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Medical Lake’s Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 5 p.m. in the Medical Lake City Hall at 124 S. Lefevre St. to discuss amendments to sections of the city’s municipal code. The amendments including subdivision design standards, the definition of “family,” flood hazard areas and adding a section related to electric vehicle infrastructure, according to a public notice. The proposed changes are a result of the update of the city’s Comprehensive Plan. Language related to the revisions...
The city of Medical Lake’s Planning Commission will be holding a public hearing on Sept. 26 at 5 p.m. in the Medical Lake City Hall at 124 S. Lefevre St. to discuss amendments to sections of the city’s municipal code, Including subdivision design standards, the definition of “family,” flood hazard areas, and adding a section related to electric vehicle infrastructure, according to a public notice. The proposed changes are a result of the update of the city’s Comprehensive Plan. Language related to the revisions and additions...
The Airway Heights City Council faced an extensive agenda at its Aug. 5 meeting, honoring local legislators and hearing a presentation relating to a proposed Highland Village development resolution. Council first unanimously passed a resolution honoring the 6th District’s legislative delegation, comprised of Sen. Jeff Holy, Rep. Mike Volz and Rep. Jenny Graham, for their work during the 2019 legislative session. Airway Heights received significant funds from this year’s session, including more than $5 million for the Hig...
Some 131 Medical Lake residents received disturbing news last week. A notice, hand delivered by city maintenance personnel on Wednesday, July 24, informed them that routine water samples had tested positive for E.coli bacteria. The notice advised residents to use bottled water or boil tap water for one minute until further notice. “It was my worst nightmare,” Scott Duncan, Medical Lake maintenance supervisor, said. Additional samples were drawn and submitted for testing the...
Tucked away in a mobile home park off of Sunset Highway in Airway Heights, a drama worthy of a telenovela has quietly been playing out since late June, expanding to involve city departments, local officials and residents alike. What started as a routine code enforcement call has rapidly turned into a quagmire of issues code enforcement officer Kristina Blake says highlights the need for additional city code detailing rental inspection rules. Essentially uninhabitable Last mont...
On Saturday, June 22, eight members of an Army parachute team relaxed in a plane hovering at an altitude of 11,500 feet, its door wide open to catch the freezing 120 mile per hour winds and offer a stomach-churning view of sprawling farmland below reduced to the size of postage stamps. While prepping for their jump, they talked about "getting out" of the plane the way others would talk about getting out of a cab. But for them, it's just another day at the office. The U.S....
Congratulations graduates! It’s been a long time since I stood in your place. I remember being excited to finish a big phase in my life and apprehensive about starting a new one. I am sure you feel much the same. For the past 12 years, you have been a child in our public school system. Your graduation is the rite of passage from childhood into the world of adults. Well...almost. Our court system considers you an adult, so shoplifting is no longer a juvenile offense. You can serve in the military or get married without a...
The city of Medical is poised to ink its updated Comprehensive Plan, or comp plan, according to a public notice. The plan is the guiding document that will be used to drive Medical Lake’s growth and direction for the next decade. Citizens have until 5 p.m., Friday, June 28, to review and comment on the new plan. The Planning Commission will be holding a public hearing at 5 p.m., Thursday, June 27, at Medical Lake City Hall to review the proposed update and to make a recommendation of approval to the City Council. The s...
The Cheney Care Center has submitted a rezone application to the city in order to proceed with the next phase of its Blackstone Estates project. The application, submitted April 15 with a notice dated May 28, would change the designation of 4.94 acres of land from R-1 single-family residential to R-2 two-family residential. If approved, the Care Center would proceed with building 12 senior housing duplexes, 24 units total that would be home to up to 48 middle to high-income...
Enjoy the clear blue spring sky while you can. By all accounts, this year will be host to yet another hot, dry and smoky summer fire season. “We’re already really dry,” Spokane County District 3 Division Chief Dustin Flock said. “The predictive outlook is higher than normal.” He noted that moisture content is low in the area. The Washington State Department of Natural Resources, who is responsible for preventing and fighting wildfires on 13 million acres of public and priva...
Representatives from several levels of the United States Air Force had little to say last week in response to an Airway Heights letter demanding nearly $47 million in damages because of the 2017 contamination of its water supply. Fairchild personnel originally referred queries seeking a response to the letter to the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) in San Antonio, Texas, which has played a large part in water testing and other contamination-related activities on the West Plains. AFCEC spokesperson Mark Kinkade said he...
The city of Airway Heights sent a letter to the United States Air Force and the United States Department of Defense Thursday, May 2, demanding they pay nearly $47 million in damages as the result of the 2017 contamination of the city’s water supply by Fairchild Air Force Base. According to the letter, the city and the Air Force are in agreement that Air Force activities contributed to PFOA and PFAS contamination via firefighting foam, which the city believes makes the Air Force liable for damages for “trespass, nuisance and...
It's official: the Medical Lake City Council has approved an ordinance asking voters to give the thumbs up - or down - in August to a proposed annexation of city fire services by Spokane County Fire District 3. There was considerable discussion by council members during its April 2 meeting before the unanimous vote to move the ordinance forward. Councilmembers Ted Olson and Laura Parsons were absent from the meeting. Councilwoman Jessica Roberts, who said she supported the...
