The mayor is presently taking applications for new members of the Design Review Board. We need a resident on the board who cares about the aesthetics of our downtown, Overlake and the Marymoor “sub-area” neighborhood.

Don’t you think it’s about time the city set new color standards other than bland earth tones? New brick-like materials? New architecture other than the monotonous contemporary look? The developers have been getting great deals with our low-cost building standards at a time when incentives aren’t needed. The city’s development manager oversees all the developer design applications, yet never once that I know has he and the board presented design standards to council.

It’s long time our City Council leaders held a joint study session with the Design Review Board to upgrade our design standards.

Bob Yoder

Redmond