Apartment design intrusive

An Indian Trail apartment complex planned by Diamond Rock Construction includes a 200-foot-long, 35-foot-high, three-story apartment building built 5 feet away from the property line of six homes. This building will block views, drastically reduce property values and take away privacy from these homes.

How can the developer design and the city of Spokane approve a plan that shows such disregard for existing homeowners? Other design options are available. Changing the size and placement of the apartment buildings and parking lots could have less impact to existing homeowners while still providing the same number of apartments and parking spaces.

But the developers’ own representative indicated they don’t consider the impact their buildings have on adjacent properties.

How can the city possibly allow this intrusive design? The city changed the land zoning from residential to commercial, and then offers no consideration or protection for the existing homes. Minimally, the developer should install a fence and plant trees along the property line to give the existing properties some sense of privacy and security.

Construction of this $15 million apartment complex will plop a 35-foot-high apartment building basically in six homeowners’ backyards. Now, who wouldn’t want that?

Bob Bradley

Spokane