Saundra McDavid

Does your vision for the riverfront along State Street near the Eagle Island State Park entrance include an RV Park? Mine does not. However landowner Ed Priddy, of the Rembrandt’s Coffee Shop family, and Ron Bath, developer of Winding Creek on State Street, think an RV Park is a fine idea. Mr. Priddy is attempting to get an RV park classified as corporate “temporary housing” for the newly approved tech center/sewage treatment plant along State Street. You may not have known the comprehensive plan was being changed in this area from residential uses to a business park because the zoning administrator of Eagle determined that the white notice signs that normally indicate a comprehensive plan change were not required to be used. So they didn’t use them. If you overlooked the legal notices when you scanned through the legal notice section of the newspaper you are out of luck if you wanted to voice your opinion. Mr. Bath testified that there was no opposition to his plans. This is such an outrageous concept both my husband and I spoke in opposition, in a nearly empty City Council room after midnight.

How can a person involved with the impressive renovation of the Rembrandt’s building even consider an RV Park in Eagle along our most scenic stretch of highway? It’s all about the money. The reason given by Ron Bath during his comprehensive plan change request was that the land purchased by Ed Priddy is in a flood plan and it would be less costly to develop it as a RV Park than building up the ground to rise above the flood plain. Why can’t that currently undevelopable riparian flood plain next to the river remain a flood plain? Does it always have to be all about the money?

The city council voted to approve the comprehensive plan change so that the sewage treatment plant and Priddy property are now zoned as a Business Park. What still needs to be determined is the definition of “temporary housing.” Is an RV Park “temporary housing?” We’ll need to watch this one closely, or we will end up with an RV park along State Street. “Welcome to the new Eagle Sewage Treatment Tech Center and RV Park.”

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