Draper Planning Commission Meeting - January 22, 2026
Draper Planning Commission Meeting - January 22, 2026
The Draper Planning Commission met on January 22, 2026, at 1:45 PM. The meeting was called to order with no public attendees present. The commission approved minutes from November 20, 2025, and considered four city-initiated text amendments to update the municipal code in response to recent Utah State Code changes. All items were unanimously approved.
Consent Calendar
- Approved the planning commission meeting minutes for November 20, 2025, by a unanimous vote (5-0).
Public Comments & Testimony
- No public comments were made on any agenda item.
Discussion Items
- City Initiated Utah State Code Reference Update (Application 2026-002-TA): Staff Todd Taylor presented a text amendment to Titles 9, 11, and 17 to renumber sections in response to Senate Bill 1008 from the 2025 first special session. The commission voted unanimously to forward a positive recommendation to the city council.
- City Initiated Variance and Land Use Appeal Update (Application 2026-003-TA): This amendment responded to House Bill 368, which prohibits the city from requiring a public hearing for variances or land use appeals. The code was changed from "hearing" to "meeting," and the title of the hearing officer was updated. Commissioner Susan questioned the rationale, and staff explained that variances are legal matters where public input is irrelevant. The commission approved the amendment unanimously.
- City Initiated Public Access Amenity Zoning Text Amendment (Application 2026-004-TA): In response to House Bill 368, the amendment removes requirements for private maintenance of public access amenities, changing references from "public use space" to "open space." Staff noted that the city cannot require public access to private open space. The commission approved the amendment unanimously.
- City Initiated Residential Parking Requirements Zoning Text Amendment (Application 2026-005-TA): This amendment addressed Senate Bill 181, which modifies parking dimensions, allows tandem parking for single-family and townhome dwellings, and prohibits the city from requiring a garage for owner-occupied affordable housing. The amendment also added standards for visitor parking. The commission approved the amendment unanimously.
Key Outcomes
- All four text amendments were forwarded with positive recommendations to the Draper City Council by unanimous votes (5-0 each).
- The commission also discussed conflict of interest disclosure forms, which were distributed for completion after the meeting.
Meeting Transcript
All right, good evening. Welcome to our Draper planning commission meeting. Today's date is January 22nd, 2026. Welcome to the new year. We would like to thank the staff for getting everything ready tonight and the agenda will move forward as proposed and posted, correct? We don't have any changes as proposed. So all right, and thanks to the commissioners up here for volunteering their time. And again, uh I would thank the attendance of our citizens and fellow neighbors, but we don't have any, so unless they're listening in, we'll welcome you remotely. So let's go ahead and get started. Uh tonight's agenda item. We have an action item just simply for approving the planning commission meeting minutes for November 20th, way back when on 2025. Will someone give us a motion to approve that? Or is there anything that we need to change? Go ahead. I don't know that date. November 20th. I have a motion. I move we approve the planning commission meeting minutes for November 20th, 2025. Perfect. Thank you, Mary. And who will second that motion? I'll second that. Thanks, Kendra. Okay, let's put it to a vote then. Mary? Yes. Kendra? Yes. Susan? Yes. Lisa? Yes. And Gary. Yes. Perfect. All right. So the next one we have is a public hearing, and this is a city initiated Utah State Code reference update text amendment request. So on the request of Draper City, a text amendment to portions of the Draper City Municipal Code, titles 9, 11, and 17 in order to update reference update references to Utah State Code known as application number 2026-002-TA and Todd Taylors our staff contact. So go ahead, Todd. Thank you. As met as this is a proposed text amendments, these are in responses to changes in Utah State Code, specifically Senate Bill 1008, which was adopted during the first special session last year. So I've included all the text here, but basically it's just renumbering sections. So and then uh just as a note, uh if there were sections in the other three text amendments, those got updated in those amendments. So uh it just sort of depended where the text uh fell between all four of these text amendments. So that concludes my presentation. Thank you. Well done. All right, this is a public hearing, so if there's no questions for staff, we'll go ahead and open it up to hot public debate. So if anyone would like to attend our meeting and actually uh give us three minutes of their opinion, they're welcome to do that now. We don't see anyone, so we'll go ahead and close the public hearing portion.
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