COEUR d'ALENE - The city's General Services Committee will recommend that the City Council pursue a master plan for the Four Corners area of Coeur d'Alene.

Acting Parks Director Bill Greenwood told the council subcommittee that the city is considering a long-term lease on 29 acres of land owned by the Bureau of Land Management in that area of the city, and a master plan is required by the BLM to begin that process.

Greenwood said the city began holding a series of meetings with stakeholders and the public in June, and it generated a stack of comments that could be used in the master planning process.

He said if it approves the request, Lake City Development Corp. has agreed to fund the planning project.

"My only concern would be if we go through all of these steps and get the master plan done, BLM may come back and say 'well, you are missing this or that,'" said Councilman Steve Adams, asking Greenwood and Janna Paronto, a realty specialist with BLM's Coeur d'Alene office, if there was chance the deal would fall through.

Paronto said the BLM is very comfortable with the direction the lease process is taking and she doesn't expect that to change.

"I think this is great," she said. "I don't see any problems at all."

Adams also wanted to ensure that BLM stays involved in the master planning process.

The General Service Committee voted unanimously to recommend the project to the council.

In other business the committee will recommend the council also pursue an independent sound study to gauge the impact of neighborhood noise generated by Doyle's Wholesale on Park Road near Skate Plaza.

The cost of the study will not exceed $7,000 and could potentially end a 7-year-old neighborhood dispute on that matter.