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Article: Airway Heights officials stunt growth, some say
- Article from:
- Journal of Business
- Article date:
- May 6, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright Northwest Business Press Inc. May 06, 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Saying the city of Airway Heights is shutting down many construction projects by enforcing its building regulations too stringently, some Airway Heights businessmen are concerned that city officials are hurting business development in the small town west of Spokane.
The city's mayor, however, says he doesn't believe there is a problem with the way the city's building department is interpreting the building code.
John Barrier, president of Barrier Industries Inc. and owner of the West Spokane Industrial Park, says his company recently has received stopwork orders for building projects totaling about 100,000 square feet of floor space.
Reasons vary, Barrier says. For example, one building ...