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Post Falls urges public input as city updates comprehensive plan, flags ‘smart code’ downtown
Summary
City leaders opened the Oct. 7 council meeting by reminding residents that the comprehensive plan update (PostFalls2045) is underway and urging public input on downtown ‘smart‑code’ rules that allow higher‑density apartments. Officials said surveys and two public meetings have been held and fiscal impact work is ongoing.
Post Falls City Council opened its Oct. 7 meeting with a call for public input on the city’s comprehensive plan update, known online as PostFalls2045. Council leadership said the update is the vehicle to change the city’s smart‑code standards downtown, which currently allow greater apartment density through zoning concessions.
“Now is the opportunity,” S2 said, asking residents to sign up at postfalls2045.org and attend upcoming events. Staff noted the city held two public meetings and online surveys in July and August and that an internal fiscal‑impact analysis is under way.
Council emphasized that changes to the smart code must be made through the comprehensive plan, not by administrative action, and encouraged residents to register for notifications on the city website to receive updates and opportunities to comment. S3 confirmed residents may check a box for public‑meeting notifications in the city’s alert system.
The announcement framed the update as a chance to reconsider development patterns in areas the speaker described as downtown where concessions in the smart code allow greater residential density. Council did not take action on the comprehensive plan at the meeting; the item was an advisory announcement and a prompt for further public participation.
Next steps cited by staff include continued online outreach, incorporation of public comments into preliminary planning materials, and the staff fiscal‑impact review before future council deliberations.
