| Jun. 10, 2008 @ 7:00 PM at the The Prince of Peace Lutheran Church |
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| North Indian Trail Neighborhood Yard Sale 6-14-08 |
Jun. 9, 2008 |
| Our 8th Annual North Indian Trail Neighborhood Yard Sale is on Saturday June 14th, 2008. To get a list of the participants and some of the items they will have for sale, and to see a map showing their location, click on the links below. To get a hard copy, hit the "print" button in your Adobe PDF program.
Yard Sale Participants
Yard Sale Map 1
Yard Sale Map 2 |
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| NITNC Meeting 3/11/08: New Northwest Policing Program |
Mar. 9, 2008 |
| Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 3/11/08 at 7PM at the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church. Our main speaker will be Spokane Police Lieutenant, Craig Meidl, who will discuss the new Neighborhood Policing Program that will be implimented later this year. This program will put additional patrols in the Northwest part of the city and improve policing effectiveness in our neighborhood.
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| NITN Land Use and Zoning Changes Approved |
Dec. 14, 2007 |
| The City Council approved the North Indian Trail Neighborhood Center Plan on 12/3/07. This plan was developed at the request of the City Council by a diverse Stakeholder Committee, with Planning Services assistance and input from the neighborhood and affected property owners. This plan revises the Land Use designations and Zoning on a number of properties in and around our Neighborhood Center. It cleans up a number of different types of anomalies in the Land Use and Zoning such as parcels with two or more designations, mapping errors, and incompatibilities between Land Use and Zoning. It also updates the land use and zoning to match actual construction. The revised Land Use Map is available on the City website at http://www.spokaneplanning.org/Centers_and_corridors/NIT/NIT_LandUseDRAFT_8-7-07.pdf and the revised Zoning Map is available at http://www.spokaneplanning.org/Centers_and_corridors/NIT/NIT_ZoningDRAFT_8-7-07.pdf |
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| Victory In Preventing Spread of Apartment Tax Incentive |
Dec. 14, 2007 |
| The City Council passed Ordinance C34099 on Oct. 29, which expands the target areas eligible for the Multi Family Tax Exemption (MFTE) throughout most of the City. However, we were able to convince the City Council that North Indian Trail should be exempted from this change, because it would give a property tax incentive to build apartments on properties in our area zoned for Offices. We made the case that the greater need was for offices and small businesses that would provide jobs and services in our neighborhood and reduce rush hour traffic on Indian Trail. More apartments would just aggravate our traffic problems. The new ordinance went into affect on12/7/07. |
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| Free Dump Passes Handed Out on Thursday 10/11/07 |
Oct. 4, 2007 |
| Chuck Moser will have 100 dump passes available at the next NITNC Meeting on THURSDAY Oct 11, 2007 at 7PM at the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church. The passes are good for $35 for dump runs made between Oct 13th and Oct 27th. (NOTE: the meeting is on THURSDAY not Tuesday). |
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| Abused Children Awareness Month |
Apr. 6, 2007 |
| April is Abused Children Awareness Month, and many of you have seen articles on child abuse in the Spokesman Review recently. We will have a representative from the Olive Crest Homes & Services for Abused Children who will report on this important topic at our 4/10/07 meeting. |
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| Free Dump Passes on 4/10/07 |
Apr. 6, 2007 |
| It’s clean-up time in our neighborhood, and Chuck Moser will be passing out free dump passes at our 4/10/07 meeting. |
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| Recommendation for Baseline Traffic Study |
Mar. 11, 2007 |
| From Jim Bakke: I believe that we are on track to come up with a good Impact Fee Ordinance but I am very concerned about the lack of a baseline traffic study which is essential in validating the projects proposed to be funded by impact fees. Without it, developers can challenge projects and related fees in court and may be able to prevail. Additionally, the ordinance must allow for developers to choose to provide their own studies, which will most likely “prove” reduced impacts and fees. The ordinance reserves the city’s right to reject those studies, but lacking a baseline, it will have no assured basis to do so. The net result is that large developers will be most likely to be able to fund lawsuits or independent studies, thus there is a likelihood of a substantial loss of revenue. Every dollar lost is also a dollar not available for matching funds, so the loss is multiplied. There is also an issue of equity in that smaller developers will most likely be penalized in that they will probably end up paying the full fees. There are two additional significant benefits from having the baseline study: One is to facilitate economic development by reducing or eliminating the need for traffic studies. This will help streamline the process and create a certainty of costs and timeframes for developers. Jason Wheaton from Greenstone has cited the example of North Idaho, where there is a baseline and impact fees. The process there is very straightforward and facilitates attracting new business and other development. Spokane suffers competitively by comparison. Another benefit is that having the baseline data will allow the Street Department to optimize traffic signal timing – if they can get authorization for enough signal technicians. Please give me your input on this issue at the 3/13/07 NITNC Meeting. |
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