Kootenai County launches comprehensive-plan update with first-ever parks master-plan component
SCJ Alliance kicked off a countywide comprehensive-plan update Dec. 4, 2025, presenting growth projections, a parks and waterways assessment and a public-engagement schedule; consultants highlighted housing affordability, infrastructure concurrency and water-quality risks as top issues.
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Kootenai County officials and planning consultants began a joint comprehensive-plan kickoff on Dec. 4, 2025, laying out a public engagement schedule and the first countywide parks and recreation master-plan component. The session, hosted by the Board of County Commissioners with the Planning and Zoning Commission and Parks & Waterways staff, focused on outreach tools, growth projections and policy issues that will shape land-use and park decisions over the next two decades.
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