Liberty Lake Trails Groups Gets Grants

Sat., Feb. 12, 2000

By Marny Lombard marnyl@spokesman.com (509) 927-2166

Money has been received for two transportation projects at Liberty Lake, officials announced at the first meeting of the Liberty Lake trails advisory committee.

First is a $206,000 state grant for the trail along Liberty Lake Road.

The other project is to get a green light at the extension of Country Vista Drive, from Sprague to Appleway. That will continue the five-lane road, with separate sidewalks, west from where Country Vista now turns sharply into Henry Road. The project has received a $1.4 million state grant.

Construction of the projects will be this year or next, depending on how the county schedules its road projects, said Pat Harper of the county public works department.

The sidewalks along Country Vista would allow students at Greenacres Junior High School to ride their bikes to school.

Total cost of the Country Vista extension is $2.3 million; the matching money is assembled. Developers Metropolitan Mortgage and Greenstone are contributing to the project through mitigation fees and possible donations of land.

The paved trail along Liberty Lake Road runs just more than than a mile, from Country Vista Drive south to Sprague Avenue, and will cost $313,000. The county will put in about $30,000, Harper said. Greenstone Development is donating land; the Liberty Lake Sewer District is contributing $16,000. Century West is also contributing.

That means this portion of trail can be built without money from the trails bond Liberty Lake voters approved in November.

These projects were announced Thursday at the first monthly meeting of the trails advisory committee.

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