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Should "Membership Stores" Be Permitted in Redmond's Manufacturing Park Zone?
In coordination with Taylor Development, which among other things owns an undeveloped 60 acre parcel of land that is zoned Manufacturing Park (MP) along Union Hill road in Southeast Redmond ( see Redmond zoning map here and Live.com Map here ), City Staff Read More...
Posted 02 May 07 11:47 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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Passing the Community Torch: In Search of a New Chief Executive in Redmond
In the wake of a recent announcement by Redmond Mayor Rosemarie Ives that she will not seek another term of office, I was invited to and personally interviewed her two most viable successors: Councilman Jim Robinson and former councilwoman, Holly Plackett Read More...
Posted 07 March 07 09:23 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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Kimberly Allen to Run for Redmond City Council
This just in: my fellow Planning Commissioner, Kim Allen has decided to run for Redmond City Council! I have been honored to know and work with Commissioner Allen for close to two years and I recommend her without hesitation. She is the first candidate Read More...
Posted 19 July 05 07:41 by KorbyP | 6 Comments   
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Redmond to Consider Providing Citywide Wi-Fi
Tonight, the Redmond Planning Commission discussed proposed updates to the Utilities Element , or chapter, of our 20-year Comprehensive Plan. Theoretically, we get around to reviewing each chapter once every five years. The Comp Plan is a state-mandated Read More...
Posted 09 September 04 12:45 by KorbyP | 39 Comments   
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Wi-Fi (and C-Span) for the Masses
Today, eWeek reported that the City of Philadephia, Pennsylvania is considering " an ambitious plan " to enable highspeed Internet access via Wi-Fi in all135 square miles of the city. As a planning commissioner for the City of Redmond , I tip my hat to Read More...
Posted 02 September 04 12:27 by KorbyP | 10 Comments   
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Pea Patch Policy Proposal
I ran into Redmond's mayor , Rosemarie Ives, and her husband at the annual Derby Days event earlier this month. She and her husband had just returned from a trip to Boston where they took a “wonderful walk through the Fenway gardens.“ They Read More...
Posted 26 July 04 08:23 by KorbyP | 25 Comments   
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Chicago's Green Meme
Someday, most large rooftops in urban areas in the United States will be green, not black. David Mellis points to an excellent article in Metropolis Magazine about Chicago's green roofs . My European readers are probably already familiar with the green Read More...
Posted 21 July 04 09:30 by KorbyP | 7 Comments   
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Don't Park On Us
At our weekly meeting last night, the Redmond Planning Commission was asked to review potential changes to the Transportation chapter * of the city's Comprehensive Plan. Microsoft, ever-protective of the short term interests of its investors, dispatched Read More...
Posted 15 July 04 01:24 by KorbyP | 9 Comments   
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Technical Dogumentation
For a city of its size, the streets of San Diego are remarkably well-designed, user-friendly, “nuisance free“, and well documented. Crosswalk Interfaces In the vicity of the San Diego Convention Center, crosswalks are well marked, well-lighted, Read More...
Posted 26 May 04 12:20 by KorbyP | 5 Comments   
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The Cartoon Guide to Federal Spectrum Policy
I am currently working my way through a book entitled, The Real State of the Union: From the Best Minds in America, Bold Solutions to the Problems Politicians Dare Not Address , which is published by the New America Foundation . One of my favorite chapters, Read More...
Posted 23 May 04 10:59 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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My Blog Year in Review
It is often said that weblogging really took off on the day when you started blogging...or when I started blogging, as the case may be. This adage reminds me of a question that all Microsoft employees are asked on their first day of work. Q: What is the Read More...
Posted 20 May 04 05:55 by KorbyP | 3 Comments   
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Local Government is Not a Spectator Sport
[ This is as good a time as any to remind both existing and prospective readers that you can selectively filter out blog posts that bore you to tears by subscribing to only those 'categories' that interest you. To subscribe to a particular subfeed of Read More...
Posted 12 February 04 12:28 by KorbyP | 6 Comments   
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New Job::Old Idea
It's true and it's official: I have a new "job". Yes, I do have a life outside Microsoft. Requisite Disclaimer: the ideas and views expressed in this post are mine and mine alone. A couple of months ago, I applied for a volunteer position on the City Read More...
Posted 05 September 03 11:52 by KorbyP | 7 Comments   
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