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Kootenai County staff consider $1,000-per-day fine for unpermitted three‑story building over aquifer
Summary
Community Development Director David Callahan told commissioners a completed three‑story building near Athol was built without permits or inspections, may house children and sits over an aquifer; he proposed using a $1,000-a-day fine authorized by recent land-use code amendments if owner does not respond after staff outreach.
Director David Callahan told the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 4 that county staff have discovered a three‑story building near Athol constructed without building permits, plan review, or inspections and that neighbors reported children living in the structure.
"We have in my view a very serious situation near the Athol area where a owner has built a 3 story building without the benefit of a building permit or inspections or plan review," Callahan said, adding the county issued a stop-work order and a notice of violation that were not heeded. He said neighbors reported occupancy and that the building "happens to be over the aquifer…
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