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Planning commission forwards major Title 19 reorganization chapters to council for review
Summary
The commission voted to forward a restructured set of administrative and transition rules (Title 19 reorganization) to the City Council, including explicit pending‑ordinance (180‑day) provisions and other cleanups; commissioners asked staff to sweep capitalization and defined‑term edits.
Emigration Canyon’s planning commission on July 10 voted unanimously to forward a broad reorganization of Title 19 — the municipal zoning and land‑use code — to the City Council with a set of recommended editorial cleanups.
Staff presented a redline and a clean version of the proposed restructuring, which reorders existing provisions, incorporates administrative chapters and adds two subsections the planners flagged as essential: (1) transition rules that implement the state’s pending‑ordinance/vesting framework and (2) application‑processing rules investigators said should be adopted now to avoid administrative loopholes.
The planning commission and staff said the reorganization aims to move low‑controversy, foundational language into an updated code structure so that commissioners can return later to more complex sections (for example, site‑design and the FCOS chapters) without leaving major administrative gaps. Staff compared the proposed structure to work done for Brighton and Park City, and the town attorney encouraged adopting the pending‑ordinance provisions so applicants cannot seek to ‘‘vest’’ under outdated rules when changes are imminent.
Commissioners asked staff to make a range of editorial cleanups before the ordinance goes to council: replace references to "town" or "metro township" with "city" where appropriate; capitalize defined institutional names such as "Building Official" and "Planning Commission"; and use the defined term "Director of Planning and Development Services or the director’s designee" consistently. They also flagged several timing and procedural paragraphs (how to compute deadlines, mailing/notice procedures and plan‑submission requirements) for focused review when the staff brings Chapter 19.16 (land‑use application procedures) next month.
A motion to forward the proposed reorganization with the editorial changes passed unanimously. Staff said the changes will be renumbered and formatted for the council packet and that other chapters to be adopted later (site development standards, specific use standards) will replace legacy language still temporarily retained in the draft.
The commission’s action does not by itself change any land‑use approvals on the ground; it authorizes staff to proceed with the next step of preparing ordinance language and updated website materials for City Council review.
