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FRIDAY, April 5, 2013
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Sustainable Redmond members discuss city’s comprehensive plan Samantha Pak spak@redmond-reporter.com
Members of Sustainable Redmond spoke at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting in regard to the group’s proposed amendments for the City of Redmond’s Comprehensive Plan and zoning code. “These amendments draw from recent experiences in the implementation of Redmond’s tree-protection regulations, particularly the use of exceptions to those regulations, public notice and engagement of our community and development actions,” said Sustainable Redmond board member Tom Hinman while at the podium. “We also provided recommendations on tree retention and
Eggstravaganza draws hunters to City Hall campus
replacement ratios in urban centers, where mature trees are particularly valuable as their numbers decrease.” Hinman and other members from Sustainable Redmond — which is a grassroots organization with a mission to be a catalyst for moving Redmond’s citizens, businesses and local government toward sustainability — spoke at the meeting to share their point of view on the city’s tree-protection exception policies as city staff presented council with a report on the Planning Commission’s review of the group’s proposal Tuesday night, as well. Hinman said they contend the commission’s review was incomplete, did not consider [ more city page 7 ]
Couple sentenced for crime spree
Last Saturday, between 3,000-3,300 people gathered at the Redmond City Hall campus for the city’s Eggstravaganza event. Top, children and adults grab their share of eggs. Right, Ling and Grace Zheng enjoy their morning. Courtesy of Alyse Young
Staff Report
Arne and Crystal Rosander — a married couple responsible for a number of crimes throughout the greater Puget Sound, including Redmond — were recently sentenced after more than a year of investigations conducted by multiple law
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enforcement agencies. The investigation began Jan. 9, 2012 when a Redmond officer took a car prowl report. The victim reported multiple items stolen, including her wallet, which contained several credit and debit cards. Redmond Police Department [ more crime page 7 ]
Some local bus routes could be axed when Metro’s temporary funding expires Andy Nystrom anystrom@redmond-reporter.com
Daniel Hill’s 930DART bus route may soon be on the chopping block, while Pat Lyga’s 221 bus route may be reduced or revised, according to King County Metro’s 2012 Service Guidelines report. “It would make my route a lot longer. I’d have to go
all the way down to Seattle and back up to Redmond,” said Hill, a Lynnwood resident, while hopping on his bus Tuesday evening at the Redmond Transit Center on Northeast 83rd Street. Lyga, a Redmond resident who also works for the city, said the changes would severely impact his day and commute. “For coordinating after-
work activities at home with school-age kids or other activities, the bus provides a valuable link in getting about and connecting — and here’s the biggie, without using my car, which is what my employer wants. They’ve motivated me to leave my car at home and use alternate transportation, so much so that the incentive is they will
subsidize a bus pass to accommodate that,” said Lyga, who rides his bike to and from the bus stop each day. The 930DART and 221 are two of 151 King County Metro Transit routes that are at risk of being affected if state lawmakers allow temporary two-year funding for the agency to expire without authorizing a permanent and sustain-
able source of revenue to fill Metro’s projected $75 million annual budget gap, according to Metro’s report, sent to the King County Council this week. The report measures and analyzes transit service based on measures of productivity, geographic value, social equity and ridership. Other Redmond bus routes on the list to be pos-
sibly deleted are the 216, 244EX, 250 and 268, while the 224, 232, 245, 248, 249, 269 and 931DART are others that could be reduced or revised. Metro Transit General Manager Kevin Desmond said their analysis shows that they should be adding service to meet growing demand instead of cutting [ more Routes page 7 ]
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