Florida Couple’s Site Plan For RV Campground Receives Local Approval

West Bay Acadia RV Campground, seeking to develop a 26-site recreational vehicle retreat offering privacy, high-speed internet and unspoiled views of West Bay, won approval last Tuesday night, Sept. 1, for the initial phase in its site plan from the Planning Board.

The board’s 5-0 vote followed a public hearing and two open houses held the two previous weekends by the property owners pursuing the project.

Robin and Peggy Lawton of Sarasota, Fla., with their CES Inc. project manager, Chip Haskell, unveiled a new site plan map on which the initial six RV sites had been moved to a more favorable location on the 33-acre West Bay Road property’s incline sloping down to the West Bay inlet. They said the first phase’s septic field will remain in the same spot and the gravity-fed septic tank will be moved slightly. They also pointed out that 250-foot buffers from vernal pools had been added.

“It’s still under 1 acre,” Robin Lawton assured the board Sept. 1, referring to the relocation of the initial six sites. “That’s the only change.”

The Lawtons acquired the 33-acre West Bay Road property last year. For many years, the couple had called Maine their summer home, tenting and subsequently living in their Airstream Flying Cloud at campgrounds and RV parks scattered around Hancock County.

Having to book months ahead, the Lawtons last year searched for their own scenic, secluded land where they could park, live, recreate and work remotely during the summer.

Check out the full article from The Ellsworth American here.