Public Comments
What residents, neighborhood groups, agencies, businesses, and advocates told the City in writing and at the microphone.
149 records: 140 written comments and 9 selected public testimony clips.
Public Testimony
Selected speakers from the April 14 Plan Commission hearing, in the order they spoke. Each speaker had three minutes.
Apr 14, 2026
Kirsten Angell
Public Testimony
Spokane Urban Nature NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesPublic ParticipationRules & Incentives
Natural systems, habitat corridors, neighborhood participation, and infill protections.
Watch Testimony
Apr 14, 2026
Daniel LeRoy
Public Testimony
Habitat for Humanity Spokane Housing & AffordabilityRules & Incentives
Permanently affordable homeownership, ownership-ready housing, and shared-equity models.
Watch Testimony
Apr 14, 2026
Kevin Campbell
Public Testimony
Downtown Spokane Partnership Housing & AffordabilityTraffic & TransitInfrastructureJobs & EconomyRules & Incentives
Downtown housing, concentrated growth, public investment, incentives, and economic activity.
Watch Testimony
Apr 14, 2026
Brian Muegge
Public Testimony
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesTraffic & TransitJobs & Economy
Latah Valley habitat connectivity, transit assumptions, small businesses, and displacement.
Watch Testimony
Apr 14, 2026
Jim Frank
Public Testimony
Housing & AffordabilityNeighborhoodsJobs & EconomyRules & Incentives
Affordable home construction, land supply, middle housing, and neighborhood-scale mixed use.
Watch Testimony
Apr 14, 2026
Darin Watkins
Public Testimony
Spokane Realtors Housing & AffordabilityJobs & EconomyRules & Incentives
Land availability, buyer preferences, permits, housing production, revenue, and jobs.
Watch Testimony
Apr 14, 2026
Greg Figg
Public Testimony
Washington State Department of Transportation Traffic & TransitInfrastructureRules & Incentives
The preferred alternative advanced before transportation modeling incorporated identified West Plains impacts and improvements.
Watch Testimony
Apr 14, 2026
Karen Mobley
Public Testimony
Spokane Urban Nature NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesRules & Incentives
Urban natural areas, habitat corridors, mapping, enforcement, and development oversight.
Watch Testimony
Apr 14, 2026
Sam Mace
Public Testimony
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesInfrastructureHousing & Affordability
East Central heat, tree canopy, pocket habitat, infill, water, and environmental review.
Watch Testimony
Written Comments
All indexed written comments, newest first. They are not ranked by importance or agreement.
Why Spokane2046 shows 140 written comments (and the City reports 205)
The City reports 205 comments from the DEIS comment period, which closed March 5, 2026. Spokane2046 has found and indexed 140 written comment records. Some people used a shared form letter; each separately signed submission remains a separate record.
Agency reviews identifying gaps (7)
7 reviews from 6 agencies identify gaps involving roads, habitat, transit, and historic resources.
- WDFWGarrett LaCivita
- WSDOTCorey Clarke
- Spokane County PlanningScott Chesney
- WSDOTGreg Figg
- SRTCRyan Stewart
- Historic PreservationLogan Camporeale
- DNRTricia Sears
Also reviewed: Brian Jennings of STA supports the growth direction and does not identify a gap.
May 11, 2026
Chris Bell - NAI Black
Development
Housing & AffordabilityTraffic & TransitJobs & Economy
Business/property perspective and opposition to the preferred alternative.
Apr 14, 2026
Mike Petersen
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Critical areas, tree-canopy goals, environmental review, and enforcement.
Apr 14, 2026
Carol Tomsic
Residents
NeighborhoodsHistoric PreservationJobs & Economy
Commercial expansion, historic residential boundaries, and neighborhood centers.
Apr 14, 2026
Tiara Pschaida
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesRules & Incentives
Eighty trees lost to Underhill Estates, and what reduced environmental review would cost next.
Apr 14, 2026
Darin Watkins - Spokane Realtors
Development
Housing & AffordabilityInfrastructureJobs & EconomyRules & Incentives
The Realtors' challenge to the City's land-capacity numbers and its density mix.
