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Posted in: blog, Water
Tuesday
22nd
Mar
2011

BNSF and Kootenai County Negotiating Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer Protection Measures

The railroad corporation BNSF, which operates a controversial refueling station in Hauser, over the Rathdrum Prairie aquifer, has taken Kootenai County to court over tighter aquifer protection measures. The County wants to make the new measures part of a permit renewal for the facility. After agreeing to a set of conditions in its original negotiated permit some ten years ago, BNSF is now opposed to more »

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Posted in: blog, KEA, Land Use
Wednesday
9th
Mar
2011

Wes Hanson Named to Planning Commission

We finally confirmed a juicy rumor we heard earlier this morning that Wes Hanson – KEA Board member and Art Manley Award winner — was just appointed to fill one of two vacancies on the Kootenai County Planning Commission.  The other new appointee is Collin Coles, a former planner for the City of Post Falls. The Planning Commission will have a central role in the more »

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Posted in: blog, Hayden Lake, Land Use
Monday
17th
Jan
2011

Hearing Examiner Rejects Hemlock Hills Subdivision Application

Kootenai Environmental Alliance has a very busy land use program, but as a general rule, we don’t weigh in on subdivision applications in Kootenai County. Mostly because we’re a small busy non-profit – there are only so many battles we can fight. The main reason for drawing the line at subdivisions is that under current county code (the subdivision ordinance — a very large pdf), more »

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Posted in: blog, Save Cougar Bay
Wednesday
5th
Jan
2011

What’s Next for Cougar Bay

We’ve invited Nick Snyder, Director of Kootenai County Parks & Waterways to join us at our regular meeting at the Iron Horse Restaurant (Noon on Thursday, January 6th) to talk about the Spokane River / Cougar Bay piling removal project. Cougar Bay and Spokane River watchers will have noticed that the pilings along the Spokane River and outside the mouth of Cougar Bay have vanished. more »

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Posted in: blog, Forests, Hayden Lake, KEA
Friday
31st
Dec
2010

KEA in 2010

We sent a version of this post to our friends and members earlier this week, and we thought we’d share our thoughts on 2010 here as well. We’ve had a pretty good year at KEA. As this end-of-year letter is being written, the Kootenai County Commissioners are finally completing work on the long-awaited comprehensive plan. As you know, KEA has been involved at every step more »

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Posted in: blog, Land Use
Thursday
30th
Dec
2010

Signed and Delivered, The Kootenai County Comprehensive Plan Is Now In Effect

It’s done! Although I’m semi snowed-in today, I got word from the Kootenai County Commissioners that the long-awaited Comprehensive Plan is complete. Signed into official status as of this morning. According to the press release sent by the County, the process that formally began more than four years ago, was completed with three Commissioner signatures on the document this morning.  The press release describes the more »

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Posted in: blog, Land Use
Thursday
9th
Dec
2010

Comp Plan Moving Toward Final Passage

At a deliberation this morning, postponed from several weeks ago, the Kootenai County Commissioners signaled that they are nearing completion of the long-awaited comprehensive plan. After some unpublicized “workshops” with officials from cities on the prairie, which had criticized the plan at the most recent hearing, the Commissioners agreed to several tweaks to the most recent draft to accommodate some of their concerns. At this more »

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Posted in: blog, Land Use
Wednesday
27th
Oct
2010

Last Comp Plan Hearing Ever?

Kootenai Environmental Alliance provided comments, again –and hopefully for the last time — on the long-awaited draft comprehensive plan revision for Kootenai County.  In the works for four or five years at this point, the draft could gain final approval by the County Commissioners next month. The hearing was nowhere near as lengthy, or heated, as previous hearings on the plan. Commissioners Tondee and Currie more »

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Posted in: blog, Land Use
Friday
22nd
Oct
2010

Comp Plan Redux

The fourth (count ‘em!) draft of a new Kootenai County Comprehensive Plan is set for yet another hearing Tuesday at 5pm. However, with the same three commissioners who took a year to edit draft number three, now considering their own draft number four, we don’t expect them to make major changes, or take the time to do major re-writes. KEA will certainly attend the upcoming more »

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Posted in: blog, Land Use
Tuesday
28th
Sep
2010

Cities will be Cities — And the Comp Plan Returns

Two interesting and somewhat interrelated items in today’s Coeur d’Alene Press:  first, that the City of Post Falls is reviewing their procedures for annexations into the City; second, that the City of Coeur d’Alene is reluctant to provide water service outside its municipal boundary in Huetter. The articles signal that both municipalities remain acutely concerned about expanding expensive city services at the periphery of their more »

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