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Applicant proposes 47-acre RV park near Highway 70; commission recommends rezoning to allow manufactured-home/RV use
Summary
Neil Brooks asked to rezone two parcels totaling 47 acres to RMH (residential manufactured home) for a planned, landscaped RV park. The planning commission recommended approval; staff noted a small floodplain sliver and pipeline easement issues that will require site-level study.
Neil Brooks told the Graham County Planning and Zoning Commission he wants to rezone two parcels totaling 47 acres from general land use to RMH (residential manufactured home) to develop a landscaped RV park, and the commission voted to forward a favorable recommendation to the Board of Supervisors.
Staff introduced the request as REZ 9 33-25 covering APN 108-14-008 (20 acres) and APN 108-14-015 (27 acres), with a combined area of 47 acres located west of Goodwin Wash north of Highway 70 east of Blacks Lane in Toronto. The county engineer had no major objections at the zoning stage but noted a small sliver of floodplain on one parcel that will be addressed during the site-plan review process.
Brooks described plans to stage the project, beginning on a small acreage footprint and expanding based on market demand. "I think we're gonna start real carefully, like, on 4 or 5 acres," he told the commission. He said he owns water rights and irrigation infrastructure and described ambitions to heavily landscape the site with pine trees and amenities to make a high-quality RV park. Brooks stated he and his family own substantial acreage in the area and said, "we still have, what 500 acre feet that I can only use above ground at the nursery that I built up on top."
Neighbors asked questions about an unrecorded easement and an older transite (pipeline) line across the property; Brooks acknowledged the concern and said the pipeline location would need to be potholed and surveyed. Planning staff reminded the commission that a site plan and technical reviews (including septic, floodplain and pipeline protections) must return to county review before development could proceed.
A commissioner moved to forward a favorable recommendation, the motion carried, and staff said the item will be scheduled for the Board of Supervisors meeting on July 7. The commission did not grant zoning or building permits at the hearing; those approvals and technical conditions will be considered at later site-plan and permitting stages.
