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A legislative committee voted 5-0 to advance a bill that could limit Wyoming municipalities’ authority over municipal utilities after hearing testimony from Jackson landowner Nikki Gill. Gill’s plea came during a Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands and Water Resources Committee hearing Thursday, which pit property rights and local control advocates against one another. It was also the first time the debate over the Gill family’s push to develop its Teton County property has involved officials from all corners of Wyoming. Gill told the committee the town of Jackson is imp...

The Gills have secured a victory in their push to develop 26 acres of their northern South Park land.

Battle lines have again been drawn in the debate over developing northern South Park. The Gill family is on one side, looking to clear a regulatory hurdle aimed at paving the way for developing a 26-acre, 84-lot subdivision just south of High School Road. They argued in public emails to the Teton County Board of County Commissioners that they have a “decades old legal right” to develop there. That’s in part because they plan to move ahead using the “suburban” zoning the parcel has held for decades. They also questioned the legality of denying or delaying approval of t...