Public Comments
See what people asked the City to change. Read their own words.
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Agency & Tribal Reviews
Eight reviews identify substantial concerns or missing work. Browse the major findings by subject.
Transportation, Safety & Public Services
Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT)
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The preferred alternative advanced before impacts were fully understood.
Read the Comment Watch Testimony"But at this point, we're picking the preferred alternative without full knowledge of what its impacts will have."
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Airport-area industrial growth and the traffic model do not match.
Read the Comment"The trips generated for industrial areas near the Transload Facility along Craig Road and future industrial areas around the Spokane International Airport are not commensurate with proposed land use densities proposed."
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Impact fees cannot cover the full cost of needed improvements.
Read the Comment"It should be noted that not all of the needed mitigations are identified in the City's impact fee ordinance, nor can impact fees fund the needed mitigation as they typically only cover 30%-40% of the cost of an improvement."
Spokane County Planning
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The plan does not show whether fire response can keep pace with growth.
Read the Comment"There is no discussion as to whether the fire department can meet its turnout times, response times, etc."
Natural Areas & Habitat
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW)
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Show the natural areas and drainage concerns the plan needs to protect.
Read the Comment"We would recommend the addition of maps that illustrate natural areas in Spokane City, critical areas, and drainage concerns to provide better supporting evidence of some of these policies."
Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
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Name Spokane’s critical areas and show more than goals and policies.
Read the Comment"Overall, Chapter 9 is well written but is brief in terms of describing more than the goals and policies."
Tribal Land & Cultural Identity
Coeur d’Alene Tribe
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Represent the Tribe’s history and continuing connection to this land.
Read the Comment"Our history of existence on the land that Spokane now resides on stretches over millennia, and we do not feel that this is accurately represented in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement that the City of Spokane has put out for review and comment."
Historic Resources
Spokane Historic Preservation Office
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Proposed protections are insufficient for historic resources.
Read the Comment"However, our office does not think that the suggested mitigation strategies are sufficient to address the impacts, particularly to historic resources."
Supportive or Limited Comments (4)
Spokane Transit Authority (STA)
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Align growth with existing high-quality transit.
Read the Comment"Transit-oriented Development can help deliver increased ridership almost immediately given the high-quality transit infrastructure that exists in these South Spokane areas right now."
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Transit investments support the proposed growth direction.
Read the Comment"The investments we are making in transit will work well in advancing the goals of either alternative 2, alternative 3, and especially a hybrid version of those two approaches."
City Integrated Capital Management
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Further exemptions need consultation and may require capacity analysis.
Read the Comment"In order to consider the additional SEPA exemption Phase 2 area, additional consultation with ICM, Water, Wastewater and Street Departments is required and additional capacity analysis may be warranted."
Spokane Regional Transportation Council (SRTC)
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Explain the assumptions behind the job-growth projection.
Read the Comment"SRTC requires the source behind the Alternative 3 projection and the details about the assumptions used in order to understand the larger growth in jobs."
Written Comments
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Public Testimony
Video clips of people speaking at public hearings.
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Five viewpoints on neighborhoods, homeownership, housing, natural systems, and infrastructure.
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Kirsten Angell
Spokane Urban Nature
Natural systems, habitat corridors, neighborhood participation, and infill protections.
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Daniel LeRoy
Habitat for Humanity Spokane
Permanently affordable homeownership, ownership-ready housing, and shared-equity models.
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Kevin Campbell
Downtown Spokane Partnership
Downtown housing, concentrated growth, public investment, incentives, and economic activity.
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Brian Muegge
Latah Valley habitat connectivity, transit assumptions, small businesses, and displacement.
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Jim Frank
Founder of Greenstone Corporation
Affordable home construction, land supply, middle housing, and neighborhood-scale mixed use.
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Darin Watkins
Spokane Realtors
Watkins says buyers want a three-bedroom, two-bath single-family home on a small lot and points to a housing boom in Post Falls.
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Greg Figg
Washington State Department of Transportation
The preferred alternative advanced before transportation modeling incorporated identified West Plains impacts and improvements.
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Karen Mobley
Spokane Urban Nature
Urban natural areas, habitat corridors, mapping, enforcement, and development oversight.
