Future Land Use Planning

Overview:

The Future Land Use Plan provides a comprehensive and strategic basis for implementing zoning changes and land use code updates that the County may want to pursue in the immediate term. It will also provide the basis for future decisions regarding individual rezone requests for years to come. To develop the Future Land Use Plan, citizens, planning bodies, and decision makers must take a hard look at our current zoning, as compared to what’s existing on the ground today, and envision how the County will develop into the future, taking into consideration and balancing many variables, including existing community values and concerns. This update represents the vision for how the County will develop over the next 20-30 years.


Public Workshops and Opportunity for Input:

Three public workshops have been held to date, between September 27 - 29, to gather input from citizens on land use preferences, community values and concerns. If you weren't able to attend one of the workshops but wanted to be part of the process, we encourage as many folks as possible to provide their input through these exercises, which are available below in the "Survey" and "Map" tabs:

  • Exercise 1: The Neighborhood Values & Concerns exercise highlights the important qualities of your neighborhood that you believe should be preserved in the future as well as the pressing issues that need to be addressed as we plan for the next 30 years.

  • Exercise 2: The Mapping Exercise for both the Thompson Springs and the Moab/Spanish Valley area is designed to emulate the mapping exercise we conducted at the in-person workshops and encourages you to plan your ideal version of the Future Land Use Map—what type of land uses should be allowed where? Be sure to read through the draft Future Land Use Designations to understand the different types of potential land uses. This exercise and resulting Future Land Use Map will not have any immediate impact on current zoning, but will rather guide future rezone request decisions and development trends over the next 10-30 years.

  • Feedback Form: Please fill out this quick Workshop Feedback Form — to inform us on how to improve future public workshops and provide any other thoughts about the FLUP you may have.


Workshop Results:

The results of the Values and Concerns exercise from the workshops are summarized in a "word cloud" in the section to the right. The more a word was mentioned in the exercise, the larger it appears in the image.

The Mapping Exercise provides us with location-specific information to better understand land use preferences on the ground – the results of this exercise must be balanced with planning constraints, such as levels of service, flooding and natural drainage, transportation, existing land uses that may be incompatible, and various other factors that come into play when thinking about Land Use, community and development. Pictured below is a map of the cumulative results from the workshops South Moab/Spanish Valley as well as Thompson Springs Mapping exercises, where each colored circle represents a land use suggested by participants. These maps will be updated as more public input is received.





Next Steps 2022/2023:

  1. Thru December: We will be collecting additional feedback via the online Future Land Use Planning exercises over the next month. The feedback received from the online exercises will update the existing workshop results, above.

  2. Oct-Nov: The Grand County Planning Commission will be workshopping the Future Land Use Designations, to better fine tune those, and start developing a Draft Future Land Use Map based on public feedback and P&Z staff recommendations.

  3. January: Neighborhood focus groups to workshop future “commercial nodes” in South Moab/Spanish Valley, as well as a focused workshop in Thompson Springs.

  4. January-Feb: A Land Use Steering Committee, made up of Planning Commission members, County officials and staff, such as P&Z, the Road Supervisor and Building Official/floodplain administrator and other stakeholders will meet to further develop the FLUP.

  5. In early Spring 2023 we plan to hold an open house to present the draft FLUP back to the community and provide additional opportunity for public input prior to the adoption of the FLUP at a public hearing.

Please check back in over the next several weeks as we work to process all of the information gathered at these workshops in addition to online feedback received. If you'd like to receive an email update about the Future Land Use Plan, please use the feedback form below to submit your email address.

Overview:

The Future Land Use Plan provides a comprehensive and strategic basis for implementing zoning changes and land use code updates that the County may want to pursue in the immediate term. It will also provide the basis for future decisions regarding individual rezone requests for years to come. To develop the Future Land Use Plan, citizens, planning bodies, and decision makers must take a hard look at our current zoning, as compared to what’s existing on the ground today, and envision how the County will develop into the future, taking into consideration and balancing many variables, including existing community values and concerns. This update represents the vision for how the County will develop over the next 20-30 years.


Public Workshops and Opportunity for Input:

Three public workshops have been held to date, between September 27 - 29, to gather input from citizens on land use preferences, community values and concerns. If you weren't able to attend one of the workshops but wanted to be part of the process, we encourage as many folks as possible to provide their input through these exercises, which are available below in the "Survey" and "Map" tabs:

  • Exercise 1: The Neighborhood Values & Concerns exercise highlights the important qualities of your neighborhood that you believe should be preserved in the future as well as the pressing issues that need to be addressed as we plan for the next 30 years.

