Staff writer
Tullamore park concept includes dog park, splash pad, amphitheater
POST FALLS -- Another commercial subdivision is proposed for the Highway 41 corridor.
Tullamore Properties LLC is requesting City Council approval to subdivide 14 acres into eight lots at the southeast corner of Highway 41 and Hope Avenue.
The council will consider the request for Hope Crossing tonight.
"A traffic signal will be constructed at Highway 41 and Hope and an easement will be built along Hope Avenue for interior lot access," city administrator Eric Keck wrote in a memo to the council.
The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended that the subdivision be approved.
"The preliminary subdivision plan allows for an expansion of commercial development that will incorporate and spread the atmosphere created by the Tullamore development across the street," the project description states. "The project includes a retail center consisting of multiple building pads/lots in the area closest to Highway 41, and three parcels located to the east of the retail center which will be reserved for future commercial/office/retail development."
The council will also consider Vision First's concept of Central Park in the new Tullamore subdivision.
The proposed 7-acre park would include a splash pad, a water feature, amphitheater, dog park, picnic tables, an "active" play area, passive play area, walking paths and parking.
In other business, public works director Terry Werner will request that the city discontinue the service it provides for fee-based backflow testing program. City law requires the annual testing of backflow assemblies such as automatic sprinkler systems and fire systems.
"We have come to a point in time that the one employee assigned to this program can not keep up," Werner wrote to the council. "The private testers are in the $40 to $50 range for testing, which has sent a large number of residents to request the city service at $24 per year.
"Because of the huge demand upon the city to test the backflow assemblies, this employee spends from May to August performing the tests and this is leaving some assemblies operating for a period of time without being certified as operational."
The city service would end at the end of the year, leaving about 30 approved testers to do all the work except for city operations.
The council will also consider a request from the Post Falls Chamber of Commerce to construct a new facility at the southeast corner of the City Hall campus. The chamber would pay a ground lease on the city-owned property.
The meeting starts at 6 p.m. at 408 N. Spokane St.
This will be the final council meeting in the old City Hall, which is slated to be demolished on June 9. The first meeting in the new City Hall will be on June 3.
Linda wrote on May 22, 2008 8:00 PM:
Heck, they want to put an asphalt plant next to me. "