Current Petitions

The city is updating provisions for attached garages.   They are removing building design standards that conflict with state legislation, removing some building code standards, and revisiting provisions for attached garages.  This looks like a text cleanup, while they also will assess if the city goals...

We have received a proposal to build a 4-lot subdivision with 3 lots without frontage on a public street.  This is in the RMF-35 zone.  This would create four individually owned lots, with a townhome on each lot. All new lots in this zone are...

This is the original proposal from 2023.  We are no longer taking comments for this one.  Please use the NEW PROPOSAL to provide comments from July 10 , 2024 forward. ============================================= UPDATE on February 10. The planner originally set a date of February 6 for our letter...

Mayor Erin Mendenhall has initiated a zoning text amendment to correct driveway and loading area standards found in the zoning code. Chapter 21A.44 was amended in October 2022 and since then, staff has found that certain standards created unintended consequences. For example, the ordinance now requires a maximum...

This is a proposal for a text amendment to the Salt Lake City zoning code, aiming to increase housing ownership opportunities by permitting single-family attached housing in commercial districts (CB, CS, CC, CSHBD, and CG) where multi-family is currently allowed. text amendment  primarily seeks to revise existing zoning regulations, aiming to eliminate unnecessary obstacles in producing for-sale homes. Please note this proposal is from a property owner, not the city or the mayor.

The Salt Lake City Planning Division is proposing a text amendment to update the standards related to mobile businesses, which includes retail businesses operated from trucks, trailers, and vending carts. In 2017 and 2023, Utah State code was amended to expand where these types of businesses are...

Salt Lake City proposes ordinance changes concerning the enforcement of buildingconstruction including the maintenance of unsecured, boarded or unsafe buildings. Associatedpermit fees are also to be considered to be amended as follows:• Modernize/reflect the City’s existing zoning enforcement process and incorporate thatsame process into Title...

The Planning Division has received a request and is notifying your organization to solicit comments on the proposal, which impacts properties within the H Historic Preservation Overlay District.  This will impact properties within the H Historic Preservation Overlay District in Local or National Historic Districts Mayor Erin...

The Salt Lake City Planning Division is working on a new subdivision code, which would update the existing subdivision rules to comply with recently adopted state code requirements.  Our current zoning code describes a subdivision as any land that is divided, subdivided, or proposed to...

(This will be on the SHCC Land Use and Zoning LUZ agenda September 18 6 p.m. Sprague LIbrary) The City’s Planning Division is considering updates to portions of the Land Use Code to implementpolicies identified in Thriving in Place to mitigate involuntary displacement due to developmentpressure....