Here we are, stuck with a zoning interpretation that is not allowing many landowners in the valley to do what they want to do. Apparently, there has been some confusion in the past about how the county is zoning our valley and how the rules are being interpreted. 

For example, large swaths of commercial uses were zoned as residential and require conditional use permits to allow for commercial uses. Or the construction of ‘Shops’ require too many ‘uses’ for the single site under the county’s interpretation. While this is frustrating and some people want to run into the county and let them have a piece of their mind, the county planners are simply the messengers. We are the ones that did not speak out at the former zoning meetings and growth policy meetings which should be helping them change and directing them in a more realistic direction. The only way to change this effectively is through the development of the conditional use permits or by changing the growth policy and zoning. I urge you to voice your opinion if you are directly affected by this.