The long process to create a second round of amendments to Park County development standards and regulations is ongoing, but not quickly. 

“It is fairly slow moving,” Chair Dossie Overfield said at Tuesday’s Park County Commission meeting. 

As has been the case for a while now, consultants from Logan Simpson have been working with county planning and zoning staff, she said, to refine uses and standards based on feedback from the first round of public meetings and survey results from earlier in the year. 

As that process continues, the technical advisory group, formed from people who frequently work through the planning and zoning process, from engineers and developers to lawyers, will start meeting to look at the uses drafted to date, Overfield said. 

“Then that information will move on to the Planning and Zoning Commission, and then ultimately on to the commissioners for review before it goes out to the public,” she said. 

All this is going on for Phase 2 of the DSR while Phase 1 is now active, with any requests since Oct. 1 falling under the new regulations. 

While that process to approve Phase 1 ended in August with the commissioners approving the phase after making some changes as the result of critical comments in meetings prior, Phase 2 is still far from finished, as after the commissioners look over the revisions another round of public meetings will be held. 

During the first round of public meetings in Powell members of the public expressed their thoughts for what the future of the area should be, with a number sharing concerns about the loss of farmland, and others concerns about the loss of private
property rights. 

There were also concerns from a number of people about how much land south of Powell was designated as industrial in a zoning map prepared by consultants  based on previous feedback from the public and the City of Powell’s Master Plan.