COEUR d’ALENE — An open house to discuss the Coeur Terre housing project will be hosted by Kootenai County Land Company today from 5-8 p.m. at the Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Road.

The annexation process is underway for the 1,050 acre project according to kcolandcompany.com. Coeur Terre could bring more than 4,500 new residences along the proposed Huetter Road corridor.

“This land will be home to residences ranging from large, custom view sites to more quaint footprint homes offering affordability and urban style living,” according to its website. The project also includes two parcels to be set aside for a new middle school and elementary school.

The Huetter Road Corridor has drawn criticism of the project. Brian Rogers, with the No Huetter Bypass group encourages residents to “organize and attend” the open house.

“Our voices must be heard,” Rogers said in a recent email.

According to an invitation issued by KCLC, “Members of the project team will be available to answer any questions and to hear your thoughts on the proposed master-planned community.”

Coeur Terre will take 20 to 30 years to complete and will occur in phases. For developers, some goals of the project include “walkability,” a variety of housing types and price points, a convenient location between Post Falls and Coeur d’Alene and an “integrated infrastructure” in which streets, water and sewer lines are “constructed to meet area capacity needs, now and in the future.”

Rogers suggests that “as a community” the annexation not be supported “until they have revised their designs to support our community needs in full.”

Rogers, who helped found the grassroots No Huetter Bypass organization last year, has been investigating alternatives to the Huetter Corridor.

Rogers states “the street design inside of the land development area does not allow for easy east/west travel and will force traffic into choke points at Poleline Avenue and at the southern end by Mullan Avenue.”

For more information visit nohuetterbypass.com or view the group's Facebook page.