Apr 14, 2026
Bruce Gage
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Make environmental review mandatory citywide and protect what is left undeveloped.
Apr 14, 2026
Sunni Mace
Residents
Housing & AffordabilityEnvironment & TreesRules & Incentives
Protect the urban forest first: build only on untreed parcels, and fine unpermitted cutting.
Apr 14, 2026
Anne Walter
Residents
NeighborhoodsTraffic & Transit
A West Central objection to the upzone, on character, traffic, and emergency access.
Apr 14, 2026
Barbara Nicolai
Residents
Traffic & TransitInfrastructure
Replace underused full-size buses with passenger vans before asking voters for another transit tax increase.
Apr 14, 2026
Ryan Hughes - Nexus Planning Services
Development
Housing & Affordability
Planning analysis, housing capacity, and implementation concerns.
Apr 14, 2026
Brian Muegge
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesPublic Participation
Protect the Hangman, Thorpe, and Latah habitat corridor and notify neighborhood groups earlier about major land-use changes.
Apr 14, 2026
Jess Walter
Residents
Housing & AffordabilityNeighborhoods
West Central, displacement, neighborhood change, and housing policy.
Apr 14, 2026
LuAnne Walker
Residents
Housing & AffordabilityNeighborhoodsJobs & EconomyPublic Participation
Define and track service-integrated housing, analyze cumulative impacts, and apply the City's dispersal policies to West Hills.
Apr 14, 2026
Jeff Lambert
Residents
Housing & AffordabilityTraffic & TransitInfrastructureJobs & Economy
Reduce planned Latah Valley growth, protect the area's critical habitat, and show how infrastructure improvements would be funded.
Apr 13, 2026
Sarah Burgi
Residents
NeighborhoodsTraffic & TransitInfrastructure
A land surveyor on North Indian Trail road capacity and the growth-intensity change.
Apr 13, 2026
Josh Hanrahan
Residents
Public Participation
Hearings held before 5pm make attendance impossible for people who work.
Apr 13, 2026
Terry Deno
Neighborhoods
Housing & Affordability
All for planning future housing, if it fits like the townhomes across the street.
Apr 13, 2026
Kathy Hagy Sue Arnesen
Residents
Housing & AffordabilityNeighborhoodsRules & IncentivesPublic Participation
Two more residents adopting the STEP housing scattered-site request.
Apr 13, 2026
Spokane Urban Nature
Neighborhoods
Environment & TreesRules & IncentivesPublic Participation
Habitat corridors, green infrastructure, and neighborhood seats in the code rewrite.
Apr 13, 2026
Duane Huesers
Residents
NeighborhoodsTraffic & TransitInfrastructure
US 195 merge safety, the shortened frontage road, and Latah Valley growth.
Apr 13, 2026
Nolan Steiner
Residents
Housing & AffordabilityNeighborhoodsRules & IncentivesPublic Participation
STEP housing under HB 2266 and an enforceable scattered-site distribution program.
Apr 12, 2026
Valerie Wahl
Residents
Housing & AffordabilityNeighborhoods
Medium-density mixed use instead of a blanket HDR change and 75-foot buildings.
Apr 12, 2026
Marek Nelson
Residents
NeighborhoodsHistoric Preservation
Treat West Central as historic like Browne's Addition rather than extending HDR.
Apr 12, 2026
Mardis Nenno
Residents
NeighborhoodsInfrastructureRules & IncentivesPublic Participation
One-size-fits-all multifamily zoning, tax exemptions, and no public input before approval.
Apr 11, 2026
Marilyn Darilek
Residents
Housing & AffordabilityNeighborhoodsRules & Incentives
A mixed conditional-use and middle housing designation for West Central instead of HDR.
Apr 10, 2026
Lori Steiner
Residents
NeighborhoodsHistoric Preservation
Thirty-five years in West Central, opposing the west end's HDR redistricting.
