The owners of a contentious fishing camp in Franklin Township have invited stakeholders to the facility.

Joe Craig, project manager, Fazenda Fishing Camp, introduced Vlad Kurylo, operations manager, Crazy Trout LLC, to the public at last Tuesday’s board of supervisors meeting.

Crazy Trout LLC, owner and developer of the 100-acre property, has said it intends to create a private, members-only fishing camp.

Plans submitted to the township proposed limiting the camp to 50 members and employing five people. The project includes a lodge with kitchen facilities and a bar, 10 private cabins, and the use of existing buildings, ponds and outbuildings. A private well and on-lot septic system would serve the development, and parking would accommodate 50 guests and five employees.

Craig previously said the camp would operate solely as a members-only club requiring an initiation fee.

Fazenda Fishing Camp had a land development plan conditionally approved in 2023 for the former Kriss Pines site.

Craig said originally a $440,976 bond was issued, but that since then, a new detention pond, septic system, road upgrading and other improvements resulted in a new amount of $442,616.

Kurylo then signed the bond for the land development plan. He said that Kurylo would like to offer the residents, fire department members and their families, children, to the fishing camp to fish, swim, play volleyball sometime after the weather turns warm.

Craig said it will take them several months to get the first five cabins ready at the 100-acre site, at 469 Forest St.

“(They) would like to invite you all to come out to see all the things the camp’s done,” Craig said. “Vlad had purchased the property 2 1/2 years ago (and), probably put close to $1 million into it.”

Craig said that Kurylo said it reminds him a bit like Ukraine, where he is originally from.

Township solicitor Tom Nanovic said outstanding issues remain with the developers agreement, bond and bond rider, and stormwater agreement.

Last month, Tom Lawler, of Mill Run Drive in Sawmill Estates, filed a complaint against the township’s then zoning officer, Paul Jarrett, over Fazenda Fishing Camp, which was temporarily shut down on a verbal cease-and-desist order for operating outside its approved limits.

Lawler asked supervisors at that time about the matter of compliance at Fazenda Fishing Camp. Supervisors said they would meet, review the files, dig into it, but that he didn’t hear back.

Lawler then asked if the fishing camp was in compliance with all of the township’s zoning ordinances.

Former supervisor Jason Frey responded, “They are working to be in compliances.”

Lawler said at last month’s meeting that the fish camp has been occupying the site with RVs, and has been advertising glamping.

Supervisor Fred Kemmerer Jr. said at last month’s meeting that land development is for a specific purpose, and they came to the township with five cabins.

At last month’s meeting, the board unanimously approved the subdivision bond and rider to the subdivision bond for Crazy Trout LLC.