Sandpoint councilors settle on 10½-foot lanes, split sidewalk and multiuse path for Cedar Street

Mar 13, 2025

At a council workshop on the Cedar Street reconstruction project, Sandpoint officials favored 10.5-foot travel lanes, a 5-foot sidewalk on the north side and a 10-foot shared-use path on the south, while asking staff for arborist analysis and a cost estimate to try to save a large maple tree.

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Sandpoint city officials spent a workshop session debating the Cedar Street reconstruction’s trade-offs — lane width, sidewalk size, planter strips, stormwater treatment and whether the project can avoid removing established trees — and coalesced around a preferred cross-section that narrows travel lanes and moves a multiuse path to the south side of the street.

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