Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times
GARDEN CITY, April 5, 2017. Gwenda Hansen is proposing a pioneer farm with wagon rides and chuckwagon meals for tourists at the old Hansen Ranch in Garden City. In order to do this Hansen needs to add ag-tourism to the hillside zone requirements. This zone includes such agriculturally related activities as petting zoos, wagon rides and farm equipment tours.
Planning commissioner, Joey
Stocking, said this would be an ideal place for this kind of venture and as a
conditional use permit. Commissioner Jim DeGroot said, "This is a place near 5 acre
residential lots it should not be allowed in this area because we don’t enforce
enough and it may be noisy and disturb neighbors. The hillside is an empty vacant
piece of land for housing development not a farm or agricultural area."
If it becomes like American West Heritage in Cache County that area would be a good
place, commissioner Susan House said. "The Hansen family
has ranched for years and this provides open space and agricultural area."
George Peart said they will either have to
sell the land to developers or keep it an agricultural area, so this would be an excellent idea to preserve an open space for Garden City that represented the history of the area. The planning commission agreed and passed the ordinance change.
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