The Two-Week Ahead: A Victor City Council Reconsideration and a Friday Ballot Deadline

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.

Wednesday, August 26 — Victor swears in a councilor and reopens two decisions

The council meets at 6 p.m. at 138 N. Main, on an agenda marked amended. Erica Linnell takes the oath of office at the top of the meeting. The council appointed her to its vacant seat on a 2-1 vote August 18 and did not swear her in that day, so the seat stays formally unfilled until Wednesday night.

The council will then reconsider its own decision on the annexation and zoning of three parcels at 250 Aspen Street, 17 Baseline Road and 106 Antelope Lane, an application from D&B Partners LLC that the city's pending-applications page lists as approved. The council voted 2-1 in May to annex the Birch Crossing parcel and zone it for single-family houses, closing off a 158-unit workforce-apartment project D&B had spent three months pursuing. The agenda does not take public comment on the reconsideration.

The night's public hearing is Ordinance O654, which would amend and restate Article 12 of the city's land development code to create exemptions for water connections. Comments filed by August 19 go in the staff report. The city says later ones still reach the council but may not be reviewed. The council decides the amendment itself.

The council takes up the scope of work and contract for a strategic communications consultant, an engagement it set aside in July at the contractor's own request, and it considers buying out the AT&T cell tower lease. A work session on wastewater is on the agenda ahead of the September 16 joint session with Driggs, the second sitting of the two councils since talks reopened. An item on mayor and council salaries appears on the agenda marked removed. The meeting ends in executive session on pending litigation, with the subject unstated.

Thursday, August 27 — trail work on the North Side

Teton Valley Trails and Pathways runs a volunteer trail day on the North Side Trail from 1 to 5 p.m. Work is brush clearing, tread repair and trash pickup. The next one is September 18.

Friday at 5 p.m. is the last hour any question can reach the county clerk for the November ballot, and no public record shows Teton School District 401's levy has cleared it. The Driggs City Council votes four days later on a 180-home subdivision it tabled in August, decides whether to reissue the sewer letter that stopped the Spud Drive-In, and takes up a joint letter with a Wyoming county pressing the Forest Service on Grand Targhee. The stretch closes with Driggs planning commissioners hearing a challenge to a townhome permit the city's planning director approved in July.

Friday, August 28 — the November ballot deadline

Idaho Code § 34-106(8) sets the deadline for ballot language at 5 p.m. on the tenth Friday before an election, and requires it be submitted to the county clerk. For the November 3 election, that is Friday, August 28.

Teton School District 401 has a supplemental levy drawn for that ballot. The resolution in the district's board packet asks $7,090,000 a year for two years, running July 2027 through June 2029, at $103 per $100,000 of taxable value against a current $72. Inside that figure are $6.79 million for salaries and benefits, $250,000 for initiatives and programs and $50,000 for curriculum.

The board took the resolution up as an action item at its August 10 meeting. No minutes from that meeting are posted. The board met twice more in August, on the 18th and the 19th, and neither agenda carried a levy item. Its next scheduled meeting is September 14.

Tuesday, September 1 — Driggs takes up 180 homes, a sewer letter and the Forest Service

The Driggs City Council sits at 6 p.m. at 60 S. Main.

The council reopens its public hearing on the preliminary plat for Corona Valley Subdivision, proposed on undeveloped ground east of Teton High School at E. Ross Avenue and Booshway Street, and then votes. The application is 22 detached and 158 attached single-family units, 180 in all, on 38.803 acres in five phases, each phase built to stand alone for streets, water, sewer, stormwater and emergency access. The planning commission recommended conditioned approval in May; the council heard it August 4 and tabled it for more time with public comment. Written comment closed August 24, and speakers get three minutes.

The council takes up a will-serve letter for the Spud Drive-In, the sewer commitment whose expiration stopped a project that had already cleared its approvals. Then it considers a joint letter with Teton County, Wyoming, asking the Forest Service to resolve the objections to the Grand Targhee expansion. The objection record has shown no change since late July, and the agency has given no timeline.

