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.

Upcoming Workshop!

On Wednesday, June 7th, from 5:30 - 7:30 PM, the Planning & Zoning Department will hold a workshop at Old City Park to discuss commercial development in the Future Land Use Plan. This workshop will focus on what types of commercial uses may be appropriate in the South Moab/Spanish Valley area, and where these uses should be located. Dinner will be provided!

Get involved!

The Planning & Zoning Department has drafted two Future Land Use Map Scenarios (Scenario A & Scenario B) and are looking for feedback! Fill out the quick questionnaire here about your preferences in how increased residential density may be distributed in the Future Land Use Map.

Additionally, if you've attended any of our workshops, please take a minute to 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.

Previous Public Workshops:

On April 26th, Planning & Zoning held a public workshop at the MARC from 5:30 - 7:30 PM to discuss where residential density may be increased in the Future Land Use Map. Attendees reviewed and provided feedback on two potential Future Land Use Map Scenarios (available to the right), and participated in a mapping exercise to determine where multi-family development may be encouraged in the future. Results of the mapping exercise are available below:


In March 2023, the Land Use Steering Committee, made up of County Commissioners, Planning Commissioners, and County Staff, participated in a mapping exercise to collect feedback on where land use designations may be located in the future. The results of this exercise are shown below and are one tool being used to create the Future Land Use Map.


Three other public workshops were held between September 27 - 29, 2022 to gather input from citizens on land use preferences, community values and concerns. 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.




Timeline 2022/2023:

  1. September - December: Collected additional feedback via the online Future Land Use Planning exercises over several months. The feedback received from the online exercises helped to update the existing workshop results, above.

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

  3. March: 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 met to further develop the FLUP.

  4. April-June: Hold several public workshops to present draft FLUP scenarios and discuss future residential and commercial development in the community.

  5. June - July: Public hearings at Planning Commission and County Commission to adopt the FLUP.

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.

Upcoming Workshop!

On Wednesday, June 7th, from 5:30 - 7:30 PM, the Planning & Zoning Department will hold a workshop at Old City Park to discuss commercial development in the Future Land Use Plan. This workshop will focus on what types of commercial uses may be appropriate in the South Moab/Spanish Valley area, and where these uses should be located. Dinner will be provided!

Get involved!

The Planning & Zoning Department has drafted two Future Land Use Map Scenarios (Scenario A & Scenario B) and are looking for feedback! Fill out the quick questionnaire here about your preferences in how increased residential density may be distributed in the Future Land Use Map.

Additionally, if you've attended any of our workshops, please take a minute to 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.

Previous Public Workshops:

On April 26th, Planning & Zoning held a public workshop at the MARC from 5:30 - 7:30 PM to discuss where residential density may be increased in the Future Land Use Map. Attendees reviewed and provided feedback on two potential Future Land Use Map Scenarios (available to the right), and participated in a mapping exercise to determine where multi-family development may be encouraged in the future. Results of the mapping exercise are available below:


In March 2023, the Land Use Steering Committee, made up of County Commissioners, Planning Commissioners, and County Staff, participated in a mapping exercise to collect feedback on where land use designations may be located in the future. The results of this exercise are shown below and are one tool being used to create the Future Land Use Map.


Three other public workshops were held between September 27 - 29, 2022 to gather input from citizens on land use preferences, community values and concerns. 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.




Timeline 2022/2023:

  1. September - December: Collected additional feedback via the online Future Land Use Planning exercises over several months. The feedback received from the online exercises helped to update the existing workshop results, above.

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

  3. March: 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 met to further develop the FLUP.

  4. April-June: Hold several public workshops to present draft FLUP scenarios and discuss future residential and commercial development in the community.

  5. June - July: Public hearings at Planning Commission and County Commission to adopt the FLUP.

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

8 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

8 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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