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Spokane Valley council adopts interim rule to allow taller first‑responder towers for regional dispatch
Summary
City Council adopted an emergency interim ordinance allowing regional first‑responder communications towers to exceed the city’s 60‑foot limit — up to 100 feet for the tower and 120 feet including antenna arrays — so the regional dispatch agency can design and permit a new site while the city finishes a formal planning review.
Spokane Valley City Council on July 29 adopted an emergency interim ordinance that temporarily exempts regional first‑responder communications facilities from the city’s 60‑foot tower height limit, raising the allowable height to 100 feet and to 120 feet when an antenna array is included.
The change, contained in Ordinance 25‑013, was proposed by city staff to allow the regional public safety communications agency (SHREC) to design and submit plans for a new tower at a property it recently purchased in Spokane Valley. Eric Lamb, deputy city manager, told council that the existing tower on leased city property will not be available long term and that SHREC needs certainty to complete its…
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