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Sam Mace
East Central resident
East Central heat, tree canopy, pocket habitat, infill, water, and environmental review.
Brian Muegge
Residents · Aug 26, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
Reevaluate Grandview-Thorpe and Latah/Hangman growth designations against habitat-connectivity, wildfire-evacuation, and traffic-safety records.
Chris Bell - NAI Black
Development · May 11, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Traffic & Transit · Jobs & Economy
Can Spokane wages support the rents new projects require?
Mike Petersen
Residents · Apr 14, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Critical areas, tree-canopy goals, environmental review, and enforcement.
Carol Tomsic
Residents · Apr 14, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Historic Preservation · Jobs & Economy
Commercial expansion, historic residential boundaries, and neighborhood centers.
Tiara Pschaida
Residents · Apr 14, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Eighty trees lost to Underhill Estates, and what reduced environmental review would cost next.
Darin Watkins - Spokane Realtors
Development · Apr 14, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Infrastructure · Jobs & Economy · Rules & Incentives
Spokane Realtors argues that development capacity on paper will not by itself produce homes people can buy.
Bruce Gage
Residents · Apr 14, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Make environmental review mandatory citywide and protect what is left undeveloped.
Sunni Mace
Residents · Apr 14, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Protect the urban forest first: build only on untreed parcels, and fine unpermitted cutting.
Anne Walter
Residents · Apr 14, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Traffic & Transit
A West Central objection to the upzone, on character, traffic, and emergency access.
Barbara Nicolai
Residents · Apr 14, 2026 · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
Replace underused full-size buses with passenger vans before asking voters for another transit tax increase.
Ryan Hughes - Nexus Planning Services
Development · Apr 14, 2026 · Housing & Affordability
Planning analysis, housing capacity, and implementation concerns.
Brian Muegge
Residents · Apr 14, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees
Protect the Hangman, Thorpe, and Latah habitat corridor and notify neighborhood groups earlier about major land-use changes.
Jess Walter
Residents · Apr 14, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Neighborhoods
Jess Walter warns that broad West Central upzoning could undo its rare mixed-income balance.
LuAnne Walker
Residents · Apr 14, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Neighborhoods · Jobs & Economy
Define and track service-integrated housing, analyze cumulative impacts, and apply the City's dispersal policies to West Hills.
Jeff Lambert
Residents · Apr 14, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure · Jobs & Economy
Reduce planned Latah Valley growth, protect the area's critical habitat, and show how infrastructure improvements would be funded.
Sarah Burgi
Residents · Apr 13, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
A land surveyor on North Indian Trail road capacity and the growth-intensity change.
Josh Hanrahan
Residents · Apr 13, 2026
Hearings held before 5pm make attendance impossible for people who work.
Terry Deno
Neighborhoods · Apr 13, 2026 · Housing & Affordability
All for planning future housing, if it fits like the townhomes across the street.
Kathy Hagy Sue Arnesen
Residents · Apr 13, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Neighborhoods · Rules & Incentives
Two more residents adopting the STEP housing scattered-site request.
Spokane Urban Nature
Neighborhoods · Apr 13, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Habitat corridors, green infrastructure, and neighborhood seats in the code rewrite.
Duane Huesers
Residents · Apr 13, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
US 195 merge safety, the shortened frontage road, and Latah Valley growth.
Nolan Steiner
Residents · Apr 13, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Neighborhoods · Rules & Incentives
STEP housing under HB 2266 and an enforceable scattered-site distribution program.
Valerie Wahl
Residents · Apr 12, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Neighborhoods
Medium-density mixed use instead of a blanket HDR change and 75-foot buildings.
Marek Nelson
Residents · Apr 12, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Historic Preservation
Treat West Central as historic like Browne's Addition rather than extending HDR.
Mardis Nenno
Residents · Apr 12, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Infrastructure · Rules & Incentives
One-size-fits-all multifamily zoning, tax exemptions, and no public input before approval.
Marilyn Darilek
Residents · Apr 11, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Neighborhoods · Rules & Incentives
A mixed conditional-use and middle housing designation for West Central instead of HDR.
Lori Steiner
Residents · Apr 10, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Historic Preservation
Thirty-five years in West Central, opposing the west end's HDR redistricting.
