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The Post Falls Planning and Zoning Commission met on September 30, 2026, to consider two zoning recommendations: the Kruger Annexation (ANX-26-5) requesting R3 high-density residential zoning on 4.49 acres, and the Immaculate Conception Chapel Zone Change (ZC-26-2) requesting a change from SC4 to SC5 on 4.44 acres. The commission heard public testimony, reviewed staff presentations, and voted to forward both recommendations to the city council.
Kruger Annexation (ANX-26-5) – R3 Zoning Recommendation
Immaculate Conception Chapel Zone Change (ZC-26-2) – SC4 to SC5
And the traffic mcuire Maguire Road, excuse me, is classified as a minor arterial. Echo drive is classified as a local roadway. And then, as you kind of saw, there will be additional rights away included with this annexation request. And so you can kind of see from the images before that it goes down to Celticeway. Um, and I'll go back here. So you can see along Maguire Road from Echo Drive, they will be incorporating that right away from Echo Drive down to Celte Sway. So the review criteria for the commission tonight is looking at is the proposed zoning district consistent with the future land use map and focus area contained in the currently adopted post-falls comprehensive plan. Secondly, is the proposed zoning district consistent with the goals and policies contained in the currently adopted post-falls comprehensive plan that are relevant to the area under consideration. And then lastly, the third one does the proposed zoning district create a demonstrable adverse impact upon the delivery of services by any political subdivision providing public services within the city. So kind of looking at what the future land use designation shows. We see the um image on the left here, the high density residential uh future land use designation highlighted there. That's the orange, and so within that hatched area of the subject site. Um the implementing zoning districts for the future land use designation is going to be uh per the focus area and R3, which is what they are requesting tonight. Also, we look at the focus area of the West Prairie focus area that it's within. And that kind of outlines and helps guide kind of what also policies we're looking at and um goals within the comprehensive plan that we'll cover in this slide here. So as I mentioned, high density residential kind of includes densities. Um they may vary by location, street and infrastructure capacities, plan development patterns, and compatibility with existing development. So looking at the focus area, we have the rest prairie focus area, which kind of is a transitional area with portions of expected portions of it expected to develop as future residential, commercial, and industrial uses. Additionally, mixed residential is envisioned between Maguire Road and Corbin Road with higher densities near commercial corridors and arterials. So outlined kind of furthermore in the staff report, um, we have goals and policies kind of supporting this that's um outlined in that document. And so goal one was one that was highlighted looking at growing and sustaining a balanced resilient economy for post falls, providing community prosperity and fiscal health, and some of those policies that support that goal as mentioned in the staff report, apply um is policy two applying or revising zoning designations with careful consideration of factors, including future land use mapping, which we've been talking about, the compatibility with surrounding land uses, also kind of what we were mentioning in the previous slides, and then infrastructure and service plans existing and future traffic patterns and then goals and policies of the comprehensive plan and related master plans. So additionally, goal seven was highlighted as well in the staff report looking at um planning for and establishing types of types and quantities of land uses in post-falls supporting community needs in the city's long-term sustainability. And so policy 20 was highlighted to kind of looking at the consideration for the location of multifamily development in this area, making sure they have access to arterial and collector streets, and help buffer high and lower intensity development patterns, abutting compatible existing uses, and our part of projects involving mixed use or master planned areas. So kind of those were highlighted and kind of commented on by um staff's review within the staff report. Um the goals and these policies kind of come together and kind of help identify kind of where the direction of this area is going along with that future land use designation. So the per the focus area looking at kind of mixed development and higher uses and the future land use designation kind of calling out as R3, um, which is what they're requesting tonight, and higher density for residential. We kind of look at those as being compatible and kind of leave it up to you to kind of make that decision and your recommendation to city council. So lastly, we kind of look at that proposed zoning district. Does it create a demonstrable adverse impact uh upon the delivery of services by any political subdivision providing public services within the city? And so we reached out to public agencies as we normally do, and of the agencies listed here on the screen, um, we received comments back basically from post-fall school district remaining neutral, and then we had Cootney County Fire and Rescue, and they will coordinate a coordinate at the time of development, and then additionally, Phillips 66, they commented they have no utilities in the area and had no further comment for that. And so I think moving forward, kind of because I know this is kind of a um interesting area with Maguire, and there's some staff report discussion about Meguire Road, what does it look like for the future? What does it look like for the future? What's the capacity? How can we handle that? I'm going to pass it over to our city engineer, uh Rob Paulus to kind of discuss and go through a little bit on that. I have a question. Yes. Didn't we already do this? Correct. Yes. This was a previous um request in 2023 that they came through and planning and zoning recommended the zoning of mixed CCS and R3 to City Council and City Council reviewed and had the hearing, and they decided ultimately to deny the annexation. They denied it. Correct.