The Week Ahead

Victor and Driggs councilors hold a joint wastewater session Wednesday, September 16, at the Teton County Courthouse to weigh how a new agreement between the cities should be structured, and a week later Victor's council hears a 56-acre rezone its planning commission recommended denying. The night before the joint session, the Driggs council takes up the Spud Drive-In's sewer letter and the choice of a firm to administer its wastewater plant project. The stretch opens Friday, when the recreation district takes up a job posting for an executive director.

Teton County planning commissioners hear four applications Tuesday evening, among them Fall River Electric's resubmitted permit for the Midway Substation. The next night, Driggs commissioners take up an appeal of a permit the city's planning director approved in July.

The Victor City Council reconsiders an annexation the city's own records list as approved when it meets Wednesday, and the two weeks that follow close with Driggs planning commissioners hearing an appeal that twenty property owners petitioned for. In between, a 180-home subdivision east of Teton High School returns to the Driggs council, and Friday at 5 p.m. is the last hour a question can reach the county clerk for the November ballot.

Five county hearings run back to back Tuesday evening in front of the Teton County Planning and Zoning Commission, on a drive-in theater, a private high school, two code amendments and a rezone. Tetonia holds its 2027 budget hearing the same night, and Victor holds its own the next evening on an appropriation of $9,023,870. The stretch closes with a 56-acre Victor rezone, the county's own budget hearing and the first day of school.

The two weeks ahead build toward Wednesday, August 12, when a Victor budget hearing on next year's spending lands the same night the Driggs planning commission takes up a rezone on East Ross Avenue. The deadline to apply for Victor's open council seat arrives August 10, the same day the county commission and the school board come back from their late-July break. The stretch opens Tuesday with the Driggs council's hearings on a 180-home subdivision and a 69-room hotel.

Two comment deadlines arrive in the week ahead. The objection deadline on the Grand Targhee expansion's forest-plan amendment falls Tuesday, and Idaho's draft seven-year road plan, which carries five Teton County highway projects, takes comment through Friday. The county commission works through budget and closed sessions after Monday's meeting sends next year's budget to an August hearing, and the school board holds a working session Tuesday. The larger decision waits for August 4, when the Driggs council opens hearings on a 180-home subdivision and a 69-room hotel the same night.

Two city councils take up their wastewater plants on back-to-back nights this week, and both set aside time to talk to each other. Driggs meets Tuesday to weigh a treatment-plant design option and Victor's share of the plant's operating cost; Victor meets Wednesday to reopen its own facility plan and take up a draft agreement with Driggs. On Thursday the commissioners of Teton County, Idaho and Teton County, Wyoming meet jointly over what the resort's growth means on both sides of the line. The following week brings the county budget, the curbside-hauling contract, and, on August 4, a Driggs hearing on a 180-unit subdivision and a hotel.

Newly posted agendas put two contested land-use decisions on the county calendar. On Monday, July 13, the county commission opens a 10 a.m. hearing on an industrial rezone of 14 acres north of Victor, a change the county's own planning commission recommended denying. The next evening the planning commission takes up a permit for a 383-person event barn off Highway 33. Monday is also the federal deadline to object to the Grand Targhee expansion, and the county's objection is on the agenda too.

The Grand Targhee objection deadline falls July 13, the same day the county commission opens its mid-month meeting. The commission continues into July 14, when three more bodies join it: the county planning commission, the Tetonia City Council, and the Victor Planning and Zoning Commission. The stretch opens quieter, with Driggs rental and subdivision hearings and the Victor council working through its mayoral succession, the handoff the valley has watched since Mayor Will Frohlich resigned.

VICTOR — Victor's mayoral handoff comes July 1, when Mayor Will Frohlich's resignation takes effect, and Council President Stacy Hulsing becomes acting mayor. The council takes up an interim appointment a week later, on July 8. Between the two, Driggs and Tetonia hold the land-use hearings that carry the window: a short-term-rental rewrite and a 37-lot plat in Driggs, and the Pinnacle Peak development in Tetonia. The stretch opens with two Driggs comment deadlines on June 29 and a holiday weekend in the middle.

A Victor special meeting and a two-day county commission session anchor the week ahead, alongside the Driggs council and the Teton 401 school board. Victor convenes after canceling its regular date, and midweek the state is set to lock in the financing for the Driggs wastewater plant. The quieter second week brings a new state short-term-rental law and the county clerk's signature-verification deadline.

