Hundreds of South Routt community members packed into the Stagecoach firehouse Monday evening to hear from the private developer behind plans to build nearly 700 luxury homes and develop a private ski resort and golf course in the area.

Two founding partners with Discovery Land Company, Steve Adelson and Ed Divita, took more than an hour to walk through preliminary plans for an initially patient crowd packed into seated fold-out chairs and standing in the back of the firehouse’s engine bay.

Others listened quietly, and skeptically, through open windows outside of the station.

“We want to actually be doing something that makes this place better … We respect people, and we respect places,” Divita told the crowd, adding that Discovery billed itself as a “small, family-oriented company.”