Ike Bubna
Residents · Apr 9, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Traffic & Transit · Jobs & Economy · Rules & Incentives
Allow neighborhood businesses and middle housing in West Central, but not four- or five-story high-density buildings.
Katy Shedlock
Residents · Apr 9, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Jobs & Economy
Increase West Central land-use intensity so housing, small businesses, childcare, and health services can grow together.
Latah Valley Neighborhood Council
Neighborhoods · Apr 8, 2026 · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
Latah Valley infrastructure, traffic, and neighborhood impacts.
Konrad and Stefani VanDeest
Residents · Apr 3, 2026 · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
Oppose environmental-review exemptions and development around Drumheller Springs and the proposed Ruby River dock.
Kathryn Chitwood
Residents · Apr 3, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
Require public audits of industrial utility contracts, waste-heat recovery, and infrastructure protections for high-density computing.
Justin Vaughan
Residents · Mar 6, 2026 · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
Focus environmental policy on clean air and water without increasing taxes, resource costs, or business uncertainty.
Richard Schubach
Residents · Mar 5, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
Street trees, landscaping, and neglected public improvements.
David Allen - Trestle
Development · Mar 5, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Neighborhoods
Walkability, VMT, neighborhood nodes, and housing choices.
Jeff Lambert
Residents · Mar 5, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
Limit environmental-review exemptions to nearly impervious sites and explain how remaining protections would be enforced.
Emilie Cameron - Downtown Spokane Partnership
Business & Advocates · Mar 5, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Traffic & Transit · Jobs & Economy
Downtown growth, economic development, and business perspective.
Liam Taylor
Residents · Mar 5, 2026 · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure · Rules & Incentives
Upzone every neighborhood, allow mixed uses, remove most development standards, and reduce project-level public review.
Heidi Peterson
Residents · Mar 5, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure · Jobs & Economy
Support Alternative 3 for concentrating growth near downtown, transit investments, and employment.
Ed Bruya
Residents · Mar 5, 2026 · Rules & Incentives
The indexed record contains only 'Version 2' and the commenter's name.
Leah Gulick
Residents · Mar 5, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit · Rules & Incentives
Require green space in every land-use zone and use restoration, tree canopy, and mixed-use growth to improve neighborhood centers.
Sally Phillips
Residents · Mar 5, 2026 · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure · Rules & Incentives
Prefer Alternative 2's neighborhood business hubs, while questioning transit assumptions for West Plains jobs.
Leah Erickson
Residents · Mar 5, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure · Jobs & Economy
Prefer Alternative 2, keep parks free, and address water use, transportation, pollution, and housing affordability.
Megan Vermilion
Residents · Mar 5, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural-land inventory, habitat corridors, and opposition to blanket review exemptions.
John Hancock - West Plains Water Coalition
Business & Advocates · Mar 5, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Infrastructure · Rules & Incentives
PFAS contamination and a request for comprehensive, forward-looking analysis before the plan advances.
David Ohman - Northwest Trends
Business & Advocates · Mar 5, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Jobs & Economy · Rules & Incentives
Growth incentives, tax burdens, jobs and housing competition with Idaho, and downtown investment.
Morna Gilbert
Residents · Mar 5, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Infrastructure
A long-time resident’s frustration with street conditions, homelessness, City priorities, and feeling forced by the plan.
Jonas Hawk - greensage LLC
Development · Mar 5, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
A prospective small-home village group asks for a legal path to compact, off-grid pocket neighborhoods.
Scott Gordon
Residents · Mar 5, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit · Rules & Incentives
Air, noise, stormwater, illegal dumping, and interest in serving on the climate board.
Thomas Bender
Residents · Mar 5, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit · Rules & Incentives
Require a plan and measurable target for higher STA ridership as mitigation for population growth.
Diane Adler
Residents · Mar 2, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Strengthen environmental protections, inventory natural lands, and limit review exemptions to disturbed sites.
Jake Kleinknecht
Residents · Mar 1, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Natural-land inventory, enforceable protections, habitat corridors, and limits on environmental-review exemptions.
Cait Daniel
Residents · Feb 26, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Protect natural areas and tree canopy, and retain thorough environmental review.
