Moab community fighting to stop Kane Creek Development
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Kane Creek Preservation and Development LLC has plans to build a luxury, resort-style housing development on its 180-acre property, surrounded by Bureau of Land Management land.
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Building in the flood plain? Genius! How soon will the government be borrowing money to bail them out?
Cheap federally subsidized flood insurance.
Who sold them the land ?
Our greedy government officials are allowing this state to be destroyed, one piece of land at a time. When are Utahn’s going to wake up and start voting for their children’s future, its pathetic. 💔😓🙏🙏
Vote blue let's flip the state once and for all.
When i lived and worked in Moab, not becoming another Vail or Aspen Colorado and combating light pollution were a priority. But there was the more powerful group that called such ideas merely dirty hippie pipe dreams. Now when i visit there is a sense of profound sadness for the only place I've ever called home. Perhaps we should reincarnate : The Monkey Wrench Spirit ?
Round up the gang!
Somebody got paid off. 💰💰💰
Yup follow the $$
All politics are local. It's important for residents to be engaged in their county and city processes as demonstrated in this video. When the property changed hands and got rezoned, odds are that it was conducted at a county planning meeting with few , if any, residents even aware of the request for change. Developers have advance teams that look for areas like this where they understand the process often better than the county does, gets new rules passed and then you wind up with a development like this.
Sam Cunningham was on the Grand County Commission at the time they granted the zone change to commercial (C=3) circa 1992. Her understanding was that the sole purpose was so Charlie Nelson could operate a primitive campground on 10 acres at the downstream end of the property. It was the only available zone at the time that would permit it. They never foresaw and certainly never intended anything approaching the scale of the propsed development.
@@gregpeterson2414 Exactly. I can't tell you how many times I've witnessed similar "agreements" that get corrupted over time by outside parties. I've seen agreements between planning commissions and developers and just after a few months, even the planning commissions are "we didn't have that in mind."
Developers are out of control
This is incredibly sad
Follow the campaign contributions
Exactly and they will be Rebloodlicans
They have already done this all over around saint george its disgusting
"Luxury" means more homes for the ultra wealthy and less room for the lower income and poor.
Why is it always luxury resorts, or luxury housing etc...how about us regular folks need housing NOT in a flood zone Wealthy people don't need more overpriced hotels and homes
Out-of-state investors come here they got the money they will push you out for all the elites. Promontory all the rich communities what do you think's happening.
Trents argument: “You were going 20mph over the limit but today I am a nice guy and only writing you for 5 over.”
What a guy!! Thanks Trent!!
Developers won’t be happy until all outdoor recreation areas are paved over. And please, someone, explain how pavement is less harmful to the environment than driving jeeps on dirt roads?
Republican legislators you mean
So Sad 😭
Want to track back the money to find out what politician its benefiting?
What a beautiful creek.
That is the Colorado River bordering the property.
The EPA can shut them down if they want to.
Not anymore with latest Supreme Court Chevron ruling. EPA has lost power due to conservative supreme court justices. The supreme court ruling in favor of corporations is the 'new' normal. Conservative politicians and justices they put in the courts will not take care of the earth.
Stop the bill
Visiting Moab in 2010 is when I quit supporting small businesses everywhere. Prices on everything is really jacked up⬆️
No more construction
Buyers will be absolved of all responsibility and insurance will rebuild on the same lot after it floods
15 minute city!
Nobody ever mentions the mass illegal immigration’s effect on housing supply. You can’t expect to allow millions of people to come into the country and preserve land at the same time. All those people coming here have to live somewhere. They complete for housing which causes home prices to go up. The ones who make profit from this, buy “luxury homes in Utah”. Want to stop development, you must reduce the pressure on housing.
Moab developers couldn't even survive without immigrant employees.
The audio is terrible.
Money, money, always money 😢
Developers vs citizens in a red state? My money is on the developers winning every time.
People simultaneously angry about housing shortages and housing developments.
I think you mean 'affordable' housing shortages and 'luxury' housing developments. The average worker and resident in Moab is being priced out of the city.
resort style housing is not the same as housing, its large, tall, and very expensive tailored to only the most rich of clientele. Ever see what happened to park city? that's what is happening to moab bit by bit. Thats not a housing shortage, its a takeover.
People can and should be angry about the endless, cancerous growth in Utah, which causes both of those things.
Doesn’t help when “houses” are being built that are only inhabited for a few weeks a year, or are being built as rentals.
Yeap… great “argument”
You really convinced me to agree with you! 🤮
Let ‘em build it. Mother Nature will handle the next step.
So somebody ask the guy in the video who he was renting from ???
