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 caused the City to commission a complete overhaul of its current comprehensive plan, a document first adopted in 1977. The new plan addresses a 20-year horizon, and will be used to guide policies related to land use, transportation, natural resources, housing, and more.


2009 Sandpoint Comprehensive Plan
Download HERE

  • Chapter 1   - Introduction

  • Chapter 2   - Community Profile

  • Chapter 3   - Community Design

  • Chapter 4   - Land Use

  • Chapter 5   - Housing

  • Chapter 6   - Transportation

  • Chapter 7   - Recreation

  • Chapter 8   - Public Services, Facilities and Utilities

  • Chapter 9   - Economic Development

  • Chapter 10 - Natural Resources and Hazardous Areas

  • Chapter 11 - Special Areas or Sites

  • Chapter 12 - Implementation

  • Appendix A - Acronyms and Definitions

  • Appendix B - Idaho Regulatory Takings Act Guidelines

  • Appendix C - Land Use Map

  • Appendix D - Functional Roadway Classification Map

  • Appendix E - Potential Wetlands Map


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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