Deliberations continue over Clagstone Meadows

SANDPOINT - The Planning and Zoning Commission's deliberation of the largest in acreage planned unit development in Bonner County history is scheduled to resume next week.

The commission decided late Wednesday night to put off further consideration of Clagstone Meadows until next week. The decision followed two nights of marathon-length public hearings that began on Tuesday.

"We still have a lot of material to cover," said Commissioner Nan Berger, explaining that the scope of the 14,000-acre project demands thorough scrutiny. "We could rush through it and be done, but this is something, to me, that's pretty important.

Commissioner Margaret Hall concurred.

"It's an important enough project in this county that we are moving through," said Hall. "We are moving through it at a slow pace, but we don't have projects this size come every day."

The board is set to resume consideration of the project at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 17 at the Bonner County Administrative Building. The hearing remains closed to further public testimony.

The commission began the public hearing process on the 1,200-unit, recreation-oriented project last month, but the developers sought a continuance in order to develop a rebuttal to voluminous public and agency comment on the proposal. The developers, Clagstone Meadows LLC, delivered a 37-page rebuttal on Tuesday.