City staff outline digital, streamlined approach to comprehensive plan update

Jul 23, 2025

City planning staff told a Planning Commission subcommittee they have redrafted the comprehensive plan to be shorter, digital-first and compliant with recent state growth-management changes, and that the housing element will require extra time and coordination.

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Planner Kevin Treibot briefed the Planning Commission subcommittee on the ongoing update to the city's comprehensive plan, telling members the rewrite aims to be shorter, easier to use and available online. "This is part of our periodic update to the comprehensive plan, Dinespokane 2046," Treibot said, and he told the group every chapter has been reduced in length. "We have, by far, every single one of these chapters has been reduced by nearly half."

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