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Commission approves rewrite of nonconforming‑use rules, tightens limits on rebuilding and expansions
Summary
The planning commission unanimously recommended replacing the city’s old nonconforming‑use chapter with a revised section that narrows how nonconforming structures and uses may be changed or expanded; commissioners removed a proposed allowance to convert a nonconforming use to another nonconforming use.
On July 10 the Emigration Canyon Planning Commission recommended that the City Council adopt a rewritten chapter addressing nonconforming uses and noncomplying structures intended to limit how existing nonconformities may be enlarged or changed.
Staff and the town attorney told commissioners the county legacy language gave property owners broad rights to alter nonconforming structures in ways that could significantly increase intensity (commonly cited example: a small nonconforming cabin expanded into a much…
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