Two RV parks on two planning board agendas
Plans for a new RV park in Columbia Heights and to enlarge an existing RV park in Columbia Falls will go before the county’s and the city’s planning boards in early December.
The Flathead County Planning Board will look at plans by Toby and Jessica Gilchrist, of Kalispell, for a 62-space RV park on 13.3 acres in Columbia Heights on Dec. 11 in the Earl Bennett Building in Kalispell.
The couple are seeking preliminary plat approval for the Glacier Gateway RV Resort at the intersection of Highway 206 and U.S. 2. The county is reviewing the proposal as a subdivision for lease or rent. The site is zoned as scenic corridor.
Plans call for serving the RV park with a public water and sewer system. The Gilchrists are seeking a variance from paving an internal road and from providing a 15-foot easement adjacent to U.S. 2. For more information, call the county planning office at 751-8200.
The Columbia Falls City-County Planning Board will look at a request by Larry Fowler to increase the size of his RV park on U.S. 2 in Columbia Falls in City Hall on Dec. 10.
The city initially approved a plat for 50 spaces at the Columbia Falls RV Park in 1993. Since then, the RV park has been expanded to 69 spaces. Fowler wants to add six more spaces along U.S. 2.
The site is zoned CB-2, general commercial, which allows RV parks as a permitted use. Fowler is not seeking a variance for setback or density. For more information, call city planning consultant Eric Mulcahy at 755-6481. The proposal will go before the Columbia Falls City Council on Jan. 6.
In other planning news, the Columbia Falls Board of Adjustment unanimously approved a variance request by Darin Fisher to change the corner setback at his property from 15 feet to 5 feet.
Fisher, who is a city councilor, wants to build an addition to his house. The adjacent property is a city easement platted for a street in 1913, but the slope is too steep there and the easement is only used for a water main. City staff had recommended approval.