  • Exercise 2: The Mapping Exercise for both the Thompson Springs and the Moab/Spanish Valley area is designed to emulate the mapping exercise we conducted at the in-person workshops and encourages you to plan your ideal version of the Future Land Use Map—what type of land uses should be allowed where? Be sure to read through the draft Future Land Use Designations to understand the different types of potential land uses. This exercise and resulting Future Land Use Map will not have any immediate impact on current zoning, but will rather guide future rezone request decisions and development trends over the next 10-30 years.

  • Feedback Form: Please fill out this quick Workshop Feedback Form — to inform us on how to improve future public workshops and provide any other thoughts about the FLUP you may have.


Workshop Results:

The results of the Values and Concerns exercise from the workshops are summarized in a "word cloud" in the section to the right. The more a word was mentioned in the exercise, the larger it appears in the image.

The Mapping Exercise provides us with location-specific information to better understand land use preferences on the ground – the results of this exercise must be balanced with planning constraints, such as levels of service, flooding and natural drainage, transportation, existing land uses that may be incompatible, and various other factors that come into play when thinking about Land Use, community and development. Pictured below is a map of the cumulative results from the workshops South Moab/Spanish Valley as well as Thompson Springs Mapping exercises, where each colored circle represents a land use suggested by participants. These maps will be updated as more public input is received.





Next Steps 2022/2023:

  1. Thru December: We will be collecting additional feedback via the online Future Land Use Planning exercises over the next month. The feedback received from the online exercises will update the existing workshop results, above.

  2. Oct-Nov: The Grand County Planning Commission will be workshopping the Future Land Use Designations, to better fine tune those, and start developing a Draft Future Land Use Map based on public feedback and P&Z staff recommendations.

  3. January: Neighborhood focus groups to workshop future “commercial nodes” in South Moab/Spanish Valley, as well as a focused workshop in Thompson Springs.

  4. January-Feb: A Land Use Steering Committee, made up of Planning Commission members, County officials and staff, such as P&Z, the Road Supervisor and Building Official/floodplain administrator and other stakeholders will meet to further develop the FLUP.

  5. In early Spring 2023 we plan to hold an open house to present the draft FLUP back to the community and provide additional opportunity for public input prior to the adoption of the FLUP at a public hearing.

Please check back in over the next several weeks as we work to process all of the information gathered at these workshops in addition to online feedback received. If you'd like to receive an email update about the Future Land Use Plan, please use the feedback form below to submit your email address.

Future Land Use Map Exercise - Moab/Spanish Valley

5 months

This exercise encourages you to plan your ideal version of the Future Land Use Map in Spanish Valley—what type of land uses should be allowed where? This exercise and resulting Future Land Use Map WILL NOT have any immediate impact on current zoning, but will rather guide future rezone request decisions and development trends over the next 30 years. 

Instructions:

  1. Read the land use descriptions carefully, these will be the types of land uses that you submit on the map. 
  2. Review the Spanish Valley Current Zoning map as reference for the exercise. 
  3. Go to the "Filter Marker" button on the left with the three horizontal lines and click the circle next to "Show only my pins."
  4. Click on the + button to the left to drag and drop pins for different land uses. Pins must be placed within the red boundaries on the map. PLEASE NOTE: once you submit a pin, it cannot be deleted, only moved around. You may submit as many pins as you would like. You will need to provide your email and choose a screenname, however you are not required to fully register for an account in order to submit any pins.
  5. After completing this exercise, please fill out this quick feedback form. 



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Future Land Use Mapping Exercise - Thompson Springs

5 months

This exercise encourages you to plan your ideal version of the Future Land Use Map in Thompson Springs—what type of land uses should be allowed where? This exercise and resulting Future Land Use Map WILL NOT have any immediate impact on current zoning, but will rather guide future rezone request decisions and development trends over the next 30 years. 

Instructions:

  1. Read the land use descriptions carefully, these will be the types of land uses that you submit on the map. 
  2. Review the Thompson Springs Current Zoning map as reference for the exercise. 
  3. Go to the "Filter Marker" button on the left with the three horizontal lines and click the circle next to "Show only my pins."
  4. Click on the + button to the left to drag and drop pins for different land uses. Pins must be placed within the red boundaries on the map. PLEASE NOTE: once you submit a pin, it cannot be deleted, only moved around. You may submit as many pins as you would like. You will need to provide your email and choose a screenname, however you are not required to fully register for an account in order to submit any pins. 
  5. After completing this exercise, please fill out this quick feedback form. 
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