Twin Acres Riding Stables

Our Position

Keep Missouri Heights Rural's mission is to preserve the rural character, sustainability, safety and quality of life of Missouri Heights, an elevated desert with a fragile environment.

Our purpose is to protect against unbridled and commercial development and other incompatible land uses as well as activities that put a strain on vital resources and infrastructure, especially to preserve water and prevent wildfire. Overall, we are opposed to measures that negatively impact the serene character and safety of the area and its wildlife habitats.

Given all that we know and what you will soon know, about the Twin Acres  Boarding and Riding Stable Special Use application, there can be only one conclusion, the Board of Eagle Commissioners should deny the special use application.  Rather than repeat the myriad of reasons why the Twin Acres application fails to comply with the provisions of the Eagle County Land Use Code and the standards included in the Comprehensive Plan, including the Mid-Valley Plan Missouri Heights Future Land Use Plan area and strategies for the Missouri Heights Character Area, we adopt the reasons set forth in the letter dated March 17, 2024, sent to Eagle County in reference to the application on behalf of property owners in the Missouri Heights area signed by Haley Carmer and Mary Elizabeth Geiger.   We can only emphasize that the high impact commercial, recreational use proposed by applicant in the midst of a long established residential neighborhood that sits nearly on top of the proposed riding and boarding stable wholly fails the compatibility litmus test.  Looking at the totality of the negative effects on the immediate neighborhood as well as bicyclists and motorists who utilize the local roads; negative effects on the wildlife corridor and overcrowding of an already difficult evacuation route in the event of a wildfire, there is only one conclusion, the application should be denied.