The council also selects a firm for administrative services on the wastewater facility improvement project, takes up a rate increase in the city attorney's retainer, and considers a lease at Depot Square. It hears a presentation on the Road Scholar program. August 4 and August 18 minutes are on the consent calendar. The meeting closes in executive session on legal matters.

Wednesday, September 2 — a pre-bid conference on the transfer station

The county holds a non-mandatory pre-bid conference at 10 a.m. at the Teton County Annex, 547 N. Main Street in Driggs, for the first task of the solid waste transfer station upgrades. Sealed bids are due at the courthouse at 10 a.m. September 9 and will be opened and read publicly.

Thursday, September 3 — a well-water testing window closes

Friends of the Teton River's annual well-water testing event runs through September 3. The group coordinates the testing and sells kits to residents; ordering details are on its events page.

Friday, September 4 — two comment cutoffs and a closure ends

Comments on the Driggs appeal of the Stone Ridge Townhomes approval are due by 5 p.m. to be included in the staff report for the following Wednesday's hearing. The public can still comment in person after that.

The same day, the Idaho Secretary of State's office provides the sample ballot layout for the November election.

The Teton Basin Ranger District's logging closure on Lower Lady Slipper Trail expires September 4. Stage 1 fire restrictions across the forest run through September 30.

Tuesday, September 8 — a comment cutoff and two expected meetings

Written comment on Victor's September 17 planning hearing closes at 5 p.m. Comments filed by then go in the staff report; the city says later ones still reach the commission but may not be reviewed. The city's own planning page still lists the September 17 meeting as possibly cancelled; the legal notice setting it does not. The hearing covers a concept plan to create 28 townhome lots on 1.59 acres at Elm, Dogwood and Agate, and a request for several variances on 1.26 acres at 222 W. Center St.

The county planning and zoning commission is due at 5 p.m. and the Tetonia City Council at 7 p.m. Each has met on the second Tuesday in all eight months so far this year. Labor Day falls the day before.

Wednesday, September 9 — Driggs planning hears a neighbors' appeal

The Driggs Planning and Zoning Commission takes up AP26-1 at 6 p.m. at 60 S. Main, Matthew Robertson's appeal of the planning director's approval of a site development permit for Stone Ridge Townhomes on Aspen Meadows Road near Ski Hill Road. The permit allows eight townhomes on lots platted in Teton County in 1997 and annexed into Driggs in 2022. The director issued the approval July 27 and corrected it July 28; Robertson filed August 10. Twenty affected property owners petitioned for the hearing. The commission has 60 days from a complete application to issue a written decision, and that decision can be appealed to the City Council.

Sealed bids on the county transfer station open the same morning. The Victor City Council is due at 6 p.m. on its second-Wednesday slot.

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What We're Watching

Driggs takes up the Spud Drive-In's will-serve letter two weeks after it tabled Victor's request for 604 connections against its own city attorney's advice.

Victor's council voted August 26 to reconsider the annexation and zoning it approved in May at Aspen, Baseline and Antelope. The application goes back through a noticed hearing at planning and then council, expected in the fall. Neither the September 17 planning hearing nor the September 23 council hearing falls inside this window, but the September 8 comment deadline for the first one does.

What to watch: Whether Teton 401's levy language reaches the county clerk by 5 p.m. Friday, and if it does, whether the September 4 sample ballot is the first public confirmation.

Sources

• Victor City Council Meetings
• Victor Public Notices
• Victor Pending Applications & Projects
• Driggs City Council Public Hearing Notice, September 1, 2026
• Driggs Planning & Zoning Public Hearing Notice, September 9, 2026
• Driggs AP26-1 Appeal
• Teton County Solid Waste Transfer Station Upgrades, Advertisement for Bid
• Teton School District 401 Supplemental Levy Resolution
• Teton School District 401 Board Meeting Dates, 2026
• Idaho Code § 34-106
• Teton Valley Trails & Pathways Volunteer Trail Days
• Caribou-Targhee National Forest Alerts & Closures