In a couple of weeks, Park County will be under some new rules regarding land uses outside the cities, even as more work continues. 

Work on the second phase of new Development Standards and Regulations for Park County is ongoing amongst the consultants, working group and planning and zoning staff, and by the end of the month Chair Dossie Overfield said more details are expected to be public on what surveys and early public meetings have found. 

But as far the first phase is concerned, that document has been recorded and will be in effect Oct. 1. It includes changes in definitions, such as more specifics on what constitutes adult entertainment, and many less controversial changes to align with state and federal law. 

Overfield said anyone with questions on what has changed can contact the commissioners of the planning and zoning commission. 

The second phase is still far from being finished. 

“DSR two is slowly working forward, the consultant, working group, the planning and zoning staff and the Planning and Zoning Commission are all working on use classifications, new standards,” Overfield said. “They started with some residential work, moving into some of the other categories with commercial and that type of stuff.”

DSR two includes work on determining zoning areas, appropriate land uses in certain areas and other such crucial questions that, as County Planning Director Joy Hill has said previously, is where individual property owners could be affected. 

Overfield said at Tuesday’s meeting while summary information from previous public events should be available at engageparkcounty.com by the end of the month, it’ll be awhile before there are more public hearings or updates regarding the current work being done.