For those who reside close to Island Park, Idaho, you might need heard a few proposal to construct a brand new airport close to the outlet of Henry’s Lake. For many fly anglers at giant, nonetheless, this can be the primary you’re listening to of the challenge.
There’s presently a proposal in entrance of the Fremont County (Idaho) Planning and Zoning fee to construct a personal luxurious airport on the Henry’s Lake Flats. The Flats are a bit of land on the southeast facet of Freeway 20, and so they play a essential position within the habitat that helps grizzly bears, pronghorn, moose, elk, and deer.
Based on a press launch from the Henry’s Fork Wildlife Alliance(HFWA), “Open areas and pure habitats are important to the cherished wildlife of Island Park—together with federally protected grizzly bears which can be current on the Flats, native and resident pronghorn whose calves are born in spring, elk, and a number of formally recognized ‘species of biggest conservation want’ whose habitat contains the Flats.”
The personal luxurious airpark is proposed to be constructed on 432 acres of land. The challenge would come with an airstrip, 32 residential tons, a 132-room Marriott lodge, and a possible 70-stall RV park. The Flat Rock Lodge’s plans have been submitted by a Salt Lake Metropolis-based firm, Ensign Hospitality. Douglas Button of Imperial Investments LLC is heading the airstrip challenge.
133 of the 432 acres could be rezoned to “business/industrial” use, though the plans for utilizing that rezoned land aren’t presently identified.
Whereas an airstrip will surely make journey to the Island Park space extra handy, this may nonetheless be a personal enterprise, and the dangers to the ecosystem far outweigh the advantages.
The Fremont County Planing and Zoning fee is holding a public listening to on the challenge at 10am on August twenty fourth. This listening to will probably be on the Island Park EMS constructing, and every particular person current may have three minutes to talk. HFWA hopes to fill the assembly room and encourages attendees to reach early to “present Fremont County we care about what occurs in Island Park.”
There’s additionally a petition you’ll be able to signal to voice your opposition to the challenge, which you’ll be able to evaluate here.
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