DOWNTOWN: CDA wants your vote, not your business
On June 19, a Coeur d’Alene Police supervising officer told my employees they could not leave our business by vehicle after their shifts ended during Car d’Lane. No warrant, no suspicion, no alternate route. When I asked if they were being detained, the officer called it “a poor choice of words” and refused egress anyway. The City had no liaison, no protocol, nothing. I got my employees out by personally calling a private nonprofit director’s cell phone.
Records I obtained afterward show this wasn’t an accident. Two straight years of City-approved operation plans designate emergency vehicle routes in detail but contain zero provision for business or employee egress. The City plans for everything except the people who support downtown.
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