County Dumps Land Use Code Plan

It’s back to the drawing board for Kootenai County’s controversial land use code if County Commissioners accept the recommendations of its Planning and Zoning Commission. The planning commission on Monday voted to move forward on writing a new land use code without the help of Kendig Keast, the county’s land-use consultant which developed the controversial Unified Land Use Code. The commission met to consider a prospectus provided by the consultant that details what the county needs to do in order to simplify the ULUC and make it more user friendly. When Commission Chairman Wes Hanson laid out two options on how to proceed, Commissioner Linda Fillios provided a third option. “I have a third option. Get rid of it totally,” she said, adding she talked with several people of all different political persuasions and they all told her to “chuck it”/ Jeff Selle , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

Question: Is it a good idea to re-start the process for the controversial land use code?