RV Park not welcome

ELLIS COUNTY – Recently, after reading the article a few weeks ago in the Ellis County Press about Wilmer’s not allowing RV Parks within the city, another local resident reached out to the newspaper for help.

The resident said she needed some clarity regarding zoning and land use in unincorporated Ellis County.  

Martie Sulak wrote, “We are opposing a proposed RV park, located right smack in the middle of single-family homes on a minimum of one-plus acre plots.  

“We are a group of neighbors, some in adjacent properties, and some of us close by, and we have quickly banned together to voice our opposition.   

“Our common concern is if this project is approved, we will all suffer property devaluation, and face the uncertainty of what a 75-spot, 90-day maximum stay RVPark, on 10 acres will bring.”

The property in Ellis County is part of County Commissioner Precinct 4 Kyle Butler’s jurisdiction, and is located at 731 Westmoreland Road and is zoned residential, and land. 

The 10.66 acres is divided into a small plot for the homestead, and the remainder is farmland. 

Sulak was inquiring into the requirements for unincorporated areas of Ellis County to have a minimum of one-acre lots per residence, and how the county could consider the land be used for temporary residential concrete pads with 15 RV slots per acre.

She said the group had gathered the engineering plans submitted for the first permit, which was denied.  

The contract for sale was contingent upon permit approval, and an April resubmission was looming when they met with Butler last week.

The outcome to the Butler meeting Sulak wrote, “could be called a success. Before we even arrived, the decision was made.”

Turns out the RV park company had pulled out of the real estate deal when they realized the regulation concerning the temporary stay of 90-days would be upheld by the county.

“We were told of neighboring property owners’ opposition to the project,” Sulak added. 

“We were able to inspect the letter sent to Kyle Butler with the notification from the company that they were canceling their project.

Sulak said they will go ahead with presenting the letter of opposition, and the 200 signatures collected because, as Sulak concluded, “We want to make sure that County Judge Todd Little – and all four County Commissioners – are aware that we are vigilant.”