SEQUIM — What do tractors and airplanes, alfalfa and aviation gas, a view of eagles and an eagle’s eye view have in common?
Discovery Trail Farm, if Dave LeRoux has his way.
The farm, 65 acres southeast of Old Olympic Highway and Kitchen-Dick Road, is LeRoux’s dream of a development that will conserve farmland and preserve the rural character of the Dungeness Valley.
Homeowners will be able to commute by car or by airplane. Discovery Trail Farm will feature taxiways from all the home sites — which will include hangars — to the adjacent Sequim Valley Airport and its 3,500-foot-long paved runway.
It won’t be cheap. Each of up to 14 one-acre lots will cost about $300,000 — not including house, garage, or hangar.
What makes the development special is that the homes will be clustered in a band across the middle of the property.
Working farmland
The acreage north and south will remain as it is now — working farmland under conservation easements held by Friends of the Fields or the North Olympic Land Trust.
“You’ve got a small yard,” LeRoux said Wednesday, referring to the parcels, “but you’ve got 30 acres of front yard and 20 acres in the back yard that somebody else mows and takes care of.”
The Olympic Discovery Trail borders the southern edge of the development. The view beyond looks up the Dungeness Valley to Mount Townsend, Mount Taylor, and Mount Baldy.
“That view is not going to change,” LeRoux said. “Whatever happens to the 48 acres [not occupied by homes] will never be built on.”