Powder Mountain has a master plan. Cache County has a cash cow.

For 14 months and over the course of six meetings, Cache County Planning Commissioners have been mulling the development roadmap for the Reed Hastings-owned ski and snowboard resort near Eden. They finally approved it in a quick and unanimous decision Thursday night, albeit with 10 conditions and two conclusions.

“I don’t want the public to think that we’re not thoughtful,” commissioner Val Jay Rigby said prior to the vote, “but we’ve spent a year on it, so I’m ready.”

The 1,100-page plan includes a map detailing where resort developers would one day like to build lifts, hotels, cabins and other amenities. That includes a lift into the backcountry area called Don’t Mention It, or DMI, which resort officials have said wi

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