Post by Admin on Aug 10, 2016 6:56:04 GMT -7
Park County Needs Public Input on Level of County Involvement in Land Use Issues
How should Park County address growth, development and land use changes in the coming years? This is the question planners from Land Solutions and Park County are seeking to answer, and they are hoping you can weigh in.
In June, Park County and planners from Land Solutions held a series of open house meetings in Cooke City, Gardiner, Emigrant, Wilsall and Livingston to discuss key issues identified by the public, and what goals and objectives the County should set to address these issues in the County’s Growth Policy update. The public mingled with planners and provided them with plenty of feedback. “The comments were pretty clear-cut on most issues,” said Peter Fox, Park County Planning and Development Board chairman, “except on the issue of land use. This topic stands out as needing more input.”
Based on comments from the June meetings, the County is distributing an online questionnaire that presents three levels of county involvement with land use: A passive approach, where the growth policy would recommend reacting to issues once they arise; a neighborhood or community based approach, directing planners to work with neighborhoods and communities to develop locally specific solutions; or, a more comprehensive approach, where the County staff and commission would proactively address larger issues on a County-wide or regional scale.
Feedback from the questionnaire will be used by the planners to develop policies to plan for and address land use changes in the updated Park County Growth Policy.
The planners will include the level of county involvement in land use into a draft growth policy due out in the early fall. Then, the Planning and Development Board will hold a series of public meetings to solicit more input.
The questionnaire is being distributed and collected online. “We want to gather as much public input as possible so we’re trying to make the questionnaire available to users online and in paper copies,” said Mike Inman, Director of Planning for Park County. Hard copies will be available at the Park County Planning Department, Cooke City Chamber of Commerce, Gardiner Chamber of Commerce, Livingston Public Library, Glenn’s Market in Clyde Park and Val’s Mercantile in Wilsall. The questionnaire can also be found online at www.parkcounty.org/Government-Departments/Planning/GROWTH-POLICY-UPDATE/
Contact:
Lawson Moorman
Park County Planning Department
414 E. Park Street
Livingston, MT 59047
406-222-4102
lmoorman@parkcounty.org
In June, Park County and planners from Land Solutions held a series of open house meetings in Cooke City, Gardiner, Emigrant, Wilsall and Livingston to discuss key issues identified by the public, and what goals and objectives the County should set to address these issues in the County’s Growth Policy update. The public mingled with planners and provided them with plenty of feedback. “The comments were pretty clear-cut on most issues,” said Peter Fox, Park County Planning and Development Board chairman, “except on the issue of land use. This topic stands out as needing more input.”
Based on comments from the June meetings, the County is distributing an online questionnaire that presents three levels of county involvement with land use: A passive approach, where the growth policy would recommend reacting to issues once they arise; a neighborhood or community based approach, directing planners to work with neighborhoods and communities to develop locally specific solutions; or, a more comprehensive approach, where the County staff and commission would proactively address larger issues on a County-wide or regional scale.
Feedback from the questionnaire will be used by the planners to develop policies to plan for and address land use changes in the updated Park County Growth Policy.
The planners will include the level of county involvement in land use into a draft growth policy due out in the early fall. Then, the Planning and Development Board will hold a series of public meetings to solicit more input.
The questionnaire is being distributed and collected online. “We want to gather as much public input as possible so we’re trying to make the questionnaire available to users online and in paper copies,” said Mike Inman, Director of Planning for Park County. Hard copies will be available at the Park County Planning Department, Cooke City Chamber of Commerce, Gardiner Chamber of Commerce, Livingston Public Library, Glenn’s Market in Clyde Park and Val’s Mercantile in Wilsall. The questionnaire can also be found online at www.parkcounty.org/Government-Departments/Planning/GROWTH-POLICY-UPDATE/
Contact:
Lawson Moorman
Park County Planning Department
414 E. Park Street
Livingston, MT 59047
406-222-4102
lmoorman@parkcounty.org