By Dana DuGan
The Bracken Station application is still in play with the Ketchum Planning and Zoning Commission. The next P&Z meeting on the proposed gas station on Highway 75 (North Main Street) and 10th Street will be held Monday, Dec. 12, to introduce new information. The Ketchum P&Z will have held seven public hearings, including this meeting, on the application.
The gas station calls for four new fuel pumps under a lighted, 17-foot-high canopy, a retail food and deli space, electric vehicle charging stations, new exit and entry lanes onto Highway 75, alley access, new retaining walls and staircases, and new landscaping.
The proposed gas station is 175 yards (1/10th of a mile) from the Base Camp Warm Springs gas station. There are five additional gas stations between Ketchum and Sun Valley. Kathy and Nick Gyurkey of Ketchum own the property.
The P&Z commission, city staff and many residents still have safety concerns over the air and light pollution, traffic, pedestrian crosswalks and circulation for vehicles at the station.
According to the P&Z, the applicant and his architect, Steve Cook (also a P&Z commissioner, though recused from this project), reconfigured the site and submitted updated information on vehicle circulation to be considered by the commission on Dec. 12. The new materials submitted by the applicant for discussion at the Dec. 12 meeting are all available on the city website, under the staff reports and packets section of the P&Z meeting section at ketchumidaho.org/Archive.aspx?AMID=47.
