Extra! Copper Basin Voted Down 3-0

Kootenai County Commissioners this morning unanimously rejected a zone change that would have allowed 700 homes on 290 acres of the Rathdrum Prairie. Copper Basin Construction had billed its proposal as affordable homes for workers. But commissioners said the homes would not be affordable enough to justify creation of a development that would amount to a new city on the prairie. They were concerned, too, that the development’s lagoon sewage system might harm the aquifer that supplies the region’s drinking water. Neighbors had opposed the development, as had the city of Post Falls, to the south of the proposal. The development would be off state Highway 53, between Pleasantview and McGuire roads — Erica Curless, Spokesman-Review.

Question: What do you make of this unanimous rejection of a major development proposal on the prairie?