City Council ignores requests by community

I applaud former Redmond Mayor Rosemarie Ives on her convincing, sensible appeal for revisions to the development approval by City Council of the Group Health site in Overlake. Ives testified at the Jan. 10 Council business meeting, nearly a month after the Council voted 6-1 to approve the mixed-use development, which calls for the clearing of more than 1,100 trees. The Council however sat stone faced as Ives testified and did not respond to any of the requests to evaluate facts presented by several citizens.

January 12, 2012 4:40 pm

I applaud former Redmond Mayor Rosemarie Ives on her convincing, sensible appeal for revisions to the development approval by City Council of the Group Health site in Overlake.

Ives testified at the Jan. 10 Council business meeting, nearly a month after the Council voted 6-1 to approve the mixed-use development, which calls for the clearing of more than 1,100 trees. The Council however sat stone faced as Ives testified and did not respond to any of the requests to evaluate facts presented by several citizens.

The original 2007 plan included leaving certain amounts of trees. After 20 years of protection why make this change with little discussion with the people of Redmond? Why rush to agree with the developers? Is there anyone else benefitting from this project?

Christa Karimi, Redmond