Liberty Lake planning commission recommends comprehensive-plan draft to council after housing-allocation and funding-gap updates

The Liberty Lake Planning Commission voted unanimously on April 22, 2026, to recommend the full comprehensive draft plan to the City Council with amendments identified during the meeting. Planners said the county revised the housing-allocation number used in the land-capacity analysis and the commission added a new affordable-housing funding-gap paragraph that Commerce reviewed.

Planners presented the changes during a slide review, saying the county-provided allocation in several tables was reduced from 53.15 to 51.80 and that they updated any calculations that used that figure. "We went from a allocation of $53.15 to $51.80," the planner said, and commissioners reviewed redlined pages to confirm the updates.

The presentation also introduced an "affordable housing funding gap" paragraph modeled on a Mercer Island Growth Management Hearing Board example. Planners said they computed the gap by multiplying the number of units by Spokane County average construction costs and that the Department of…