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Sandpoint pauses RV‑park renovation; council asks for community workshops after Averill family request
Summary
After a letter from the Averill family and a contested council hearing, Sandpoint staff proposed community charrettes and a survey to re‑examine a state‑funded $950,000 RV‑park renovation. Staff warned that abandoning the RV option would forfeit the grant and reduce parks CIP revenue by roughly $115,000–$80,000/year unless replaced by alternate funding.
Chairman Taylor Long and city staff said the Sandpoint City Council has asked for additional community engagement before choosing whether to proceed with a planned renovation of the City Beach RV park site.
Jason Welker, community planning and development staff, told the Parks and Recreation Commission that the Averill family sent a letter asking council to reconsider improvements and that council, after two hours of public comment at its Nov. 5 meeting, amended a motion to deny the current lease or sale request and to pursue community workshops and broader public outreach instead. “We have an RV park in this park, and we have 1000000 dollars of state dollars to to renovate that,” Welker said, noting the state grant timeline and financial tradeoffs.
Why it matters: the city has been offered roughly…
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