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Commission recommends county code change to let CDD handle small boundary adjustments
Summary
After staff explained a recent state law change, the commission voted unanimously to recommend an amendment designating the Community Development Director or designated planning staff as the land-use authority for partial boundary line adjustments, aiming to clear administrative backlog and avoid routing simple adjustments to council.
The Snyderville Basin Planning Commission voted May 20 to forward a positive recommendation to county council for an amendment to the Snyderville Basin Development Code (section cited in the transcript as 10.3.17) that would make the Community Development Director (CDD) or a designated planning staff member the land-use authority for partial boundary adjustments.
Ray, the presenter, said a recent state law change requires that boundary line adjustments be submitted to a land-use authority for verification of compliance and consent. "The state code changed a few months ago, and part of the state code requires that now these boundary line adjustments be submitted to a land use authority and that the land use authority verifies, compliance and consent," Ray said, explaining that the proposed code amendment would designate the CDD or a designated staff member to handle partial adjustments administratively.
Commissioners raised practical questions about how "small" adjustments are defined, whether a change could affect property taxes or buildable status, and whether adjustments inside a subdivided plat still require a plat amendment. Ray and Peter (the Community Development Director) clarified that the proposed change targets administrative, non-density-altering cleanups — not subdivision or plat-amendment activity — and that the CDD could designate staff to act with his authority. Peter added that the code previously lacked a designated land-use authority for this process and that state code defaulted such actions to the county council when no local designation existed. "Our code actually specifically designates a land use authority for each of our separate processes. The issue with the boundary line adjustment is that it didn't have 1 designated in the code," Peter said.
A commissioner moved a positive recommendation to the county council for the amended code language; the motion was seconded and passed by unanimous voice vote. The recommendation asks the county council to adopt the change after the required public hearing process at council.
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