Support the city’s plans for the Redmond Bike Park
We are writing because of the overstated comments in regards to the proposal for the Redmond Bike Park.
This 2.51-acre site has an area approximately 0.7 acres on the west edge that has been used by cyclists since 1990. According to the proposed 2.51-acre project by the Redmond Parks and Recreation Department, the affected area would be 0.7 acres. This is not six times larger, as stated in the letter to the editor in last week’s Redmond Reporter.
May 4, 2012
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Redmond Ridge wildlife crossing: an insane idea
We risk our lives crossing the street. But six deer have been hit since 1999 and that warrants a $6 million concrete overpass for the critters.
It’s insane.
May 4, 2012
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City needs to listen to neighbors’ concerns
When final plans for the Redmond Bike Park were posted in June 2011, the neighbors were shocked.
The proposed plan is huge in comparison to the existing jumps. We have significant concerns about traffic and parking, as well as noise. Right now I can hear the voices of the riders from my back yard at least 100 yards away. These shouts blend in with the noises of our neighborhood and are rarely a nuisance. There are yells of encouragement and excitement, including expletives you would imagine any teenager might yell after successfully clearing a jump or maybe crashing.
May 4, 2012
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May Day a sad day in Seattle
What an embarrassment. It was so shameful.
Is there any way to solve this sort of violent crime so not to destroy the freedom of others?
May 4, 2012
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Proposed bike park plans don’t fit with our neighborhood | Letter to the Editor
For the most part, the City of Redmond Parks Department has done a wonderful job developing and preserving our city parks. But recently, plans for developing a HUGE bike park on the perimeter of Hartman Park has gone askew. Homeowners in the adjacent neighborhood were told numerous times by parks staff that the existing illegal bike park would just be “improved” to make it more safe and accessible to novice riders, but that the footprint of the jumps would remain the same. This sounded fine, so a lot of neighbors didn’t really take any notice.
April 27, 2012
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The ironies of Arbor Day
As Arbor Day comes to Redmond, trees have become a topic of growing community interest — with or without socks.
April 6, 2012
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Movie ratings are not entirely accurate
The last two times I have attended a movie at Regal Cinemas at Bella Bottega, I have noticed that preview material has been age inappropriate for my children.
April 6, 2012
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‘Tree socks’ reflect our changing community
The beauty of art is that its value is never discriminating. At best, art changes people – the way they perceive themselves, others and the world around them. At the very least, art helps people decide what they do and do not like: this painting, that kind of dance or opera all together.
So is the case with Artificial Light, a public art installation located in Redmond’s historic Anderson Park.
March 30, 2012
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Art makes park look like a gaudy carnival
I would like to write that I find the "tree socks" at Anderson Park gaudy and in poor taste.
March 30, 2012
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Expunging the word ‘proactive’
In reference to the March 9 article “City staff working to hire new communications manager,” let us hope whomever Redmond hires as its new communications manger, he or she will manage to expunge the word “proactive” from the city’s vocabulary.
March 30, 2012
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City needs to follow its own requirements
We are writing in response to the Feb. 28 letter to the editor, “Sustainable Redmond should drop its lawsuit."
March 9, 2012
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