Residents Will Get Latest News On Developments At Meeting
Five Mile Prairie
Five Mile Prairie residents will hear updates on proposed developments including Falcon Ridge, Shawnee Canyon and Summerhill during their first annual meeting, 6:30 tonight at the Grange.
Neighbors will be offered a chance to nominate properties that could be purchased with money from the conservation futures tax. There will also be an update on Spokane Horizons, the city’s public participation process for creating the new comprehensive plan.
New officers will be elected.
A landscape business proposed on Five Mile Prairie by Chris Corigliano has been approved by Spokane County Hearing Examiner Michael Dempsey.
The business, C&C Landscape, on Strong Road, is zoned residential. A conditional-use permit is required for a home industry.
Neighbors objected to noise, storage of hazardous chemicals, cars and trucks parked in the open and increased traffic.
Corigliano testified that most business activity will take place away from the site, at other homes.
Dempsey restricted business hours to 7 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays.
Other conditions include no more than two employees (not including family members) may visit the site each day and all equipment maintenance and cleaning needs to be done inside to help reduce noise.
Corigliano has agreed to pay a city mitigation fee of $1,430. The fee will be used toward a traffic signal at an unspecified intersection impacted by the additional traffic.
Corigliano is also required to submit a drainage plan for the property. Drainage problems have been documented in the area.
The property is in the county, but Strong Road is in the city. Permits and necessary road improvements must be approved by the city, said Dempsey.
Balboa Neighborhood meeting
Balboa neighborhood in the Indian Trail area is on track to become the city’s 15th neighborhood council.
The organizational meeting is set for 7 p.m. March 12 at Salk Middle School, 6411 N. Alberta.
Traffic and bus service are two issues facing the neighborhood, built mostly in the 1950s and ‘60s.
The meeting agenda includes a presentation by Molly Meyers and Rod Minarik from the city’s office of neighborhood services, reading of bylaws and election of officers.
Organizer Frank Yuse said he hopes future neighborhood meetings can be held at Balboa Elementary School in the heart of the neighborhood.
The neighborhood is on the east side of Indian Trail Road, bordered by Strong Road on the west, Francis Avenue on the south, Maple Street on the east and the bottom of Five Mile Prairie bluff on the north.
Yuse said the neighborhood includes about a thousand homes, six churches, Five Mile Shopping Center, Balboa Elementary school and Salk Junior High School.
Nevada Lidgerwood
“Take Your Neighbor to Lunch or Dinner” and learn a little about your neighborhood during a Nevada-Lidgerwood fund-raiser.
Neighborhood council members will be at Spaghetti Station, 718 E. Francis, March 13 between 11:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. to offer information about sidewalks, growth management, traffic and other neighborhood issues.
The neighborhood is continuing an effort to involve more businesses in their neighborhood council.
Proceeds from the event benefit neighborhood council administration and programs.
A public hearing on a proposal to open a drug treatment program in the former Regency Care Center at 44 E. Cozza will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the city council chambers at City Hall. The wrong time was published last week.
A hearing has been scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday on a proposal by Empire Ventures Limited to rezone multi-family property at 516 E. Francis to allow 13 more parking spaces for an office and shopping strip.
Access to the parking lot will be from Wiscomb Street.
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