County planning commissioners will revote on Monday whether to return the draft comprehensive land-use plan to staff for major revisions.

The board unanimously decided Monday to rescind its decision from two weeks ago. At that time the board voted to send the draft back to staff but did not include any recommendations about how to rewrite it.

The Teton County Planning Commission is expected to revote on the motion during its meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday. Board members likely will still recommend county commissioners send the draft back for rewrites, according to conversations at public meetings and interviews.

But this time they’ll provide staff with concrete suggestions for how to revise the document.

“This option didn’t occur to us or to me when I made that other motion,” planning commissioner Tony Wall said Monday about recommendations. He spoke at a workshop with county commissioners. “I think it’s clearly within our delineated duties to send it to staff with those recommendations.”

On June 11, during the first hearing on the Jackson/Teton County Comprehensive Plan, Wall moved to recommend that county commissioners remand the document to planning staff to incorporate public comments and make changes. The motion passed 3-1, with Forrest McCarthy and Chairman Larry Hamilton also in favor.

But planning commissioners did not detail reasons for the recommended rejection. Their action upset county commissioners and left planning staff without direction.

Public comment has been overwhelmingly in opposition to what residents say is too much development. The plan could allow up to 500 new homes in Wilson, 300 in the Aspens, more than 1,000 in South Park and more than 2,000 in the Town of Jackson. In addition, enough new commercial space could be built to accommodate the equivalent of 124 Albertsons.

The planning board’s move June 11 came as a surprise after nearly three hours of public comment and an earlier meeting with county commissioners to discuss how they would proceed in reviewing the document. During that earlier meeting, no one from the planning commission expressed worries over the document or asked for an extension so that planning staff could revise it.

The two boards met Monday to decide how to proceed with the county’s review of the document.

County Commissioner Ben Ellis said he could support a motion from the planning commission to condition the document and then send it back to staff for a “high-level policy” rewrite based on those conditions.

Then, the revised draft would go before planning commissioners for review and more recommendations before being forwarded to county commissioners for more public hearings and final vote.

“I really think that’s a very reasonable way to go,” Ellis said. “It’s different than what we talked about, but we simply have to let go of that conversation.”

The question now remains about how to bring the town and county back together for a joint review. With these rewrites, the county could be reviewing one document while the town is reviewing another.

Commissioners suggested that Hamilton meet with town planning commission Chairman Michael Pruett to work though those details.

Pruett said he’ll raise the issue with his board during a meeting at 5:30 p.m. today in Town Hall.

Hamilton said what’s next depends on how the town decides to proceed. Town planning commissioners can choose today to remand the draft back to their planning staff or to proceed with reviewing the document as it’s currently written, Hamilton said.

If the town decides to follow the county’s lead, Hamilton said the conditions likely will be decided upon in joint meetings. Otherwise, there will be two documents being reviewed concurrently.

Some of the conditions Hamilton said he’ll offer will ask for updated data on the natural resources overlay to be included. Hamilton said he wants a growth cap set in the document and also wants the concept of “nodes” to be reconsidered. Nodes, already developed residential and commercial areas in the rural county, are targeted for more housing development in the draft.

The joint review of the plan is critical, said Planning Director Jeff Daugherty.

“There are no decisions in the county that don’t have an impact on the town and vice verse,” he said.

Bob Lenz, a Jackson Town councilor, said having two documents reviewed on separate tracks “makes no sense.”

“The town never disengaged,” he said. “We’ve always been on track.”

Many Valley residents were pleased the draft is going to be rewritten and commended the three planning commissioners.

Gregory Griffith said he wanted to give them a  shout-out.

“There comes a time in the history of every community when somebody’s got to man up,” he said.