How did Spokane pass housing rules so quickly?
In a 2022 Strong Towns interview, Spokane Planning Director Spencer Gardner described the deliberate speed and public process behind the City’s interim housing ordinance.
Audio published by Strong Towns on The Bottom-Up Revolution. The player opens at 27:24; if your browser starts at the beginning, move to 27:24.
What Gardner said
“We moved very quickly and we did so deliberately. … We sidestepped a lot of our usual process.”
Spencer Gardner · Strong Towns interview · 27:24
Later in the exchange, Gardner said the intent was not to exclude anyone from the process. He described the interim ordinance as a pilot the City could learn from before deciding what came next.