KOOTENAI COUNTY Political Liaison Report - NIBCA Board Meeting 7/15/2021 (This report covers 6/1-6/30)

Political Liaison Report - NIBCA Board Meeting 7/15/2021
                        (This report covers 6/1-6/30)

                             KOOTENAI COUNTY

Kootenai County Community Development Hearing Examiner Public
Hearing June, 3 2021
1 Hour YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQH9EmxmsPU
Agenda: https://www.kcgov.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032021-3817

PUBLIC HEARING
Case No. VAR21-0002 - a request for a 10 foot variance to the 25 foot front yard
setback requirement from a public right-of-way on an approximately 0.19-acre parcel of
land in the Restricted Residential zone.
The subject lot is currently undeveloped.
The Applicant desires to construct a 38’ x 26’ garage located 15 feet from the edge of
the Cochran Lane right-of-way.
The garage would not require connection to water or sewer systems, as it would only be
used for storage and would contain no habitable space.
The Applicant cites small lot size and irregular lot configuration resulting in limited
buildable area as contributing to undue hardship justifying the variance.

Applicant: Travis and Kimberli Roth
Presenter: Zach Trevino, Planner
Location: Approximately 300 feet north of the intersection of Cochran Lane and Rice
Road

Case No. VAR21-0005, for the following variances on a 0.24 acre waterfront parcel of
land located in the Restricted Residential zone: 1) 7’-4” variance to the 25’ front yard
setback; 2) 5’ variance to the 10’ side yard setback.

Applicant: Gregory and Julie Hasenoehrl
Presenter: Zach Trevino, Planner
Location: 9280 W. Pine Terrace Road

The Applicants wish to construct a 720 sq. ft. detached shop located 17’-8” from the
edge of the front property line and 5’ from the northwest side property line at the nearest
points.
Due to the location of the existing cabin, access stairway, loading / unloading area, shed
(on permanent foundation) and steep slopes on-site, the Applicant is not able to
maintain the prescribed setback requirements in the underlying zone.
Water and sewer services to the existing cabin will remain unchanged.

MSP20-0002, Hoodoo Valley North, a request by, for preliminary approval of a Major
Subdivision consisting of 66 residential lots and 1 utility tract on 335.89 acres in the
Rural zone.

Applicant: JB Dodge Company LLC
Presenter: Zach Trevino, Planner
Location: On the N Side of Kootenai County just S of Highway 54 and just E of
Ramsey Rd

The subject parcel of land is currently undeveloped and will be completed in six phases.
The proposed lots will be a minimum of 5.000 acres gross (4.500 net) in size meeting
the lot size and density requirements in the Rural zone.
Domestic water supply to each lot will be provided via individual wells.
Effluent discharge on each lot will be treated by individual septic and drainfield systems.

CDA

Coeur d’Alene City Council Meeting June, 1 2021
1.25 Hour YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4argncniIk
Agenda: https://www.cdaid.org/files/Council/Packet060121WEB.pdf

Resolution No. 21-034 – Approve an agreement with Welch Comer for Construction
Phase Services for the Lacrosse Ave Improvements.
Presenter: Chris Bosley, City Engineer 2
UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

Resolution No. 21-035 – Approving a Contract to LaRiviere, Inc. for construction of the
Lacrosse Ave Improvements.

Presenter: Chris Bosley, City Engineer 2
UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

Resolution No. 21-036 – Approval of a Lease of City-Controlled Parking Spaces to the
Chamber of Commerce on the 3rd and 4th of July to Generate Revenue to help pay for
the cost of the Community Fireworks Display.

Presenter: Troy Tymesen, City Administrator 4
UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

Resolution No. 21-037 – Approval of an amendment to the Agreement with St. Vincent
De Paul of North Idaho for emergency homeless sheltering to extend the Agreement
and reduce the dollar amount, and enter into a new agreement using a portion of the
remaining funds for an entry door project, through CDBG-CV funds.

