Three Developers Requesting Changes In Land-Use Designations
Spokane plan commissioners will hear public comments Wednesday on three requests by developers to change land use designations in North Side neighborhoods.
Harlan Douglass, Rod Plese and Marco Barbanti are all asking for amendments to the city’s comprehensive plan.
The hearing begins at 1:30 p.m. in Room 200 on the second floor of City Hall.
Douglass wants to change the zoning on 46 acres at the northwest corner of Lincoln and Crestline roads in the Nevada-Lidgerwood neighborhood from industrial to low density residential.
According to his application, Douglass wants to build a clustered apartment complex called Prairie Hills on the parcel. The complex will be part of his proposed 209-acre Grayhawk project.
Grayhawk will include apartments, manufactured housing, a planned unit development, a commercial complex called The Market Place, and an industrial complex.
The property, next to Cedar Springs apartments, is vacant.
If the project is approved, Douglass hopes to start the four-phase development in 1999, adding a new phase every two or three years.
Plese is asking to change property fronting on Francis Avenue, between Atlantic and Normandie streets in the North Hill neighborhood from medium residential-low rise office to community business.
According to his application, Plese wants to remove the beauty salon building from one of the lots, clean up the other two vacant lots, and put the property to a more productive and attractive use - possibly a drive-through espresso stand. Francis Avenue is scheduled to be widened next summer from Normandie to Division as part of a state Department of Transportation project.
Several neighbors have already expressed opposition to Barbanti’s request to change property on Division Street between Central and Nebraska avenues from medium density residential-low rise office to general commercial.
Wedding Belles, a wedding supply shop with 11 parking spaces, is the only building on the lot.
Residents are concerned about commercial encroachment into their neighborhood, more traffic, parked cars in front of their homes and reduced property values.
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