Coeur d'Alene Health Corridor Approved

Coeur d'Alene City Council approved Health Corridor 5-1

"Idaho State Senator Mary Souza, representing her Coeur d'Alene district, warned the Coeur d'Alene City Council that the Health Corridor gave too much authority to the new urban renewal district. 'I've heard from some people there's language in the plan to the effect that the board would have the right to go into buildings within the district and declare they are under-performing. That's language I've never been aware of in urban renewal decision..."

“I’m reminded of Nero,” Kootenai County Republican Central Committee chair Brent Regan said in opposition to the role of government in economic development, “when he burned down half of Rome so he could build a palace and a big statue of himself and an ampitheater. We don’t need to do that. We don’t need to take large swaths of the city and re-engineer it in a vision that is brought in from somebody else, and to make it the same kind of boring, awful sameness that you see when you travel the country.”

We appreciate all of you who spoke up and/or emailed the CDA City Council.  Thank you for your efforts.  Click here for the article quoted above.