and recognizes the needs and interests of the community.

• Provide feedback • Answer questions • Submit ideas

Let’s Talk

Get Involved

Be Heard

Speak Up

Engage

Mobile Integrated Health Redmond Fire Department Partners on a Creative Community Solution

Many residents have already benefited from the MIH service. MIH is able to help patients quickly and immediately provide them with resources as needed, and save thousands of dollars in unnecessary costs. Services provided include: • Transportation • Chronic Disease Management • Preventative Care

In its short history, MIH has seen hundreds of patients and is helping Redmond residents stay healthy and independent longer. For questions and more information about MIH, visit redmond.gov/MIH or contact Battalion Chief Eric Timm, Medical Services Officer, at [email protected] or 425-556-2201 .

What is Mobile Integrated Health (MIH)? The MIH program is funded and operated by Medic One and local fire departments, in partnership with King County Emergency Medical Services. Specially trained firefighter EMTs and paramedics assist residents by connecting them to the right resources quickly to increase community health and well-being at a lower cost.

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New Zealand Mudsnails Found in a Redmond Creek

New Zealand Mudsnails (NZMS) were recently discovered in one of Redmond’s creeks. These tiny, invasive snails do not harm people or pets, but they disrupt salmon feeding. Hardy and adaptable, the snails can spread out to cover stream and lake bottoms and live in a variety of physical environments, including pipes and ditches. They may also survive out of water for several weeks in damp material, such as mud.

3. Drain any stream or lake water collected in gear or equipment before you leave a site. Rinse off the gear in clean, potable water away from the waterbody and let it dry for 48 hours before reuse. Do not flush rinse water down the storm drain—it can reach our creeks and spread mudsnails! The City is working with contractors and notifying private developers about this new challenge. We will continue to check several creeks this summer to identify other hotspots. Thank you for helping us limit the spread of these tiny invaders! Please visit redmond.gov/Mudsnails for more information.

Two New Zealand Mudsnails

If you visit any body of water in the greater Seattle area, please take these steps to help stop the spread of mudsnails across Redmond: 1. Carefully scrub off any debris or mud from waders, boots, or clothing that come in contact with streams, lakes or mud. Clean these items and let them dry out for 48 hours. 2. Keep pets out of streams and lakes. If your dog wades into the water, carefully dry off or brush him/her on dry land. Focus on paws and bellies.

Help limit the movement and transport of NZMS

Mudsnails can hitch a ride on boots, clothes, animal fur, and equipment. At the size of a small pebble, they may be carried down streams or storm drains to new locations.

Done with a Painting Project?

Paint can pollute Redmond’s streams, rivers, and underground drinking water supply. When you have a painting project, follow these steps for safe clean-up, recycling, and disposal. NEVER pour paint, solvents, or rinse water onto the ground or into a storm drain! Got extra paint? Store indoors or under cover and place a tray underneath to contain any leaks or spills.

Latex Paint

Oil-Based Paint/Satin

Dispose of brush and tool rinse water into a sink, toilet, or other connection to sani-tary sewer. DO NOT dispose of rinse water into a septic system. Visit a paint recycling location and recycle for a small fee. TakeItBackNetwork.org Or, dry out leftover paint and add cat litter or other paint hardener (1:1) until fully hardened; place dry container with lid off in garbage.

Collect all painting supplies, including solvents used in clean up, for safe disposal. Keep off the ground. DO NOT flush downs sinks or toilets.

Clean Up

Dispose of leftover paint, stain, and solvents/rinse for free at hazardous waste drop-off locations. HazWasteHelp.org

Recycling and Disposal

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Keeping Our Groundwater Clean Thousands of years ago, glaciers

and rivers deposited sand and gravel under what is now a large portion of Redmond. Today, water flows through the spaces within this material much like a sponge, replenishing our “aquifer” – a shallow water resource that supplies 40% of Redmond’s drinking water. Protecting Our Groundwater Since contaminants like oil and chemicals can infiltrate down to the aquifer, Redmond has established special protection areas – called Critical Aquifer Recharge Areas (CARAs) – to keep municipal supply wells safe. Within these areas, the City works with businesses and developers to implement specific protection standards. Recently, Redmond updated the CARAs with more robust computer modeling and an additional 10+ years of >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12

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