We want YOU to tell us what Sandpoint should  be like in 20 years!


Sandpoint has grown dramatically in recent years, with equally dramatic changes in terms of transportation, housing, and civic infrastructure. Additional factors have pushed middle and lower-income families to the outskirts or to neighboring towns, increasing traffic and changing Sandpoint’s character.

Issues like these have caused the City to commission a complete overhaul of its current comprehensive plan, a document first adopted in 1977. The plan will address a 20-year horizon, and will guide policies related to land use, transportation, natural resources, housing, and more. The process will be led by the City and planning consultant Studio Cascade, Inc., of Spokane.


The City Council considered the Draft Comprehensive Plan, as forwarded to them by the Planning Commission, at a public hearing on June 12, 2008.  They are in the process of deliberating the document in workshop sessions.  These workshops are open to the public.

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Click HERE for the current (as of 5/28/08) draft of the Comprehensive Plan (8.54 mb).  Or click on the individual chapters below:

Click HERE to see the current draft of the Land Use Map (you will find the Context Area definitions in Chapter 4).

This Draft includes the following modifications as recommended by the Planning Commission at their May 13 (continued from May 6), 2008 meeting:

  1. The City through Committees and Commissions draft and adopt an Arts/Culture chapter when submitted.

  2. Goal CD-3 Policy B:  The land use designation CA-3B should be incorporated. 

  3. Goal CD-4:  Additional language added, “The City will promote the active implementation of the above policies as being critical to creating a sustainable Sandpoint.

  4. Goal T-1, add Policy C to state, “Consider creative parking strategies to reduce the autos visual prominence.”

  5. Goal T-4:  Policy A should be reworded to “Provide for a grade separated railroad crossing, where appropriate to ensure adequate delivery of City services.”

  6. Goal T-4:  Policy F should be included in the section Recreation as a goal, under R-3 as Policy D page 7-4.

  7. Goal E-3:  The second “of” in Policy A should be deleted.

  8. Goal E-2:  The addition of Policy C with language, “Improve transportation facilities and services to facilitate movement of people through the region.”

  9. The proposed Division Avenue CA-4 designation shall now be designated CA-3B and including the eastern half block of Division between Oak and Fir Streets.

  10. Boyer Avenue between Larch and Main Streets to be designated CA-2 for the western half block fronting Boyer and eastern full block to Sixth Avenue.

  11. The full block east of Forest to Boyer Avenue with the southern half block of Church Street to Cedar Street shall now be designated CA-2.


Overview of Presentation, Draft Land Use Maps, and Draft Vision Statement from the October 11, 2007, meeting:

Check Out the Four Alternative Land Use Plans Discussed During the September 11, 2007, meeting:
 

Check Out the Results of the Community Photo Survey

See how our community views Sandpoint's current:
 

And click HERE to see a movie that gives a fun perspective (Caviar and Corndogs) of Sandpoint, submitted by one of its residents.

Meeting Summaries

April 5

Vision Workshop:  Group exercises to help establish broad-brush goals for Sandpoint – what should life here be like in 20 years?  Help define Sandpoint’s “Vision statement.”

Click HERE to see a summary of the comments made at that meeting.
 

May 3

Issues and Priorities Workshop:  Presentation and exercises to turn vision concepts into planning goals, and begin prioritizing them in ways that make sense for Sandpoint.

Click HERE to see the Draft Vision Statement presented at this meeting.
Click HERE to see results from Plan Priorities Scoring.
 

May 31

Strategies & Choices Workshop:  Presentation illustrating various strategic approaches Sandpoint’s plan might take – evaluate, critique, and help improve the plan’s overall direction!

Click HERE to see a summary of the comments made at that meeting.
 

September 11 Alternative Workshop:  Presentation of growth strategies as refined by the last meeting, research, and the Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee’s summer outreach. 

Click HERE to go to the Alternative Land Use Plans discussed at this meeting.
 

October 11 Policy Workshop:  Presentation of previous workshop and steering committee results, draft land use strategy group review of draft vision, land use plan, evaluation of policy alternatives.

Click HERE to go to the presentation, draft Land Use Maps, and draft Vision Statement presented at this meeting.
Click HERE to see a summary of the comments made at that meeting.

November 15  

Public Comment Portion of Steering Committee Meeting

Click HERE to see the written public comments presented at this meeting.


Project Contacts:

Studio Cascade, Inc.

City of Sandpoint

Comprehensive Plan
Steering Committee

Bill Grimes, Principal
114 W. Pacific, Suite 200
Spokane, WA 99201
Voice: 509-835-3770
Fax: 509-835-3763
Email
Planning Department
1123 Lake Street
Sandpoint, ID 83864
Voice: 208-263-3370
Fax: 208-263-3678
Email
Chair
Brandon Moon

Voice:
208-
263-3408
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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