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County planners: Spokane region lacks sufficient unincorporated UGA capacity; city build‑out assumptions questioned
Summary
Planning staff presented a land capacity analysis that shows the unincorporated urban growth area lacks enough vacant capacity to meet the county's 20‑year allocation; staff said they will check city assumptions and ask jurisdictions to justify infrastructure and density claims.
County planning staff briefed the Board Feb. 24 on the preliminary land capacity analysis (LCA) used to update Spokane County’s comprehensive plan and urban growth area (UGA) allocations, and warned that unincorporated parts of the county do not currently show enough vacant or underutilized land to absorb projected growth.
Scott Chesney told commissioners the County’s preliminary count shows roughly 1,000 acres of vacant land and about 24,000 dwelling‑unit capacity in the unincorporated urban growth area, while the allocation the County must plan for is about 30,000 dwelling units. “At this early stage… the urban growth area in Spokane County’s unincorporated areas is not…
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