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Virgin council approves three ordinances, sends open-space changes back to planning commission; live-work item tabled
Summary
The Virgin Town Council voted to adopt changes to the town's open-space ordinance and approved two additional ordinances, removed complaint procedure language from the land-use chapter and sent it to the administrative code; the council also voted to enter a closed session and tabled the live-work dwelling ordinance for further work.
The Virgin Town Council at its July 15 regular meeting approved three ordinances and moved into a closed session, while deferring further action on a separate live-work dwelling ordinance.
The council adopted Ordinance 2025-10, a revision to the town's open-space rules that reduces a minimum parcel threshold from 40 acres to 10 acres and creates a placeholder for "prohibited uses" to be specified by the Planning & Zoning Commission. Mayor Jean introduced the change and the council voted to approve the ordinance and send it back to planning commission for specification of prohibited uses.
Council members also voted to send Ordinance 2025-12 to ERC review and approved Ordinance 2025-13, which removes complaint-procedure language from the land-use chapter of Title 16 and instead references the complaint procedure as "contained in Title 2." Council discussion on Ordinance 2025-13 included renumbering and code-formatting details before the motion passed.
On a separate motion, the council voted to table the proposed live-work dwelling ordinance for one month to allow further refinements on whether the use should be created as a conditional-use permit that runs with the land or as an annually renewed license/permit. During that debate council members and staff discussed permit modification procedures, enforcement language and whether to remove the word "written" from the code section on complaints.
Before adjourning the open meeting, the council voted to enter a closed session under Utah statute citation discussed in the meeting (recorded as 52-4-205 variants in the transcript) to discuss purchase, exchange or release of real property and deliberations related to professional competence. The chair called the roll before recessing to closed session.
Votes and formal actions referenced in the meeting record include: Ordinance 2025-10 (open space) ' approved and referred to Planning & Zoning for prohibited uses; Ordinance 2025-12 ' approved for submission to ERC review; Ordinance 2025-13 ' approved with amendment to reference Title 2 for complaint procedure; live-work dwelling ordinance ' tabled for one month for additional drafting and policy choices; motion to enter closed session under state statute ' approved.
The council did not record complete vote tallies in the portion of the transcript provided for all votes; when a roll call was held for the closed session the transcript captures "Valerie: yes" and "Jean: yes" and indicates other affirmative votes, but a full per-member roll call for each ordinance was not transcribed. The town clerk will publish the official minutes with the formal vote record.
The council scheduled further review of the live-work ordinance at the next regular meeting to allow staff to return with alternatives and clearer language on enforcement, permit modification and whether the entitlement should run with the land or be licensed and routinely reviewed.
