Land code cost rises

COEUR d’ALENE - Kootenai County commissioners approved on Tuesday an $89,960 amendment to their contract with Kendig Keast Collaborative to fix the Unified Land Use Code.

The amendment includes an additional $13,000 in optional work, bringing the total new expenditure as high as $102,960.

Responding to a steady stream of public outcry, county commissioners and the County Planning Commission asked the land use consultant in July to prepare a prospectus that would outline how his firm would go about revising the ULUC to incorporate many of the concerns that have arisen with the proposal.

Bret Keast submitted a proposal for that prospectus to the county on Aug. 5, outlining a two-phased approach that he would like to use.

In the first phase, Keast wants to develop a prospectus that would consolidate, reorganize and reformat the ULUC “to the extent necessary and practicable.”

His cost for that alone is $5,400. More here . Jeff Selle, Cda Press

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