Council continues Elkhorn Springs rezoning and development-agreement review after detailed presentation from developer

Hideout Town Council took public testimony and heard a detailed presentation from developer Nate Brockbank and town staff on a proposed rezoning of a roughly 115-acre property known in documents as Elkhorn Springs. The developer seeks to rezone from existing mountain zoning to a mix of neighborhood mixed-use (NMU), and residential densities (R-20, R-6, R-3) plus a natural preservation (NP) area, along with an associated Master Development Agreement (MDA).

Planning staff summarized the project as a multi-phased concept with about 229 potential units at full build-out in the revised concept brought to the commission. The developer discussed site design elements shown to planning commissioners — an entry plaza, a small commercial pad (approximately 14,000 square feet), townhome and stacked-flat areas, public trail connections and a 16-acre wildlife/open-space corridor. Staff presented maps showing slope-disturbance areas and where exceptions to the town’s sensitive-lands limits would be…