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Rendering of the proposed City Camper hotel. (Image courtesy City of Brevard Planning Department)

Revised plans for Stayton Brevard are on file with the City Planning Department. (Image courtesy City of Brevard Planning/SeamonWhitside)

Rendering of the proposed City Camper hotel. (Image courtesy City of Brevard Planning Department)

Revised plans for Stayton Brevard are on file with the City Planning Department. (Image courtesy City of Brevard Planning/SeamonWhitside)

Brevard City Council will vote on the proposed budget for the next fiscal year during Monday night’s meeting, but another topic before the city that will impact the future of the town is the City Camper hotel project.

In 2020 the city purchased three acres of land off North Broad Street adjacent to East Probart and East Appletree streets for $1,877,5000 and later sold it to a developer for $2,450,000. The contract with the city included provisions for the property to be included in the Heart of Brevard tax district as well as review of the final master plan for the project by city officials.

Both of those items are before city council members Monday for review and consideration during the meeting at City Hall which begins at 5:30 p.m.

Design plans for the City Camper project indicate the 10,965-square-foot hotel will have 120 rooms, a restaurant and a spa when it is scheduled to be completed in spring 2024.

The property will include 108 off-street parking spaces on site with 40 additional spaces provided at night through an agreement between the developers and two property owners on the other side of North Broad Street. There are also 54 spaces provided for bicycles.

Plans show the building sits low on the property with the roof of the hotel topping out at an elevation of 2,217 feet, indicating that it will not exceed the height of the nearby Transylvania County Courthouse due to the slope of the land.

Documents additionally indicate the hotel, spa and restaurant will have wall materials such as cedar siding, fiber cement wall panels, and brick on lower levels in addition to exposed architectural concrete to accent stairwells and the elevator shaft rather than featuring expansive blank walls at the street level.

City Planning Director Paul Ray indicated the plans on file show the setbacks, landscaping buffers and tree protection offered by the developers meet the architectural standards of the city’s unified development ordinance (UDO) without needing any major exceptions and Monday night’s presentation is primarily for City Council to see progression of the plans for further review and questions.

Monday night City Council will also consider an application for conditional rezoning and preliminary master plan approval for a proposed luxury vacation rental cabin development called Staytion Brevard near the intersection of Asheville Highway and Lambs Creek Road.

Developers TR Hospitality LLC of Greenville, South Carolina, have described Staytion Brevard as an upscale lodge with rental cottages, elevated “treehouse cabins” and a restaurant on more than 15 acres of property adjacent to Twin Dragons Grand Buffet.

The proposed development went before City Council in May, but officials had concerns about the building heights and steep slope exemptions throughout the project area.

TR Hospitality representatives have since divided the preliminary master plan for the project into four separate zones to better address these concerns during the application process with a maximum building height for the area including a 36-unit lodge and 12 treehouse structures near Highway 64 having a maximum height of 50 feet.

They have also designated a 2.71 acre “no build” area in the rear of the property off Lambs Creek Road for possible hiking trails.

Ray said Monday night’s presentation will allow the developer to present more details regarding changes to the site plan and allow city staff and council members to continue reviewing the project which hopes to break ground in early 2023.

Jonathan Rich can be reached at jrich@transylvaniatimes.com or by calling (828) 883-8156.

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