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Commission reviews and edits 2026 General Plan draft, tables final adoption
Summary
Commissioners walked through multiple sections of the draft 2026 General Plan—community activities, water protection, hazards, infrastructure, survey results and policy wording—proposing edits, moving some material to other sections, and tabling final action until the next meeting.
The Castle Valley Planning & Land Use Commission spent the bulk of its March 5 meeting reviewing edits to the draft 2026 General Plan. Staff guided commissioners through highlighted updates to community activities, library programming, town achievements, hazard mitigation, infrastructure and survey-derived graphs, and solicited input on where to place new material.
Key editorial decisions included: adding a line noting that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hosts a monthly community potluck (summer exception noted), including Monday "coffee with the chief" as a recurring fire-district program, updating graphs and numbers from 2020 data to current values, and shortening or deleting regulatory detail about the Community Renewable Energy Program (CREP) and Utah Public Service Commission timelines that commissioners said read confusingly in the draft. Staff and commissioners agreed that the survey summary (the "Let your voice be heard" material) should be prominently summarized near the introduction or placed as a clear addendum rather than buried in an appendix.
Commissioners discussed hazard-mitigation and wildland-urban-interface (WUI) topics and agreed to coordinate text with the fire district after the district reviews the section at its next meeting. On budget presentation, commissioners recommended separating operating and capital figures or using a five-year average to avoid misleading single-year totals that include capital projects (for example, culvert work). The meeting closed the General Plan item by tabling it to the next meeting for additional edits and for staff to assimilate survey summaries and finalize map-referenced text.
The commission did not adopt the plan at the meeting; staff will incorporate the edits and return the draft for further review.