Presenter: Chelsea Nesbit, CDBG Community Development Specialist
UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

PUBLIC HEARINGS
Quasi-Judicial - ZC-2-21 -A proposed zone change from R-12 to R-17

Applicant: George Hughes
Presenter: Mike Behary, Associate Planner

Council Bill No. 21-1013 – Approving - ZC-2-21 -A proposed zone change from R-12
to R-17; located at 3135 Fruitland.

Presenter: Mike Behary, Associate Planner
Location: 3135 Fruitland

UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

CDA Planning & Zoning June 8, 2021
2+ Hour YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t09OjMABqEI
Agenda: https://www.cdaid.org/files/Arts/PCpacket6-8-21.pdf

Applicant: Eugene and Nancy Haag Living Trust
Presenter: Zach Trevino, Planner
Location: 2248 E. Stanley Hill Road
A. A proposed 3.194-acre annexation from County Agricultural Suburban to City R-3.
LEGISLATIVE, (A-2-21)
B. A proposed 3.19 acre Planned Unit Development known as “Haag Estates PUD”
QUASI-JUDICIAL, (PUD-2-21)
C. A proposed 5-lot preliminary plat known as “Haag Estates”
QUASI-JUDICIAL, (S-2-21)

UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

Coeur d’Alene City Council Meeting June, 15 2021
30 Minute YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izsVbdXlIec
Agenda: https://www.cdaid.org/files/Council/Packet061521WEB.pdf

PUBLIC HEARINGS
Legislative: V-20-06 - Vacation of a portion of Seltice Way right-of-way
Council Bill No. 21-1014 – Approving V-20-06- Vacation of a portion of Seltice Way
right-of-way adjoining the northeasterly boundary of Lot 4, Block 1, Glacier
NorthwestSeltice Subdivision.

Presenter: Dennis Grant, Engineering Project Manager
UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

Legislative: V-21-02 - Vacation of a Portion of Wilbur Avenue Right-of-Way
Council Bill No. 21-1015 – Approving V-21-02 - Vacation of a Portion of Wilbur Avenue
Right-of-Way.

Presenter: Dennis Grant, Engineering Project Manager
UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

                                    Post Falls

Post Falls City Council Meeting June, 1 2021
2.5 Hour YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnjLrzXKkVs
Marked Agenda:
https://www.postfallsidaho.org/agenda_docs/pdf_agendas/CCagendas/CCMarked1.pdf

Presentation from Wally Jacobson, Executive Director Panhandle Area Council

PUBLIC HEARINGS
Pleasant View North Annexation

UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

Ordinance - Adopting the Pleasant View Urban Renewal Plan and Revenue
Allocation Area

Phase one is what they are trying to get online with infrastructure and have been
looking at this site for 15 years.
Water lines constructed up Pleasant View up to North of Prairie, also run down Grange.
Sewer would be constructed in that right of way up to a lift station on the NE corner of
Prairie and Pleasant view.

UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

Ordinance - Adopting the Downtown Urban Renewal Plan and Revenue Allocation
Area

APPROVED 5 For and 1 Against

Pleasant View District Intergovernmental Agreement between Kootenai County,
Post Falls, and the Post Falls Urban Renewal Agency
UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

Post Falls Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting June, 8 2021
1.25 Hour YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQzZTv3lD8
Marked Agenda:
https://www.postfallsidaho.org/agenda_docs/pdf_agendas/PZMarkedAgenda.pdf

PUBLIC HEARINGS
Gondo Annexation File No(s). ANNX-0009-2021 – Zoning Recommendation
Presenter: Laura Jones, Associate Planner
Location: South of Prairie Ave and West of Greensferry Rd

UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

Tullamore 9th Zone Change File No. RZNE-0005-2021 - Zoning Recommendation

Presenter: Jon Manley, Planning Manager
Location: West of Highway 41 and South of Prairie

UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

Public Hearing Update – Field Herrington, Deputy City Attorney

Post Falls City Council Meeting June, 15 2021
1.5 Hour YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi5Y4BqBWo4
Marked Agenda:
https://www.postfallsidaho.org/agenda_docs/pdf_agendas/CCagendas/CCMarked3.pdf

