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Castle Valley commissioners divide general‑plan review, raise concerns about survey percentages and table draft amendments
Summary
Commissioners reviewed draft amendments to the 2019 general plan, agreed how to split sections for offline review, and flagged that the quantitative survey percentages may be misleading because they use per‑question denominators rather than percent of total returns. The commission tabled the draft amendments and moved the January meeting to Jan. 15, 2026.
The Planning and Land Use Commission spent much of its Dec. 4 meeting discussing draft amendments to the town’s 2019 general plan (commissioners noted the revised document will be labeled the 2026 general plan once complete).
Commissioners agreed to divide the plan into sections and assign review tasks to members for offline work. The group favored focusing meeting time on suggested changes that would alter the plan rather than reading every individual survey response aloud.
Several commissioners raised a data‑presentation concern about the survey results circulated with the packet. Colleen, the town agent, said the quantitative printout appears to show percentages calculated as the share of respondents to each specific question rather than the share of all returned surveys. She told the commission she had asked the survey contractor (referred to in the record as Obi/OB) to provide an alternate column showing percent of total returns because small response counts for some questions can make single‑question percentages misleading. Commissioners agreed that the full raw results and comment text would be published as an addendum to the plan and that members would work offline to reconcile versions (some members were looking at older 2019 printouts while others had a newer OB quantitative summary).
After assigning sections to individual commissioners and agreeing a process for review, the commission moved to table the draft amendments agenda item to permit offline review and revision. Separately, to keep the schedule for council submission, the commission voted to move its January meeting to Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026.
Next steps: staff will circulate the consistent packet and a section assignment list; commissioners will complete assigned reviews and return findings at the rescheduled January meeting.
