[Vision2020] LMT: Lewiston City Council creates growth task force

[Area Man (Dan C)]

I seem to recall many questions concerning "growth" during the last
campaign.  Maybe this is something Moscow's City Council should look at
emulating?
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Lewiston City Council creates growth task force

By SANDRA L. LEE of the Tribune

A new task force charged with deciding what Lewiston needs to be ready
to meet the demands of expected growth was created by the Lewiston City
Council Monday night. 

More than 10 on a committee gets too cumbersome for good discussion,
Mayor Pro-tem John C. Currin said, and then recommended 12, plus
possibly one more and city staff members. 

The membership in large part resurrects a zoning task force that was
disbanded two weeks ago at the same meeting where Mayor Jeff Nesset told
Currin to develop the new group. 

The group's recommendations are to be presented to the council by Aug.
7. 

The previous task force recommended more than a dozen changes to zoning
codes, including those that allowed expanded commercial development in
the area of 17th Street and 16th Avenue and opened the door to
4,000-square-foot residential lots in much of the city. 

Members from the old zoning task force include Currin; Brad Cannon,
owner of Cannon's Building Materials, a former Lewiston Chamber
president and now on the city's Urban Renewal Agency board; Robert
Tippett, executive director of Valley Vision; Richard White of
Clarkston, a broker with Ray J. White and Sons real estate; Jim
Kleeburg, employed by Hahn Rental Center and vice chairman of the city
planning and zoning commission; and Robert Arleth, a retired urban
planner from Tacoma. 

Currin also included Ron Smith, Lewis-Clark State College vice president
and member of the now disbanded Normal Hill Planning Task Force. 
The others are David Doeringsfeld, Port of Lewiston manager; Barney
Metz, Lewiston Orchards Irrigation District manager; Joy Rapp, Lewiston
School District superintendent; Kevin Poole, Nez Perce County road and
bridge department director who retired from the city council this month
but retains a seat on the Lewis-Clark Valley Metropolitan Planning
Organization; and Mike Naccarato of the city's Transportation Advisory
Commission. 
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get away from Chuck Norris. 

DC