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Planners propose renaming governance chapter to emphasize civic participation; commissioners debate charter references and volunteerism policy
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City planning staff proposed renaming the Local Governance and Citizenship chapter to Local Government and Civic Participation and presented edits to streamline language and add policies on respectful interactions and community participation.
City planning staff proposed renaming the comprehensive plan chapter now titled “Local Governance and Citizenship” to “Local Government and Civic Participation” and outlined several line‑level edits intended to make the chapter more inclusive, clearer and more actionable.
Staff said the change moves the text away from the word “citizenship,” which planners and commissioners described as exclusionary, toward “civic participation” to explicitly include people who work in or visit Spokane as well as residents. Casey Downey explained the intent: the chapter “is talking about actually being involved in the process of city government”…
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