Jacklin-Riverbend Annexation
Presenter: Laura Jones, Associate Planner
Location: South of the intersection of W. Pointe Parkway and W. Riverbend Avenue

UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

Ordinance – Corporate Park Zone Change
UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
Ordinance – Black Stallion Ranch Zone Change
UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

Tullamore Sports Complex Mass Grading

Post Falls Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting June, 23 2021
1.25 Hour YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQzZTv3lD8
Marked Agenda:
https://www.postfallsidaho.org/agenda_docs/AgendaArchives/PZ/2021/PZ06-23-21.pdf

File No(s). ANNX-0007-2021 - Pleasant View Meadows Annexation

Applicant: Pleasant View Meadows LLC
Presenter: Laura Jones, Associate Planner
Location: East of Pleasant View Road and North of Highwater Drive

UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

File No. SUBD-0008-2021 - Pasture View Estates Subdivision - Requesting Approval
to Divide 5.01 Acres into 16 Residential Lots

Applicant: Dobler Engineering
Presenter: Ethan Porter, Associate Planner
Location: Along Prairie Ave on the North Side just West of Chase/Prairie Roundabout

UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

File No. USE-0003-2021 - Flerchinger Special Use Permit - Request to Construct
Single-Family Home Projects Consistent with the Medium-Density Multi-Family
Residential (R2) Zoning District on their Limited Commercial Zoned Property.

Applicant: William Flerchinger and Susan jacobson
Presenter: Jon Manley, Planning Manager
Location: SW Corner of Frederick and 10th Ave

UNANIMOUS APPROVAL

                                      HAYDEN

Hayden City Council Meeting June, 8 2021
2 Hour YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91eybZCKEJI
Agenda: https://meetings.boardbook.org/Public/Agenda/2366?meeting=469882

Consider Resolution for Fire Department Impact Fee
Brett Boyer, City Administrator: “Recently State Law changes and it allows Fire
Departments to collect Impact Fees. At a City Level we have talked about trying to do
what we can to have growth pay for itself. In your packet is a Resolution that the City
passes an Ordinance that we would collect at Impact Fee. We would put together a
Committee and we would work with the Fire Department, hand-in-hand, to collect this
fee. We would collect it at the same time people come in to get their building permit,
along with the other impact fees we collect. So, from our perspective it makes sense.
We, now that we legally can do it, we ought to support them in this. Caitlin, our Legal
Attorney, has reviewed the resolution and this will get us going in that direction.”

Caitlin: “The Resolution is simply asking the City to agree to develop a Joint Impact
Fee Development committee between The City, The Fire District and Kootenai
Emergency Services. Then each Entity will agree on 5 members for the Joint
Development Impact Committee, to help develop impact fees for this specific need for

the Fire. They will have to have a Capital Improvement Plan that will have to set impact
fees and then the City can collect those at the time of Building Permit, just like it does
the City Impact Fees and then it would go along to the Fire District. These cannot be
used for fund employees but it can be used for Fire Stations. The City could also have
one with Law Enforcement, just not people. We could collect for Capital Improvements
for Law Enforcement, just not personnel, but long-term Capital, like a Police Station.”

DRAFT Hayden Resolution Appointing DIFAC for Northern Lakes Fire
UNANIMOUS APPROVAL of the Joint Development Impact Fee Advisory Committee
Resolution

Jackie's Family Trust (Jackie Mabrey) Annexation Request

Presenter: Donna Phillips, GISP, Senior Planner
Location: 8635 N Atlas Rd

Approved 3 For and 1 Against - The Nay vote said, “I’d like to give an explanation for
my no vote.” Mayor refused and said, “Nope, we don't need to, we can talk about that
later. No discussion”