DRIGGS — The next two weeks build toward June 24, when the state is set to lock in the financing for the Driggs wastewater plant and Driggs-Reed Memorial Airport holds a public conversation about a runway closure tangled up with a burst pipe. Before then, the county commission takes up its FY27 budget in a special meeting, and the Teton Rock Gym's deadline to leave the Driggs Recreation Center arrives. The stretch opens Tuesday, June 16, when the city council takes up the 60% design for the plant the same day it meets with the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Driggs wastewater plant heads to a 6 PM public hearing next Tuesday, the day the city also meets with the Environmental Protection Agency. It is the council's first hard call on the 60% design since the federal consent decree clock started running. Before that, the Teton County BOCC holds a two-day FY27 budget review on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Driggs Planning & Zoning Commission hears a proposal for a 69-room Cobblestone Hotel, and a Wyoming-Idaho workshop on Grand Targhee convenes at the courthouse.

DRIGGS — Driggs presents the 60-percent design for its $25 million wastewater rebuild to council Tuesday; Victor returns to court the same afternoon on the judicial-confirmation petition tied to its $35 million wastewater project, and the Teton County commissioners take the Centennial Estates settlement back up Monday, June 8.

DRIGGS — Memorial Day opens a two-week window anchored by the Centennial Estates Settlement and an agenda dense enough to fill two consecutive Teton County commissioners' meetings, Tuesday and Wednesday.

DRIGGS — Primary day on Tuesday, May 19, is the busiest single day in the two-week ahead. Idaho's statewide primary, the Teton County Road & Bridge Levy, and the Driggs City Council hearing on the Alexandria Condos rezone all land on the same Tuesday. The Tetonia state-land auction follows Friday, May 22. Memorial Day on Monday, May 25, then rearranges the county's regular 4th-Monday meeting cycle.

DRIGGS — The week ahead in Teton Valley loads five development applications onto the joint Driggs and Teton County Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) docket for May 12, the centerpiece of a two-week stretch that also runs a full Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting on May 11, the county's Land Development Code (LDC) public hearing on May 18, and the Idaho primary on May 19. The county had not posted cover pages for the May 11 BOCC and May 12 P&Z hearings to the eScribe portal as of Sunday night, but staff reports and supporting documents for every item are on file.

The week ahead in Teton Valley packs three of the spring's biggest civic items into a single Monday. On May 11, Teton County commissioners are scheduled to rule on whether neighbors have standing to reopen the Sweetwater Subdivision approval, the written-comment window on the county Land Development Code rewrite closes at 5 p.m., and Idaho DEQ holds a virtual info meeting on the $25 million wastewater funding package that ranks Driggs first on the state's draft list. The following Tuesday, Driggs Planning and Zoning takes up the 171-lot Corona Valley Subdivision. The window closes Sunday, May 17, a quiet day before May 19, the heaviest civic day on the spring calendar.

The week ahead in Teton County puts three separate hearings in the courthouse on Monday: a Board of County Commissioners business meeting, a reconsideration of the Sweetwater Ranch Subdivision after a resident petition, and the first town hall on the new Teton River recreation ordinance. Idaho organizers face a Thursday deadline to turn in signatures for the reproductive rights ballot initiative. Wildfire Awareness Day lands Saturday, May 2. The following week opens with a Driggs City Council meeting on May 5 and goes quiet through the weekend of May 9–10.

Victor P&Z commissioners will hear two continued applications Wednesday night, the council faces a critical vote on the Evans property closing April 22, and the Grand Targhee expansion open house anchors a week packed with public input sessions across Teton Valley.

DEVELOPING: The judicial confirmation hearing on Victor's petition to borrow $35 million for an independent wastewater treatment facility, scheduled for April 7 before Judge Steven Boyce, has been delayed. The Valley Signal is requesting details on the reason and rescheduled date. Updates will follow.

VICTOR — Spring break empties the valley this week, with no government meetings scheduled. The week of April 6 brings Victor's judicial confirmation hearing for a $35 million wastewater plant and packed city council agendas.

In the week ahead, five things to watch in Teton Valley: a county commission meeting, a land-use workshop on subdivision rules, and two public hearings in Victor.