Planning commission approves buffering exception for 240-unit ‘Henry Shaw’ hotel on South Main

The Moab City Planning Commission on June 11 approved a buffering and screening special-exception for property at 836 and 840 South Main (Planning Resolution 11-2026) to accommodate a vested 240-unit hotel proposed by the applicant team. Staff explained the proposal would use a 10-foot retaining wall at the property line plus a nonopaque safety fence instead of the code-required 8-foot opaque screening because of a roughly 40-foot grade difference between the hotel site and adjacent residential parcels.