Spokane Municipal Code

Title 17B Comprehensive Plan and Sub-area Plans

Chapter 17B.010 Comprehensive Plan

Section 17B.010.010 Purpose and Applicability

1. The comprehensive plan of the City is the document, prepared by the city plan commission and adopted by ordinance of the city council, containing text and maps setting forth goals and policies to guide decisions about the future orderly development of the City, which are designed to enhance the fiscal, physical, social, cultural and economic well-being of its population. “Comprehensive” means that the plan encompasses all geographic parts of the City and all functional elements such as land use, circulation and community facilities, and their relationship to one another, the environment, and the metropolitan community.
    
2. The adopted comprehensive plan is intended to guide and give direction to City-wide development over a relatively long period of time. The land use codes shall be consistent with and implement the comprehensive plan. Public improvements through the investment of public capital funds, regardless of the source, are to conform to and implement the comprehensive plan.
    
3. Locations of features shown on comprehensive plan maps are considered general unless specific plans have provided more precise delineation. Map boundaries or locations are subject to interpretation by the planning and economic development services director, hearing examiner, plan commission or city council as the case may be.

4. For the comprehensive plan to have integrity and effect, it must be stable over several decades. To retain stability and integrity, the plan should not be subject to frequent changes. Nevertheless it must be kept up-to-date to accommodate the changing times. Therefore, the comprehensive plan is subject to amendment through the deliberate, purposeful and public process described in chapter 17G.061 SMC.

Date Passed: Monday, July 23, 2012

Effective Date: Thursday, August 30, 2012

ORD C34887 Section 3

Section 17B.010.010 Purpose and Applicability

1. The comprehensive plan of the City is the document, prepared by the city plan commission and adopted by ordinance of the city council, containing text and maps setting forth goals and policies to guide decisions about the future orderly development of the City, which are designed to enhance the fiscal, physical, social, cultural and economic well-being of its population. “Comprehensive” means that the plan encompasses all geographic parts of the City and all functional elements such as land use, circulation and community facilities, and their relationship to one another, the environment, and the metropolitan community.
    
2. The adopted comprehensive plan is intended to guide and give direction to City-wide development over a relatively long period of time. The land use codes shall be consistent with and implement the comprehensive plan. Public improvements through the investment of public capital funds, regardless of the source, are to conform to and implement the comprehensive plan.
    
3. Locations of features shown on comprehensive plan maps are considered general unless specific plans have provided more precise delineation. Map boundaries or locations are subject to interpretation by the planning and economic development services director, hearing examiner, plan commission or city council as the case may be.

4. For the comprehensive plan to have integrity and effect, it must be stable over several decades. To retain stability and integrity, the plan should not be subject to frequent changes. Nevertheless it must be kept up-to-date to accommodate the changing times. Therefore, the comprehensive plan is subject to amendment through the deliberate, purposeful and public process described in chapter 17G.061 SMC.

Date Passed: Monday, July 23, 2012

Effective Date: Thursday, August 30, 2012

ORD C34887 Section 3