Informed Kootenai

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Three efforts, one goal: growth that listens to the people who live here.

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Enrich the Details

Dense state and regional studies, broken down into plain English: real math, honest tax costs, land-use facts, and community impact.

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Cross-section drawing of the proposed Huetter corridor

No Huetter Bypass

KMPO has spent more than 20 years trying to build support for the Huetter Road Corridor. We track the Rathdrum Prairie transportation study and put the community's comments on the record.

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Coeur Terre

1,050 acres of prairie bought in 2019 and first planned around 1-acre lots, now moving toward high density. We follow every annexation, rezone, and development agreement.

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Enrich the Details · Oct 27, 2026

How Do Annexations Impact You in Idaho?

In 2023, Coeur d'Alene neighbors learned that no one could take the Coeur Terre annexation to a judge, because the landowners had asked for it. Idaho rewrote its annexation law in 2024, but the statute still grants an appeal only for a "city-initiated" annexation, a phrase described by process not by definition. The neighbors just outside a landowner-requested annexation, who cannot vote for the council deciding it, are left with a demanding lawsuit, a zoning appeal with a 14-day deadline, and appeals of later plats. Striking "city-initiated" from section 50-222(14) would let them appeal.

Unchecked by Judicial Review: "The power of zoning authorities to render legislative decisions is now one that may be exercised virtually unchecked by judicial review of those decisions." - Justice Bakes
3 bills: Times the Legislature has taken up the same appeal clause (2023, 2024 and 2026), with no committee debate on it in the minutes

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Oct 12, 2026 · Enrich the Details Idaho’s Revenue Beat Is Real. The Editorial’s Story About It Definitely Slanted Opinion.
Oct 12, 2026 · Coeur Terre Coeur Terre 2 Goes Back to the City Council: Reconsideration Hearing October 26
Oct 6, 2026 · No Huetter Bypass Reply to ITD: Rathdrum Prairie Area and the Draft FY2027–FY2033 ITIP
Oct 1, 2026 · No Huetter Bypass Response to the ITD District 1 Letter of September 4, 2026

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Over the years the community's voice has gone unheard by elected officials. Join neighbors who read the studies and speak up at every comment period.

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