“I want it to be clear what it is we are voting on and not voting on. What is to come later, and this is what we’re doing now. What I view as coming up is an endorsement in concept, not in specific because that specific comes back both in the form of the development agreement and the land plans after,” said Planning Commissioner Rich Sonntag.
While they sympathize with his situation, Priest River officials said they were unable to grant a resident's exemption request for connection to the city’s sewer system.
The council also denied a request by Rich Sonntag to connect to the system for the amount he paid in the 1970s but never used. Instead, the amount would be counted as a credit toward the current amount of the fee.