land use

After adopting the 2025 Comprehensive Plan and Consolidated Land Development Code, the city is now working to amend land use regulations in city code.

Through the Ownership and Preservation Program, the city pays incentives to qualified home buyers or owners in Ketchum.

The city is evaluating mobility-related maintenance and improvement projects—along with their costs—and how to prioritize them for short-, mid-, and long-term planning.

Ketchum’s Community Housing inventory remains too low, impacting businesses and the economy by reducing workforce availability. Over 300 long-term rental units have been lost to short-term rental or seasonal home use in Ketchum in the last 10 years. Even with Bluebird Village and current programs to preserve and convert property to long-term rentals, the city remains short at least 572 Community Housing units needed by 2032 to meet demand across all income levels. (And, with recent growth rates, the number is likely higher!)

Many smaller, miscellaneous city projects are taken on each year. You'll find information on them and status updates here.

Ketchum voters will decide this fall if the Ketchum Fire Department should convert to a fire district to consolidate with other regional fire/EMS services.

Ketchum will be updating its Comprehensive Plan and the land use regulations that implement the goals and policies of the Plan (Code) beginning in 2024.

The full project is being executed in three phases and is anticipated to last for approximately two years.

The full project is being executed in three phases and is anticipated to last for approximately two years.