Hearing Postponed

A public hearing on a proposed 136-unit mobile home park in Greenacres was postponed Tuesday night until next month.

The hearing on Strawberry Ridge was rescheduled for May 6 at 5 p.m. after county commissioners received letters from both sides requesting the delay.

Developer Rich Dahm is proposing the mobile home park on a 39-acre alfalfa field at Eighth Avenue and Long Road zoned for urban residential use with a maximum of 3.5 units per acre.

Members of the Micaview Landowners Association appealed Dahm’s application earlier this year, claiming the dense development will ruin the surrounding neighborhood’s semi-rural flavor. Additionally, current public services will not support the development, they said.

Strawberry Ridge is planned on the same triangle of land that Dahm hoped to build a 101-home development called Turtle Creek. However, Dahm scrapped that proposal after it was sidetracked for two years awaiting an appeal.

The Micaview Landowners Association also opposed the Turtle Creek development two years ago during five hours of heated debate before county commissioners.

The neighborhood group also fought Dahm’s Morningside Heights, an adjacent development. The group won an appeal in December that reversed a zoning change granted by the county hearing examiner for the Morningside Heights development.

, DataTimes