Planning commission backs rewrite of neighborhood commercial rules to replace "live‑work" with "neighborhood mixed use"

Cottonwood Heights Planning Commission recommended approval on June 4 of a city‑initiated zoning text amendment (ZTA‑25‑001) that replaces existing live‑work references in Chapter 19.37 (Neighborhood Commercial) with a new "neighborhood mixed use" category and adds specific development standards.

The revision was introduced by city planning staff as a response to a City Council moratorium on live‑work uses imposed in February and is intended to better define how residential uses may be incorporated into neighborhood commercial (NC) properties. Staff said the city has up to 180 days following the moratorium to provide clearer code language.

Under the proposed text amendment, several codified conditional uses in the NC zone would be removed (bed and breakfast, home occupations, home preschools, planned unit developments, residential facilities…