The plan to quadruple the town, and how it ended

A land deal reported at over a hundred million dollars that planned 1,386 housing units of three thousand to seven thousand square feet and 580 short term rental cabins of eight hundred to fifteen hundred, on minimum half acre lots with most on an acre, all described as equestrian style. With them would have come two golf courses of eighteen and twenty seven holes on reclaimed water, a fifty five acre commercial zone, a lodge, a sewage treatment plant, new wells, a third fire station and a municipal police force.

No agreement is in force. The town signed the Crimson Peaks agreement in February 2025, and on February 25, 2026 the town council voted to terminate it and six other master development agreements, effective immediately. It also repealed the related rezoning. The developer disputed the defaults and its attorney raised the possibility of a lawsuit, but nothing is moving forward today.

Standard Development, co-owned by Scout Holm, who described the project as a ten year commitment rather than a quick in and out. The town signed the agreement in February 2025 and ended it on February 25, 2026. While the plan was live, Mayor Mike Farrar said on the record that you cannot stop growth here, but it can be done slowly and responsibly.

Nearly, on the numbers as planned. The town holds about 950 people today, and 1,386 housing units plus 580 short term rental cabins would have multiplied that several times over across a stated ten year buildout. That is why it was not usefully described as a subdivision: it was a plan to build a second, larger town on the same nearly forty square miles, with its own commercial center and its own public safety services. The council ended it in February 2026.

Nearly forty square miles has carried more than one plan. On February 25, 2026 the town council voted to terminate all seven master development agreements, effective immediately: Crimson Peaks, West Temple, Gooseberry Preserve at Zion, Miles Mark, Redstone at Canaan, Solstice and Gooseberry Springs Ranch. The Crimson Peaks agreement was the one behind the 1,386 home plan.

No. I would price the town that exists rather than the one that was planned, and that is the most useful thing I can tell you. The agreement behind the big plan was ended in February 2026, so it is not a basis for an offer today, in either direction. Buy the parcel on its own facts.

It proposed new wells, two water storage tanks totalling a million and a half gallons and a municipal sewage treatment plant producing reclaimed water for irrigation, which would have changed the picture for at least part of the town if built. It was ended before any of that began. Today Apple Valley has no townwide sewer and a water system where connected, standby and hauled are three different statuses, and that is the situation any current purchase sits in.

There were two reasonable positions and the town did not hold one view. A development of this size would have brought a grocery store, a sit down restaurant, a third fire station, a police force and new water infrastructure to a place with none of those, which would have been a real improvement for a household that wants rural without a twelve mile errand. It would also have changed a quiet nearly forty square mile bench into something structurally different, which is exactly what many people bought here to avoid.

The town's own planning commission agendas, minutes and council decisions, which are public and are the actual record. This page reflects the record as of early 2026, and it will age. If a decision bears on a specific parcel you are considering, read the primary document rather than any summary, including this one, and if it bears heavily, have somebody professional read it with you.