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Planning Commission refines Mixed‑Use Overlay draft, keeps one‑acre minimum and 50‑foot height limit
Summary
Commissioners continued drafting of a Mixed‑Use Overlay (MUO), agreeing to require a one‑acre minimum for MUO projects, a 30% minimum commercial component, a 50‑foot height limit, relocation of submittal requirements to Chapter 4, and removal of a flag‑lot ban; staff will incorporate edits and return.
The Brian Head Planning Commission continued its multi‑meeting review of a proposed Mixed‑Use Overlay (MUO) on June 16, providing detailed direction to staff to align the draft with local conditions and to cross‑reference existing LMC provisions.
Planning and Building Administrator Greg Sant presented a draft adapted from another municipality and emphasized it was a starting point. Commissioners asked him to add explicit language that the overlay supplements — rather than replaces — the underlying zoning designation, and to clarify that permitted and excluded uses of the underlying zone remain applicable unless the overlay expressly modifies them.
On development standards the Commission agreed that most technical standards should cross‑reference Chapter 12 to avoid duplication. Staff proposed and the Commission accepted a one‑acre minimum lot size for projects using the MUO, citing requirements for parking, undeveloped area and a viable mix of uses. The draft also requires at least 30% of combined project square footage be commercial or light industrial to prevent the overlay from being used to advance purely residential projects in commercially zoned areas.
The Commission discussed building height and fire access. Greg reported the fire department's ladder truck has a theoretical reach of about 75 feet but that Chairperson Deutschlander (speaking from firefighting experience) urged caution because snow conditions and access can limit practical reach; the Commission retained a 50‑foot height limit in the draft.
Connectivity and sidewalks were kept as flexible, evaluative standards to reflect heavy snowfall and site constraints, while staff was directed to add a requirement that applicants demonstrate on‑site snow‑storage plans. The Commission removed a categorical prohibition on flag lots to preserve feasibility in mountainous lots and directed that the submittal checklist be moved to Chapter 4 (with a cross‑reference in the overlay).
Commissioners also asked for wording edits (replace "city" with "town" and rephrase a double negative in the Purpose section) and requested that a stray reference to "research" in the Light Industrial component be removed pending any separate amendment to the Light Industrial Zone. Greg will revise the MUO draft to incorporate these changes and return it for further review.
