By Frank Lockwood

Staff writer

HERMISTON By an agreement with the developers, the Hermiston City Council postponed a decision concerning Prancing Horses St. Johns Estates near the new Desert View Elementary School.

Twenty-eight property owners had appealed the Hermiston Planning Commissions decision to approve the St. Johns preliminary plot. Prancing Horse LLC proposes to subdivide land on the south side of West Johns Avenue into 136 lots ranging in size from 9,000 to 21,000 square feet.

The planning commission had imposed 17 conditions on the project, but property owners from the surrounding area said the commission should have paid more attention to traffic flows.

Portland attorney Dana Krawczuk, representing Prancing Horse, said city code required an appeal to take place within 10 days of the decision rendered, and Jerry Jennings of Prancing Horse said the appeal was unfair. The company had met all conditions and gone out of the way to cooperate with the city, he said.

(For the full story see the March 27 edition of the Hermiston Herald.)