Workforce Housing in Coeurdalene....How DARE they......

There has been some P-O'd CDA residents out and about lately. 80 of them showed up at the city library yesterday to discuss a "workforce housing" development that WAS in the works. The developer of the project has 11.5 acres that he was going to build "affordable" housing on, in the price range of like...125K to 175K. Sounds great. So what is the riff, you ask??? Well, it seems that none of the eighty people who showed up for the meeting want this development to be near THEIR beautiful homes. It would be a major inconvenience for them to have people who are making moderate incomes in THEIR back yards. OMG people. What is this world coming too??? There are tons of jobs around here that are just NOT paying a livable wage. So, these people who work at these jobs, they kinda need somewhere to live. Have some compassion please. I can understand the fears that the residents currently living in this neighborhood have, kind-of. But, Coeurdalene desperatly NEEDS some affordable housing. They are going to have to put it somewhere. No matter where they plan on putting this workforce housing "tract", some people are gonna be ticked. Plain and simple. Can't we all just put ourselves in the "less fortunate" peoples shoes. It doesn't look like that is gonna happen anytime soon, because the development was denied last night. It doesn't suprise me.

(sorry about my spelling, my spell check quit working.....)