In brief: Avista seeks shoreline permit

A public hearing is scheduled for Tuesday on an application by Avista Corp. for a shoreline conditional-use permit, which is needed for a proposed 36,000-square-foot office building at 1709 E. Upriver Drive.

The hearing before Hearing Examiner Greg Smith is set for 9 a.m. in conference room 2-B on the second floor of Spokane City Hall.

– Mike Prager

Logan

Huetter Mansion move OK’d

Spokane’s hearing examiner last week approved a conditional-use permit to allow Gonzaga University to move the historic Huetter Mansion at 429 E. Sharp Ave. to make room for expansion and improvements of the Bishop White Seminary.

Among conditions required by the hearing examiner in a May 21 decision is improvement of heaved or damaged sidewalks adjacent to the buildings.

The university’s plan calls for moving the Huetter House, on the east side of the seminary complex, to a lot across Addison Street at 503 E. Sharp. An existing building at 503 E. Sharp, which houses a modern language program, would first be moved east to 511 E. Sharp. The house at 511 E. Sharp would be demolished.

At the same time, the Seminary of the Catholic Diocese of Spokane is seeking to develop a new 21,000-square-foot seminary with dining area, dormitory rooms, chapel and administration area.

Huetter House is named for pioneering contractor John T. Huetter, who built the Gonzaga Administration Building and other prominent buildings in the area. Huetter, Idaho, between Post Falls and Coeur d’Alene, takes its name from Huetter’s quarry, brickyard and lumber mill that he established there in the 1890s.

– From staff reports