The Emeryville, California-based supermarket chain Grocery Outlet has submitted paperwork for a new store to be located on 1st Street in north Cheney. According to a Notice of Application dated March 21, the company is proposing to combine two separate lots, parcel numbers 23072.0096 and 23072.0097, located at 2603 1st Street into one parent parcel. The move would allow for construction of a 16,456-square-foot commercial building between the Verizon outlet to the north and...
1 Years Ago March 26, 2008 A lack of renovation funding and a failure to reach a maintenance and operations agreement led Eastern Washington University and the Cheney School District to consider closing Reid Elementary, a 50-year-old school. The Cheney library began offering an online tutoring service called Live Homework Help, allowing students and tutors to keep in contact via instant messaging. Cheney sought to formalize its banner policy, setting fees for advertising on local light poles. 20 Years Ago April 1, 1999...
Cheney’s City Council welcomed its newest member last Tuesday night, Feb. 26, as Vince Barthels was sworn in to serve on the Position 2 seat left vacant after the resignation of Doug Nixon in late 2018. Nixon, who served since 2007, stepped down due to his moving to a residence located outside of the city. A Cheney resident, Barthels has served on the city’s Planning Commission and as its chair since 2012. According to the city’s published application notice, individuals interested in serving on the council were to submi...
Cheney residents might notice something different in a couple weeks at the corner of 1st and I streets just south of downtown. Something will be missing — but its removal shouldn’t go unnoticed. Historic Preservation Commission administrative assistant Sue Beeman told commissioners at their Feb. 7 meeting that a house located on property purchased by the Cheney Depot Society is scheduled to be demolished in a practice burn by Cheney’s fire department on Sunday, Feb. 17. The removal of the house signals the first sign of pr...
Cheney’s planning department has issued a mitigated determination of non-significance for an application to combine two separate parcels on 1st Street into one for future construction of a church. The location of the parcels are 304 and 316 W. 1st, at the intersection of 1st and Salnave Road. No public hearing is required on the project, however a public comment period is open until 5 p.m. Feb. 13. The project applicant is Fellowship Baptist Church, which owns both parcels a...
The city of Cheney is holding a special meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 5, to take public testimony on Ordinance X-58 that enacted a moratorium on development of land located along Alki Street, east of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific railroad tracks. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers, 609 2nd St. The six-month moratorium was enacted by the Cheney City Council on Dec. 11, 2018. The moratorium prohibits issuing any new “Development Approvals” on the land located east of Alki Street to...
By JOHN McCALLUM Managing Editor Cheney’s City Council approved 11 of 12 new ordinances on its Jan. 22 agenda in what constituted a major rewrite of some of its municipal code chapters on development and maintenance of property. The 12th measure, Ordinance X-38 on “Public Property and Facilities, was removed by a motion from Councilwoman Teresa Overhauser at the request of Public Works Director Todd Ableman, who said additional time was needed to better align the new requirements with those in the code’s Chapter 12 on stree...
Medical Lake schools band teacher Craig Johnson was concerned when he was called to high school principal Chris Spring's office, particularly when, as he entered, there sat a couple of his students. "It was funny how he told me," Johnson said. Seeing a couple of his students sitting there as he walked in to see Spring, Johnson was thinking "Oh no, what happened?" What followed was official word from his boss that Johnson had been singled out among dozens of teachers in the...
A fire that broke out along railroad tracks near Mullinix Road was quickly whipped by strong winds and consumed 30 acres of scrub timber and forced evacuations of businesses and the Peaceful Pines RV Park and Campground in south Cheney. The fire broke out around 4 p.m., with units from Spokane County Fire District 3 and Cheney Fire Department responding quickly to the blaze inside the city. The fire moved quickly north, with sudden plumes of black smoke mixing with the gray as...
Greater Spokane Emergency Management officials want the public to know what evacuation levels mean - and what to take with them when told to leave. The county agency has released a set of evacuation guidelines and an "emergency evacuation grab and go list" it hopes all residents will find helpful should conditions arise where they need to be prepared to leave their homes. The information is particularly applicable to residents in what GSEM program specialist Gerry Bozarth...
Cheney developer Steve Emtman is proposing a zoning change that would essential "swap" land designated multifamily on 12.1 acres of land along Alki Street to better accommodate construction of a 224-unit apartment complex. The changes would redistribute land around a wetland on the site by changing the designation of Emtman's property along a strip of Alki from R-3/multifamily residential to R-3H/high density multifamily residential. An equal amount of land along the northern...
Spokane County issues burn upgraded restrictions Hot, dry weather and elevated fire potential have prompted the Spokane County Fire Code official to issue burn restrictions for the unincorporated areas of the county. The restrictions went into effect Monday, July 16. The restrictions mean that unauthorized open burning and specified outdoor recreational fires (campfires, fire bowls and fire pits) are prohibited in the unincorporated areas of Spokane County until further notice. Any person(s) responsible for open burning...
