Kalispell City Council on Monday night held several votes that clear the path forward for a 50-acre, 330-site RV park in South Kalispell, Mont.
This story by Peregrine Frissell originally appeared in the Daily Inter Lake.
Preliminary approval for the Montana Base Camp RV Park required a series of four votes. The first was to amend the growth policy to allow for mixed-use zoning in the area, which was the subject of a public hearing at an August council meeting that garnered little public feedback.
The second vote was to annex a 4.27-acre parcel of land from Flathead County that would form a small portion of the RV park. The third was to apply the appropriate zoning designation, B-2, to make the project possible. The final vote was to offer preliminary plat approval for phase one of the project, which would constitute 62 RV spaces.
All of the votes passed.
The Florida-based development companies behind the project are Montana Basecamp and Basecamp Outpost.
The proposed lot is currently undeveloped, with the Great Northern Historical bike trail running along the western and southern boundary, and a Montana Department of Transportation bike trail running along the northern boundary, which separates it from the U.S. 93 bypass.
The developers said its location at the sound end of town was ideal because of its proximity to bike paths that would allow campers to exercise and travel to downtown Kalispell without hauling their RVs.
