Neighbors Say Project Would Lower Value Of Existing Homes
A developer’s plan to build 36 homes on 10 acres at Liberty Lake has irked some nearby residents.
Dean Greer said he intends to build homes that will sell in the $100,000 range. Some neighbors are upset, claiming the development would diminish the value of their homes - many of which cost more than $200,000.
Mitch Williams, 78, has lived in his home on Wright Road for 21 years. The former home builder said his home’s assessed value was lowered after a smaller home was built nearby 19 years ago. He said what he’s heard of Greer’s plans doesn’t impress him.
“The price sounds OK, but the size of the homes is too small,” he said. “His best thing would be to make the average-sized home.”
Though existing zoning would allow up to 64 residential lots, Greer said he will not build to the maximum allowable density.
Greer’s preliminary plat of Liberty Lake Heights 2nd Addition would subdivide his property into 36 lots for single-family residences. The land is currently zoned UR-7.
The parcel is located between Valleyway and Riverside. It’s bordered on the east by Main and on the west by Garry.
Greer said he doesn’t know exactly how many square feet of space each home he plans to build will have, but he said they would be “smaller than some of the other homes out there.”
“In a neighborhood of that nature, you have expensive homes and less expensive homes. We’d be somewhere in the middle,” said Greer.
The houses would fill an undeveloped area within an established neighborhood, he said.
Greer has built homes throughout Spokane for 18 years. This is his first project in Liberty Lake.
Central Valley School District sold the land to Greer in 1996 after abandoning plans to build a school at the site.
Some neighbors said they moved to the area believing a school would be built nearby.
County planner Louis Webster said he’s received a dozen letters from residents who are upset that a school will not be built there. A petition signed by a “couple dozen neighbors” who are against the project has also been submitted, Webster said.
, DataTimes MEMO: This sidebar appeared with the story: HEARING SET A public hearing on Dean Greer’s plan to subdivide 10 acres at Liberty Lake and build 36 homes is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. April 23 at the Public Works Building, 1026 W. Broadway.