After more than two years of work, a new Park County Land Use Plan could be approved Tuesday by Park County Commissioners.

A public hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m. at the Cody Auditorium. The hearing is after the normal commissioners meeting at the Grizzly Hall in the Cody Library.

For the second time, the land use plan is up for commissioner approval after a revised version was approved in January by the Park County Planning and Zoning Commission.

The plan was revised by the board and Park County Commissioners in November after a flood of public commenters expressed concern that the draft would allow government overreach and result in a loss of private property rights. However, the county officials’ decision to back off of a full low, medium and high use version of the big game overlay and more specific language on minimum lot size averages in agricultural areas, in turn, raised objections at the January P&Z meeting from those who preferred the original version.

The commissioners declined to certify the initial plan in October after a wave of complaints. The county has already selected a contractor to help review and revamp its regulations, but the bulk of that work needs to wait until after the new plan is adopted.

As county Planning and Zoning Director Joy Hill has said multiple times, working out new regulations is where “the rubber really meets the road.”

— By Zac Taylor