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City Council Denies the Coeur Terre C-17 Rezone
by Brian Rogers 2 min read
At its April 15, 2025 meeting, the Coeur d’Alene City Council turned down the central parts of the Kootenai County Land Company’s first request to change the Coeur Terre Annexation and Development Agreement. The City’s own record of the decision is in the staff report for the August 31, 2026 Coeur Terre 2 appeal hearing (staff report S-2-26AA, page 4):
Amendment No. 1 to the Annexation and Development Agreement, partially approved by City Council on April 15, 2025, adjusted the wastewater utility timeline and relocated/rezoned a well site from C-17L to R-3. The Council denied the applicant's request to allow underlying zoning to govern all land use types and rejected a zone change from R-17 to C-17 for 14.095 acres in the northwestern corner.
- Denied: the zone change from R-17 (residential) to C-17 (commercial) on 14.095 acres in the northwestern corner of Coeur Terre.
- Denied: the request to let the underlying zoning govern all land use types. The stricter limits of the development agreement’s master plan stay in place, so new uses still come back to the City instead of being decided by staff.
- Approved: a change to the wastewater utility timeline, and moving a City well site with a small rezone of that site.
The request was first noticed in February 2025 (First Zoning Request Already In Process for Coeur-Terre), and the group answered it in March (Response to Coeur Terre Rezone for CDA Planning), objecting to the added traffic and water use and to the loss of public input.