Three Areas Organizing

Three more South Side neighborhoods are getting organized under the city’s neighborhood council program.

Peaceful Valley residents are invited to a meeting Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the Peaceful Valley Community Center.

Organizers will explain the neighborhood council program and review proposed bylaws for the organization.

One of the issues facing Peaceful Valley is maintaining the historic character of the old working-class district. Some residents want to make sure that new development complements the valley’s historic structures.

The boundaries of Peaceful Valley are defined by the Spokane River, the bluff to the south and Monroe Street to the east.

In Latah Valley, an organizational meeting is planned for Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the community center of the Cascade Mobile Home Community, 2311 W. 16th.

Representatives from the state Department of Transportation have been invited to talk about a study of the U.S. Highway 195 corridor through the valley.

The study will seek to identify improvements to prevent traffic lights on the free-flowing highway. Some elevated interchanges might be needed, officials said.

The Latah Valley neighborhood would include the area from the Spokane River on the north, High Drive and Hatch Road to the east, the railroad grade to the west and city limits to the south and west.

On Moran Prairie, residents are seeking to form a neighborhood that includes territory in both the city and unincorporated county.

That group is meeting next Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Moran Prairie Grange Hall.

City officials have said they will allow the city-county neighborhood to join the city’s Community Assembly of Neighborhoods.

The Moran Prairie Neighborhood is bounded by 37th Avenue to the north, Glenrose Road to the east, 72nd Avenue to the south and Perry Street and Hatch Road to the west.