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City planners release draft EIS for Plan Spokane 2046 and open 60‑day comment period
Summary
City of Spokane planning staff on Dec. 18 released the draft environmental impact statement for Plan Spokane 2046, summarized three growth alternatives and related timelines, and opened a 60‑day public comment period through Feb. 18, 2026.
City of Spokane planning staff released a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for Plan Spokane 2046 on Dec. 18, 2025, and opened a 60‑day public comment period that closes at 5 p.m. on Feb. 18, 2026.
Terrell Black, a planner with the City of Spokane, described the draft EIS as the technical analysis that will inform a preferred growth strategy for the city over the next 20 years. "The draft EIS is about 600 pages," Casey Downey, also with planning and economic development, said during the webinar, adding that staff are preparing summaries and interactive tools to help residents review the material.
The draft EIS evaluates three growth alternatives: a no‑action option that maintains current policies; a "distributed and balanced" alternative that concentrates…
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