No commission recommendation

By JOHN McCALLUM

Editor

After almost two-and-a-half hours of public testimony over two separate days, 19 comment letters and several staff reports, the Cheney Planning Commission deadlocked on a vote at the March 23 special meeting regarding a rezone request for a student-housing apartment complex near Eastern Washington University.

The decision, which stems somewhat from a vacant seventh seat on the commission, now moves to the City Council for final deliberation without a recommendation from the commission. Before the vote took place, however, the commission was warned by city attorney Stanl...