Indian Trail is too cramped

As a longtime resident of the Indian Trail area, I have been appalled at the willingness of our elected officials in city government to easily approve high-density housing for wealthy developers on a crowded two-lane road that is virtually the only real ingress/egress to this area.

First, Lusitano and Selkirk Lodge, followed recently by the new 96-unit apartments on Indian Trail and Barnes roads. The colossal waste of taxpayers money that was spent on Indian Trail Road Improvement Phase One that took a poorly lighted two-lane road with no sidewalks and turned it into a poorly lighted two-lane road with sidewalks, cannot support this uncontrolled growth.

Now, on this poorly lighted two-lane road comes a request from prominent Spokane land baron Harley C. Douglass to further his fortunes at the expense of the area by requesting a zone change to allow for additional extremely high-density apartments. I would remind you that the zoning currently in place was put there for a reason.

It is my sincere hope that you will show the courage and wisdom to oppose this outrage.

Richard Jewell

Spokane