Townhall Meeting about Imagine Hayden Comp Plan
Council President Roger Saterfiel: “We got input from hundreds of citizens and spent
hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop this comp plan. The plan is based on staff,
P&Z, our council and input from our citizens. To change it now is a betrayal to all the
people that provided input. Now we have people that don’t agree with this new comp
plan, keep in mind it’s only been in effect since November 2020, and they say in a “My
Turn” article in the paper that we don’t want it to be “Close the gate”. The email I got
said they don’t want any mixed use, they don’t want any apartments, they don’t want
any rentals...only homeowners. Well, if all we do is only R-1 homeowners, aren’t we
creating an elite town where people who want to rent, you know nothing is affordable
today, apartments, duplexes, they have a place. I don’t want to see us with a Sun Valley
type atmosphere where all the worker bees have to be bussed in because there is
nowhere for them to live. It is not Hayden’s density that is creating traffic problems, sure
it adds to it, but it is not causing it, cars are coming into Hayden from all the surrounding
areas.”
“The opinion today was Council Member Roetter and one of the things he said is that he
is now against density when he voted in favor of this comp plan, he praised staff for the
hard work they did on this comp plan, and now he says he is not in favor of it and I think
it was 3 meetings ago he said he doesn’t understand it. In my mind it is not acceptable
to spend 2 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars and then say you don’t
understand it. In my mind it is theatrical politics at it’s very best.

Council Member Panabaker: “Apartments are the affordable housing of today. We are
not pro growth.”

Council Member DeLange: “When we put together the Comp Plan, we didn’t have many
negative public comments. Since then, they have come forward. We are now hearing
from citizens that were unaware of the future goals and they have concerns, primarily in
the 20+ units. I think we should allow the citizens that have concerns now to be heard
and consider their input.”

Community Development Director, Melissa Cleveland said that In our research we
found the most successful developments were 15-25 units per acre and we decided to
pick the middle, 20. We are considering lowering it.

Council Member Roetter: “I think public Governmental discourse is healthy and I
appreciate the opinions of the other council members. I have a question...how are we
going to pay for this? I want to be clear, I am not about shutting down (growth), I am just
concerned about where it is taking us. The traffic is going to get worse, the crime is
going to get worse and who is going to pay for it?”

City Administrator Brett Boyer: “We are using grants, funds from the State, impact fees
and everything else we can to pay for it.” He said we are executing a plan and we will
continue to go after money. “I don’t want the public to get the impression that we are not
doing anything, part of what we are doing is to plan for this. If we have a plan, and we
have a priority we will start to work on it. Do we have enough money to pay for all the
projects...no. Our cap fees are the highest the courts will allow.”

Roetter: “If we are not able to vere from the Comp Plan then it is not a plan...it’s a
directive. What I am hearing is that people are fed up with the traffic, they are fed up
with the amount of people moving here, they are fed up with the housing prices, they
are fed up with this concentration of people that are causing their taxes to probably to
go up because who’s going to pay for all this. And I agree with them..I don’t like the
growth we have. I don’t like where we are headed. I don’t like the changes I am seeing.
So, the question is; “”Are we going to accelerate that growth so it gets worse sooner or
are we going to try to let things progress at a slower pace?””
“Going back to the Viking Construction $650K, the very last approval for payment on
that...I talked to John Cafferty about the contract and he made it clear that we have no
obligation to pay Viking Construction $650K, and what I heard was what’s the right thing
to do. Well, was it the right thing to do that Viking participated in the NIBCA lawsuit,
which cost the City a million dollars, which all our sewer users are paying for and it’s
because of that lawsuit that the latecomer ordinance that we have where we could have

gotten that money went away. It was the fault of that lawsuit that caused the problem for
them. So, why should we give Viking Construction $650K? I did the research on it and
the number of building permits and the cap fees that were paid during the time period of
the class action lawsuit and Viking, he had the largest amount of claims.” Roetter said
that even though we agreed to it...I have since changed my mind.
I would hope that the council would want to listen to voice of its people”

DeLange: “Our levy rate is 94 cents per 1000 and we are a city of almost 16,000
people. We have one of the lowest no-levy rates in the entire state. Could that be why
so many people are moving over here? We have developers building here in Hayden
and we are collecting impact fees (to pay for the growth). We are collecting cap fees
and staff does an excellent job of making the most of what we do have.”

