Workshop covers local governments

Sat., Oct. 8, 2005

Compiled from staff and wire reports The Spokesman-Review

Kootenai County Commissioner Gus Johnson, Post Falls Mayor Clay Larkin and other officials will speak Monday about how local governments make planning decisions.

The public workshop is sponsored by the Kootenai Environmental Alliance and the League of Women Voters of Kootenai County. Hayden Planning Director Lisa Key and former Coeur d’Alene Planning Commission member Susie Snedaker also are on the panel.

This is the fourth in a series of eight free workshops in September and October to teach people how to participate in and understand local land-use planning.

The workshop is at 3:30 p.m. Monday on the Coeur d’Alene campus of the University of Idaho, 1000 W. Hubbard.

For more information, call KEA at 667-9093 or Joyce Bergan with the League of Women Voters at 699-5198.

Planners holding annual conference

Planners from across Idaho are meeting in Post Falls next week for the annual Idaho Planning Association conference.

About 200 planners will attend the Oct. 12-14 conference at Red Lion Templin’s Resort. The Community Transit Association of Idaho also is a partner in the conference, which will include sessions on public transportation in Idaho, community team-building, media relations, zoning issues and code enforcement.

Larry Swanson of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West will give the keynote speech on creating a sense of place in communities.

Registration is open to non-members and one-day registration also is available. For more information, go to www.idahoplanningassoc.com.

Work will close lanes on westbound I-90

Westbound Interstate 90 will be reduced to one lane today as crews move traffic over to new concrete lanes between Sullivan and Argonne roads.

The westbound Sullivan loop on-ramp and the westbound Pines Road off-ramp will be closed today as well. Other ramps may be closed intermittently.

Crews must move the temporary traffic barrier and fix lane markings.

This is one of the final phases of the two-year project.

The entire project is scheduled to be completed in November.