Planning commission recommends code change to allow nonstandard land divisions, require later subdivision approvals

The Tooele City Planning Commission on March 26 voted 7-0 to forward a text amendment to the Tooele City Code that would permit nonstandard divisions of land by deed while explicitly requiring that parcels created that way obtain all necessary subdivision and land-use approvals before development.

Planning staff member Andrew Agard presented the proposal as a local code update to reflect existing Utah state law (Utah Code §10-9a-103) that already allows divisions of land by deed or other instruments without prior land-use approval. Agard told the commission the amendment would insert clarifying language into the code’s definitions (Tooele City Code section 7-15) and create a new section (Tooele City Code 7-19) defining nonstandard divisions and stating that a parcel created by such…