Holding Local Government Accountable.
Electing Leaders Who Serve the Community First.
A Valley at a Tipping Point
Teton Valley is growing fast. The decisions being made right now will shape this place for generations. Too often, those decisions are being made without real planning, without coordination between jurisdictions, and without the community at the table.
Development gets approved bit by bit, jurisdiction by jurisdiction, with little regard for how it all adds up. The result is predictable: infrastructure that can't keep pace, roads that can't handle the traffic, schools bursting at the seams, and the natural resources and wildlife habitat that make this valley special being steadily degraded.
Victor Valley Collective exists to ensure local officials are making the community’s well being their TOP priority.
Understanding The Growth Machine.
What we are up against
The growth machine is the network of developers, real estate interests, and the politicians they influence who profit from growth — regardless of whether that growth is good for the community.
New development generates short-term revenue: permit fees, impact fees, construction jobs. That makes growth politically attractive in the moment. Planning departments and councils often approve projects one at a time, in isolation, without asking the harder question "what is the cumulative impact?"
Reviewed individually, almost any single development can look manageable. But growth doesn't happen one project at a time in the real world - it compounds. A subdivision here, a new industrial zone there, an ever expanding resort. Each decision is made in its own silo, but the roads, water supply, schools, landfill, and public safety agencies have to absorb all of it at once.
A planning process structured around individual approvals rather than cumulative impacts is the problem. That is why long range planning is so important. No single decision-maker is ever required to step back and ask what all of this growth actually does to the valley's infrastructure, safety, schools, and environment.
And because growth generally doesn't pay for itself, the costs of the cumulative impacts are paid for by residents in the form of additional tax levies, degrading infrastructure, crowded schools, and a diminished quality of life.
Without that long view, every decision gets made under the same short term pressure: a developer ready to build now, a budget that needs to be balanced, a council facing a vote next month. Long-range planning is what allows a community to decide - deliberately and in advance - what it wants to become.
If we're going to subsidize growth, as we already are, then we should be getting the growth that makes sense. Growth that benefits the community rather than stressing the systems. That means zoning that reflects the community's vision and capacity. It means jurisdictions across the valley coordinating instead of competing.
And it means elected officials willing to ask tough questions and say NO when it is in the best interest of the community.
The Pattern
The Cost of Inaction
Without coordinated long range planning and without leaders willing to implement it, this valley faces:
• Water, sewer, power, and road systems pushed past capacity
• Traffic and safety risks that grow faster than infrastructure improvements
• Overcrowded schools with no plan to keep pace
• Vanishing wildlife corridors and degraded natural resources
• A quality of life that erodes a little more with every approved development
Poor planning and unsustainable growth aren't inevitable. They're a choice. Good governance requires transparency, accountability, and decision making that puts the community first. Elected officials who fail to do that will be replaced.
Our Mission
Rooted in rigorous research and fearless advocacy, we bridge the gap between people and policy. Our mission is simple: transform complex community challenges into actionable solutions that elevate local voices and hold institutions accountable.
ACCOUNTABILITY FIRST
Tracking votes, decisions, and public commitments,
and making sure residents know when their elected
officials aren't serving them.
PROTECTING PUBLIC SAFETY
AND QUALITY OF LIFE
Pushing back when decisions prioritize speed over sustainability.
ELECTING BETTER LEADERSHIP
Identifying, supporting, and electing candidates who will take the job seriously, do their homework, and put community input over convenience.
DEFENDING NATURAL RESOURCES
AND WILDLIFE HABITAT
The rivers, farms and ranches, public lands, and migration
corridors that define this valley don't get a second chance.
ENGAGING ACROSS
THE VALLEY
Victor, Driggs, Tetonia and Teton County must work collaboratively and plan together, not in isolation or competition.
DEMANDING REAL PLANNING
Growth that's coordinated, deliberate, and matched to the infrastructure that can support it.
Where We're Focused Right Now
Mayor Frohlich's early resignation in Victor following a successful recall petition has resulted in council member Muncaster being appointed mayor. She will serve the remainder of his term which ends in January 2028 (election November 2027).
VVC will be working to ensure that Mayor Muncaster pays close attention to the sentiment in the community; is willing to shift the growth trajectory; scrutinize the city budget; and put an end to the closed door, litigious, government by crisis model that has prevailed in Victor over the past few years.
This shift in leadership has resulted in an empty City Council seat that will be filled in August. The city will be taking applications from members of the community (who live within city limits). This is a critical seat that needs to be filled by someone willing to challenge the status quo in Victor.
The divisive lawsuit Victor filed against Driggs in an attempt to fast track a new wastewater treatment plant without allowing the citizens to vote is what got us engaged, but we discovered these aren't isolated incidents. They're symptoms of a pattern, and the VVC was formed to break it.
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