Would lower property taxes: Kammerzell seeks open space class for project site

The county assessor's office has received a request from Tom Kammerzell to have some of his land re-classified from agricultural land to open space.

“It won't meet the farm and ag current use because it's no longer farm and ag land,” Commissioner Art Swannack said at the Sept. 6 commission meeting where the request was first presented.

As part of the Moscow-Pullman Airport Runway realignment project, 113.6 acres of property which Tom and Cheryl Kammerzell own was used as an off-site wetland/stream mitigation site. That project created 9.4 acres of new riverine wetland, in-stream habitat improv...