SPR s Doug Nadvornick reports.
Airway Heights is experiencing growing pains. The Spokane suburb now has about 10-thousand residents, a growing economic base and new houses going up. But it also has a busy highway bisecting it and no real civic center.
It is still, in some ways, that place people drive through to get to Fairchild Air Force Base.
But Heather Trautman says it has also become a town where people come and plant roots. Trautman is the principal planner for the city of Airway Heights.
“More and more of this community sees themselves as a small town with all the wonderful aspects of being in a smaller community with parks, easy access to their daily needs, easy access to transportation in order to get to work,” she said.