Commission backs rezoning for a 12‑site glamping campground at 250 Legion Drive despite resident concerns

County planner Dylan presented a rezoning application (RZ260802) to allow a glamping campground at 250 Legion Drive, describing a wooded, undeveloped parcel that would include roughly 12 sites (25-foot-diameter yurts/domes) accessed through an intermittently private driveway and requiring limited grading and raised decks to work with the site’s topography. Dylan said staff recommended approval with a condition from the fire department that the applicant provide either guardrails or lighting along the dam crossing used for access.

Applicant representative Robert Titus stressed the project’s minimal footprint and said the owner wants to keep the site natural: "We're not trying to run the deer off," Titus said, adding that the glamping units would sit on raised wooden decks and that the owner intends to keep the area as natural as possible. Several nearby residents opposed the rezoning at the public hearing, raising concerns about flooding, traffic and wildfire risk. Janice Hanley said, "That area floods. It is a marshland and that creek turns into a river," and voiced a broad objection to new traffic and fire risk. After questions about guardrails versus lighting and assurances that the project would avoid open campfires, the commission moved to recommend approval with the staff‑recommended fire condition; the motion carried and the recommendation will go to the Board of Commissioners for final action.