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Provo city attorney defends public conditional-use hearings, staff outlines notice practices
Summary
City Attorney Brian Jones and staff reviewed why Provo’s planning commission hears conditional-use permits, how public notice is handled and how the Open Meetings Act applies to commissioner–council interactions.
Brian Jones, Provo City Attorney, told a joint meeting of the Provo City Planning Commission and the Provo City Council that conditional-use permits in Provo are treated differently than in many Utah jurisdictions and that the planning commission’s public hearings play a specific, limited role.
Jones said the city’s form of government separates legislative and administrative powers and that the planning commission serves primarily as an advisory body on land-use rules and recommendations to the council. He emphasized that “if it meets the code, it must be granted,” describing conditional-use permits as approvals that are required when an application meets code standards rather than discretionary decisions based on…
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