Unhappiness in Glenrose

What is more important to families living in Spokane County than to have a home which is safe and serene? We all work arduously to achieve owning property.

Yet the SYSA sports complex project, in the Glenrose Area, is destined to disrupt the tranquility. To bulldoze and erect a 40-acre soccer plus baseball complex, is with little or no regard for the disruption it will bring to Glenrose. The forces within Spokane County, who have approved this unwanted program, should reconsider. They are hearing but are not acting on the intense resistance. The increase in vehicular traffic, that this enterprise will produce, will be overwhelming. And then there is the issue of blinding light standards for night activities.

The entire project would never have moved on were it not for one individual who saved the property from foreclosure. He then donated it to SYSA even though he knew the outrage and disruption it would, and has caused Glenrose Community over the years. Owning the land outright further emboldened the SYSA.

This sports project, after all, is a private venture and not a community undertaking. We all are for children to be able to play sports. However you do not create this type of a complex in a rural-agricultural area. The intense opposition alone should sink it.

I say, back off Spokane County and SYSA, in order to find an area more suitable for your venture. Let there be harmony in Glenrose instead of the present contentiousness over the intend.

Jack Abel

Spokane