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Council keeps Provo’s ‘extra living space’ policy but adds safety-inspection requirement
Summary
After a months‑long review, the council declined on March 25 to expand the city’s extra‑living‑space program for hardship applicants and instead voted to keep the current administrative program while adding a required safety inspection for licensed extra living spaces.
Lede: The Provo City Council on March 25 voted to retain its existing “extra living space” licensing program (Provo City Code 14.34) and directed staff to require health-and-safety inspections for any extra‑living‑space license, rather than create a new income‑ or hardship‑based pathway.
Nut graf: Staff had been asked last year to explore a hardship or economic pathway that would allow additional homeowners to license extra living spaces in their homes. After legal review and council discussion, councilors concluded that a legally enforceable, income‑based hardship route would be hard to…
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