LEMON HILL PROJECT: Neighbors' chief concern is water consumption.
By Ron Hoss, The Chronicle, 7/26/1996
TENINO - A Proposed 540-home development with golf course received heated objections from a gymnasium full of people Tuesday.
N.W. Resource Developers of Centralia plans its Lemon Hill project on land known to area residents as the Dan Dar Farm, located off Highway 507 just west of Tenino.
Thurston County planning officials held the meeting as part of the environmental impact statement process.
Residents' chief concern was water consumption for the project. Other complaints were on issues like traffic, fire protection, school overcrowding and the quality of home construction proposed.
While the residents had questions, the answers didn't seem forthcoming.
Jon Potter, senior planner for Shapiro and Associates, the firm representing the developer, seemed at a loss to answer a question regarding the daily water requirements for the project.
'We have that information, I just don't have it with me," Potter responded.
Potter emphasized the questions would be answered The developers were taking "utmost care" to ensure the matters would be covered, Potter said.
Another question focused on the reason for the project in a mostly rural area.
"A proposed development of this nature allows us a chance to plan orderly growth rather than to allow it to develop in a haphazard manner, such as is happening in other parts of the state," Potter said.
Members of the public also were concerned whether the proposed golf course would be open to the public. If it would become a public course then it could be considered a commercial venture on land sought for residential use, said one person who testified at the meeting.
Almost as soon as the meeting opened, a flyer was distributed to the crowd of more than 125 people. The flyer noted besides Lemon Hill, another proposed development Prairie Green, was proposed by the same developer for the old Pacific Power Co. land between 143rd and 113th avenues.
The flyer had apparently been posted around town earlier.
Brian Hedden, a Tenino pharmacist advocated putting the two developments together He said it would be an improved design over having each project built separately.
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