Cheney to seek code changes

Cheney’s planning department is asking the public to weigh in on two notices of application for project work — one of which is citywide.

City officials are proposing creation of an “Institutional Zone,” an amendment to Cheney’s municipal code that would set forth design parameters specific to institutional structures such as schools, the fire and police stations, City Hall and Spokane County Fire District 3’s Presley Drive headquarters — the exemption being Eastern Washington University which is already covered under a “Public” zoning code.

According to the “Determination of Non-significance”...