Longview Project Gets Green Light

Thu., Aug. 17, 2000

By Lorie Hutson lorieh@spokesman.com (509) 459-5446

Spokane County hearing examiner Mike Dempsey approved plans for 53 new homes in Greenacres, a subdivision neighbors worried would be too dense for their semi-rural area and overwhelm already crowded schools in the area.

Developer Mike Hume plans to build the Longview subdivision on just over 11 acres in two phases over five years. The homes would be east of Tschirley Road and west of Long Road, generally south of Second Avenue and north of Fifth.

The new houses would be inside the county’s interim urban growth boundaries and would lie in between neighborhoods with similar densities, Dempsey ruled.

He said there was not enough evidence to show schools in the area could not accommodate children from the Longview subdivision, despite the concerns and testimony of neighbors. Some children may have to be bused to other elementary or junior high schools, Dempsey said, but that is not a significant enough concern to require him to deny the project. The Central Valley School District did not comment on the proposal.

Developers will have to widen the road and install curbs along the property on Long and Tschirley roads. The subdivision will have a pedestrian walkway along the private roads, which will give children a safe place to walk on their way to the nearby schools, Dempsey said in his report approving the project.

The price of homes in the new Longview subdivision will start at about $129,000, Hume said.

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