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Alpine Planning Commission approves home-occupation permit for Alpine Bakery with pickup, parking and hourly limits
Summary
On Nov. 19 the Commission approved Melissa Wilhite's home-occupation (cottage-food) permit for Alpine Bakery at 90 Pioneer Drive with conditions limiting pickups to 1–2 at a time, requiring two off-street parking spaces, hours of 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., proof of state cottage-food approval, and a cap of 15 customer pickups per day.
The Alpine City Planning Commission voted Nov. 19 to approve a home-occupation permit for Alpine Bakery, a cottage-food operation at 90 Pioneer Drive, with specific conditions intended to limit neighborhood impacts.
The permit was presented by city staff as an administrative conditional use decision subject to state cottage-food rules administered by the Utah Department of Agriculture. The applicant, Melissa Wilhite, told the commission the business would be pickup-only and largely preordered, with a website that spaces 10‑minute pickup slots; she said she has been approved under the state's cottage-food process and that her personal goals are "maybe 8 a day." "I have goals of maybe 8 a day," Wilhite said.
Commissioners framed conditions to tie mitigation to enforceable code standards. The approval includes: a limit of no more than 1–2 customers at a time on site for pickups; at least two dedicated off‑street parking spaces for customer pickup during business hours; hours of operation set at 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.; provision of proof of any required state health-department or cottage-food approval; and a maximum of 15 customer pickups per day. The motion to approve, moved by Suze Wittenberg and seconded by Jeff Davis, passed by unanimous voice vote.
Staff noted no public hearing was required because the action is administrative in nature under current code. Commissioners said the conditions were selected so they could be enforced under city code (for example, via code enforcement if health or safety issues arise) rather than by relying on public preference alone.
The Commission’s approval will be recorded in meeting minutes and the permit conditions will be applied to the applicant’s file for ongoing compliance review.
