Coeur Terre Open House at the Kroc Center

The Coeur d’Alene Press announced Kootenai County Land Company’s open house for Coeur Terre, held May 4, 2022 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Kroc Center (Coeur Terre open house today, Coeur d’Alene Press, May 4, 2022).

• The project: annexation was underway for the 1,050-acre development, which could bring more than 4,500 new residences along the proposed Huetter Road corridor. It sets aside parcels for a new middle school and elementary school and would be built in phases over 20 to 30 years.
• The developer’s goals: walkability, a range of housing types and prices, a location between Post Falls and Coeur d’Alene, and “integrated infrastructure” built “to meet area capacity needs, now and in the future.”

The No Huetter Bypass group’s view

The article notes that the Huetter Road Corridor has drawn criticism of the project. Brian Rogers, who helped found the No Huetter Bypass group the year before, encouraged residents to “organize and attend” the open house: “Our voices must be heard.”

He suggested that, as a community, residents not support the annexation “until they have revised their designs to support our community needs in full,” and pointed to the street plan: “the street design inside of the land development area does not allow for easy east/west travel and will force traffic into choke points at Poleline Avenue and at the southern end by Mullan Avenue.”