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Spokane County opens comprehensive‑plan placemaking workshop; climate element, zoning rewrite on agenda
Summary
Spokane County planning staff and consultants led a community placemaking workshop to gather public input on a 2026 comprehensive‑plan update that will include the county’s first climate element and a rewrite of development regulations, county officials said.
Spokane County planning staff and a consultant team hosted a public “placemaking” workshop to gather community input for the county’s 2026 comprehensive‑plan update that will include a legally required climate element and a major rewrite of development regulations.
The meeting, led by Spokane County Planning Director Scott Chesney and convened while county commissioners were in Olympia, focused on how the county should shape new neighborhoods, integrate climate resiliency and coordinate infrastructure investments as growth continues in and around current urban growth areas.
County staff said the comprehensive plan — last substantially written in 2001 and updated unevenly since — will be treated as a chance for a near “clean sheet” rewrite. “We want to learn how to build neighborhoods instead of just permitting subdivisions,” Chesney told the…
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