Green Bluff Land-Use Rules Being Drafted By County
Many Green Bluff residents want their area protected from further development.
Spokane County planners are drafting land-use regulations for forest, agriculture and natural resource lands that aims to do just that. Some 30 Green Bluff and Peone Prairie residents met last week with planners at the Green Bluff Grange to offer their input. One issue for county commissioners is the minimum lot size that ought to be allowed in farming areas. Farmers contend that a minimum of 30 or 40 acres is necessary to economically farm. But Green Bluff has many parcels that are smaller, including some half-acre lots broken off from larger parcels for family members.
The county zoning code currently limits rural subdivision to 10-acre minimum lots.
“Large tract or small tract, that’s the debate,” said Tim Lawhead, county planner.
Commissioners are supposed to adopt development policies for those areas by April 1.
Aromatherapy in Hillyard
The Hillyard Branch Library is offering a class on medicinal plants and oils used for relaxation.
The class on the ancient practice known as aromatherapy is part of the library’s “Lifeskills for the Ninties” series. The class is set for 7 p.m. on Monday March 25.
The “Lifeskills” classes are part of an effort by the library to offer a wide range of programing with quality instruction at no cost to the public. The aromatherapy class was offered once before and was “hugely popular,” said Dolly Richendrfer, spokeswoman for the Spokane libraries.
For more information or to register call 626-5380.
Appreciation dinner
The Northeast Community Center will hold its 10th annual appreciation dinner at 7 p.m. on March 19.
Peter Jackson, president of Foundation Northwest, will speak on “Building Healthy Neighborhoods.”
Reservations are required and must be made by March 12. For more information call 487-1603.
St. Patrick’s lunch
The Corbin Community Center will host an Irish lunch at noon on March 18 to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Entertainment by the Spokane Valley Highland Dancers will follow lunch. The cost is $5 per person; call 327-1584 for more information.
COPS updates
The Logan neighborhood is ready to unveil its new police substation at 1030 N. Hamilton. A grand opening is set for 11 a.m. on March 9.
Also getting more involved in community policing is the Westgate neighborhood in northwest Spokane, which is trying to recruit volunteers for a Neighborhood Observation Patrol. NOP volunteers would drive their own vehicles and record car license numbers and suspicious activity on streets. Logs would then be turned over to the police department.
The neighborhood patrol would cover the area from Assembly Avenue to the city limits along Nine Mile Road. For more information call Dave Morse, 326-0863.
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