A lumber company is asking officials in northern Idaho's Bonner County to rezone timberland to allow the building of a luxury golf community with 1,100 homes. Officials with Stimson Lumber Co., based in Portland, Ore., said the 12,000 acres is in a prime location between Coeur d'Alene and Sandpoint for the proposed development called Clagstone Meadows.
"A sudden city is what I call it," Clare Marely, the county's planning director, told The Spokesman-Review. "It's the largest project we've ever seen."
The current economy could not support such a project but company officials want to have the zoning changed on the land to make the development possible at some future date in anticipation of the economy turning around.
The company has asked the county for conceptual approval of Clagstone Meadows. If the county's planning commission gives its approval, the company plans to then seek approval for a planned unit development that would cluster the homes on about a third of the property while leaving the rest as open space.
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