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Spokane council approves ordinance expanding Home Starts Here to ease child care zoning
Summary
Council member Paul Dillon said the council approved an ordinance expanding the Home Starts Here initiative with the Brown administration to allow design flexibility and zoning changes intended to support child care facilities and address the city’s child care crisis.
Council member Paul Dillon said the Spokane City Council approved an ordinance expanding the Home Starts Here initiative to allow greater design flexibility and zoning for child care facilities, an action the council described as part of efforts to address the city's child care crisis and bolster economic security.
Dillon said the expansion was done "in partnership with the Brown administration" and framed the change as a way to make it easier to site and design child care facilities. The transcript does not specify the ordinance number, any funding amounts, nor the specific zoning text changes adopted; Dillon's remarks were presented as a recap and did not include formal vote counts in the record.
City staff or council members were not quoted with details on implementation, timelines, or permitting changes during the recap; those details would be needed to assess how the ordinance will change permitting or construction timelines for child care providers.