Apr 9, 2026
Ike Bubna
Residents
NeighborhoodsTraffic & TransitJobs & EconomyRules & Incentives
Allow neighborhood businesses and middle housing in West Central, but not four- or five-story high-density buildings.
Apr 9, 2026
Katy Shedlock
Residents
Housing & AffordabilityNeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesJobs & Economy
Increase West Central land-use intensity so housing, small businesses, childcare, and health services can grow together.
Apr 8, 2026
Latah Valley Neighborhood Council
Neighborhoods
Traffic & TransitInfrastructure
Latah Valley infrastructure, traffic, and neighborhood impacts.
Apr 3, 2026
Konrad and Stefani VanDeest
Residents
Traffic & TransitInfrastructure
Oppose environmental-review exemptions and development around Drumheller Springs and the proposed Ruby River dock.
Apr 3, 2026
Kathryn Chitwood
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesTraffic & TransitInfrastructure
Require public audits of industrial utility contracts, waste-heat recovery, and infrastructure protections for high-density computing.
Mar 6, 2026
Garrett LaCivita - Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW)
Government
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Wildlife, habitat connectivity, and environmental review.
Mar 6, 2026
Justin Vaughan
Residents
Traffic & TransitInfrastructure
Focus environmental policy on clean air and water without increasing taxes, resource costs, or business uncertainty.
Mar 5, 2026
Richard Schubach
Residents
Environment & TreesTraffic & TransitInfrastructure
Street trees, landscaping, and neglected public improvements.
Mar 5, 2026
David Allen - Trestle
Development
Housing & AffordabilityNeighborhoods
Walkability, VMT, neighborhood nodes, and housing choices.
Mar 5, 2026
Jeff Lambert
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesTraffic & TransitInfrastructure
Limit environmental-review exemptions to nearly impervious sites and explain how remaining protections would be enforced.
Mar 5, 2026
Emilie Cameron - Downtown Spokane Partnership
Business & Advocates
NeighborhoodsTraffic & TransitJobs & Economy
Downtown growth, economic development, and business perspective.
Mar 5, 2026
Corey Clarke - Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT)
Government
Traffic & Transit
WSDOT follow-up on roads and transit analysis and state-facility impacts.
Mar 5, 2026
Liam Taylor
Residents
Traffic & TransitInfrastructureRules & Incentives
Upzone every neighborhood, allow mixed uses, remove most development standards, and reduce project-level public review.
Mar 5, 2026
Heidi Peterson
Residents
NeighborhoodsTraffic & TransitInfrastructureJobs & Economy
Support Alternative 3 for concentrating growth near downtown, transit investments, and employment.
Mar 5, 2026
Ed Bruya
Residents
Rules & Incentives
The indexed record contains only 'Version 2' and the commenter's name.
Mar 5, 2026
Leah Gulick
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesTraffic & TransitRules & Incentives
Require green space in every land-use zone and use restoration, tree canopy, and mixed-use growth to improve neighborhood centers.
Mar 5, 2026
Sally Phillips
Residents
Traffic & TransitInfrastructureRules & Incentives
Prefer Alternative 2's neighborhood business hubs, while questioning transit assumptions for West Plains jobs.
Mar 5, 2026
Leah Erickson
Residents
Housing & AffordabilityTraffic & TransitInfrastructureJobs & Economy
Prefer Alternative 2, keep parks free, and address water use, transportation, pollution, and housing affordability.
Feb 24, 2026
Luke Tolley - Community Assembly
Neighborhoods
Housing & AffordabilityRules & IncentivesPublic Participation
Community Assembly questions on affordability, demolition, SEPA exemptions, and process.
Feb 24, 2026
Carol Ellis
Residents
Housing & AffordabilityNeighborhoodsJobs & Economy
Put affordable housing along transit corridors, protect homeownership, and give neighborhood councils a role in the decision.
Feb 18, 2026
Joshua Allen
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Kimberly Smiskin
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Tye McGee
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Teresa McGee
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Jordan Soderquist
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree and natural-land inventory, environmental review, and climate policy.