Mayor Griffitts; “The new comp plan lowers our density by 30%. The new comp plan
restricts the floodgates, it does not increase it.”
“I know that some want to limit or stop growth. We have heard from our own city council
member that we need to stop all mixed-use or multi-family growth and to limit building to
only single family homes. I have spent many hours studying the issues, as best as I can
and here’s my response:
Artificial limits are wrong. Throughout history, when governments limit or control market
forces catastrophes and failures follow suit. Limiting the types of homes we build or the
people we restrict from moving into our city is just as wrong, in my mind, as limiting the
amount of children a family can have. How dare we declare that growth must stop now
that I am here.”

Hayden City Council Meeting June, 22 2021
1.5 Hour YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHaizl3bvXI
Agenda: https://meetings.boardbook.org/Public/Agenda/2366?meeting=469881

***Mayor and Council Member Roetter were absent.
One citizen spoke out against growth and berated the council.
Council member Saterfiel defended himself and later apologized for losing his temper
but not for what he said.
Members of the Council and the City have set up a meeting to discuss and agree upon
having a “Town Hall” type meeting with the general public to discuss zoning, ordinances
and growth in detail.

                                    RATHDRUM

Rathdrum City Council Meeting June, 9 2021

1.5 Hour YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaFQVcliovg
City Council Minutes:
https://www.rathdrum.org/vertical/sites/%7BB217A04D-FA9D-403A-9D25-24962991B1
D9%7D/uploads/Council_Minutes_06-09-21_-_Website.pdf
https://meetings.boardbook.org/Public/Agenda/2366?meeting=469882
Agenda Packet:
https://www.rathdrum.org/vertical/sites/%7BB217A04D-FA9D-403A-9D25-24962991B1
D9%7D/uploads/June_9th_Council_Packet.pdf

Consideration of the Meyer Market Conditional Use Permit
Presenter: City Planner Siess
Location: 6308 W Lancaster Rd on SE Corner of Meyer and Lancaster

The applicant is seeking approval of a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to allow for
building of a convenience store that provides refueling and propane sales (service
station/convenience store) with an attached brewpub and a wine bar (separate
businesses) with indoor and outdoor seating (shopping center) on 4.3 acres of a 5.7
acre parcel.
A detached drive through coffee stand is also included in the overall property
development proposal as an outright permitted use.

APPROVED 3 For and 1 Against

Rathdrum Planning and Zoning Commission June, 16 2021
1 Hour YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-pNHcLqSPM
Agenda:
https://www.rathdrum.org/vertical/sites/%7BB217A04D-FA9D-403A-9D25-24962991B1
D9%7D/uploads/Agenda_6.16.2021(1).pdf

Comprehensive Plan Update – Review draft sections to date

Rathdrum City Council Meeting June, 23 2021
4.5 Hour YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fewn-ej2-kg
City Council Packet:
https://www.rathdrum.org/vertical/sites/%7BB217A04D-FA9D-403A-9D25-24962991B1
D9%7D/uploads/June_23_Council_Packet(1).pdf
Agenda Packet:
https://www.rathdrum.org/vertical/sites/%7BB217A04D-FA9D-403A-9D25-24962991B1
D9%7D/uploads/June_9th_Council_Packet.pdf

PUBLIC HEARINGS
Lakeland Landings Annexation - Seeking Approval of Annexation and Zoning of
Approx 17.2 Acres for the Purpose of Incorporating the Property into the City Limits for
Future Development of a Subdivision with Single-Family Homes.

Applicant: Lakeland Landings LLC
Presenter: Scott McArthur
Location: 5943 W Highway 53

Grace Meadows Future Land Use Map and Zone District Amendments
Presenter: Robert Tate representing True North Builders

Consideration of Grace Meadows Zone District Amendment Ordinance
APPROVED - 3 For and 1 Against

Consideration of Grace Meadows Future Land Use Map Amendment Resolution
making it R2-S
APPROVED - 3 For and 1 Against

Consideration of Grace Meadows Preliminary Plat

APPROVED 3 For and 1 Against

Consideration of the Alcohol Beverage License for Suzanne Ward dba No BS Bar
UNANIMOUS APPROVAL