COEUR d'ALENE - The Kootenai County commissioners' public hearing Wednesday night related to a controversial condominium-hotel project along Lake Coeur d'Alene at Squaw Bay ended without a vote.

It was continued until 9 a.m. Aug. 11, when the commissioners will begin deliberating.

Discovery Land Co., based in Scottsdale, Ariz., and known in Coeur d'Alene for its Gozzer Ranch golf and lake club project, is seeking to develop 15 large, privately owned condominiums that would be placed into a rental pool for more than half the year.

Wednesday's hearing lasted four hours as people spoke for and against the project, with most strongly opposing it.

Many opposed the project because they don't believe it fits with the existing residential structures in Squaw Bay, now officially called Neachen Bay.

Others believe Discovery's planned structures wouldn't be appropriate in a commercial zone, and don't believe there would be any serious effort to rent them out hotel-style by the individual owners. Critics of the project believe the rental aspect being described in Discovery's plans allows the developer to place residential-type units onto commercial property.

The units will be sold for between $2 million and $4 million each on the nearly four-acre property.

Others criticized the project for providing too little parking for the units and attached marina and adding too much traffic to Highway 97. The existing "Gozzer Bay" marina has 30 slips.

Other's just don't like the Gozzer Ranch development and don't want what's now being dubbed Gozzer Bay Resort developed.

Discovery hopes to receive approval from the county commission to plat the individual proposed units and begin marketing them to potential buyers.

The units would range in size from approximately 3,500 square feet to 5,000 square feet of livable space.