PC254_Randy_McNeice_09-25-2017From:Lori Barlow
To:Mary Moore
Cc:Carrie Koudelka
Subject:FW: Painted hillls golf course
Date:Monday, September 25, 2017 12:04:42 PM
Mary, please add this to the public comments received, save in the P file, and add a hard copy to the
3 ring binder with a label associated with the p file name
Please let me know when it is done.
Thanks.
Lori Barlow, AICP
City of Spokane Valley
(509)720-5335
From: randallm1@mindspring.com [mailto:randallm1@mindspring.com]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:34 AM
To: Lori Barlow <lbarlow@spokanevalley.org>
Cc: janet mcneice <janetmcn2@mindspring.com>
Subject: Painted hillls golf course
Lori: This email is intended as my total objection to the proposed development of the painted hills golf
course. I want to be clear that I am not anti development. I am simply anti this development. The
proposed plan is contrary to the life style of the South Valley and creates glaring future legal
responsibilites for the city of the valley. I have been a resident of the valley for 60 years. I attended
Bowdish Jr high and Universit High School and have lived in the impact area of this proposed
developemnt for 45 years. Regardless of what the developers engineers are telling you, the
issues concerning schools, fire, police, traffic, school children safety, water quality, aquifer protection, and
flood plain issues should put the city of the valley on alert that they are accepting a huge amount of
liability should any one of the above issues fail. Anyone who delivers or picks up school children from
Chester or Horizon can't help but realize the impact of this developemnt is devastating and absolutely
unacceptable. You are likely in receipt of the letter from the Cental Valley School district stating that it is
unlikely any future children that may occupy the proposed developement will attend University high
school, Chester Elementary or Horizon Jr high. The flooding issue is extremely problematic. It has
occured may times in the past and will occur again. Note the images of this last years runoff. I have not
attached them but have approximately 60 you can review. It would have flooded every house in the
development. (good luck with the citys flood insurance rates). Yes the developer states he will mitigate
that risk. How, by discharging into the aquifer? Anyone with any geological knowledge of the map of the
aquifer and particulary the sediments at the south end of the site will come to the conclusion that those
plans will ultimately not satisfy the requirments necessary. Yes it will move the problem elsewhere but
not solve the issue. Is the city of the valley going to accept the legal risk to the aquifer that Dave Black
knows best ? I also bring to your attention a letter you received dated October 5, 2016 form Gretchen
Kaeler with DAHP. Many years ago when I was in Jr High school at Bowdish there were those of us who
frequented the exact golf course site to hunt gophers. It was not uncommon to find agate, jasper and
obsidian debitage in the fresh dirt around the gopher holes. Since that time there has been siginificant
disturbance to the site including farming from Dormyers farm as well as much addition of soil to construct
the golf course. The cultural history however may still be in this site.
On a closing note, there are other more beneficial uses for this 99 acre site. Instead of serving one
developer who does not even reside in the valley, why not serve the citizens who live and work hiere.
Why not partner with the Save Painted Hills Golf Course group to find a method to move this property
from the ownership of the Developer to the ownership of the city of the valley and create a once in a life
time opportunity; an in city recreational site ? Thank you: Randy McNeice