LANESBOROUGH — A proposed glamping resort on the 160-acre site of the Donnybrook Country Club can’t move forward with construction just yet.

At a public hearing on Dec. 17, Mark Siegars, chair of the Zoning Board of Appeals, asked Under Canvas for additional details for its plans for water, septic and a commercial kitchen on the site. Siegars also requested information for decommissioning the resort.

Under Canvas wants to place 94 platform tents on the former golf course and country club property. The company, based in Belgrade, Mont., is applying for a special permit and site plan review, as required by Lanesborough’s zoning bylaw, for the project on Route 7.

Zoning Board of Appeals member Ron Tinkham praised the plan for its thoroughness and close attention to Lanesborough’s zoning bylaw.

Siegars said he "liked the project," but also expressed reservations that it would be built in phases, rather than all at once. He contemplated requesting separate site plan reviews for each phase. Bill Martin, Pittsfield lawyer for Under Canvas, suggested annual reviews of the project instead.

Engineer Jim Scalise, president and chief professional engineer at SK Design Group of Pittsfield, presented the plans to the Zoning Board of Appeals, showing renderings of the 160-acre site dotted with platform tents. He handed Siegars a half-inch thick stormwater plan he has already submitted to the state Department of Environmental Protection.

Reed Raskin, director of entitlements at Under Canvas, said he would provide all of the items requested by the Board and hoped to meet as soon as possible, even around Christmas if necessary. Siegars continued the public hearing to Jan. 6 and said the board expects to issue a decision at that meeting.

Nationally recognized resort builder Under Canvas is proposing 94 canvas tents on platforms to create a glamping resort at the former Donnybrook Country Club in Lanesborough.

Raskin said the historic stone house on the property will stay, but its wooden additions will be removed. Nightly tenting would cost typically between $400 to $600 for guests who are expected to explore the Berkshires off site by day.

He said a concierge program would help guests arrange kayak and canoe rentals and other experiences off site.

Raskin said Under Canvas would staff the resort with 40 to 50 people initially and 70 to 75 at full buildout and take down the canvas during the winter, with the platforms remaining in place.

Under Canvas plans to keep the historic stone house but tear off the wooden additions to it at the 160-acre former Donnybrook Country Club parcel at 775 Williamstown Road in Lanesborough.

The first area to be built would be much of the infrastructure on the northeastern section of the site, where Under Canvas plans to build the communal area, a parking lot with 153 spaces, along with the first 50 platform tents.

Three would meet Americans with Disabilities Act specifications. Those three would be the only ones with tent-side parking spaces.

Other tenters would leave their cars in the communal lot and walk or take staff-driven golf carts to their tents on existing cart paths.

The second phase would add 29 tents in the southeast section of the site, closer to the driveway. The final phase would add 15 in a western segment of the parcel.

Under Canvas will light the site with solar-powered bollards that will comply with Dark Sky guidelines and have a 10 p.m. quiet time.

At the same time, there are plans for events, with up to 290 people at the site.

“We look for outdoor recreation, beautiful places,” Reed Raskin at Under Canvas told The Eagle. “We certainly found one in Lanesborough.”

The resort will rely on an on-site well and will ultimately need three septic leach fields.

Under Canvas has 13 glamping resorts, including one near Acadia National Park in Maine. It will open its second New England resort near Franconia Notch in New Hampshire in June. The one in Lanesborough would be its third in New England.

“We look for outdoor recreation, beautiful places,” Raskin said. “We certainly found one in Lanesborough.”