Council Decides Appeals

Thu., March 18, 1999

By Kristen Kromer kristenk@spokesman.com

After considering testimony for two weeks, Spokane City Council members returned decisions Monday regarding two projects on Five Mile Prairie.

Developer Bob Frisch had appealed the city hearing examiner’s decision to deny his request for a rezone of the second phase of Crestview Estates. It was denied.

In upholding the hearing examiner’s decision, City Council members agreed that a rezone could create a dangerous precedent.

Frisch had wanted to rezone the area as R1 (single-family residential), to allow for smaller lot sizes. Now, the area will remain residential suburban.

The second project concerned the proposed development known as Kosta’s Addition. Five Mile resident Scott Thompson’s appeal of the hearing examiner’s decision to approve the preliminary plat was also denied. He was backed by the Five Mile Prairie Association.

Thompson, who lives next to the proposed project, said that according to the hearing examiner’s decision, he would be responsible for creating the sidewalks and curbs, and for paving the road.

Candace Dahlstrom, of the Five Mile Prairie Association, said the plat is not finalized yet and that it is “not done until it’s done.”

She has a 1986 Superior Court Settlement Agreement the city entered into with a prairie preservation organization that states “street paving shall be a condition of plat approval.”

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