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Bannock County planning council urges ordinance alignment as state limits city-impact zones
Summary
County planning council members told Bannock County commissioners that a new state statute narrowing areas of city impact will require faster alignment of ordinances with the comprehensive plan to manage growth, subdivisions and utility coordination.
Bannock County commissioners heard a planning council update focused on the county comprehensive plan, the state reas-of-city-impact statute and long-standing ordinance conflicts that council members say complicate deliberations.
The planning council said its main operational challenge remains maintaining a full, consistent membership for hearings, but members and staff emphasized more substantive problems: a multi-use zoning category created in the late 1990s that the council said has not been retired despite a 2008 comprehensive-plan recommendation, and a recently adopted state statute that narrows how far a city—an claim an "area of city impact."
"We still have been managing to handle our meetings, and we've had enough members to keep a quorum," said Molly Dinnick, Planning Council member. "The staff does a phenomenal job getting us ready for these. They give us plenty of time ahead of time to read…
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