The Community Development agenda shows an action item for a “Comprehensive Plan update with SCJ,” indicating Kootenai County is actively working with SCJ on updating its comprehensive plan. This suggests planning and land-use consulting services are already engaged for a multi-faceted update process. For vendors, this is a valuable signal of ongoing and upcoming planning, zoning, infrastructure, and development policy work that will likely generate downstream studies, modeling, public engagement, and implementation projects. Firms can position around specialized sub-consulting (e.g., transportation modeling, economic analysis, GIS, public outreach tools) or around implementation services that follow from the updated comprehensive plan.

Item appears under Business as an action item, implying decisions around scope, milestones, or contr...