Wish list for water Water quality was key to our first land use plan in 1978 – but since then, water seems to have all but disappeared in our Comprehensive Plan (Comp Plan) which guides the future growth and development of our community...
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Let’s put the community back in our Comp Plan Our community created our Comprehensive Plan – the foundational guiding document for local decision-making – to help us become the community we want to be. The Comp Plan basically...
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Northern South Park has recently become the proposed site for nearly 1,000 new houses, each of which will need connection to water and sewer. Before we can even begin to analyze their value to our community, we must first ask if we can absorb...
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How can we keep this wild place whole? The central vision of our Comprehensive Plan (the community’s guiding document for the future) is to “preserve and protect the area’s ecosystem.” The wildness of the Greater...
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Neighborhood planning in a nutshell While neighborhood planning may be new to our community, it certainly isn’t new to the profession of planning. The idea of neighborhood planning traces back many years, has been formalized since at least...
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The Gills’ proposed upzone is working its way through the public hearing process, even though the changes to the Comp Plan that would consider development in Northern South Park haven’t been vetted by the public yet. The proposal will...
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Snow King’s final master plan was approved in January, even though there was still much left to be desired. And while the community was coming together to handle a public health crisis, Snow King submitted an application for one of the most...
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Protesters gather in the Town Square during a peaceful demonstration against racism and police brutality. Photo: Nikki Kaufman At the Alliance, as humans and Americans, we have been distressed by the latest killings of unarmed Black...
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The Tribal Trail Connector – a half-mile segment connecting the existing Tribal Trail Road to Highway 22 in northern South Park – has been steadily working its way through the county’s approval process. As the date for the Board of County...
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Lighting to the summit. A new zip line (in addition to the other two proposed on forest land) added to the noisy menagerie of coasters, slides, and mazes by Rafferty. Late-night weddings and “group events” up to five nights a week. A gondola...
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This week, our Town Council and Board of County Commissioners again spent nearly two hours haggling over one paragraph within the Comp Plan Update: the language for northern South Park (NSP). And it is no coincidence that the desire for drastic...
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In January at their annual retreat, Jackson Town Council decided to bring a 7th cent of sales tax before the voters. At the time, they’d hoped to use that revenue to fund new or additional work on affordable housing, transportation, and...
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