Heather Joeschke
Residents · Feb 26, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Protect natural lands, habitat corridors, clean air, and water through continued environmental review.
Jessica Spurr
Residents · Feb 25, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, habitat, and critical-area protection before development causes irreversible damage.
Luke Tolley - Community Assembly
Neighborhoods · Feb 24, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Rules & Incentives
Community Assembly questions on affordability, demolition, SEPA exemptions, and process.
Carol Ellis
Residents · Feb 24, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Traffic & Transit · Jobs & Economy
Favor Alternative 2’s transit-corridor housing and ask whether downtown offices can become middle-income homes.
Mari Bartoo Jacobson
Residents · Feb 23, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree and natural-land inventory, stronger habitat protections, and a narrow exemption for fully disturbed sites.
Mayson Cooke
Residents · Feb 21, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Protect natural areas and tree canopy, and reject broad environmental-review exemptions.
Yvonne Ahlborn
Residents · Feb 19, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Inventory and protect natural lands, and reject blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Darla Harryman
Residents · Feb 19, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Protect tree canopy and critical areas, and narrow environmental-review exemptions to disturbed sites.
Kristel Bowden
Residents · Feb 19, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Protect natural systems and require environmental review before development affects critical areas.
North Snow
Residents · Feb 19, 2026 · Environment & Trees
A short appeal for more trees, greener neighborhoods, and no policy that harms the environment.
Joshua Allen
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Kimberly Smiskin
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Tye McGee
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Teresa McGee
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Jordan Soderquist
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree and natural-land inventory, environmental review, and climate policy.
Hal Rowe
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Chris Coppen
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees
Protect mature trees as Spokane adds housing and plans for urban heat.
Lesley Herrmann
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Compatible infill, homeownership, mixed use, tree canopy, and neighborhood form.
Melissa Burchell
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Stormwater, natural resources, and enforcement of environmental protections.
Sahara Khouja
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Deborah Rowe - Spokane Urban Nature
Business & Advocates · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Natural-land inventory, environmental review, and climate policy.
Jaime Koedding
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Lori Rodriguez
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Lori Rodriguez
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Neighborhoods · Rules & Incentives
Public notice, environmental review, trees, habitat, and development oversight.
Sylvia Gobel
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Neighborhoods
Neighborhood access to nature, tree canopy, and small wildlife habitat.
Sam Mace
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Neighborhoods · Rules & Incentives
What does infill mean in a neighborhood already short on trees?
Mike Boyle
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Neighborhoods · Rules & Incentives
Underhill Park, tree loss, and enforcement of environmental protections.
Carma Blalock
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees
Urban forestry, natural lands, and the City's tree-canopy goal.
Dante Jester - Gonzaga Climate Institute
Business & Advocates · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Infrastructure
Extreme heat, wildfire smoke, green infrastructure, and resilience planning.
Ted Hensold
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Targeted environmental-review exemptions and tree-retention standards.
John Wallingford
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Housing & Affordability
Tree canopy, climate resilience, housing, and environmental justice.
Karen Edwards
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Connected green space, aquifer protection, tree canopy, and environmental review.
Daya Goldschlag
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Opposition to eliminating environmental review and support for wildlife habitat.
Destiny McMillan
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Mark Rhodes
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Anna Stowe
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees
Wildlife displacement, habitat, and environmental protection.
Sommer Blessing
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Opposition to eliminating environmental review and support for natural areas.
Mary Bishop
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Natural resources, tree canopy, development, and environmental review.
Sevven Rookwood
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Jodie Davis
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Environmental review, wetlands, tree canopy, and wildlife habitat.
Logan Smith
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Megan Keller-Mikkelsen
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Nathan Marcusen
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Environmental review, tree canopy, natural lands, and climate policy.
Sarah Burroughs
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Joshua Porter
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Environmental review, tree canopy, natural lands, and climate policy.
Alyssa Agee
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Environmental review, habitat, and protection of Spokane's natural setting.
Julia Carr
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Judy Noll
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Melissa Ward
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Danyelle Robinson
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Liva Nayeli
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Julie Drobny
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree and natural-land inventory, environmental review, and climate policy.
Brooke Frickleton - Futurewise
Business & Advocates · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit
Growth management, climate, transit-oriented planning, and centers.
