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Public health to consider new water protections

Posted January 21, 2021 49 0 0

With your help, our Health Department could advance a new rule to protect our drinking water! Protect Our Water JH and the Wyoming Outdoor Council proposed a new rule that will act as an early warning system to keep our drinking water safe. The...

Water workshop shows more to do

Posted January 15, 2021 61 0 0

A recent workshop demonstrated the scope of work that remains to be done to protect our drinking water. Despite previous and ongoing efforts (by many government and nonprofit partners) our water quality is not what it should be; Hoback Junction’s...

Transparency ensures trust in Northern South Park’s future

Posted January 14, 2021 114 0 0

UPDATE: We just learned that the Board of County Commissioners may reconsider their decision to hold open steering committee meetings this Tuesday, January 19. Please email commissioners@tetoncountywy.gov and ask them to keep the steering...

Hoback RV Park residents need you

Posted December 4, 2020 336 0 0

We were dismayed to hear that the owners of the Hoback RV Park – after violating multiple environmental regulations around sewage disposal – decided to suddenly evict 25 longtime residents, many of whom are low income, elderly, and vulnerable to...

Five changes needed to fix our transportation plan

Posted December 1, 2020 368 0 0

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...

State trust lands could be developed

Posted October 30, 2020 505 0 0

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...

Let’s build the neighborhood we need, together

Posted September 29, 2020 595 0 0

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...

What’s next with the Gills’ proposal?

Posted September 23, 2020 426 0 0

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...

Wish list for water

Posted September 23, 2020 463 0 0

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...

Let’s put the community back in our Comp Plan

Posted September 14, 2020 553 0 0

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...

Keeping Jackson Hole whole and wild

Posted September 3, 2020 605 0 0

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...

What’s in a neighborhood plan?

Posted August 20, 2020 569 0 0

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...