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PROJECT INFORMATION AND STAFF COMMENTS
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APPLICANT:
LOCATION:
SITE DATA:
WATER:
SEWER:
ACCESS:
EXISTING & ADJACENT
ZONING:
Special Use Permit for a
Resort.
Anthony Perry
A tract of land
located in portions of
Sections 21 and 28,
T3S, R87W; located
in the Sweetwater
area of Garfield
County, north of
County Road 161.
The site consists of
approximately 253 acres.
Individual Well
Individual Sewage Disposal
System
C.R. 161
NR/RD
I. RELATIONSHIP TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
The site is located in an area not shown on the Comprehensive Plan Management
Districts Map in the Sweetwater Creek area.
IL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSAL
A . Site Description The site is located on the north facing slopes of the Sweetwater
Creek drainage. Improvements presently on the property include a lodge, main
residence, 2 mobile homes for employees, six ( 6) guest cabins and various out buildings.
The majority of these buildings sit on a bench that was an open meadow prior to the
existing resort being built.
B. Project Description. The applicant is requesting to expand an existing resort by the
addition of three (3) one bedroom guest cabins and a two bedroom guest cabin. This
would expand the total visitor capacity up to 26 people, from the existing 16 guests.(See
plaif ~ In addition to the expa nsion of the guest capacity, the applicants are
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proposing to expand the lodge, replace the employee mobile homes with a two story
structure that will house the manager's family on one floor and have bunk house for up
to four employees on the other floor. There will be other improvements to the barn.
The previously noted main house will be split off the main resort parcel on a 35 acre
tract. The portion of the ranch not devoted to the resort complex will be split into seven
(7) thirty-five acre tracts to generate capital for the resort improvements. The resort will
be served by separate ISDS systems and water is provided from a spring, that is a
chlorinated system.
III. MAJOR ISSUES AND CONCERNS
I. Zoning. A resort is allowed by Special Use Permit in the AIRJRD zone district.
A resort is defined as:
Dude ranch or guest ranch; hunting or fishing camp, cross country or trail skiing
lodge (any of which shall not exceed twelve (12) dwelling units or forty-eight ( 48)
beds or visitor capacity), land used for the purpose of recreation, which provides
lodging recreational activities, dining facilities, commissary and other needs
operated on the site for guests or members.
This application meets the basic criteria in terms of visitor capacity and /or
dwelling units and can be classified as a resort. There is no minimum size for a
facility, nor definition of what type of recreation the land has to be used.
2. Sewer. The applicant's engineer has included plans for new ISD systems to treat
sewage from the upgraded facilities. The capacity of each of these systems is less
than 2,000 gallons per day, as such, the proposed sewage disposal is in
compliance with County sewage disposal system requirements.
3. Ownership: The application includes the property that will be sold as 35 acre
tracts to investors. Since these tracts will be under separate ownership in the
future, it would be appropriate to legally describe the property that will contain
the resort facilities for the Special Use permit and not encumber any of the other
properties with SUP conditions of approval.
IV. SUGGESTED FINDINGS
I. That the application is in compliance with the Garfield County Zoning
Resolution of 1978, as amended.
2. That the hearing before the Board of County Commissioners was extensive and
complete, that all pertinent facts, matters and issues were submitted and that all
interested parties were heard at that meeting.
3. For the above stated and other reasons, the proposed use is in the best interest
of the health, safety, morals, convenience, order, prosperity and welfare of the
citizens of Garfield County.
V. RECOMMENDATION
APPROVAL, subject to the following conditions:
1. All representations of the applicant, either within the application, or stated
before the Board of County Commissioners, shall be considered conditions of
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approval unless stated otherwise by the Board.
The resort will comply with the State Department of Health, Consumer
Protection Division, licensing requirements for a commercial kitchen, if required.
Prior to issuance of the Special Use permit, a new metes and bounds for the
resort shall be submitted to the County Planning Department. -ro l>-P~ A;::IPn<c>lAl_
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