Timothy Potts
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Rules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3 in the Draft EIS.
Kirsten Angell
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
Fast-track affordable housing on fully impervious land, map natural areas before broader exemptions, and protect urban agriculture.
Diana Painter - Painter Preservation
Business & Advocates · Feb 18, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Historic Preservation
Historic preservation, neighborhood character.
Kerry Brooks
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees
If streams are missing from the map, how can the plan protect them?
Debbie Stempf
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
Support Alternative 3 for its climate, land-use, water, transportation, and infrastructure benefits.
Shawn Terjeson
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees
Support Alternative 2, plan for climate migration and affordable housing, invest in transit, and give neighborhood councils a formal role.
Sister Mimi Maloney
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
Support Alternative 3 only with cumulative-impact review, natural-asset mapping, and limits on environmental-review exemptions.
Jimmy Young
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, but limit environmental-review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Mary Stohr - Friends of Spokane Trees
Business & Advocates · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees
Three-foot setbacks on 20-foot lots leave no room for large trees, Friends of Spokane Trees argues.
Mark Stenersen
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Environment & Trees · Jobs & Economy · Rules & Incentives
Affordability requires more than volume: match what gets built to who lives here and what people can actually pay.
Mike Petersen
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees
Fast-track affordable housing on fully impervious sites, map natural areas, and reject blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Mary and Dean Nagel
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Jobs & Economy
Create a fourth alternative with stronger tree-canopy protections, enforcement, and oversight of infill in established neighborhoods.
Gabriel Kennedy-Gibbens
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure · Rules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, but limit environmental-review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Karli Honebein
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3 only with natural-asset mapping and limits on environmental-review exemptions.
Eileen Kazura - Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council
Neighborhoods · Feb 18, 2026 · Housing & Affordability
Emerson-Garfield neighborhood council comment on housing, process, and impacts.
Leah Welki
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, map natural assets, and reject blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Darcy Varona
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, map natural assets, and limit review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Catherine Ferguson
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, map natural assets, and limit review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Jeremy and Millayna Klingback
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, map natural assets, and keep environmental review for wetlands, forests, habitat, and riparian areas.
Terra Scanlan
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Rules & Incentives
SEPA exemptions, environmental review, and mitigation.
Bradford and Shannon Little
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree and habitat inventory, enforceable critical-area protections, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Jeff Benefield
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Five requests for tree inventories, enforceable natural-land protections, and targeted rather than blanket review exemptions.
John Lowe
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Environment & Trees · Infrastructure
Aquifer-scale water planning, climate-migration uncertainty, public mapping, and follow-up studies.
Katelyn Scott - Spokane Riverkeeper
Business & Advocates · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Infrastructure · Rules & Incentives
Spokane River water quality, stormwater and wastewater capacity, habitat, and enforceable mitigation.
Erin Meenach
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Oppose blanket environmental-review exemptions and protect critical areas, natural lands, and tree canopy.
Jeff Lambert
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Limit environmental-review exemptions to fully disturbed parcels and explain how remaining protections will be enforced.
Todd Taylor
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Protect natural lands and habitat, and limit environmental-review exemptions to fully disturbed sites.
Dee Boyle
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Tree inventory, critical-area protections, and opposition to broad environmental-review exemptions.
Dubravka Martincic
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Natural-land inventories, enforceable protections, and opposition to neighborhood-wide environmental-review exemptions.
Hailey “Lorraine” Sumner
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Strengthen tree, habitat, and water protections rather than waive environmental review across neighborhoods.
Jennifer Hall
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Keep environmental review for development and protect wetlands, forests, wildlife habitat, and natural systems.
Amy Rusev Dawley
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Carry the Sustainability Action Plan’s natural-environment work into enforceable land-use protections.
Karen Conlin
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees
A short statement supporting wildlife habitat and natural-land protection.
MK Hughes
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Protect tree canopy, habitat, and water by strengthening review and critical-area rules.
Ella Hultman
Residents · Feb 18, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Infrastructure · Rules & Incentives
PFAS regulation, river maintenance, and restoring water quality and native fish populations.
Rose Noble - Visit Spokane
Business & Advocates · Feb 17, 2026 · Jobs & Economy · Traffic & Transit · Neighborhoods
Tourism, year-round public spaces, transportation, and creative placemaking.
