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Wyoming’s Teton County Considering Subdivision Moratorium

By Courtney Lowery, 3-27-08

Staring at several large-scale subdivision applications and in the middle of a rewrite of a comprehensive plan, Teton County Wyoming is mulling an emergency ban on new subdivisions or zoning changes.

In a comprehensive story in the Jackson Hole News & Guide, Cara Froedge details the reasons behind the possible moratorium, including big plans for the South Park area of Jackson Hole. There, three proposals could in bring more than 1,100 new homes.

The crux is that the county is stuck between halting development and stopping several projects that are already in the works or allowing some to go forward and chancing essentially losing all the work that’s been done on the comprehensive plan.

Jeff Daugherty, the county planning director, tells Froedge of the commissioners: “They are not doing cartwheels about putting a moratorium in place. At the same time, if all three of these development applications move forward, what’s left to really plan out? ... ”

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