Permit “oops” leads to necessary changes at a popular local campground
Sagitawah RV Park, located up the road from Riverboat Park, has operated in Whitecourt since 1991. The Town gave a permit to the original owner to create 62 seasonal sites. Fast forward a couple of decades to the spring of 2020, when portions of the park flooded. Town resources helped, and, in a debrief afterwards, it was discovered that between 2003 and 2011, 51 additional sites were added to the campground without permits.
During the June 14, 2021, Regular Meeting of Council, Development Officer Sam Love brought forward the issue. “(The current campground owner) indicated that these 51 sites were there before he purchased the park, and he’s added one site since he purchased it in 2011,” he explained. The 51 additional sites include 19 fully serviced, 21 partially serviced and eleven not serviced.