Powder Mountain development on hold
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large development at Powder Mountain Winter Resort is on hold while representatives try to work out details with Cache County planners.
"The planning side is a little stuck; I'll admit that," said Josh Runhaar, the county's planning and zoning administrator. "I don't have a good method to move forward at this time. I need specific information back from our attorney's office."
The county wants Powder Mountain to show it can pay for the project.
In June, planning commissioners approved the resort's master plan for 3,580 acres in Weber and Cache counties, which could include hotels, homes, condominiums, equestrian and ski facilities and a commercial and retail area.
The Cache County Council approved a rezone of the land in October 2002 under a resort and recreation zone that allows greater building density than what the previous ordinance permitted.
About 90 percent of the property is on the Cache County side, with the remaining 10 percent in Weber County.
The next step in the approval process is for a development agreement, a contract between the resort and the county, for infrastructure improvements.
The resort's project manager, Brooke Hontz, said she wants to see whether financial information presented to the county would meet the request.
Planning Commissioner Troy Allen wants to vote on the agreement in January.
Powder Mountain has been upgrading its existing facilities in recent years in anticipation of future growth.
Most recently, the resort spent more than $4 million this year to replace its 30-year-old Hidden Lake chairlift with a high-speed, detachable quad that will take skiers up the mountain twice as fast as the previous lift.
The resort is waiting for more snowfall before it opens the new lift. In the meantime, it is offering night skiing from 4 to 10 p.m. daily.
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