Historic Landmark Commission approves rear addition at approximately 317 North Beach Street

The Salt Lake City Historic Landmark Commission approved a minor alteration application for a rear-yard addition at approximately 317 North Beach Street, granting multiple modifications to the commission's standards and voting unanimously to accept staff's recommendation.

Staff presented the project as a rear addition proposed to sit largely behind the existing house and described it as “generally larger in scale” and visible enough that staff did not feel comfortable approving it administratively, said Aaron Barlow, senior planner. The application requested modifications to maximum-building-height (eight additional inches), a change to maximum wall height (the transcript records both “three inches” and later “three feet”; the record does not resolve that discrepancy), a one-foot encroachment of the first floor into the north side yard, a…