30 years ago – February 8, 1991
Richard McClellan, owner of Golden Gate Park and Ride, hopes to build a 10-acre, 1,250-car parking lot in mid-county, complete with a hospitality center, restrooms and shuttle service into Black Hawk and Central City. McClellan has a contract to buy a 27-acre commercial site on Hwy. 46, about half a mile east of Hwy. 119, south of the KOA campground. He submitted a sketch plan, aerial photo and county road map to the commissioners on Tuesday. The first phase would consist of 9.9 acres of paved parking for 1,250 cars, and 5.5 acres of landscaped buffer areas. Entrance to the parking lot would be from Charles Road. McClellan is working with Jefferson A. Forrester, who has applied to the Public Utilities Commission to operate Central City/ Black Hawk Stage Line, Inc., a shuttle service. The remaining acreage, east of Chalet Road, will be used for overflow parking and possible future development. A parking lot fits in with the commercial zoning of the land, but McClellan must get an encroachment permit from County Road Supervisor Eric Klemp in order to use Chalet Road for access. He must also apply for a sanitation permit and supply the county with an engineered drainage plan for the site.
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