He’s at it again. The developer is making false promises about the RV Park development in the Animas Valley since the beginning. With his 2nd submission, he shows the harsh reality of his proposal.
He promised lots of beautiful landscaping – “a tree on every corner.” Instead, he shows a narrow ring of trees around the border with absolutely no landscaping in the interior.
He claims his density meets our code. Wrong! He must be, per LUC 70.5.III.D, “generally similar to the density of the surrounding properties as measured from one-quarter mile from the subject’s property line.”
This quarter-mile area (which mainly includes South Dalton to the west/south and wide-open farmland to the east), appears to be about 0.5 units/acre. His proposal is 9.04 units per acre. At this 18:1 disparity, he greatly exceeds it!
He cannot, per Code, have Park Model Homes yet his plans seem to indicate he will try to add them in in the future. Why else would you make 214 spaces in this so-called “Luxury” RV Park just 30’ long? That is the size space he utilizes for his PMH installations.
See his Village Camp Flagstaff to understand how his plans end up; everything is crammed together: https://villagecamp.com/resorts/flagstaff/rv-sites/. At least Flagstaff had a few existing trees in the interior, otherwise it’s all concrete, rock and gravel.
And his engineering plans show he will be paving over and obliterating the current Animas River put-in. It’s gone!
This does not belong in our beautiful valley. Please join us at http://avacdurango.org/.
Dot Wehrly
Durango
