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Kootenai County continues public hearing on interim ordinance affecting Coeur d'Alene tribal area to March 27
Summary
The Kootenai County Board of County Commissioners continued a public hearing on ORA24-4, an interim ordinance maintaining existing minimum-lot standards within the Coeur d'Alene Tribe reservation, to March 27 at 10 a.m.; county staff said the interim measure reenacts an expired emergency ordinance while a comprehensive plan update proceeds.
The Kootenai County Board of County Commissioners on March 13 continued a public hearing on ORA24-4, an interim ordinance intended to maintain current minimum-lot requirements on property within the Coeur d'Alene Tribe reservation, to March 27 at 10 a.m.
Director Callahan told the commissioners the interim ordinance "keeps what's on the books today and has been since July of last year," and is intended as a stopgap while a county comprehensive plan update is completed and a single consolidated ordinance is drafted.
Callahan outlined three prior ordinances related to the issue, saying a rezoning ordinance set a minimum lot size in the tribal area and a subsequent ordinance (cited as "598" in the record) addressed a family exemption that had conflicted with the rezoning. Callahan said the emergency ordinance that fixed the conflict has expired and the interim ordinance reenacts its effect until the comprehensive-plan process can produce a final code amendment.
There were no in-person public commenters; staff noted an AT&T attorney was present on the phone. The board voted to continue testimony to March 27 at 10 a.m. The motion to continue was made and seconded and the vote was recorded as aye by the three commissioners present; the hearing will reconvene on the date set.
County staff said they had informed tribal legal counsel that the interim ordinance maintains the existing status quo.
The vote to continue was procedural and did not adopt or reject the ordinance; the county will return to the matter on March 27 for additional testimony and consideration.
For now, the interim ordinance preserves the standards in place since last July while staff and the board complete the comp plan update and draft a permanent ordinance that would consolidate the prior actions.
