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Commissioners recommend land‑use code updates: land farming, shooting ranges, subdivision language
Summary
Tooele County planning commissioners voted unanimous favorable recommendations to amend land‑use code items that would add definitions for land farming, add firearms training and shooting ranges as conditional uses in specific zones with state‑required deed notification, and update subdivision language per state requirements.
Tooele County planning commissioners unanimously recommended several text amendments to the county land‑use ordinance, approving additions and clarifications on land farming, outdoor/indoor shooting ranges, and subdivision procedures to bring county code into alignment with state rules.
The planning commission recommended the county council adopt TC LUO 2025‑079 to add definitions for “land farming” and “land farming modified” into chapters 2 and 27 (mining, quarry, sand and gravel excavations) and to add those uses to the applicable use tables. Planning staff told commissioners that the amendment responds to requests and clarifies that land farming involves treating imported soils so they are not contaminated and may later be sold or reused; the amendment also states such…
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