2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 2 Jun 2007 00:46:50 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Fairchild Air Force Base (WA) encroachment
 
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
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