The Williston City Commission received two requests for proposals (RFPs) for 60.3 acres of the former Cimarron Heights trailer park at its Tuesday board meeting.

The RFPs came late Tuesday afternoon so board members opted to send it to Ad Hoc Committee instead of making any decisions.

Keller-Williams Realty of Fargo submitted one of the bids. Its developer Jim Lund is already a familiar name in Williston as he is connected with purchasing the Sand Creek Trailer Park and gradually filling it with rentals.

Lund’s overview plan involves a blend of modular homes to serve as buffers between the Sand Creek Trailer Park and the 60.3 acres of new development that would include single family and twin homes.

Mick McCool of Marysland, Wash. is identified as the second developer. Most of his plan details a development with single family homes. The Cimarron Heights Trailer Park was emptied by the early 1990s following an oil bust. Unemployed residents left. As a result, developers were unable to pay for special assessments, and ownership of both the Sand Creek and Cimarron Heights trailer parks. With it, the city had accrued a $28 million debt. That debt was eventually paid off through the creation of the city’s penny sales tax. The tax now is used for infrastructure project and economic development.

Nearly 18 acres of Cimarron Heights property also was sold to the Marcil Group and Valley Group to build at least two more 36-unit apartment complexes. They have requested tax increment financing to remove old streets, parking pads and infra-structure. Under state law, an area must be deemed blighted to qualify for the program.

A TIF allows an area designated as blighted to freeze the tax value of an area at its existing valuation before improvements occurred. The developer pays taxes for the structures as anyone else would. Tax dollars are then used to pay for the improvements agreed upon within the tax increment.

These two developers are in the process of completing two other complexes that started in 2007.