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Kootenai County launches comprehensive-plan update with first-ever parks master-plan component
Summary
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.
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.
Consultant Aaron Qualls of SCJ Alliance described a comprehensive plan as a 20-year, community-driven guide that provides the legal and policy framework for zoning and subdivision regulations and can support grant applications and capital programming. "A comprehensive plan is a 20-year vision by and for the community," Qualls said, and he told the group that strong public engagement is essential for legitimacy and eventual implementation.
Qualls presented an initial, aggressive schedule that includes a broad online survey, in-person outreach at community events and…
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