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10 November 12 - 18, 2008 l Planet Jackson Hole l www.PlanetJH.com updated daily Still Undefeated MAYOR BARRON ON POST-ELECTION ISSUES. Q&A with Henry Sweets After seeing a write-in candidate put up a good fight arlier this month, Mayor Mark Barron responds to some f the proverbial fingers that were pointed at him by a amp that could be called anti-development. Planet Jackson Hole: Mike Lance won about 43 percent of he vote. He said that shows voters don’t like the amount of ommercial development and type of housing development hat has recently gone on in town. How do you respond? Mark Barron: Well I think the election clearly shows that the majority of people in the Town of Jackson have an appreciation of the policies that the Mayor and Council have been putting forth like smart-growth and infill in town instead of sprawl across the county. And I think they appreciate the direction the town has been going in. Are there some who disagree to that, absolutely, could DUDe WHere’s my Car? The Town of Jackson’s overnight parking ban has gone into effect. So, if you want to avoid all kinds of hassles, listen up! PARKING RESTRICTIONS From November 1st through April 15th, between 3am & 7am, it is illegal to park overnight on Jackson streets, including public parking lots, regardless of weather (rain or shine, snow or bikini.) Crews begin plowing at 3am. Parked cars on town streets make the job of keeping roads clear of snow more difficult. Consequently, cars left on town streets between 3am & 7am will be ticketed and towed by Jackson police. If you’re looking for your wheels in the morning, contact the JPD at 733-1430, during normal working hours, or contact dispatch at 733-2331 after 5 pm. I put it down to specific issues as Mike depicted? I think those may be in there, but no I can’t paint it with one broad brushstroke. PJH: OK, but can you respond to citizens who feel the town council and the mayor have not been judging each proposed development based on community benefit, and vote it up or down according to whether or not it’s beneficial to the community? MB: The town council has to operate within the land development regulations. The community defines community benefit and we’re in the process of doing that, amongst other goals, in the Comprehensive Plan review. In addition the community benefit is something that is defined and redefined with some regularity… There are times when individual pieces of LDR are subject to review, and I think the council is responding to that and perhaps not as quickly as people would like, but as much as we don’t love the pace of government sometimes, we would really not love it if it moved too quickly and missed something. PJH: Your opponent and his supporters pointed to the tunnel as a symbol of unchecked development? It might not be an issue anymore now that it is buried underground, but how do you respond to their opinion of the tunnel? MB: When you see a great big gaping hole on your town hill you have to gasp, and I definitely appreciate that … [but] many people saw the tunnel and had no awareness of the level of public participation that went into the planning of it. The tunnel was a direct response to the involvement of the neighbors up on Pine and Wister Drive who didn’t want all the traffic of [a neighborhood] that had been approved with 17 single families homes, so Dave Taylor looked at it with a new pair of glasses and said, ‘what about a tunnel’?” PJH SHOVELING REQUIREMENTS ADDITIONALLY, WE WOULD LIKE TO REMIND PEOPLE: Town residents are responsible for keeping sidewalks shoveled. • The TOJ assists with snow removal in the downtown core and along Broadway. • Residents should not put their garbage cans out the night before, but rather after 7am on garbage days. • Please keep trash cans, cars, and other obstacles out of streets and off of curbs. This saves your property and makes the streets more clear of drifts and snow. • Residents are also encouraged to help keep fire hydrants clear of snow. BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDLY FOLKS AT THE TOWN OF JACKSON
LOCAL NEWS Town to mull future land use map by Ben Cannon The public will have an pportunity beginning this eek to take a peek at a raft of the future land-use ap for the Town of Jackson. he land use map is a key omponent of the omprehensive Plan update etailing what kind of develpment can occur within the own limits of Jackson and here. From 4 to 6 p.m., Thursday, n Town Council chambers, own Council and Jackson lanning Commission will iscuss potential build-out umbers and the future landse map draft, ahead of floatng it to the public during a eriod of open review and omment. Town Planner Tyler inclair said he expects the arger Comp Plan draft that he land-use map will be foldd into will be available for 920 West Broadway public review in early December. Sinclair emphasized the current version of the future land-use map should be interpreted only as a working draft and as such www.PlanetJH.com updated daily l Planet Jackson Hole l November 12 - 18, 2008 11 is subject to change before it is officially released to the public. PJH Alliance, Housing Authority to hold housing forum by Ben Cannon Two formidable valley entities – one ublic, one private – charged with seemngly incongruous tasks – one to proote conservation of natural resources, he other to proliferate affordable housng – will host a forum this week on balncing Jackson Hole’s workforce esources while preserving its wild ones. From noon to 2 p.m., Friday at St. ohn’s Episcopal, the Teton County ousing Authority and the Jackson Hole onservation Alliance will host a forum n housing the valley’s workforce and amilies in a sustainable way. The disussion is meant to encourage commuity dialogue through the update of Town nd County’s joint Comp Plan. The forum will bring in a panel of Future Land Use Map Working Draft 11/6/08 Color Key: Green: Conservation; Purple: Heavy Retail Services; Royal Blue: Institutional; Light Pink: Mixed Use Low Intensity; Pink: Mixed Use Moderate; Red: Mixed Use High; Orange: Office; Light Blue: Resort; Light Yellow: R1; Yellow: R2; Tan: R3; Brown: R4 speakers with nuanced expertise in the land planning issues that face Jackson Hole. Guest panelists include Aspen Pitkin County Housing Authority Executive Director Tom McCabe; Craig Ferguson, a vice president with the prominent land planning firm Clarion Associates, which has consulted Jackson and Teton County through their parallel rewrites; and attorney Mark White with the progressive White and Smith Planning and Law Group. Topics are to include the impacts of higher mitigation rates for residential and commercial development, targeting the right balance of rental and ownership affordable housing, the long-term impacts of converting rental units to condominiums, and more. The public is encouraged to bring other topics and questions to the table and also to bring a lunch. The desire to preserve Jackson Hole’s wild character – identified as a top priority in public polling – has, at times, been put at odds with efforts to provide workforce housing, which has been pursued in part with controversial density bonuses that have prompted some developers to present projects considered by some to be too large in the context of the surrounding natural and manmade environments. Friday’s forum, which organizers have titled “Protecting Our Community: Housing Working Families,” is the second in the series “Next Steps: Exploring Solutions for Jackson Hole,” and is partly underwritten with funding from the Community Foundation. PJH NOT! your typical RIGHT WING HIPPIE RAG WWW.PLANETJH.COM PRO-CHOICE Please support keeping abortion safe and legal. It’s pro-choice or no-choice. Take away a woman’s right to choose and she’s left to take matters into her own hands. - PAID FOR BY THE KCR COALITION FOR PRO-CHOICE KRISTYNE CRANE RUPERT WWW.NARAL.ORG 307.732.AUTO(2886)
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