The City of Spokane Valley Hearing Examiner has approved applications for a subdivision and planned residential development with up to 584 living units on 99 acres at 4403 S. Dishman-Mica Road, the former Painted Hills Golf Course site, as proposed by Black Realty Inc. 

The hearing examiner also denied an appeal of a previously accepted underlying environmental impact statement regarding the development. 

Developer Dave Black bought the former golf course at public auction for $1.1 million in 2013, after the privately owned nine-hole golf course and neighboring par-three course failed to open for the season that year. As the Journal reported in 2017 and again in 2021, the developer has been working for years to address neighborhood and environmental concerns.