Ecology sets September 15th workshop for final public critique of Spokane County’s shoreline regulations.
The Washington Department of Ecology has announced its schedule and a hearing date for the final review step of the proposed regulations that Spokane County is required to promulgate under Washington’s Shoreline Management Act.
The updated and revised rules are required by the state and are intended to remediate past damage to shorelines, prevent future damage and reserve and protect public access to surface
waters.
The revised plan is available here.
Recent commentary from former Planning Commission chair Lindell Haggin and Futurewise’s Kitty Klitzke is available here.
Ecology is taking comments on the County’s proposed revisions through October 2. What Ecology describes as a “public workshop and hearing” on the plan is set for Tuesday, September 15th, at the Sasquatch Room in Building 6 at Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene Street.
According to Spokane County, the County Commissioners conducted a public hearing on the Revised Shoreline Master Plan changes on February 24, 2009. The Commissioners later approved the proposed changes except the proposed Spokane River shoreline designation change affecting the area between the north city limits of the City of Liberty Lake and the ordinary high water mark of the south shoreline of the Spokane River. That shoreline area was proposed to be changed to Urban Conservancy and, according to the county, the commissioners decided to retain the original Rural Conservancy designation recommended by the County Planning Commission.
No comments yet.