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Votes recorded in the public meeting transcript (voice votes; roll-call counts not provided):

- Approval of minutes (July 10, 2025): motion made, seconded, voice vote “Aye”; minutes approved as amended.
- Recommend removal of Strategy 4 from the moderate‑income housing element: motion made and seconded; voice vote “Aye”; recommendation forwarded to City Council (public hearing required).
- Table external (detached) ADU recommendation to City Council: motion made, seconded; voice vote “Aye”; item tabled pending staff work and Public Works input.
- Table short‑term rental discussion and recommendation to City Council: motion made, seconded; voice vote “Aye”; item tabled.
- Table training item: motion made, seconded; voice vote “Aye”; item tabled.

Notes: Most votes were recorded as voice votes with no roll-call tallies provided in the transcript. For items that advance to City Council, staff will prepare the necessary packets and public‑hearing notices.","mediaType","Audio","parentTitle","Planning Commission Meeting - 250814_1843 (Compressed)","oneSentenceSummary","Summary of motions and voice‑vote outcomes recorded during the Aug. 14 Sunset City Planning Commission meeting, including approval of minutes and tabling of draft ordinances and recommendations.","taxTitle","Sunset, Davis County, Utah","taxId",68993,"location","Utah","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":75,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":76,"_41":77,"_43":78,"_45":79,"_46":80,"_48":49,"_50":81,"_52":-5,"_53":54,"_55":56,"_57":82,"_59":60,"_61":62,"_63":83,"_65":66,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":72},6585829,"Commissioners debate detached ADU rules, utilities, parking and short‑term rentals; recommendation tabled",2141,657000,2798000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5589340-8278101331f46a373ddfc111857422cb&start=657&end=2798","/articles/6585829/Utah/Commissioners-debate-detached-ADU-rules-utilities-parking-and-shortterm-rentals-recommendation-tabled","Sunset City’s Planning Commission spent much of its Aug. 14 meeting discussing external (detached) accessory dwelling units (ADUs), associated utility and infrastructure requirements, and how ADUs should be regulated alongside short‑term rentals. After an extended review of other cities’ ordinances and state law, commissioners voted to table a forward-ready recommendation and asked staff to return with clarified language and public-works input.

Staff and commissioners reviewed examples from Farmington, Mill Creek, West Point, South Salt Lake and Clinton. Public Works Director Monroe (not present to speak but described by staff) had advised staff that requiring separate culinary water and sanitary sewer laterals and utility meters for detached ADUs is technically preferable because small residential service lines (often 1-inch) may not be sized to handle the increased load. Staff said a separate sewer lateral can cost about $10,000; commissioners and staff flagged that cost as a significant deterrent for owners considering detached ADU construction.

Commissioners discussed a series of policy choices: whether ADUs should be owner-occupied, whether ADUs may be sold separately, whether short‑term rentals should be permitted inside ADUs, and how to limit overall household density (many commissioners favored one additional dwelling unit per lot). They reviewed possible numerical limits and thresholds used elsewhere: minimum lot sizes of 6,000 or 8,000 square feet, larger-lot thresholds (10,000–12,000) tied to larger allowable ADU square footage, and size caps in other cities ranging from about 650 to 1,500 square feet depending on lot size and ADU type.

State law on internal ADUs was quoted during the meeting: internal ADUs are defined and protected under state statute for long-term rentals (30 consecutive days or longer); the commission noted that municipalities cannot impose certain size or lot-size restrictions on internal ADUs under that law. Commissioners said that external ADUs can be regulated more strictly at the local level, but they must coordinate local definitions and the code glossary so “internal,” “attached,” and “detached/external” ADUs are consistently defined.

Commissioners expressed repeated concerns about the city’s infrastructure capacity (water and sewer), parking and enforcement, neighborhood character and privacy (height and setback rules), and the effect on school enrollment if more households locate in existing neighborhoods. They also discussed short‑term rentals separately; staff advised that the city’s current rental-license code does not allow rentals of less than 30 days and that the commission should treat short‑term rental regulation as a separate ordinance rather than folding those rules into an ADU ordinance. After discussion, the commission voted to table the external ADU recommendation and return with a consolidated ADU chapter (internal and external) that incorporates Public Works’ guidance on utilities, clearer definitions, and a draft table of lot-size and size limits.

Next steps: staff will (1) consult Public Works (Monroe) on utilities and infrastructure limits; (2) clean up the ADU definitions and the code glossary; (3) finalize a draft ordinance text and fill the ADU size/lot-size table; and (4) return the item to the commission for final recommendation to the City Council.","Commissioners spent more than two hours discussing external (detached) accessory dwelling units (ADUs), utilities, lot-size thresholds, parking, and how ADUs intersect with short-term rentals. The commission tabled a recommendation to the City Council pending additional staff input, especially from Public Works.",{"_33":85,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":86,"_41":87,"_43":88,"_45":89,"_46":90,"_48":49,"_50":91,"_52":-5,"_53":54,"_55":56,"_57":92,"_59":60,"_61":62,"_63":93,"_65":66,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":72},6585834,"Planning commission recommends removing single-room-occupancy strategy from moderate-income housing element",460,177000,637000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5589340-8278101331f46a373ddfc111857422cb&start=177&end=637","/articles/6585834/Utah/Planning-commission-recommends-removing-single-room-occupancy-strategy-from-moderate-income-housing-element","The Sunset City Planning Commission on Aug. 14 voted to recommend that the City Council remove “Strategy 4” from the moderate-income housing element of the city’s general plan.

Commission staff and an outside adviser told the commission the strategy can be removed and that doing so would require a public hearing at the council level. Staff described Strategy 4 as language proposing amendments to land-use regulations to allow single-room-occupancy (SRO) developments — typically conversions of hotels or boarding-house-style buildings into long-term single-room rental units — and said the provision had originally been included as part of a broader effort to address short-term rentals and other nonconforming rental situations.

Commissioners said the SRO language was not a good fit for Sunset. They noted there are few locally suitable buildings for conversion (staff identified the existing AmeriStay property as the only plausible candidate in the Sunset neighborhood) and questioned the potential for the city to realize any state or regional funding tied to having the additional strategy in place. Commissioners also discussed how the strategy had been framed earlier to address short-term rentals, and several said that overlap made it confusing to keep the provision in the city’s moderate-income housing plan.

Commission staff advised the commission that removing the strategy would not preclude the city from adding housing strategies later if priorities or funding opportunities change. The commission made a motion and voted in favor of recommending removal; the item will be forwarded to the City Council, which will need to hold a public hearing before any change to the general plan is adopted.

Next steps: staff will prepare the recommendation packet for City Council and schedule the required public hearing. Members of the public and council will be able to comment at that hearing.","At its Aug. 14 meeting the Sunset City Planning Commission voted to recommend the city council remove “Strategy 4,” a provision that would have allowed single-room-occupancy developments, from the moderate-income housing element of the general plan.","actionData","errors"]

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