An affiliate of Hayden-based Copper Basin Construction Inc. plans to develop a 258-unit apartment complex in Liberty Lake, environmental and building permit application information submitted to the city of Liberty Lake show.

The $30 million Legacy Villas Apartments complex would be located on 16.2 acres of undeveloped land near the southeast corner of Country Vista Drive and Legacy Ridge Drive, in west Liberty Lake.

Legacy Villas LLC, the Copper Basin affiliate, proposes to develop the complex in two phases with the first phase to begin this summer, the applications show.

Steve White, a principal at Copper Basin and Legacy Villas’ representative on the applications, couldn’t be reached immediately for comment.

Amy Tainio, planning and building services manager for the city of Liberty Lake, says the building permit applications are under review, and agency and public comments on the environmental application were due earlier this week.

The applicant asserts the development would have minimal adverse environmental impact.

The Liberty Lake planning staff anticipates the city will issue a mitigated determination of nonsignificance, meaning the project likely would be permitted under certain conditions, including developer participation in the city’s Harvard Road mitigation plan, the city’s notice of the environmental application says.

Harvard Road extends from north Liberty Lake Road north of Interstate 90 and together, the roads make up Liberty Lake’s main north-south arterial with freeway access. North Liberty Lake Road is about a half-mile east of the Legacy Villas development site.

The first phase of Legacy Villas would be located on the east half of the development site, preliminary site plans show. It would include 126 living units in a total of 12 apartment buildings ranging in size from two-story, six-unit buildings to three-story, 24-unit buildings. The complex would have a combination of one-, two-, and three-bedroom units.

The initial phase also would include a single-story, 3,600-square-foot clubhouse with an outdoor swimming pool and playground.

Wyatt Architects & Associates PLLC, of Spokane Valley, is designing the development, and Lake City Engineering Inc., of Coeur d’Alene, is the project engineer.

A real estate holding affiliate of Copper Basin acquired the property in March for $1.8 million, Spokane County Assessor’s records show.

The Legacy Villas development site is vacant, with single-family homes in portions of the Legacy Ridge development to the south and southwest. Commercial development near the Legacy Villas site includes a Home Depot outlet to the north and the Alliant Building offices to the west.

The applicant estimates 550 people would live in the development.

Legacy Villas would be accessed via two driveway connections to Country Vista Drive and one connection to Legacy Ridge Drive, and would create an estimated 1,700 average daily trips on Country Vista Drive, the application says.

The project would include 380 parking spaces, most of which would be in covered garage spaces on the ground floor of the apartment buildings and in five single-story parking structures, preliminary site plans show.

White and Greg Gervais founded Copper Basin in 1995 and led the company to become a prominent Inland Northwest homebuilder.

Last year, Copper Basin shifted its focus to multifamily housing projects, and it began to phase out single-family home construction by selling 1,200 residential lots in various Inland Northwest subdivisions to Redmond, Ore.-based Hayden Homes LLC.

Copper Basin’s recent multifamily developments include the 118-unit Cottages at River Run apartments in northwest Spokane, and an 80-unit apartment complex in the Mill River development in west Coeur d’Alene.