Feb 18, 2026
Hal Rowe
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Chris Coppen
Residents
Environment & Trees
Mature trees, urban tree canopy, and livability.
Feb 18, 2026
Lesley Herrmann
Residents
Housing & AffordabilityNeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesRules & Incentives
Compatible infill, homeownership, mixed use, tree canopy, and neighborhood form.
Feb 18, 2026
Melissa Burchell
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Stormwater, natural resources, and enforcement of environmental protections.
Feb 18, 2026
Sahara Khouja
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Deborah Rowe - Spokane Urban Nature
Business & Advocates
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Natural-land inventory, environmental review, and climate policy.
Feb 18, 2026
Jaime Koedding
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Lori Rodriguez
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Lori Rodriguez
Residents
Environment & TreesNeighborhoodsRules & IncentivesPublic Participation
Public notice, environmental review, trees, habitat, and development oversight.
Feb 18, 2026
Sylvia Gobel
Residents
Environment & TreesNeighborhoods
Neighborhood access to nature, tree canopy, and small wildlife habitat.
Feb 18, 2026
Sam Mace
Residents
Environment & TreesNeighborhoodsRules & IncentivesPublic Participation
East Central, natural areas, environmental review, and unequal neighborhood impacts.
Feb 18, 2026
Mike Boyle
Residents
Environment & TreesNeighborhoodsRules & Incentives
Underhill Park, tree loss, and enforcement of environmental protections.
Feb 18, 2026
Carma Blalock
Residents
Environment & Trees
Urban forestry, natural lands, and the City's tree-canopy goal.
Feb 18, 2026
Dante Jester - Gonzaga Climate Institute
Business & Advocates
Environment & TreesInfrastructurePublic Participation
Extreme heat, wildfire smoke, green infrastructure, and resilience planning.
Feb 18, 2026
Ted Hensold
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Targeted environmental-review exemptions and tree-retention standards.
Feb 18, 2026
John Wallingford
Residents
Environment & TreesHousing & Affordability
Tree canopy, climate resilience, housing, and environmental justice.
Feb 18, 2026
Karen Edwards
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Connected green space, aquifer protection, tree canopy, and environmental review.
Feb 18, 2026
Daya Goldschlag
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Opposition to eliminating environmental review and support for wildlife habitat.
Feb 18, 2026
Destiny McMillan
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Mark Rhodes
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Anna Stowe
Residents
Environment & Trees
Wildlife displacement, habitat, and environmental protection.
Feb 18, 2026
Sommer Blessing
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Opposition to eliminating environmental review and support for natural areas.
Feb 18, 2026
Mary Bishop
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Natural resources, tree canopy, development, and environmental review.
Feb 18, 2026
Sevven Rookwood
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Jodie Davis
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Environmental review, wetlands, tree canopy, and wildlife habitat.
Feb 18, 2026
Logan Smith
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Megan Keller-Mikkelsen
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Nathan Marcusen
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Environmental review, tree canopy, natural lands, and climate policy.
Feb 18, 2026
Sarah Burroughs
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Joshua Porter
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Environmental review, tree canopy, natural lands, and climate policy.
Feb 18, 2026
Alyssa Agee
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Environmental review, habitat, and protection of Spokane's natural setting.
Feb 18, 2026
Julia Carr
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Judy Noll
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Melissa Ward
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Danyelle Robinson
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Liva Nayeli
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree canopy, natural lands, and opposition to blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Julie Drobny
Residents
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
Tree and natural-land inventory, environmental review, and climate policy.
Feb 18, 2026
Brooke Frickleton - Futurewise
Business & Advocates
Environment & TreesTraffic & Transit
Growth management, climate, transit-oriented planning, and centers.
Feb 18, 2026
Timothy Potts
Residents
Rules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3 in the Draft EIS.
Feb 18, 2026
Scott Chesney - Spokane County Planning
Government
Rules & Incentives
County planning coordination and Draft Environmental Impact Statement review.
