Here are updates on North Side planning projects:
Nevada-Lidgerwood
A public hearing on a proposal to open a drug treatment program in the former Regency Care Center has been scheduled for 6:30 p.m. March 10 in the city council chambers at City Hall.
Nevada-Lidgerwood residents asked Hearing Examiner Greg Smith to take testimony in the evening so more neighbors can attend.
A traffic scoping meeting was held Feb. 14 in the Nevada-Lidgerwood neighborhood to take comments from neighbors on a commercial project proposed by Harlan Douglass.
A little bit of Five Mile Prairie has found its way to Nakano, Japan.
The small mountain town, just a few miles northeast of Nagano and the Olympic Village, is hosting an international art show.
Work contributed by nearly 2,000 artists from around the world is on display.
Miss Chiquita, Andrea Eginton, helps the twinkie cowboy pass out treats to both eager and unsure visitors to the new Wandermere Fred Meyer super store on North Division Tuesday afternoon. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review
Garry Park residents will have their first look at draft designs for the city's proposed fleet maintenance facility tonight.
A small committee of neighborhood representatives met for several nights in January to discuss traffic, access, lighting and other concerns.
An initial hearing has been set for March 12 in a developer's lawsuit against Home Depot, Country Homes Builders and the city of Spokane.
The complaint, filed by Harley Douglass, alleges traffic congestion created by construction of Home Depot near the Division Street Y will make it economically impossible to develop his nearby property.
Home Depot is being built on the east side of the Newport Highway, bordering Hoerner Avenue.
Rosie Sansovich, 9, left, who has been going to the Women's and Children's Free Restaurant at St. Paul's United Methodist Church since she was 2 years old, joins friends Diana Bocook, 11, Logan Krul, 9, and Lance Krul, 11, at the table. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review
About 40 neighbors spent two hours Monday with the owner of a drug rehabilitation treatment center proposed for the Nevada-Lidgerwood neighborhood.
Craig Phillips, owner of American Behavioral Care Systems, wants to open a facility in the former Regency Care Center at 44 E. Cozza.
Phillips tried to reassure neighbors that the program won't endanger their children, hurt property values or increase traffic.
North Spokane neighbors won a major victory Friday in their battle to stop a massive Wal-Mart shopping center from being built next to their homes.
Spokane County Hearing Examiner Michael Dempsey denied a request by developers to rezone the property that now allows just housing.
"Needless to say, we are thrilled with the way the decision went," said Karen Barniol, head of Citizens for Neighborhood Preservation.
1. At right, Diane Bailey and Madeline Fraedrick chat during a free period at the ARC Community Center on East Indiana. Photography by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review
2. At far right, Matt Vail gets some help from volunteer Al Bibbens during a Bingo game.
3. Margaret McCulloch shows off her hand-made valentine.
4. At left, Madeleine Jarvis runs through flashcards with Delta Sandberg.
5. Below, Americorp volunteer Rome Robnett plays a song for Rita Mae Marsonette.
Nevada-Lidgerwood neighbors will hear details of an in-patient chemical dependency treatment center proposed for the former Regency Care Center on East Cozza.
The meeting will be held Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the center, 44 E. Cozza.
The Gleneden neighborhood is a step closer to having a park.
Spokane County officials have a verbal agreement with developer Jim Markley to buy five acres near Little Spokane River Drive at Columbus Street for a north county park.
There are still a few technicalities to work out, but Markley has agreed to sell the land for $150,000.
For two years Spokane Horizons volunteers have worked to create a new vision of Spokane.
They imagine a compact community with neighborhoods designed for walking, pretty parks, a mix of shops, homes and offices, and a lively downtown.
About 500 Spokane residents filled a meeting room in the Spokane Convention Center on Thursday, anxious to offer their visions for downtown.
After two hours of imagining the future, it was clear the key to a vital downtown is enticing people to live, work, shop, eat and play in the city center.
The event was the first in a series of public meetings hosted by the Downtown Spokane Partnership, the group charged with writing a new plan directing downtown's future development.
A gently moving mobile and a vibrant, organic, "almost alive" woven collage have been selected as permanent art for the Indian Trail branch library.
The library is scheduled to open March 7.
The art, which will be created by Spokane artist Ilse Kilian-Tan, will be installed in late summer.
1. From left, Bill Rae shares his file of news clippings about his recovery with Sacajawea student Tawny Simmons, 13, teacher Jim Parry and student Jeannette Town, 12. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review
2. Bill Rae lives with his mother, Joyce. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review
3. Before being struck by a hit-and-run vehicle, Bill Rae has talked of wanting to become a teacher. Family photo
All the planning and bickering over a North-South freeway has been a waste of time. Spokane already has one.
"Everyone knows (the Maple/Ash corridor) is really the North-South freeway," said neighbor Susan Huyler. "Just nobody wants to admit it."
North Hill residents, laboring almost nine months, are ready to give birth to their neighborhood council.
A meeting is set for 7 p.m. Feb. 12 at Willard School, 500 W. Longfellow.
Bylaws will be presented during the meeting for adoption.
Developer Buster Heitman has been given approval to move ahead with his plan to develop 52-acre Riverside Village on the east side of Nine Mile Road.
The project includes 102 homes, apartments and a 52-bed alzheimer's disease care center.
Spokane Hearing Examiner Greg Smith approved the project with conditions that include road improvements and signals.
A land-swap has been proposed for the city's controversial NorthPointe Sports Complex, moving it out of a residential neighborhood and to a field near the Kaiser Aluminum plant.
The Nevada-Lidgerwood neighborhood council, developer Lanzce Douglass and the city parks department are discussing the possibility of trading properties.
Spokane County is taking steps to solve - at least temporarily - the flooding problem in Eaglewood, where rising groundwater has soaked a dozen homes and is threatening others.
Although the planned dewatering system is just a temporary fix, it is expected to solve the problem around the neighborhood retention pond until a grant is approved for a complete stormwater system.
Public transit, pedestrians and cars blend along Wall Street in downtown Spokane. Urban critic Alan Durning, speaking here Thursday, contends cities must plan for such a blend. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review
It might be the first all-out business on the prairie since the days when farms bustled and homemakers earned a couple of extra dollars selling eggs.
Chris Corigliano recently requested a conditional use permit for the landscape business he runs from his Five Mile Prairie home on Strong Road.
A dozen Green Bluff residents argued Friday against a Spokane County Division of Engineering proposal to expand a gravel mine and crushing operation near their homes.
The engineers are asking to have about 100 acres of land east of Sands Road rezoned from general agriculture to allow mining.
1. Eaglewood resident Gene St. Godard points out some of the flooding at the subdivision located east of the Newport Highway. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review
2. Water damage and mold shows in the Bangs' family home. The family has moved because their house is no longer habitable. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review
