The Valley County Planning and Zoning Commission will review two applications this week for 73 new homes and townhomes in the Tamarack Resort base area.
Public hearings on the applications will be held at 6 p.m. in the Valley County Courthouse in Cascade. The meeting can also be watched live on YouTube.
Aspen Townhomes
One application seeks permission to build the Aspen Townhomes in what is currently known as the Aspen Parking Lot, an 11.3-acre lot off Village Drive near West Mountain Road. Each of the 60 townhomes planned would have a two-car garage, according to plans.
Meanwhile, the parking lot would be replaced with a new seven-acre parking lot that would contain 864 parking spaces and 14 RV sites with electric hookups. The parking lot would be called the “Trillium Parking Lot,” with access by a new roundabout on Village Drive.
The land proposed for the townhomes was originally envisioned as a parking area in the 2002 concept plan approved by Valley County, while the proposed new parking area was approved for 23 cottages in 2023. the site for the cottages and the site for parking essentially switch places.
Ponderosa Ridge
A second application, known as the Ponderosa Ridge Subdivision, would create 13 “villa” lots from a four-acre site off Village Drive that currently contains offices, a daycare for employees’ children, and six temporary employee housing units. Those functions would be moved elsewhere in the resort, according to the application.
Ponderosa Ridge Drive, which currently contains 15 villa sites, including many under construction, would be extended to accommodate the 13 lots.
The site was originally planned for up to 20 townhomes under the original concept plan approved by Valley County in 2002.
The approved concept plan allows for up to 2,043 residential units, of which 653 have already been platted. The Aspen Townhomes and Ponderosa Ridge Subdivision would bring that total to 726.
Tamarack hopes to begin construction this summer. Construction would be completed in phases through 2028, depending on demand, according to the applications.
