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HAYDEN CANYON: Doesn’t add up

| August 13, 2021 1:00 AM

The Aug. 5 headline “Hayden Canyon’s next step approved” is not all correct. The writer believed there are going to be 162 residential lots on 49.5 acres. Just like the city staff and the developer wanted her to believe.

Not true: 162 lots on 37 acres — the other 12 acres is a mile away. Read the fine print. The closest 40-acre residential tracts have about half of the 162 so Roetter is correct this is high-density cramming of people onto smaller lots. It can’t be changed because they did it all legally, but not without sleight of hand. Good for them.

Enjoy the new tax base and sewage fees.

BRUCE MCGOVERN

Coeur d’Alene