Redmond: Emails Reveal Intentional Effort to Ram Through Controversial Housing Project

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I’ve obtained a tranche of problematic email communications between Redmond Mayor Angela Birney, some councilmembers, and city staff. It shows an intentional effort to ram through the controversial Plymouth Housing apt complex at all costs and limit public input. Neighbors are concerned crime and open air drug use by the chronically homeless will spike in the area if this project is green lighted.

In one such instance, CM Osman Salahuddin calls anyone opposed to the Plymouth project “NIMBYs,” which stands for Not In My Back Yard. Despite massive community opposition, it appears Salahuddin is already in the bag for Plymouth.

Earlier this month, the CM did not want to answer my questions about the new homeless hotel coming into the former Overlake Silver Cloud Inn. People are worried Redmond will become King County’s new human dumping ground.

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In this communication, someone named “Carter” says my coverage “brings out the worst kind of people and beliefs.”

CM Salahuddin responds in the blue bubble and agrees anyone opposed to the project are “NIMBY’s.”

Osman Salahuddin

CM Salahuddin is a progressive Democrat and rubber stamps pretty much everything Mayor Birney wants in her city. He’s also on King County Councilmember Sarah Perry’s staff.