COEUR d'ALENE - Kootenai County commissioners are scheduled to continue deliberations today on the condominium-hotel project known as Gozzer Bay Resort at Gozzer Ranch.

Discovery Squaw Bay Land LLC wants to build a 15-unit condo-hotel, or "condotel," at Neachen Bay on Lake Coeur d'Alene. Each condo unit would be separately owned and made available to the public through a rental pool for at least 183 days each year.

The structures would range in size from roughly 3,500 to 5,500 square feet. Some are to be two or three stories.

The 3.8-acre-project site, owned by Discovery, is just off Highway 97 and is zoned for commercial use. Recreational vehicles historically used the property. An existing 30-slip marina also exists at the site.

If the project is built, half of the slips would then be dedicated to the condo-hotel units and the other half would be available to the public. Plans call for the dock to be moved and re-oriented as part of the project.

There will also be 46 parking spaces developed, serving the condo owners and their guests, the public, and workers needed to operate the hotel.

The commissioners originally approved the project in the summer of 2011, but then rescinded that decision in March 2012 because of issues with a site disturbance permit, said David Callahan, the county's community development director.

The project got tangled in 1st District Court, but is again before the commissioners.

The commissioners now are considering approval, again, and looking at numerous conditions of final approval, Callahan said Thursday.

Kootenai County community development staff members completed a draft of conditions of approval that the commissioners could adjust during today's deliberations, he said.

The commissioners at a public hearing Tuesday made it clear that design guidelines have to apply to all the buildings, Callahan said. That includes a required landscape buffer around each structure, ranging from 25 feet to 15 feet in width.

"They may lose a unit or two, I don't know yet," he said. The units also might have to be built closer together.

One thing that definitely needs to be done, he said, is the existing driveway must be widened.

It's conceivable that construction could begin next year if the commissioners approve the project, he said.

At Tuesday's public hearing, members of the public who oppose the project said Discovery was trying to build to much on too small of a site.

John Magnuson, an attorney representing Discovery, said a hotel could be built on the property with no public process at all.

He said his client has provided substantial detail about the project in its application, much of voluntarily above and beyond what was required.

Some at the public hearing also complained about the increase in traffic that would come with the condo-hotel operation. They said the highway is already dangerous, and this project would just add to the problem.

Magnuson pointed out Thursday that the Idaho Transportation Department had no objections to the project.

The commissioners continue their deliberations at noon today in the board room on the third floor of the county administrative building at 451 Government Way.