[CPEO-MEF] Fairchild Air Force Base (WA) encroachment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

West Plains slowdown foreseen 	
Developers warn of likely halt in retail growth there if residential ban 
remains

By Kim Crompton
Spokane Journal of Business (WA)
May 31, 2007

Recently surging commercial-development activity on the largely 
undeveloped West Plains will grind to a halt if Spokane County 
commissioners don't reduce the size of an area there in which 
residential construction is banned, a couple of real estate industry 
representatives with interests there contend.

They argue that the ban, mostly covering land zoned for light industrial 
but on which residential development had been allowed, encompasses an 
area much larger than is needed to protect Spokane International Airport 
and Fairchild Air Force Base from residential encroachment, which 
largely is what led commissioners to enact the ban.

"It's going to shut down everything on the West Plains if they don't 
(modify it) because no more retailers are going to go there. It's just a 
given," asserts Dick Vandervert, who owns one of Spokane's largest 
general contracting companies and is spearheading development of several 
large projects on the West Plains.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.spokanejournal.com/spokane_id=article&sub=3186

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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