Kane Creek Development Watch

06/28/2025

Kane Creek Development Watch and our local partner Living Rivers have filed a lawsuit to permanently remove the invalid water rights that the developers have been using during construction, and plan to use as the sole supply for their new luxury resort. This kind of lawsuit is naturally complex and has required a lot of volunteer research and funding for the badass law firm we hired, Clyde Snow out of Salt Lake City. This work already halted construction over a year ago, and construction has not begun again since then. Using their tailored state legislation to overcome county zoning and road requirements does not allow them to overcome water law. For those of you who are interested in the technicalities, will be making some more posts explaining what this is about and how it works – but for now, thank you so much to everyone who has helped with this, either through donating time, money, or signing up as a member so that we can achieve standing in court.

01/03/2025

09/23/2024

Yep--the Kane Creek developers are taking advantage of their tailored new state law so they can incorporate their own "town" with zero residents, where they have nearly all the powers that Moab City has. They appoint a mayor and Council (whomever they want), who then can pass zoning laws, hire people to perform the inspections, and have no responsibility to pay for any infrastructure upgrades except what they want to build. If the "town" fails, it goes back to the County to deal with whatever did get build and/or sold. It's nuts. And we're going to fight it every step of the way.

08/21/2024

Hi folks--we are having a big fundraising event on September 12, and as part of that, we are asking for donations to raffle or auction off! Message us here or email [email protected] If you can donate!

08/19/2024

IG post explaining how we and partner Living Rivers stopped construction at Kane Creek