Council hears update on city's comprehensive plan

AIRWAY HEIGHTS – Strategic master plans for cities to follow are built and adopted, and some states or counties have differing timelines in which these plans need to be accepted.

According to Airway Heights Principal Planner Heather Trautman, cities in Spokane County have to revisit their master plan every eight years.

“This plan helps us identify the relationship between how quickly we grow,” Trautman said. “And the utilities that we are going to be designing.”

“For example, if we know how fast we are growing, we can more easily determine when our water treatment plant would need updated,” sh...