The City of Redmond is continuing its work to develop Overlake into an urban center.

Currently, staff is seeking community input on future infrastructure plans for the southern part of Overlake Village — from Northeast 24th Street to Northeast 20th Street. The city hosted an open house on Dec. 17 to kick off things.

The southern portion of Overlake Village is bounded by 148th Avenue Northeast on the west, Northeast 24th Street on the north, Bel-Red Road on the east and Northeast 20th Street on the south. This infrastructure planning work builds on earlier work completed in 2011, which resulted in an integrated infrastructure plan for the north half of Overlake Village.

“We are seeking input from the community on where future streets should be located, what kind of streets should be built, what the Northeast 24th Street corridor should look like in the future and what kinds of stormwater management features should be incorporated,” said City of Redmond senior planner Jeff Churchill in a city press release.

He said at the meeting, the city provided preliminary designs for streets and stormwater management facilities.

“It went well,” Churchill said. “We got a lot of feedback. We got a lot of questions.”

The release states that the city is planning for the infrastructure needed to support growth so that everyone has a clear idea what infrastructure will be needed, where it will go and how it will be built.

Churchill said for those who were unable to attend last week’s meeting, there is an online questionnaire at www.redmond.gov/overlake. It will be available through Jan. 3.

The release continues, stating that the city will continue working with stakeholders to refine preliminary infrastructure plans. The city will also prepare cost estimates and economic analysis on the draft plans and then bring a package of recommended amendments to the Planning Commission and City Council for review and action in 2016.

“Overlake Village is transforming into a mixed-use urban center with excellent access to housing, jobs, services and transit,” said Redmond Mayor John Marchione in the release. “We are preparing for the arrival of light rail in 2023, and completing an infrastructure plan is an important (piece in) preparing Overlake Village to be a transit-oriented neighborhood.”

At the end of this study — called the Overlake Village South Infrastructure Planning Study — Churchill said they hope to have an infrastructure plan. This plan would include possible street locations, cross-section views of the streets. In addition, Churchill said they hope to have possible locations for streets as well as cost estimates for a phasing plan. He stressed that these are not done yet and the city is still in the early stages of the process.

The plan will also include stormwater management facilities.

Earlier this year, the city completed the South Detention Vault but there are still two planned for the near future. Steve Hitch, a senior stormwater engineer for the city, said one will be through a partnership with Sound Transit at the planned light rail station at 152nd Avenue Northeast near SR-520. The second vault will be located underneath a new park that will be at the corner of the planned Northeast 26th Street and current 152nd Avenue Northeast. Neither will as big as the South Detention Vault, which holds about six million gallons of water.

In addition, Hitch said there will be other small-scale stormwater facilities throughout the area as developers continue building.

The city’s current timeline for the study is to continue with cost estimations, a phasing plan and economic analysis in the winter of 2016 and draft a plan and report leading up to spring 2016. Following that, the Planning Commission and City Council are scheduled to review the plan and the city will present a final plan and report come summer or fall 2016.