Feb 18, 2026
Greg Figg - Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT)
Government
Traffic & Transit
Transportation, Highway 2, corridor growth, and state-facility impacts.
Feb 18, 2026
Kirsten Angell
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesTraffic & TransitInfrastructure
Fast-track affordable housing on fully impervious land, map natural areas before broader exemptions, and protect urban agriculture.
Feb 18, 2026
Diana Painter - Painter Preservation
Business & Advocates
NeighborhoodsHistoric Preservation
Historic preservation, neighborhood character.
Feb 18, 2026
Kerry Brooks
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & Trees
Correct missing environmental maps and methods, then identify habitat corridors before adopting land-use changes or review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Debbie Stempf
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesTraffic & TransitInfrastructure
Support Alternative 3 for its climate, land-use, water, transportation, and infrastructure benefits.
Feb 18, 2026
Brian Jennings - Spokane Transit Authority (STA)
Government
Traffic & Transit
Transit planning, growth assumptions, and service coordination.
Feb 18, 2026
Shawn Terjeson
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesPublic Participation
Support Alternative 2, plan for climate migration and affordable housing, invest in transit, and give neighborhood councils a formal role.
Feb 18, 2026
Sister Mimi Maloney
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesTraffic & TransitInfrastructure
Support Alternative 3 only with cumulative-impact review, natural-asset mapping, and limits on environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Jimmy Young
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesRules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, but limit environmental-review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Feb 18, 2026
Mary Stohr - Friends of Spokane Trees
Business & Advocates
Environment & Trees
Tree canopy, climate, neighborhoods.
Feb 18, 2026
Mark Stenersen
Residents
Housing & AffordabilityEnvironment & TreesJobs & EconomyRules & Incentives
Affordability requirements, local incomes, tree canopy, and SEPA.
Feb 18, 2026
Mike Petersen
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & Trees
Fast-track affordable housing on fully impervious sites, map natural areas, and reject blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Mary and Dean Nagel
Residents
Housing & AffordabilityNeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesJobs & Economy
Create a fourth alternative with stronger tree-canopy protections, enforcement, and oversight of infill in established neighborhoods.
Feb 18, 2026
Gabriel Kennedy-Gibbens
Residents
Traffic & TransitInfrastructureRules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, but limit environmental-review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Feb 18, 2026
Karli Honebein
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesRules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3 only with natural-asset mapping and limits on environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Eileen Kazura - Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council
Neighborhoods
Housing & Affordability
Emerson-Garfield neighborhood council comment on housing, process, and impacts.
Feb 18, 2026
Leah Welki
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesRules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, map natural assets, and reject blanket environmental-review exemptions.
Feb 18, 2026
Darcy Varona
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesRules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, map natural assets, and limit review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Feb 18, 2026
Catherine Ferguson
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesRules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, map natural assets, and limit review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Feb 18, 2026
Jeremy and Millayna Klingback
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesRules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, map natural assets, and keep environmental review for wetlands, forests, habitat, and riparian areas.
Feb 18, 2026
Terra Scanlan
Residents
Rules & Incentives
SEPA exemptions, environmental review, and mitigation.
Feb 17, 2026
Rose Noble - Visit Spokane
Business & Advocates
Jobs & EconomyTraffic & TransitNeighborhoodsPublic Participation
Tourism, year-round public spaces, transportation, and creative placemaking.
Feb 17, 2026
Anthony Gill
Residents
NeighborhoodsJobs & Economy
Growth in high-resource areas, HB 1220, and neighborhood commercial opportunities.
Feb 17, 2026
Andy Amidon
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesRules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, map natural assets, and limit environmental-review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Feb 17, 2026
Katie Newhouse Linda Carroll
Neighborhoods
Housing & AffordabilityRules & IncentivesPublic Participation
Community Assembly questions: affordability, demolition, SEPA exemptions, and neighborhood input.
Feb 17, 2026
Grandview-Thorpe Neighborhood Council
Neighborhoods
Grandview-Thorpe neighborhood impacts and process concerns.
