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Box Elder planning commission recommends council approve focused zoning amendments after debate over tree requirement
Summary
The City of Box Elder Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend City Council approve Ordinance 765, a package of focused zoning-code changes updating definitions, renaming residential districts by density, clarifying parking and carport rules, and adding landscaping standards — with the commission amending out a mandatory residential tree requirement following debate about cost and enforceability.
The Box Elder Planning Commission on July 1 recommended that City Council approve Ordinance 765, a set of targeted amendments to the municipal zoning code that rename residential districts by density, add a commercial landscaping points table, clarify off-street parking rules and carport permitting, and fix several drafting errors in the 2022 overhaul of the ordinance.
Marley Patton, the city’s planning director, told the commission the package was a focused follow-up to the 2022 rewrite and is intended to fix inconsistencies and respond to public feedback. "We updated the names of our residential zoning districts," Patton said, adding the change emphasizes density — "residential 1 is a low density and a residential 4 is a high density" — rather than the types of housing allowed in a district.
The discussion concentrated on landscaping and a proposed residential-tree requirement. Patton described a new landscaping approach that applies primarily to commercial projects and initially proposed a residential standard of one tree per 50 feet of lot frontage, citing several years of public…
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