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Council adopts Envision Sandy 2050 comprehensive plan after multi-year public process
Summary
Council adopted Ordinance 2024-18, updating Sandy’s comprehensive plan (Envision Sandy 2050) after two-plus years of outreach. Staff and consultants summarized vision themes, stakeholder workshops on natural hazards, and minor edits; council closed the hearing with no public testimony and approved first and second readings.
The Sandy City Council adopted Envision Sandy 2050 (Ordinance 2024-18) after a multi-year planning and engagement effort that staff and consultants described as drawing on nearly 1,000 community contacts and focused stakeholder workshops.
Annie (planning consultant) summarized the process and the new plan’s structure: six vision themes, 2–5 goals per theme and 4–10 supporting policies per goal. She highlighted targeted outreach (student engagement at Sandy High School, intercept surveys in English and Spanish, a Future Fest event) and a natural-hazards stakeholder workshop that informed wildfire-mitigation recommendations. Staff noted minor edits since the May draft, corrected a clerical use of "community" vs. "wastewater" on page 78, and confirmed DLCD and Fair Housing Council comments were incorporated.
Council opened the public hearing and, with no members of the public requesting to speak, closed it and moved through first and second readings with a staff-proposed amendment. The first reading passed by voice vote; council then moved and approved the second reading and adoption of Ordinance 2024-18 that updates the city’s comprehensive plan and associated maps.
Several councilors sought clarification about whether zoning map changes are part of the adoption. Staff and the consultant explained the comp plan adoption establishes policy and plan maps; property rezones and comprehensive-plan map changes remain a separate, implementation-stage process that requires public hearings and may be subject to individual quasi-judicial review.
Next steps: staff will implement policies, bring forward targeted map or zoning amendments as discrete implementation items (for example, a planned rezone for a commercial village node noted in the plan), and continue work on development-code updates aligned with the new plan.
