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Planning director outlines code cleanups, RMF zone merge and state bills affecting single‑family lot sizes
Summary
City planning staff briefed the commission on multiple initiated text amendments — including merging RMF zones, clarifying adaptive reuse incentives and fence/utility language — and warned of pending state legislation that could lower minimum single‑family lot sizes to 4,000 square feet, prompting urban wildland interface concerns.
Salt Lake City planning staff updated the Planning Commission on several zoning code text‑amendments initiated by the mayor and City Council and on early bills filed in the Utah Legislature that could affect local land‑use regulations.
The planning director said the city has initiated roughly six to seven text amendments since November, the largest being a proposed consolidation of several RMF residential districts (RMF‑35, RMF‑40, RMF‑5) into a new RMF‑45 zone. Staff told commissioners the consolidation is intended to simplify standards and will be briefed to the commission at a future meeting before holding a public hearing.
Staff also described a council‑initiated…
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