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Court Rejects Chateau de Loire, Too

Item: High court rejects luxury Chateau de Loire development: Ruling likely means end of housing and golf project on east side of Lake Coeur d’Alene/Alison Boggs, SR

More Info: The long saga of a French-themed, luxury housing development proposed for the eastern side of Lake Coeur d’Alene appears to have come to an end. On Wednesday, the Idaho Supreme Court shot down the Chateau de Loire development, upholding a Kootenai County 1st District Court decision. The Kootenai County Board of Commissioners had twice denied the project, which was to include an 18-hole golf course and 500-unit residential housing community on 578 acres near the entrance to Beauty Bay State Park.

Question: Are you glad that Kootenai County shot down this development? Or do you think there's room for another luxury-development-golf course on Lake Coeur d'Alene?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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