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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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Dinner Party Retrospective -- Blaukraut and Saffron Cream
My holiday dinner party went pretty well, by all accounts. Dinner was a little late in coming due to the amazing length of time required to bake a 5lb slab of sea bass at 350F. None of my guests seemed to mind, however. There were plenty of pupus and Read More...
Posted 26 December 06 11:56 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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Books for the Beach -- Any Suggestions?
I'll be out of the office, out of state, and off the grid for the next six weeks (paternity leave + holidays + vacation in TX, PA, and Hawai'i). I haven't had six solid weeks to myself in...well...ummmm...since 1998. Whatever should I read? My daughter Read More...
Posted 12 November 04 11:46 by KorbyP | 33 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 | 30 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 | 12 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 | 6 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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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 | 2 Comments   
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Sipping from the Microsoft Firehose
“Sipping from the Firehose” is Microspeak for, 'I have 111 documentation issues (ahem, bugs) to fix, program managers from three feature teams knocking down my door, seventy topics in tech review, another fifty in the queue, 950 topics from Read More...
Posted 18 March 04 10:58 by KorbyP | 5 Comments   
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Notes on My Meeting with Dave Winer
Yesterday, I had a chance to sit down for about an hour with Dave Winer and his host to the Microsoft Campus, Curtis Wong to talk about the role that social computing can play in modern political campaigns. Here are some quick notes and notes-to-self Read More...
Posted 11 February 04 06:03 by KorbyP | 5 Comments   
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Blogger's Dinner
Conversation was lively and the camaraderie instant at the informal blogger's dinner last night in Bellevue. There was a good mix of Microsoft and non-Microsoft bloggers in attendance. I was fortunate enough to share one end of the table with: Andrew Read More...
Posted 03 October 03 08:54 by KorbyP | 2 Comments   
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Blog Your Cat Day
Today is the First Annual Blog Your Cat Day . Cybil, guardian of the blogsphere Leilu, blogacat Read More...
Posted 03 October 03 06:24 by KorbyP | 0 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 | 3 Comments   
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