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Emery County planner to ask county attorney to review Huntington Canyon owner's trailer, uses

Emery County Planning and Zoning Commission · March 12, 2025
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Summary

A Huntington Canyon property owner asked the Emery County Planning and Zoning Commission for written clarification about what he may do on a one-acre nonconforming lot — including parking trailers, pitching tents and keeping shipping containers — and the commission referred his questions to the county attorney for legal review.

Jason Merrill, a Huntington Canyon property owner, pressed the Emery County Planning and Zoning Commission on March 2025 for written, legally binding answers about what he may do on his one-acre nonconforming lot, saying county staff had given him inconsistent verbal guidance.

Merrill told the commission he had been told at different times that he could fish, park a car or park an RV on the parcel but later received a county letter saying the county's rules had not changed and that he needed to request permission in writing for certain uses. He listed a long set of specific questions for the commission and the county attorney,…

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