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Trendwest Gets County OK for Central Washington Resort, Water Rights Next

CLE ELUM, WA-Bill Lyche, director of development for the 6,226-acre MountainStar Resort, says the county's land use approval is a huge victory, opening the door for other resort developments in the area.

By Ingrid Ricks | Updated on October 19, 2000

CLE ELUM, WA-After four years of bureaucracy, time-share developer Trendwest Resorts Inc. is holding final approval papers for its 6,226-acre resort outside of town here. So no more waiting, sort of.

Workers are already carving out the roads for the cars and the fairways for the drivers, a mere nine days after the Redmond, WA-based company received the go-ahead from Kittitas County commissioners. As every silver lining borders a cloud, so it goes that the company still needs the Department of Ecology to sign off on a transfer of Yakima River water rights before actual building construction can begin, and that’s not expected before next spring or summer, at the earliest.

Regardless, Bill Lyche, director of development for the proposed MountainStar Resort, says the approval of the company’s land use application by the county was a huge victory for Trendwest, and opens the door for other resorts to be developed in the area. “It was a gigantic hurdle to get over,” says Lyche. “Kittitas County did not have a destination resort ordinance and it took four years of time and effort to get that ordinance created and get all the approvals that needed to happen for this project.”

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