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Emigration Canyon planning commission endorses staff-led 'housekeeping' approach to code updates
Summary
Commissioners agreed staff should reformat zoning and subdivision chapters into a model-code layout and produce a side‑by‑side spreadsheet showing current vs. proposed language; staff will draft a concrete process and offer training before the next meeting.
Claire, a city planning staff member, opened the meeting by asking to take the code‑amendments item out of order and described the problem: many sections of the Emigration Canyon code are inconsistent and out of date, with some conditional‑use language last revised in 2006 and fragments dating to 1985. "The juice is not worth the squeeze," she said of prior confusion around the Forestry Ordinance, arguing that clearer presentation can avoid unnecessary controversy.
The commission spent the bulk of the meeting debating process rather than specific policy changes. Claire proposed a two‑step approach: first a housekeeping phase in which staff would reformat…
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