Choose guidelines on massive RV park. Right here’s what’s subsequent for controversial MS Coast growth
A 400-acre RV park may be inbuilt Jackson County subsequent to Gulf Park Estates, a big subdivision east of Ocean Springs the place some residents oppose the development.
The Planning Fee and Board of Supervisors had been “duly diligent” in contemplating the request of Ocean Springs Islands RV Resort to construct the waterfront park off Beachview Drive simply east of Ocean Springs, Circuit Courtroom Choose Keith Miller ruled this week.
Eamon Mohiuddin, an Ocean Springs resident who owns rental property within the neighboring subdivision, Gulf Park Estates, claimed in his courtroom attraction that the county’s resolution was “arbitrary and capricious.”
Mohiuddin instructed the Solar Herald on Friday that he plans to attraction Miller’s resolution to the state Supreme Courtroom. He mentioned infrastructure within the space, together with roads, should not designed to assist such a big inflow of vacationers.
“It’s going to destroy the residential character of Gulf Park Estates and it’s going to destroy Gulf Park Estates as a complete, so there’s quite a bit using on this resolution,” he mentioned. “It was extraordinarily political from the get-go.”
However builders imagine they’ll finally prevail.
“We’re as enthusiastic about this challenge as ever and clearly grateful for the wheels of presidency taking part in out like they’re presupposed to,” developer and investor Adam Dial instructed the Solar Herald on Friday. “We’ve been assured in our resort from the very starting.”
Zoning exception permits RV park
The event is predicted to incorporate 476 RV websites, 20 Airstreams accessible for hire, a lazy river, 16 elevated homes known as “tree homes,” a clubhouse, swimming pools and extra.
The sprawling RV park property sits in a flood zone on Davis and Simmons bayous, and the Mississippi Sound. RV parks may be good makes use of of flood-prone properties, notably the place early warnings can be found, the Federal Emergency Administration Company says.
The property has sat unused since Hurricane Georges flooded it in 1998. In 2006, plans for condominiums and townhouses on the property fell by way of. The present builders had purchased the property by March 2023.
Dial mentioned the house owners have been cleansing up Katrina particles and mowing the property, the place a web site supervisor and upkeep employee would dwell full time. The property is full of Stay oaks that the builders plan to protect.
The decide discovered that “substantial proof” offered to county supervisors supported their resolution to grant a particular zoning exception that can enable the RV park subsequent to Gulf Park Estates.
Gulf Park Estates is the biggest subdivision in Jackson County with about 3,500 heaps, in accordance with the Planning Division. The subdivision consists of a mixture of single-family and rental properties.
