Planning commission recommends approval of text amendments to building and subdivision codes

The Kaysville City Planning Commission on May 20 recommended approval of text amendments to Title 18 (building regulations) and Title 19 (subdivisions), following a staff presentation and a public hearing. The motion to recommend approval passed during the meeting.

The amendments address several technical and procedural items staff said are driven by legislative changes and practical issues that have arisen while working with developers and contractors. A staff member explained that many edits consolidate technical guidance into reference manuals and clarify how the city applies state low-impact development (LID) rules and its own standards and specifications. "Low impact development is a requirement EPA and the state department of environmental quality. It has to do with retaining, the first, like, eightieth percentile of a storm," the staff member said, noting the practical question about when LID is "feasible" on a site.

The nut of the proposal is administrative consolidation and clarification: the amendments propose adopting a drainage design manual by reference (moving some technical text out of code and into a single manual), incorporate…