Teton County staff flag Comp Plan update trigger after residential growth hits 7.2%

Teton County’s Planning Division told commissioners and the Planning Commission that the community has surpassed a key Comprehensive Plan threshold: residential units have grown 7.2%, exceeding the plan’s 7% “trigger” for discussing whether an update is needed. The note appears in a March 9 planning memo circulated for a special joint BCC/Planning Commission priorities session. (Planning Commission Joint Meeting Staff Report)

Planning Director Chris Neubecker wrote that the county’s 2025 “Indicator Dashboard” is now live and that the 7.2% figure is one of the dashboard takeaways. The memo frames the milestone as a prompt for elected officials to weigh starting a Comprehensive Plan update, not an automatic launch of that work. (Planning Commission Joint Meeting Staff Report)

Staff also signaled what the first steps could look like. After an earlier joint discussion, planners say they will prepare a request for proposals (RFP) for consultant help with scoping the “scale” of an update and conducting public engagement — but they note there is no FY26 budget for that consultant work and that funding would be proposed in the FY27 budget. The memo also notes the FY27 Long Range Planning Work Plan is scheduled for BCC review at a May 4 joint meeting. (Planning Commission Joint Meeting Staff Report)

The March 9 meeting itself was set up as discussion-only (no public comment and no formal action), making the next concrete decisions likely to come through budget and work-plan votes later this spring. (Planning Commission Meeting Agenda)