Planning and Zoning Conflicts

Randall Knight, Reporter

Rich Civic Times 

GARDEN CITY, Utah.  March 1, 2017.  The Planning and Zoning meeting began at 5:00 PM and those in attendance were employees of Epic except for the city Building Inspector.    The board members present were: Susan House (Chair), Joey Stocking, Jim DeGroot, Jared Hislop and Zack McKee.  Lance Bourne and Tom Stevens were absent.

Mark Smoot’s request for the city to accept his request and plan for a PUD development on 200 N went into the third month.  The plan shows 5 commercial buildings and 27 vacation rental houses on the 6.09 acres.  The main focus was on the number and size of parking spaces, road width and setbacks.  Mark pointed out a change in garage design would provide more parking spaces and when added to the spaces on the north side of 200 N. the parking space requirement would be exceeded.  It was pointed out that one of the commercial buildings would have a restaurant with a 4000 sq ft dining room.  When asked about the cuisine, he said it had not been determined yet.  When the commission asked if garbage dumpsters would be used by the 27 residences, he said each home would have a garbage can that would be pulled to a pickup area by an HOA employee so the garbage trucks won’t go into the housing area.   The most heated discussion was about the road width in the housing area (20 ft versus 30 ft) and the required setback for corner lots.   The request was tabled until next month to resolve the last two differences.

There was a discussion to approve #16-07 in regard to the rental of RV units as a short term rental.   The commission was concerned about how waste and water supply would be managed and what the setback requirement for these units would be.  The proposal to update the ordinance was approved with 4 yea and 1 nay by Joey Stocking. 

The next discussion focused on the #16-08 dealing with fence height.   The commission restated last month’s concern of putting a 6 foot fence on top of a berm when the ordinance height is 6 ft.  The decision was to have Jim DeGroot approach the Town Counsel about reconsidering their recommendation to leave the fence height requirement to 6 ft above natural grade.

 

The miscellaneous discussion was in regard to a Conditional Use request in Hillside Estates.  Joey said a resident is thinking about a business that would provide wagon rides to a chuck wagon eating area and wondered if the commission would entertain the request. Jim DeGroot stated conditional use permits in residential areas had been requested in the past and shot down because it opens up Pandora’s Box because people will always stretch the limits that were set.