The Pinedale Town

Council made way for a new campground

for seasonal trailers by rezoning a part of

the Grove Addition from R-2 (residential)

to C-1 (commercial.) The change opens the

way for resident Casey Dauwen to build a

recreational vehicle trailer park along U.S.

Highway 191, skirting Rendezvous Meadows

Golf Course and duplexes on Bogey

Drive and Wilson Street.

Adjacent properties are zoned recreation

services, agriculture, commercial and a few

residential.

The approval was given during the July

8 Pinedale Town Council meeting. Mayor

Matt Murdock and council members Judi

Boyce, John Paravicini, Tyler Swafford

and Dean Loftus were in attendance.

Grove Investments, LLC., applied

for the change to convert 5.43 acres to a

campground that will have between 45

and 54 camping spaces. In his application,

Dauwen said the property is some of the

only residential-zoned property within two

blocks of the town’s main Pine Street.

He said the park would be geared toward

recreational travelers and used during summer

months rather than year-round for workers.

Jen Gilmore from Country Lane Liquors

spoke in favor of the change saying having

an RV park within walking distance would

help her business significantly. “We’re just

sending them to Jackson,” Gilmore said.

Swafford said moving forward with the

dump and fill station and approving an RV

park go “hand in hand,” complementing

each other and promoting the direction the

town is headed.

Plans include building a privacy fence

and planting vegetation to protect neighbors.

Once the zone change is approved, the

issue will still take six weeks and three

readings. During that time, conditions such

as a requirement for paving adjacent streets

could be considered while still moving the

project forward.

In other actions:

• Council members observed a moment

of silence to remember longtime County

Treasurer Roxanna Jensen who died July 4.

• Action was postponed to reschedule

the Nov. 11 council meeting that falls on

a national holiday – Veterans Day. After

several conflicts emerged to move the

meeting to Tuesday, council members

agreed to wait and determine in October if

a meeting is needed.

• Council rejected a bid from Teletractors

to install a dump and fill station.

Teletractors submitted the lone bid for

$306,285, which included a mobilization

fee of $25,000. The proposed dump and fill

station is directly across the street from the

company’s main business facility.

Murdock said the high price sends the

message that it is not a project that Teletractors

is wanting to do, but they will if

the price is high enough.

The council agreed to rebid the project

in late 2019 for completion by June of

2020.

• Council accepted a bid of $74,550

from Teletractors for repairs to Cole and

Wilson streets. Again the sole bidder, Murdock

said the price is in the high range but

the mobilization fee for the project was

only $6,500. The project should be completed

in October.

• The council approved a bid from JCB

Underground to add as much as 665 feet of

irrigation and sprinklers along sections of

Pine Street as part of a beautification project.

Two other bidders submitted higher

quotes. Murdock said the company was

willing to do the work without mobilization

fees because it is already working in

the area with Union installing cable for

fiber.

• The council authorized a grant application

for Abandoned Mine Lands funds

to repair the town’s sewer lagoon for

$957,000. The town proposed a 15 percent

match from 2020-2021 fiscal year funds.