All that was down there was a bunch of asbestos filled old single wide trailers that were actually in the flood plane. Nobody cared that they would have been washed down the river,
There were a couple of trailers nestled against the cliffs on the opposite side of the road from the river. There were also a couple of primitive shelters at higher elevations that had no utilities. Those residents rented them as permanent campsites.
This is absolute BS! All about greed and money! Makes me so sick. 😢
Sounds nice! I wanna move there.
You are too broke to even think about it.
So dumb and dangerous
Proof that some people have more money than brains. It worse in the state of Confusion (California).
Trent is just your typical beta narcissist who could have trillions in the bank and still be mad…
Unresolved mommy issues and psychopathy are an amazing combination 😀
Reservation? Oxymoron.
Discusting
Moab definitely doesn't need this. As much as they need housing, this is BS.
Preposterous reporting. A complete non-story. “Developers developing land in rural part of state.”
These people simultaneously complain about poor economy in the area and protest influxes of economy.
They truly do not see their own contradiction - and it appears many of the commenters here don’t either.
Well, you fit the description of a commenter that doesn't see his own contradiction. In fact, at a public meeting one local contractor pointed every contractor with integrity will refuse to work on this development. So far, he is correct.
@@gregpeterson2414 Your response is nonsensical. The area needs housing. The video demonstrated no ethical dilemma. Plenty of ethical contractors will help.
@@andrew9019 Moab needs AFFORDABLE housing. Luxury homes, by definition, don't meet that need. They exacerbate it. Luxury homes put more demand on community services which raises the cost of living for everyone.
Are you at all familiar with the location? The access is marginal. A recent monsoon strom that wasn't even on the radar as a possibility made the access road impassable. That's why John Weisheit correctly advises the the development poses a danger for anyone who buys one of those luxury homes.
The developers are well connected with the Utah state legislature. One of them received a million dollar gift, euphemistically called a grant, for his brand new online Utah Workforce Housing Advocacy organization with created only a few months prior with NO history of any advocacy. It linked to a few articles published BEFORE the website was created with absolutely NO follow up.
At the last minute, the Utah legislature passed SB 258 which is practically tailor made for the 3 developers so they can create their own municipality that circumvents ANY local oversight.
What a sin.
Why fight it? Moab the largest tourist trap in Utah,you’re just angry cause you lost your free living
A hippie centric report. Its private land, taxes paid ,they have right to develop. Moab was once unplowed ground. And ironically, moab has flooding this week. Nobody died.
Actually, two people died.
Furthermore, in a tremendous bit of irony, the Utah legislature gave one of the developers, Craig Weston, a cool $1,000,000 just to promote his almost non-existent Utah Workforce Housing Advocacy. The only apparent activity it has ever had is a website created just a few months prior. Then, the Utah legislature passed a low, SB 258 tailored to the development to create its own municipality immediately downstream of Moab.
No problem gobbling up tens of thousands of acres of valuable farmland to build multi family hamster cages though.... where does this madness end...???
No one ever farmed it, because of the flood plain and its Plutonium rich soil. Go back to your Pokemon!
Southern Utah has a shortage of housing. This development is exactly what Moab needs. Moab is jealous of the view at Kane Creek. Fill material will raise the flood plain. The only legal question is why the previous owner was denied development? Since they sold out, it's no longer relevant. Moab thrives on "the chaos" $$$.
No it isn't. They are doing just fine and people should be moving elsewhere and preserving our water.
1. The previous owner was NOT denied development.
2. Moab most decidedly does NOT need another luxury development that drives up housing costs for working class people.
@@gregpeterson2414 And how do you suppose increasing supply will drive costs up? The natural solution to high cost is increasing the supply.
@@punkrocker10115 "Our" water in your statement seems to forget Utah/Kane Creek has legal title to Colorado River water, no local "shortage".
@@user-gw2bi9xr7e kane Creek has 0 legal right to the river actually.😂😂 Only Utah which made water agreements
*Moab full of Envy of the rich, by people who refuse to put the time and effort into being successful*
All it shows is the greed of people and with no care of the land ,greed,greed,greed😡
The US population is growing and people need homes, acting like its okay for you to live there but nobody else is hypocritical...as long as the development is done with all the proper environmental precautions it will be a great habitat for humans that need homes!
The developers evicted the people who WERE living there. The luxuty homes will not be "habitat for humans that need homes!"
These men don’t care about the trees they’re mad they lost their drinking spot 🍺🤣
That is 100 percent correct
Crazy Rich Mormons?
The housing situation in America is tuning into a 3rd world country.
It really is, with no end in sight. The delta between the wealthy and everyone else just keeps growing. I'm watching it in Nevada
Ever been to a third world country?
says the homeless man living on the streets of Portland?
@@markstevenson6635 yes
Well I’m not happy with what is going on there, I don’t think luxury housing means 3rd world county
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