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Tough calls ahead for zoning

Commission ponders mixed results from input sessions

After hearing the results of an outreach effort on the question of zoning, the county commissioners will take some time to consider what comes next.

Should the county stop right here and cease to pursue the thought of zoning?

Should it go ahead full speed, starting with updates to its land use plan and then moving on to the creation of a zoning document?

Or should it delay the ultimate decision about zoning, for now focusing on the land use plan updates that are needed either way?

This was the decision – “Whether we do or we don’t, or we partly do or partly don’t,” as summarized by Commissione...