The approved set came back from Lakes Highway District dated February 3rd, signed by the district’s director of highways, with four words checked at the top of the stamp: approved, no exceptions taken. Olson Engineering drew it. The district found nothing to send back.
If you have not sat through a plan review, those four words may not land. Districts almost always take exceptions; that is what review is for. A note here, a revision there, resubmit and wait. No exceptions means the drawings held up exactly as submitted, roads and drainage and water and all of it, on the first pass. Our engineers earned that, and I want it on the record that they did.
Since people always ask for numbers: fifty-eight homesites totaling 356.172 acres, straight off Sheet C-4. The largest is homesite 18 at 7.152 acres. Nine come in a hair under six, most of them by hundredths of an acre, which is exactly why we have always said six acres, give or take, instead of promising a minimum the survey pins would have to argue with.
The streets got their names, too. Bridlewood Avenue, Mustang Street, Paddock Avenue, and Wandering Moose Road, which picks up the old private Wandering Moose Trail where the neighborhood meets it. All public, all dedicated, all plowed by the district, with three sixty-foot rights-of-way reserved at the edges so the county grid can grow someday without touching anybody’s lot line.
And the water. A community well on its own tract serves every homesite, through 5,478 feet of six-inch main, buried five feet down, with five fire hydrants on the line and a one-inch service stubbed to every lot. All of it chlorinated, tested for bacteria, and pressure-tested to Idaho public works standards before a single home connects. It draws from the Rathdrum Prairie aquifer, the same water the cities down the highway drink. Your septic system is still your own, on your own six acres, the way it should be. The longer story is on the water page.
I want to be precise about what this is and is not. This is the construction-plan approval, the engineering, and we will say exactly that every time. What it means today is simple enough: when the machines cut, they cut to an approved drawing. If you want to see what got approved, the land page carries every figure from Sheet C-4 and tells the rest. Or come out and walk it, which was always the better way anyhow.