Feb 17, 2026
Meredith Arksey
Residents
Rules & Incentives
SEPA exemptions, environmental review, and mitigation.
Feb 17, 2026
Tom Bienemann
Residents
Rules & Incentives
Adopt Alternative 3 and allow development without compromising existing environmental protections.
Feb 17, 2026
Crystal Glanz-Kreutz
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesRules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, inventory natural assets, and limit review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Feb 17, 2026
Julie Cordero
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesRules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3 while keeping environmental review for wetlands, forests, habitat, and riparian areas.
Feb 17, 2026
Erin Dascher
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesRules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, inventory natural assets, and limit review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Feb 17, 2026
Kate Mrgudic
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesRules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3, inventory natural assets, and limit review exemptions to fully disturbed and impervious sites.
Feb 17, 2026
Jim Frank - Greenstone
Development
Housing & AffordabilityNeighborhoodsTraffic & Transit
Housing feasibility, centers and corridors, and affordability.
Feb 17, 2026
Hannah Jurado
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & Trees
Protect undeveloped natural areas, reassess the finding of insignificant habitat impacts, and add trees where growth is planned.
Feb 17, 2026
Patricia Nault
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesTraffic & TransitInfrastructure
Tie Latah Valley growth to funded infrastructure, public services, water supply, wildfire safety, and transportation.
Feb 16, 2026
Nicholas Johnson
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesTraffic & TransitInfrastructure
Support Alternative 3 for downtown-focused density, transit use, lower emissions, water efficiency, and less sprawl.
Feb 16, 2026
Molly Marshall
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & Trees
Tree canopy, climate, and neighborhood impacts, Neighborhood character, demolition, and displacement.
Feb 15, 2026
Robert Flowers
Residents
Traffic & TransitInfrastructureRules & Incentives
Support Alternative 3 with downtown-focused density, better transit and roads, neighborhood involvement, and developer accountability.
Feb 13, 2026
Carol Landa-McVicker
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesTraffic & TransitInfrastructure
Focus growth near transit and services, test whether middle housing is affordable, notify neighborhoods, and protect trees.
Feb 12, 2026
Ryan Stewart - Spokane Regional Transportation Council (SRTC)
Government
Traffic & TransitJobs & Economy
Regional roads and transit planning, job-growth assumptions, and mobility impacts.
Feb 12, 2026
Shenandoah Marr
Residents
NeighborhoodsEnvironment & TreesTraffic & TransitInfrastructure
Support Alternative 3 after addressing traffic safety, seasonal wetlands, flooding, and wildlife habitat.
Feb 12, 2026
Janet Farness - 350 Spokane Interfaith Committee
Business & Advocates
Housing & AffordabilityEnvironment & TreesTraffic & Transit
Climate, tree canopy, transportation, and housing policy.
Feb 11, 2026
Dan Knechtel - North Indian Trail Neighborhood Council
Neighborhoods
Environment & TreesTraffic & TransitInfrastructure
North Indian Trail infrastructure, traffic, and growth hub concerns.
Feb 10, 2026
Carol Tomsic
Residents
Environment & TreesInfrastructureJobs & Economy
Water quality, utility costs, local business, and neighborhood conditions.
Jan 30, 2026
Logan Camporeale - Spokane Historic Preservation Office
Government
NeighborhoodsHistoric Preservation
Historic preservation, demolition, and mitigation.
Jan 21, 2026
Ann Martin
Development
NeighborhoodsJobs & Economy
Downtown growth and development feasibility.
Jan 12, 2026
Mary Stohr
Residents
Environment & Trees
Tree canopy, climate, neighborhoods.
Jan 6, 2026
Tricia Sears - Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
Government
Environment & TreesRules & Incentives
State lands, natural resources, and environmental review.
Jan 3, 2026
Ann Martin
Development
NeighborhoodsTraffic & TransitJobs & EconomyRules & Incentives
Use Alternative 3 to allow additional building height on a specific downtown site where foundation costs make development difficult.
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