New transportation plan progressive in policy, but not practice The 2015 Integrated Transportation Plan was designed to implement the transportation vision of our Comprehensive Plan. And just like with the Comp Plan, our community has been...
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Remember this time last year feeling the euphoria of passing the Safe Wildlife Crossings measure in the November 2019 Specific Purpose Excise Tax (SPET) ballot? After years of work, our community passed the measure with 79% of the vote (the...
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With the passage of HB 162 earlier this year, state lawmakers directed the Office of State Lands and Investments to “maximize” the value of state trust lands in Teton County – and in Teton County only. State trust lands were gifted to states by...
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2020 has been a year for the books: a global pandemic, economic fallout, local budget cuts – and yet this summer we had record-breaking visitation to our public lands. We’re fortunate to benefit from the open space, wildlife, and recreational...
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by Chelsea Carson, Alliance conservation program manager As a resident of the Idaho side of Teton County, I cherish the amenities that come with living on the “quieter side of the Tetons,” like the slower pace, more affordable housing, and rural...
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County Commission voted “no” on the Gill proposal and “yes” to a neighborhood plan so that we can build the neighborhood we need. First, we want to thank the Gills for opening this conversation and for their desire to...
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The Gills’ request to rezone 74 acres of rural land in order to build housing in Northern South Park is a generous gesture. This proposal gives our community a real opportunity to address the values of our Comprehensive Plan: ecosystem...
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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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