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Liberty Lake staff roll out story maps and short surveys to kick off comprehensive-plan engagement
Summary
City staff previewed a suite of public-engagement tools for the Liberty Lake comprehensive plan — including an annexation history story map, targeted surveys, a youth scavenger hunt and farmers-market outreach — and said the first public survey on annexation will be released soon.
Lisa Key, a staff member, presented the city's public-engagement approach for the comprehensive plan at the Community Engagement Commission meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 19.
Key said the outreach package includes an annexation-history story map, a climate mitigation and resiliency story map, targeted stakeholder workshops and short, topic-specific surveys hosted through the Zen City platform. "We really do have to do some sausage making before we have anything to engage the public in," Key said, describing the preparatory work behind the public materials.
Why this matters: the comprehensive plan guides land use, transportation, housing and climate policy in Liberty Lake. Key told commissioners the city has completed a land-capacity analysis (LCA) and that city council approved that analysis "for planning purposes," but the LCA remains in draft because county housing-allocation numbers have not yet been finalized. That county-level data influences…
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