The community planned, for 2,450 units, has been embroiled in legal battles over its zoning, which had originally been designated as an urban development within the county's comprehensive growth plan. However, that designation was torpedoed last year when the Growth Management Hearings Board reversed the zoning to "rural."

Citizen groups that oppose large developments were hoping the rural designation would stick. Over the past several years groups, such as Friends of the Law and the Coalition for Public Trust, have filed numerous lawsuits and complaints in attempts to roadblock the projects."

Another Redmond master-community project of Quadrant, Redmond Ridge, weathered a similar course regarding its zoning, finally prevailing in December with the return of its status to urban, as well. Quadrant can now move forward with its groundbreaking set for April on a 57,000-sf business park within the community. That development, described as a high-tech office complex, at the corner of NE Marketplace Dr. and Redmond Ridge Dr. NE, has an anticipated completion date of October 2001.