Ackerman project will add eight home sites in Colfax

Members of the Colfax Planning Commission Sept. 9 approved a proposal from Scott Ackerman for River Pointe Development. The plan calls for eight home sites north of Railroad Avenue along where the South Fork of the Palouse River flows into the North Fork. Seven of the home sites would be along the South Fork and an eighth site would face the North Fork.

The project was presented to the planning commission as a planned development which can be placed in city zones with a variation in requirements.

The site, which is west of Bellinger, was formerly occupied by mobile homes. Ackerman said the dev...