It’s been many months since the first round of public input sessions on Park County’s revisions to the development standards and regulations ended and an online survey closed. In that time, consultants, planning and zoning board members and the technical advisory group have been working behind the scenes to turn the initial rounds of feedback into a new zoning map and other documents. 

Much work still needs to be done, Commissioner Dossie Overfield said, but tentatively the public could get to see an updated area uses chart and new zoning maps around the end of May, when the county will schedule another round of public input sessions. 

“When we get those two back, we'll start reviewing those to see how those meet the public input from the last public meetings that we had,” Overfield said of the technical working group. 

She said planning and zoning will also be reviewing the documents and the groups will compare notes before bringing them to the commissioners for initial review. 

The next round of public meetings was initially thought  for March-April, but Overfield said consultants from Logan Simpson have asked for more time to put together the documents. 

“We want to make sure that all that stuff is ready in the format that we think it ought to go out to the public,” she said. 

This is for phase two of the new county DSR — phase one was approved last fall after lengthy debate. 

The new regulations stem from the new land use plan which, after many months of public meetings and discussion, was approved in 2024.