County nixes wastewater permit for Moab development on the Colorado River

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The Grand County Commission denied a permit for a proposed wastewater and culinary water system, setting the stage for ongoing legal parrying over a high-profile development proposed for the Colorado River corridor southwest of Moab.

The Kane Creek developers’ attorney, Bruce Baird, said it’s a “terrible mistake” that elected officials review administrative decisions such as conditional use permits.The Grand County Commission on Tuesday night denied a permit for the Kane Creek development’s proposed wastewater and culinary water system, setting the stage for ongoing legalThe project’s developers are “of course” going to appeal the decision, said attorney Bruce Baird as he left Tuesday’s meeting.

“We found multiple inconsistencies with the development of a major utility in the proposed location,” said Grand County Planning Director Elissa Martin. “Generically, general plans are hopes, dreams, wishes and visions,” Baird said. “And hopes, dreams, wishes and visions are not sufficient to deny a conditional use permit for inconsistency.”weaponized against the development, envisioned to hold several hundred residential and overnight-accommodations units and up to 72,000 square feet of commercial space.

“I will not gamble the house on the county’s financial future and then turn around and ask the people of Grand County to pay for a colossal mistake,” Winfield said. McGann emphasized that point after Baird exhorted commissioners to put aside public comment. He also panned the process that puts administrative decisions such as conditional use permits before elected officials, calling it a “terrible mistake” that “everyone in Utah is trying to correct.”“I would never shirk my duty,” McGann later responded. “I have taken this incredibly seriously.”

 

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