Long Range Planning

Service We Provide

The primary purpose of Long Range Planning is to prepare and maintain the City's Comprehensive Plan, which guides the future development of the City and its Urban Growth Area (UGA). Long Range Planning is responsible for researching, analyzing, and working with the public on land use policies. Spokane has an extensive history and tradition of working with citizens to ensure that the public's values are expressed through land use planning documents that provide a vision of a vibrant and balanced community. Staff also provide resources for other City departments, City Council, Plan Commission, Design Review Board, and state agencies.

Long Range Planning work in the City of Spokane includes:

• The Comprehensive Plan
• The Official Land Use and Zoning Maps
• The Unified Development Code (UDC) Spokane Municipal Code Title 17
• Neighborhood Planning
• Regional Planning, and a variety of other projects

Recent Projects

• 2012-2014 Comprehensive Plan Update
• Parking Code Changes
• Parking Meter Pay Station Pilot
• Shoreline Master Program Update
• Downtown Development Code and Design Guideline Update Project
• Downtown Parking Study Update
• West Plains Annexation Land Use Designations and Zoning
• Airfield Overlay Zoning and Comprehensive Plan Policy
• Infill Housing Zoning Code Update Project
• Development Code Project
• Neighborhood Planning
• Spokane Master Bike Plan
• Sign Code Update - Ordinances adopted 6/22/09
• Urban Growth Area Update - Land Quantity Analysis - August 2010

Long Range Planning Staff
Louis Meuler, Program Manager	(509) 625-6096
Tirrell Black	(509) 625-6185
Nikole Coleman-Porter	(509) 625-6883
Kathleen Weinand	(509) 625-6146