Airway Heights comprehensive plan update in the works

One project the Airway Heights’ Planning Department will focus on completing in 2017 is its comprehensive plan update, which is due in June.

For the plan update, Derrick Braaten, Development Services Director, said staff will work on updating the chapters that require the most time and work, the two being housing and land use.

The housing chapter analyzes the current developments and determines the future residential needs in the city. Since the plan’s 2006 update, Braaten said the city’s population has grown to 8,435 — and that includes the over 2,000 individuals at the correctional facility....