A controversial project proposed for the Devils Lake area will be discussed by the city’s planning commission at 7 a.m. on Thursday, August 22 in the City Offices Commission Chambers.
An individual from Wisconsin, Chang Yang, has purchased four lots located along the southern border of Devils Lake’s city limits.
It is his wish to build a campground with RV and tent sites, amenities like bath houses, bait shop, convenience store and fish cleaning stations, about 31 cabins, a single-level hotel with approxiately 30 rooms, 8 town homes, boat and RV storage, and in multiple phases over multiple years.
The Journal was told that something like this might end up being good for the city’s tax base, if it ends up that the developer is able to fund each phase along the process.
The proposed name of this resort is Eagle Landing Resort and the proposed location is four lots just off Highway 20 South not far from Ed’s Bait Shop with the property’s entrance just a few feet along the east side of Highway 20.
Residents along the northern border of this proposed project will have an opportunity at Thursday’s meeting to learn more about the project, ask questions and express their concerns.
According to Helen Carlson from the City Offices, the project has a long way to go before it would be ready to begin since the area in question has no sewer, water, curb and gutter, roads or access at the present time. This first meeting will address the landowner’s request for annexation to the city itself and zoning changes that need to take place before anything is finalized. There is a long ways yet to go. A great deal more information must be gathered about the project and its development plan before this PUD becomes a reality.
This is not the first PUD – Planned Urban Development – the city will have dealt with. The development of Academy Village was the first and the development on Old Walnut Street was the second.
The Planning Commission is made up of 10 members of the community including Mayor Jim Moe, Al Freidig, Mike Grafsgaard, Peter Jerome, Larry Leier and five others.
If the Planning Commission approves of the preliminary plans for the project, it will then go to the Devils Lake City Commission at their Sep. 3 meeting for their discussion and approval. The City meeting takes place on Tuesday that week rather than Monday because of the Labor Day Holiday Sep. 2.
