SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane City Council voted to send a letter to Washington lawmakers on Monday night.
The vote passed with six in favor, with Councilmember Zappone absent.
The letter encourages lawmakers not to pause funding for Spokane’s North Spokane Corridor.
The project will connect Interstate 90 to Highway 2 and is expected to be completed by 2030.
City Council is concerned that as state lawmakers look for ways to close a nearly $15 billion budget gap, funding for the infrastructure project could be at risk.
The letter from city council says further delays will be “catastrophic” for Spokane neighborhoods.
“In our Spokane neighborhoods of Hillyard, Bemiss, Chief Garry, Minnehaha, and East Central— communities historically challenged by economic hardship and underinvestment—the incomplete freeway literally hangs overhead, leaving valuable land idle, hindering critical investments including traffic and pedestrian safety and affordable housing opportunities,” the letter reads.
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