Medical Lake OKs approves Comp Plan on first reading

MEDICAL LAKE — The City Council approved on first reading the city’s updated Comprehensive Plan, a task recently completed by the city Planning Commission and forwarded to the council for formal adoption.

As in the previous council meeting, Councilman Ted Olsen shared concerns about provisions in the comprehensive plan related to sheltering homeless citizens.

“I don’t think (homelessness) should be a burden on the taxpayers,” Olsen clarified after the meeting.

However, in a memo to the council, city attorney Cynthia McMullen clarified that the issues of homelessness was not addressed in the pl...