OpenCdA has received word that northern Idaho’s Port of Hope, Inc., currently in Coeur d’Alene, has applied for a special use permit to establish a federal residential re-entry center in Post Falls. We believe this will result in the closure of the Coeur d’Alene facility which has been in operation since 1998.
OpenCdA fully understands the Port of Hope’s apparent desire to leave Coeur d’Alene. The shameful efforts by members of the City of Coeur d’Alene Planning Commission with help from employees of School District 271 to run Port of Hope out of town in 2013 were documented in this series of OpenCdA posts. Thankfully, the Coeur d’Alene City Council resoundingly rejected those efforts in its meeting on October 1, 2013.
We hope that the members of the Post Falls Planning & Zoning Commission will look at our posts linked above. These posts revealed how hysteria and deception can drive a completely unsupported decision in a planning commission hearing. Our hope is that however the Post Falls Planning & Zoning Commission rules on Port of Hope’s application, the Commissioners’ votes will be based entirely on their objective evaluation of the relevant evidence presented during the hearing.