Plan ahead, city leaders

Mon., Nov. 19, 2018

Recently we have heard from the media that Spokane is projected to grow by approximately 15,000 more people this next year. (I don’t know if that is good or not.) If this is the case, our city leaders need to plan for more: more housing, rentals, jobs, mass transit, improved road systems, homeless shelters, improved expanded prison system and more police personnel.

A while ago, Seattle had this problem, with more and more people moving in without additional police for the substantial population influx, and there were major increases in all types of crime activity.

If this city is smart, we will start already making provision for this population growth and not wait to catch up after the fact.

Carol Echtenkamp

Spokane

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