Committee approves comprehensive-plan change for small parcel in Town of Jackson

The Washington County Land Use and Planning Committee on July considered Amendment 2026-1 to the county’s 2050 comprehensive plan and voted to forward a recommending resolution and an implementing ordinance to the full county board.

Hannah, a Community Development Department staff member, told the committee the application seeks to change roughly 0.6 acres of Parcel T7-007400A in Section 4 of the Town of Jackson from agricultural and rural residential to suburban density residential. She said a related 2023 amendment and an earlier subdivision application had been withdrawn and that no written public comments were received by the 3 p.m. deadline on July 15, 2026. "State statutes require amendments for comprehensive plans to be approved by resolution first and then by ordinance," she said, and recommended approval and transmission to the county board.

Supervisor Mary moved to approve the draft resolution; Supervisor Krebs seconded the motion. The committee approved the resolution and then took a separate motion on the draft ordinance to amend section 179-9 of the Washington County code; the ordinance motion was also approved and both measures will be forwarded to the county board. The town chairman indicated he would abstain from voting on the matter; committee minutes recorded one abstention.

The action is procedural: the committee’s vote forwards a recommendation and an ordinance to the full board, which will make the final legislative decision. The department report and the legal survey supplied by the subdivider were cited as matching the application’s legal description.

Next step: the county board will receive the recommended resolution and ordinance for consideration and final action.