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Land Planning Board continues edits to county growth policy; discusses roads vs. easements language
Summary
The Land Planning Board reviewed a near-final growth policy draft and recommended clarifying that the county 'owns and/or maintains' infrastructure and to add explicit language about road easements; members also noted map quality issues and opted to have professional edits completed before final submission.
Land Planning Board members reported progress on the county growth policy and asked commissioners to allow a round of technical corrections before final adoption.
The board noted that one substantive change is wording under infrastructure: county officials recommended phrasing that reflects the county's role correctly by saying infrastructure "owned and/or maintained by the county" or listing "road easements" separately because the county typically holds easements rather than owning roadbed outright. "It would be more accurate if we said infrastructure owned and/or maintained by the county," a planning board member said. The board also raised concerns about map resolution and the need for better-quality maps in the document.
Members said they would send a cleaned copy to the consultant (Great West) for final formatting and mapping work and expected to return the completed draft to the commissioners. They reiterated that statutory requirements mean the growth policy must be enacted prior to adopting Type 2 zoning, but that both can be worked on in parallel as long as adoption order is observed.
