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Too friendly to business

After years of bragging about bending over backwards for business, I find it ironic that the city of Spokane Valley now finds itself bent over backwards by shoddy work done by the business it hired to build its new city hall. If only there was some way to ensure that work being done was up to code and site-specific – like permits, inspections and construction oversight. I guess the city staff was too busy being business friendly to adequately supervise the construction of their own city hall.

The city of Spokane Valley is full of businesses with inadequate parking, insufficient traffic signals and trash-filled lots … including some that were destroyed by fire where the rubble still remains at the site years later. It seems the “business friendly” attitude has come back to bite Spokane Valley. Perhaps a top-to-bottom review of current attitudes and practices is in order.

Doug Burr

Spokane

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