The building's projected completion is the spring of 2000, said Bernie Johnson, representative for the architectural firm McLaughlin Associates, which designed the building. Owners of the Heidelberg Inn on Warm Springs Road requested that their property be rezoned from limited residential to tourist zone. The inn was built before the property was zoned. If more than 60 percent of the structure were to be destroyed, the current zoning would apply and the inn would not be permitted to be rebuilt. The Heidelberg's representative, Beth Ann Skamser, said her clients would also be content operating under a contract -zoning scenario.
Contract zoning is a less drastic step than a general rezone.
It is given to areas with special circumstances and would allow the council to rezone a property but set conditions on how it could be used. However, Ketchum does not have a contract-zoning ordinance and one would need to be drafted. The Heidelberg request was tabled pending the possible creation of such an ordinance. Jack and Lee Bornhoft, owners of the Sun Valley RV Park, requested that their property be rezoned from limited residential to the higher-density general residential. Several neighbors opposed the request.