Spokane County Planning Commission recommends zoning changes allowing truck to rail freight transfer facilities on West Plains, other county rural areas
The Spokane County Planning Commission took a step closer to the possibility of increasing train traffic on the West Plains — and consequently through Cheney — by approving a proposal at its Feb. 26 meeting to change zoning in the rural and resource lands zones to allow the siting of intermodal freight transfer/railroad yards.
The commission made a pair of changes to the proposal that went through a public hearing at the Feb. 12 meeting, adding the requirement for a conditional use permit and “expanding the use from strictly the transfer of intermodal containers to all types of freight transfe...
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