TIM PRATT
The Starkville planning and zoning commission Tuesday approved a preliminary plat for a 44-lot RV park at the corner of Spring Street and Lincoln Green.
The plat for Starkville Station RV Park now will go before the city’s Board of Aldermen for approval, but not before developer Jeremy Tabor and engineer Clyde Pritchard modify it to include sidewalks on both sides of the park’s roadways.
Planning and zoning commission members Tuesday recommended the Board of Aldermen approve the plat for the five-acre site conditional upon the inclusion of sidewalks, which are required along all new roads in the city.
Pritchard said he is concerned sidewalks in the park will crack and crumble under the weight of RVs and motor coaches as drivers attempt to park the massive vehicles on their concrete lots.
“They’re not intended to take traffic, but we anticipate they probably will,” Pritchard said of the sidewalks.
Pritchard, Tabor and landowner Steve Roberts, however, agreed to include sidewalks in the plans when they go before the Board of Aldermen.
Still, planning and zoning commission member Jerry Emison was leery to approve a plat which didn’t include sidewalks, as required by the city’s subdivision and sidewalk regulations.
“I just don’t think it’s good public policy to approve something you can’t see,” Emison said.
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