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Spokane Valley planning staff: city’s current buildable land will not absorb projected 20‑year growth; comp‑plan update next step
Summary
City planning staff presented a land-capacity analysis (LCA) showing available commercial, industrial and residential capacity under current zoning, and said the city will not be able to absorb the county population allocation to 2046 without additional planning steps; the LCA is a technical first step toward the comprehensive plan update.
Planning Manager Steve Roberge presented the city’s land-capacity analysis (LCA) on March 11, the technical study required under the Growth Management Act (GMA) that estimates development capacity under current zoning and helps set the baseline for the Spokane Valley comprehensive-plan update.
Roberge and staff summarized methodology and findings: the Office of Financial Management (OFM) county population projections (medium series) translate to a city allocation of about 21,000 additional residents and roughly 16,661…
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