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Council schedules ordinance update after unanimous planning commission recommendation on emergency-shelter standards
Summary
City staff presented proposed zoning amendments to remove spacing and occupancy caps for emergency housing and shelters to comply with state requirements; the Planning Commission recommended approval and council asked staff to return with an ordinance for a future meeting.
City planning staff told the Liberty Lake City Council Wednesday that the city must amend its development code to comply with state requirements on emergency housing and emergency shelters and to meet the state-required land-capacity analysis.
Lisa (planning staff) explained that existing local limits — a 75-person cap per facility, a three-quarter-mile spacing requirement between facilities, and a requirement that shelters be within a quarter-mile of fixed-route transit — would prevent the city from demonstrating sufficient land…
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