An attempt to have a proposed resort expansion follow go through an Environmental Assessment Worksheet was denied Tuesday.
An application for a preliminary plat and conditional use permit had been made by Leisure Hotels & Resorts, and others for a $45 million expansion of Silver Rapids Lodge.
At a regular meeting of the Lake County board on Aug. 27, commissioners opened for public comment on a petition for a discretionary Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW). The petition had been signed by over 300 people, and a previous decision had been by the county’s environmental services department that the project did not meet the threshold for a mandatory EAW after the project owners had reduced the number of units proposed to 49 by removing workforce housing from their plans.
