The Flying Saucer RV Park in Sheridan, a town of 6,100 people just south of Denver, is preparing to take off…but some residents won’t go without a fight.
The 162-space motorhome park, a riverside property where more than half the residents live year-round, is slated to be leveled and replaced with a seven-building, 362-unit apartment complex.
According to longtime resident Steve Ohlfert, who’s leading the opposition to the development plan, most of his neighbors agree that the Whipple family that opened the park in 1949 has the right to sell the property. But they’d prefer the new owner keep it an RV park, and not turn it into apartments…