In brief: Mobile home park talks break down
Mediation between the city of Cheney and Thomas Myers, the owner of the Myers Mobile Home Park, and their attorneys has broken down and the city plans to continue with pending litigation in the matter of the mobile park meeting the city development, building and fire code regulations.
According to previous stories in The Spokesman-Review, the city ordered Myers to put in three fire hydrants in 2006 or close the park in a civil infraction order.
Myers’ attorneys said that he must now redesign the mobile home park to meet the standards which would cost about $900,000.
The city is continuing through with its litigation in order to achieve code compliance, according to a press release from the city.
Lisa Leinberger
REgion
Help for first-time home buyers
Community Frameworks will present three informational meetings in June for anyone interested in how to afford a down payment on a new home.
The meetings will discuss how first-time homebuyers can earn down payments and closing costs by contributing to the construction of their own home, as well as information about qualifying for low-cost financing.
The first meeting will be at the Cheney Community Library, 610 First St., Cheney, Monday from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
The second meeting will be June 10 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Spokane County Library in Airway Heights, 1213 S. Lundstrom.
The third meeting will be at the Hillyard Library, 4005 N. Cook, June 24 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
For more information, call Community Frameworks at 484-6733.
Lisa Leinberger
Spokane
GU gets OK to move historic mansion
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 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