Draper City Planning Commission Meeting - December 18, 2025
Draper City Planning Commission Meeting - December 18, 2025
The Draper City Planning Commission convened for its final meeting of 2025 to review two public hearing items regarding land use amendments and wireless facility modifications, followed by administrative updates on commissioner training and city council actions from a recent meeting.
Consent Calendar
- No specific consent calendar items were listed; the commission proceeded directly to public hearings.
Public Comments & Testimony
- Break Subdivision Plat Amendment: No members of the public attended or provided testimony during the open public comment period.
- T-Mobile Steep Mountain Park Amendment: No members of the public attended or provided testimony during the open public comment period.
Discussion Items
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Break Subdivision Plat Amendment (App 2025-0174-SUB):
- Staff and the applicant (Gary Knapp) presented a request to consolidate portions of Lot 7 and Lot 8 in the Draperville Plat to create a single lot for commercial development.
- Commissioners sought clarification regarding existing structures shown on the submitted plat. Staff confirmed the structures were recently demolished and would be removed from the final recorded plat.
- Concerns were raised regarding liquor licensing and distancing requirements for a potential bar. Staff clarified that the Planning Commission does not review the liquor license application or the specific distancing standards; the Business License Official will verify state-mandated distancing standards at the time of the license application.
- The applicant confirmed the intent is to locate a commercial establishment (referenced in prior meetings as a potential bar and grill) on the property.
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T-Mobile Steep Mountain Park Amendment (App 2025-0275-USE):
- Staff and the applicant (Jacob Ryans) presented a request to amend conditions for an existing wireless telecommunications facility at Steep Mountain Park. The proposal includes increasing pole height by two feet (40 to 42 feet), removing a canister, and installing a new antenna array painted to match the pole color.
- A commissioner questioned the width of the proposed antennas. Staff noted they would be less wide than existing lights and qualified as a "stealth" design.
- A commissioner inquired about lease fees paid to the city for pole placement in a public park. Staff confirmed a lease exists between T-Mobile and the city.
Key Outcomes
- Approval of Subdivision Plat Amendment:
- Motion passed unanimously (5-0, with Mary moving and Lisa seconding) to approve the subdivision plat amendment based on findings of good cause and no vacated easements.
- Approval of Wireless Facility Amendment:
- Motion passed unanimously (5-0, with Lisa moving and Susan seconding) to approve the conditional use permit amendment for the T-Mobile facility with standard findings and conditions.
- Training Updates: Staff confirmed all commissioners have completed their required annual training hours.
- City Council Updates: Staff relayed that City Council recently approved zoning map and land use map amendments for Bangater Crossroads and Open Shaw, as well as a geotechnical text amendment and appendix standards. A development agreement application is required before the zoning changes take effect on May 7th.
Meeting Transcript
Good evening. Welcome to our Draper City Planning Commission meeting data today, December 18th, 2025. Thank you to the staff for getting everything ready. This is our last meeting of the year, so you've done great all year, so kudos. We appreciate you uh getting the reports put together and to us with plenty of time to review. Thanks to the um volunteers up here, the commissioners that spend their time looking at those, and we also appreciate the applicants that are here tonight. And then if anyone's listening in, we welcome the public. So let's go ahead and get things started. Our agenda tonight. We have two items on there uh as posted, and there's no changes to the agenda, correct? All right. So let's go ahead and get things started off. Uh we have two public hearings. The first of which is the break subdivision plat amendment. It's on the request of Gary Knapp representing LM Restaurant Group LC, a subdivision plat amendment located on 1.02 acres of property located at approximately 1240 south 700 east and 12258 south and 700 east. No one is application 2025-0174-SUB. So Nick Whitaker's our contact, so go ahead, Nick. Thank you. Uh so yes, this is the break subdivision plat amendment request. Uh here's a vicinity map of the property. That's right off of 700 east and uh uh 123rd south, more or less. Here's an aerial map of the property. Um this may look familiar almost exactly a year ago. The applicant was here um requesting a zone change. Uh here's the land use map. It's uh neighborhood commercial and zoning is CC, which is community commercial. So here the project summary is um the project summary is amending the Draperville plat to consolidate portions of lot seven, which is one, two, two, four, zero south, seven hundred east, and lot eight, which is one two two five eight south, seven hundred east, located on block seventeen of the Draperville Platte. The consolidation of the subject property is to uh the subject properties is to accommodate the creation of a commercial development, and a geotechnical study was conducted at the subject property and determined to be acceptable. So here is the Draperville Platte. Right here are the subject properties. This is block 17. I'll get up closer. So the applicant is wanting to combine portions of um lot seven and eight to create a single lot to develop that property. This is the um uh amended plat. Um the final version will have the uh uh structures removed from the um from the mylar. Uh any questions or comments. Nick, I'm not sure what we're looking at. Can you go back the one slide, please? Yeah. Um I couldn't understand what this is. What what is what's this plat of? I apologize. So this is lot seven and eight of the Draperville plat. Right. Uh combining it together into one. Yeah. What are these structures? I mean, what are they showing me? Because aren't we aren't we reviewing the plat? Yeah, so the so uh and this is in the conditions of the report.
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