Council OKs NIC Commercial Zone

Item: Corridor rezoning approved: Developers can move in near college site /Tom Hasslinger, Press

More Info: Many residents expressed their concern that giving a commercial zone next to the current residentially-zoned college campus would be giving the college — and any potential developer — a blank check for a project idea that has never passed the conceptual stage in more than two decades around the Lake City. But those concerns — rooted in a worry that NIC could sell pieces of the land off even if it maintains it won’t — seemed to be brushed aside by a council more in tune with relying on what the college has said it plans to do all along: That is, build a modern campus.

Question: Do you think Gookin, Souza & Co. have a legitimate concern re: the commercial aspect of the future North Idaho College property? Or are simply stirring things up again?