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Hooper planning staff asks commission to consider raising thresholds for "oversized" accessory buildings
Summary
Planning staff presented data showing most accessory-shop applications cluster well under current limits and asked the commission whether the city should adopt a percentage-based rule or raise the square‑foot threshold before a conditional use permit is required.
Hooper City planning staff asked the Planning Commission on June 12 to consider revising the city code that triggers conditional use permits for oversized accessory structures.
Staff said the city currently requires accessory structures above relatively low absolute square-foot thresholds (for example, around 2,000 square feet in some zones) to obtain a conditional use permit. That approach, staff said, produces frequent permit applications that the commission routinely approves. "We're making anyone over 2,000 come in," the presenter said, and compared Hooper to neighboring cities…
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