going in at Indian Springs Ranch in Eureka.
Again I have no problem with Double Wide Mobile Homes. I grew up in a single wide and I have no issue with mobile homes. My issue is with false advertising and what seems to be a lack of common sense. Yes, sounds negative, however if you have a double wide on a foundation and you have it on that particular piece of property, the One thing you Do Not want is a garage to the North. Why? One Word: Rockies.
The Double Wide, Modular that is on top of the hill seems to have a tiny garage on the North side which will seemingly block the rocky mountain view. Maybe I am wrong, we shall see.
Today I noticed quite a few more of these modular homes coming him. I guess they got a really good bulk price. So Indian Springs Ranch is a High End Mobile Park. However, I don’t know if the locals can afford these affordable homes.
Someone asked me what my agenda is with seemingly criticizing the Indian Springs Golf Course. It is not that I don’t want a golf course here.
Dan Beltram was going to build a golf course south of Eureka a few years back. I don’t think a golf course is necessarily a bad idea. Back then my real estate clients ALL raised their prices because there was a golf course coming, it took a couple of years for everybody to come to their senses and get realistic again.
However, using locally funded money, not using locals to build the bulk of the homes, using lots of groundwater, creating advertising that is not quite what the real thing looks like, and at the same time having some sort of arrogance and entitlement on our roadways, in our stores and our other businesses that have been here for generations is just not right.
It is as if the word Golf Course causes some undo frenzy and it is as if the owner of a “Golf Course Community” is some sort of person that is above everybody else and in some special class with special rules of their own. People have been here, worked here and paid taxes here for generations and a Canadian Owned, Locally Funded Resort of Sorts seems to get special treatment.
If I wanted to build a giant turn out, would the highway department let me? Now, knowing that a highway project is planned to widen the highway, why is Indian Creek allowed to build that massive turnout?
Indian Springs Ranch tries to make a deal with Silverado for their people to golf their, while at the same time trying to Steal the RV Park business and talk them into buying one of there lots. It makes no sense. If you want to golf at the Silverado – than just go do it, there does not need to be some arrangement through Indian Springs Ranch.
My personal opinion is that the Indian springs watershed can not handle all those septic systems or a public water system.
I am not sure if it is a hundred year flood plain, it must not be or Certainly the County would not have approved this many homes in that location. No matter how you look at it. Eureka North does not have much water. Indian Creek is one of the only water sources.
Now this golf course is sucking up the water and at the same time possibly flooding the watershed with human waste at the point when ALL of these homes are filled up with these people that are supposedly coming to Eureka to live on a Public golf course.
I also don’t believe a Public Golf Course can survive financially in Lincoln County, Northwest Montana without a Liquor License, it is just the way things are.
Lincoln County has let a HUGE amount of VERY large subdivisions go in.
Economics 101 – Supply and Demand, would give way to the fact that hundreds upon hundred of “lots” for sale will drive the price down. This has already begun.
And also with letting so many subdivisions go in, such as Glen Lake Hills, Eureka Hills, Tamarack, Aero Park, Coyote Run, and many, many other large subdivisions the market continues to be flooded with small parcels and No Buyers on this mass scale.
Instead of Funding a Golf Course such as Indian Springs and welcoming them on a City and County level, we should be creating an infrastructure in Eureka that would make it attractive to the people needed to build and fill homes on those hundreds and hundreds of lots for sale.
Where are the people going to come from?
Yes folks want out of the Cities and away from the Oceans and yes we have gorgeous and plentiful recreational opportunities. But we do not have a plethora of jobs and we don’t really want big industry here right? So the type of people moving in to our area want recreational properties, they want mountain views, trees, maybe water, and most of all privacy. The new homes being slapped up in droves offer none of this. They do have mountain views, hard to miss that one, but privacy is Not a concern and the Quality of Construction does not seem to be either.
The Quality Builders are not rewarded with a Higher Value on their homes so they end up getting run over by the folks building multiple houses that are less quality but appraise for the same value. Hmmmm..
So we lose our really good builders because eventually they cannot afford to keep up, quality cost more but the pay is the same. So they move on.
There are Too many lots available and more subdivisions are approved every month. Where does it end? We want responsible growth, we apparently need more tax payers.
How many lots can be created without the people to buy them or the infrastructure really ready to receive this many people?
So, I don’t mean to sound negative on growth – I just cannot see the Real Planning, the Real Foresight, the Real Common Sense. I see Wheeee lets keep building and building, lets keep chopping up the farms that were worth more to the Seller whole, lets suck all the water in a drought and global warming to make a golf course green for the people who will someday have vacation homes here, lets keep locals from subdividing to the point of them being foreclosed on but let foreign entities develop here with ease, lets create No Jobs or a Better quality of life for locals but lets dig deep to loan money to a public golf course for a potential … what ?
With seemingly Total Disregard for the water needed for livestock and life of the people who already live here and not those who vacation here.
Eureka Needs Change, but it is not More Subdivisions, it is Not a Public Golf Course, Eureka does not need developments that take our lifestyle away instead of add to it.
Eureka Needs quality housing, good jobs that give workers dignity and honest pay and NOT to reward inferior work by people who move in here and build mass housing developments with no one policing of their quality.
Eureka needs Hang Out places for Young People to cut down on MIPs.
Eureka Needs a bigger better library, an art gallery and Eureka needs healthy environments and “things to do” to keep people here and to give something intelligent to do and talk about and deter from drinking and drugs.
But instead we fund a Public Golf Course that, in my Native Eureka and 4th Generation opinion is Not benefiting Eureka in any way at all.
Awhile back it was in the local news that a guy, some economic big wig, suggested a new motel for eureka. This tells me that those planning for all of us do NOT have a clue. Eureka needs support for the businesses that are trying to make it here and NOT a chain motel to come in and wipe out the Motels, Cabins, and vacation rentals that we already have. Who is In charge of what Your Tobacco Valley will Look like in 10 years?
From what I hear in the supermarkets and on the streets it certainly is not the locals that live here in a way of Real Life and not Resort or Second Home Living.
Just to make myself clear, I have no problem with those who are seasonal here. That is wonderful if they like our life and not if they come in and chop up every piece of land they see. See an opportunity here to build mass houses for profit.
And do the kinds of things that don’t change Eureka for the better but instead simply make it more like where they came from. Eureka Needs many things, but housing communities out of the price range of the local working folks is in NO WAY what Eureka Needs.
Just my opinion, but then again it is my blog.
