Airway Heights commission holds hearing

The Airway Heights Planning Commission met on June 13 and held a public hearing on an Eastern Washington Growth Management Hearing Board ruling against the city.

Starting in October 2011, the city began to update AHMC (Airway Heights Municipal Code) 17.37, which was a mixed-use overlay. It was labeled as too broad and it did not provide any standards for future developers.

Since that time, the Spokane International Airport, city of Spokane and Spokane County sued Airway Heights over three areas in the city limits. One of these was 29 acres south of Highway 2 and along Hazelwood Road that had t...