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Salt Lake City council signals support to remove numeric limit on unrelated residents
Summary
City planning staff briefed the council on a proposal to change the zoning code's definition of "family," noting enforcement challenges and housing affordability concerns. A straw poll showed council support for eliminating the current numeric limit on unrelated people living together and staff will draft a text amendment for public review.
Planning staff presented a review of the city's zoning definition of "family" and recommended next steps after an April 2025 legislative intent asked the administration to propose changes. Nick Tarbeck summarized the history of the rule, saying the code evolved from a broadly permissive 1927 definition to a 1978 rule that allows relatives or up to three unrelated people to live together. Tarbeck told the council the current wording forces households into binary categories and is difficult…
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