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Layton councilors outline priorities: active-transport plans, PRD limits, water-smart landscaping and improved accessibility
Summary
Council members prioritized integrating active transportation into road planning, tightening planned residential development (PRD) rules, addressing topsoil removal and water-wise landscaping, exploring a dedicated communications function, and improving building accessibility.
Council members spent a sizable portion of the work session listing and debating near‑term priorities they want staff to convert into work‑plan items for the coming budget cycle.
“We want to let planning staff give us ideas from a legislative standpoint,” one council member said during a broad discussion of PRD rules and development exceptions, urging the council to request an ordinance that narrows or clarifies qualifying criteria. Council member Zach warned that, in some cases, “the exception has swallowed…
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