Brayton Road residents object to ‘pre-zone’ for housing, port

Complaints from neighbors of a proposed housing development delayed the Pullman Planning Commission’s decision to re-zone the Port of Whitman’s new development and an industrial park after a public hearing last Wednesday, Sept. 23.

The port is partnering with the Steve Mader family to build an industrial park and a new housing development on ground that will be eventually annexed into Pullman. The developments would cover more than 515 acres on the northern edge of Pullman.

The land is bound by Highway 27 on the east, the Pullman-Albion Road on the north and Brayton Road on the south and west....