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August 27, 2008
^Reporter
KV parks OK’d for
High Falls, Forsyth
BY WILL DAVIS AND
JOLEE VAUGHN
New RV parks have been approved for
Forsyth and High Falls.
High Falls will get a
new $2 million RV Park
with 69 camp sites and
at least 16 cabins
thanks to businessman Dean
Huckeba. He plans to open his
park in April 2009 after
Monroe County commission
ers on Tuesday approved a
conditional use permit for
the facility. Huckeba had
requested the permit to put
the RV park on a 15-acre
tract next door to his High .
Falls BBQ and High Falls jF
Hideaway. The vote was
4-1, with only . M
Commissioner Jim
Peters, who represents
High Falls, opposing.
“This will be an
upper-class RV park I
Plans for the new RV park in High Falls.
guarantee you,” said
Huckeba. “If we’re not resort material,
we’re going to be close to it.”
Huckeba said the park will include a
20X40 in-ground swimming pool, play
grounds and sewer, water and power con
nections at the sites, all of which will be
paved. The property will also have about
18 rental cabins, said Huckeba. He said
he’ll also build a new laundromat for High
Falls on the property.
The county’s zoning board had recom
mended unanimously that commissioners
reject Huckeba’s plan. County zoning offi
cial Anita Buice said a lot of people
showed up at that meeting to oppose the
RV park, and only a few were in favor.
But at commissioners’ meeting last
Tuesday, Huckeba brought with him
about 30 supporters who told commission
ers they favored the new RV park. About
20 were there to oppose the request.
Huckeba said most of the opposition
came from owners of two other RV parks
s' ,£> in High Falls, including
Beavercreek Campground.
Peters said he opposed
the permit because he’s not
sure there are enough peo
ple traveling to support it.
Huckeba has led a renais
sance in High Falls in
recent years, opening a new
hotel, BBQ restaurant,
pizza place and a lounge,
Nashville Sounds. He said
he got the idea for the RV
park by watching RVs come
by his hotel on the way to
the High Falls State Park,
only to be turned away
because they were full. He
said he listens to people
talk in the restaurant and
realized there is a need.
“I decided to go ahead
and get gutsy and do it,”
said Huckeba.
Huckeba said he hopes
to open the park around April 15.
Meanwhile, Forsyth’s city council unani
mously approved a proposed campground
and RV park on College Street. The prop
erty is located between the newly re-zoned
properties on College Street and is zoned
for highway business and institutional.
Willy Wooten of the Diconser Corp. said
the project will open 90-120 days after
construction begins, and will be completed
in two stages. Stage 1 will create space for
29 pull-behind trailers. Stage 2 will con
sist of a larger space, which will accommo
date RVs up to 70 ft. long. Facilities will
include an office and pavilion constructed
with rough face block with metal roofs.
The parking area will be gravel and
asphalt. The facility will have 2 play
grounds. Wooten said the design could be
changed to meet codes if needed.
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