Item: Cold shoulders for land use code: Panelists hard pressed to find positives in plan/Jeff Selle, Coeur d'Alene Press.

More Info: Most of the panelists at a Tuesday morning forum to discuss Kootenai County's proposed land use code concluded the same thing: It needs work. A lot of work. "It's the potato salad that's been sitting out at the picnic too long," said Janet Robnett, a panelist at the meeting. "Just because we bought it doesn't mean we have to eat it." Robnett is a land use attorney who sat on the county's technical committee to review the proposed Unified Land Use Code as it was developed.

Question: Are you beginning to think, as I am, that changes need to be made to propose land-use plan?