The proposed new community comprised more than 300 acres, which is currently improved with the Seventh Day Adventist Academy, a private high school with various buildings including two dormitories housing approximately 120 students. Much of the property is farm land or unimproved. The Church also owns 120 acres about ¼ mile away, further towards Mt. Ellis. And the Church owns a Forest Service lease with renewal rights on a portion of Mt. Ellis currently used as a ski slope for the Church and its Academy.
Due to the religious tenets of the Church, they sought a development program that would be sensitive to the land and nature, and that would create a new town or community with a low-key, traditional character. This required a creative approach on the part of a conservation-based developer such as Stillwater.
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