SPOKANE, Wash – The Spokane hearing examiner has given the green light for developers to move forward on a 142-home residential development in Latah Valley south of downtown.
The Latah Glen community, on Inland Empire Way just north of the 195 exit for Cheney-Spokane Road, will turn nearly 40 acres of what was once an auto salvage yard into home sites.
The city previously approved the area for a manufactured home community. Developers say land use issues, aesthetics and market conditions, plans shifted to the single family homes.
It’s the latest in a string of developments that will bring new homes and more traffic into the Latah Valley.
In public meetings, neighbors expressed concerns about increased traffic on Marshall Road. The city and the hearing examiner said because new roads will be built within the subdivision, it will actually reduce traffic on Marshall.
“With the roads now being public, it will offer a new avenue for traversing up and down Marshall Road and more directly to/from Inland Empire Way and Highway 195,” the hearing examiner wrote. “Additionally, the main thoroughfare through this development will have a 10-foot shared use path this is intended to offer safe pedestrian and bicycle travel up/down the bluff and is anticipated to offer connectivity to the Fish Lake trail.”
Developers are planning hundreds of new homes in the Latah Valley in the coming years. The City of Spokane briefly put a moratorium in place because of infrastructure concerns, but that moratorium has since been lifted.
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