Coeur d’Alene City Council declares six-month moratorium [Video]

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — Coeur d’Alene City Council declared a temporary moratorium earlier this week.

The City of Coeur d’Alene says City Council found that there was an “imminent threat to public health, safety and welfare from the loss of important historic and cultural assets” in the downtown area, excluding homes.

The Roosevelt Inn was established in 1905 in Coeur d’Alene, and after this week’s City Council meeting, the building and others like it are under this six-month moratorium.

“It was a potential risk of demolition,” Hilary Patterson, community planning director with the City of Coeur d’Alene, said. “A developer is looking at purchasing the property, and indicated they were looking at demolishing it and putting townhouses in its place.”

Patterson presented the concern of the historic building’s potential demolition, which then led to City Council declaring the temporary moratorium on all historic assets in designated zones of the city.

You can find those designated zones in the …