Anthony Gill
Residents · Feb 17, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Jobs & Economy
Growth in high-resource areas, HB 1220, and neighborhood commercial opportunities.
Andy Amidon
Residents · Feb 17, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, map natural assets, and limit environmental-review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Katie Newhouse Linda Carroll
Neighborhoods · Feb 17, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Rules & Incentives
Community Assembly questions: affordability, demolition, SEPA exemptions, and neighborhood input.
Grandview-Thorpe Neighborhood Council
Neighborhoods · Feb 17, 2026
Grandview-Thorpe neighborhood impacts and process concerns.
Meredith Arksey
Residents · Feb 17, 2026 · Rules & Incentives
SEPA exemptions, environmental review, and mitigation.
Tom Bienemann
Residents · Feb 17, 2026 · Rules & Incentives
Adopt Alternative 3 and allow development without compromising existing environmental protections.
Crystal Glanz-Kreutz
Residents · Feb 17, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, inventory natural assets, and limit review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Julie Cordero
Residents · Feb 17, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3 while keeping environmental review for wetlands, forests, habitat, and riparian areas.
Erin Dascher
Residents · Feb 17, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, inventory natural assets, and limit review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Kate Mrgudic
Residents · Feb 17, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, inventory natural assets, and limit review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Jim Frank, Greenstone founder
Development · Feb 17, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Neighborhoods · Traffic & Transit
Housing feasibility, centers and corridors, and affordability.
Hannah Jurado
Residents · Feb 17, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees
Protect undeveloped natural areas, reassess the finding of insignificant habitat impacts, and add trees where growth is planned.
Patricia Nault
Residents · Feb 17, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
Tie Latah Valley growth to funded infrastructure, public services, water supply, wildfire safety, and transportation.
Nicholas Johnson
Residents · Feb 16, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
Support Alternative 3 for downtown-focused density, transit use, lower emissions, water efficiency, and less sprawl.
Molly Marshall
Residents · Feb 16, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees
Tree canopy, climate, and neighborhood impacts, Neighborhood character, demolition, and displacement.
Robert Flowers
Residents · Feb 15, 2026 · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure · Rules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3 with downtown-focused density, better transit and roads, neighborhood involvement, and developer accountability.
Carol Landa-McVicker
Residents · Feb 15, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Rules & Incentives
Lincoln Park wetlands, mandatory neighbor notice and environmental review, plus an affordability check on infill.
Carol Landa-McVicker
Residents · Feb 13, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
Focus growth near transit and services, test whether middle housing is affordable, notify neighborhoods, and protect trees.
Shenandoah Marr
Residents · Feb 12, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
Support Alternative 3 after addressing traffic safety, seasonal wetlands, flooding, and wildlife habitat.
Janet Farness - 350 Spokane Interfaith Committee
Business & Advocates · Feb 12, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit
Climate, tree canopy, transportation, and housing policy.
Dan Knechtel - North Indian Trail Neighborhood Council
Neighborhoods · Feb 11, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit · Infrastructure
North Indian Trail infrastructure, traffic, and growth hub concerns.
Carol Tomsic
Residents · Feb 10, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Infrastructure · Jobs & Economy
Water quality, utility costs, local business, and neighborhood conditions.
Ann Martin
Development · Jan 21, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Jobs & Economy
Downtown growth and development feasibility.
Linda Carroll
Residents · Jan 20, 2026 · Housing & Affordability · Neighborhoods · Traffic & Transit · Historic Preservation
If corridor lots stay empty, will redevelopment pressure move into nearby owner-occupied blocks?
Justin Miller
Residents · Jan 20, 2026 · Environment & Trees · Traffic & Transit
A handwritten objection to a double-deck proposal, the Spokane Falls bike lane, and climate-change claims.
Mary Stohr
Residents · Jan 12, 2026 · Environment & Trees
Tree canopy, climate, neighborhoods.
Ann Martin
Development · Jan 3, 2026 · Neighborhoods · Traffic & Transit · Jobs & Economy · Rules & Incentives
Use Alternative 3 to allow additional building height on a specific downtown site where foundation costs make development difficult.