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Sandy Planning Commission Meeting: Brew Pub Amendments and Alta Canyon Sports Center (September 4, 2025)

Meeting PortalThursday, September 4, 2025
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DateThursday, September 4, 2025
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0:00

This evening who are here physically as well as anybody that we might have online, and we do apologize for the slight delay in starting this meeting.

0:10

Um, but uh we will begin by uh if you can stand and join me with uh saying the Pledge of Allegiance.

0:19

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and for which it stands and individuality and justice for all okay.

0:38

So we'll begin with uh a few introductions, and uh my name is Dave Bromley, and I will be chairing the meeting this evening, and we'll start off uh to my left uh with Lenise.

0:48

Lenise Davenport, Jennifer George, Danny Schoenfeld, Ron Mortimer, Steve Wrigley, Cameron Duncan.

0:57

Thanks, and then James, if you could introduce staff.

1:00

Sure.

1:00

Um I'm James Swans, the community development director.

1:04

I think tonight, just in the we have mostly staff here, so I'll just have staff who are here tonight raise their hand.

1:11

And they'll be addressing most of the issues with the planning commission tonight.

1:16

So appreciate all them being here.

1:19

Thanks, James.

1:21

Uh okay, so as we address the items uh on the agenda, um we'll we'll go in this manner.

1:30

We'll we'll start uh with a staff introduction and then the project applicant will have the opportunity to provide any presentation as applicable, and then staff will have the opportunity to um uh end the presentation if they so choose as well.

1:46

We'll open the items for public comment and um take any that uh uh comments at that time, and if you could limit comment, come up when you if you're here physically uh if you come up to podium and state your name and address, and uh we'd like to limit the comments to two minutes and and uh to comments that are unique, um, so meaning that they're not uh duplicative of what has been said previously, um, and then um uh we will uh after public comment has been completed, we will close public comment and then we'll open it up to the planning commission for deliberation and a motion.

2:22

And so we'll begin with the um item number two on the agenda, which is uh amendments to Title 21 of the land development code and uh Melissa, I think yep, you're thanks.

2:38

All right, thank you very much.

2:39

Good evening, Chair and Planning Commission.

2:44

So this evening we have a proposal to amend the code, and uh this would be to allow for more areas in the city to allow for a brew hub.

2:58

And uh this slide just shows there's a number of sections of the code that are proposed to be amended, um, our land use matrix for non-residential zones, um, special development districts, um, some standards in our commercial section and definitions.

3:18

So to begin, the main uh thing to understand is that this was an initiative that was initiated by our city council to allowing more brew pubs in the city, and the understanding or how we uh interpret what is a a brew pub is that it's intended to be a restaurant with a brewery that sells beer as well as heavy beer for on-site consumption, so it's not um a tavern necessarily or a bar, but it is meant to be um the the brewery with restaurant combination.

4:01

So um the other um directives that the city council had was uh specifically in in expanding areas, it would be specifically to expand it beyond just the Cairns district because we do allow for that now in our downtown Cairns district, um, but they also wanted staff to look at regulatory and financial barriers uh to entry to allow them, streamline the permitting and the licensing process, which is in Title 15 for our business licenses, and aligning um our code with Utah code.

4:40

So we analyze this and make recommendations addressing all the points that the city council had wanted us to look into, uh, brought that forward to the city council, and they were supportive of the effort, and so they directed us at that time to go ahead and make uh code changes and then just begin through the normal adoption process.

5:06

Now, tonight I'm presenting our land development code proposed changes.

5:12

This initiative also addresses our business licensing, but we don't need to go through the same review and public hearing process for that.

5:23

So when we go to the city council, it will be both Title 15 with our business license administrator as well as myself for addressing land development codes, just so that you know that the context of the process we're going through.

5:37

And there were a number of things we look looked into, but tonight, since we're at this stage of this project, we are specifically trying to implement the direction the council gave us and making amendments to the land development code specifically to allow for brew pubs.

6:00

So now to do a brew pub in the city, we need two specific alcoholic beverage licenses from the Department of Alcohol Beverage Services at the state agency.

6:18

And so they do apply at the city for a license, but then that's coordinated with the state.

6:24

So we're not in our land use tables or listing of a land use that would be allowed.

6:30

We're not saying it's a brew pub necessarily, but what we're saying is that if you have a manufacturer brewery license and then the restaurant license able to serve alcohol, that would enable one to be able to do a brew pub.

6:48

Right now, the manufacturing license is mostly contained just in our downtown Cairns district.

6:58

And so just so that you understand, we're not adding a line item that says brew pub, but it we're enabling that through a manufacturing brewery license, and then it also is uh combined, you'd have to have the restaurant license to serve alcohol.

7:16

And the important thing about the restaurant license is that it requires, and this is state law, uh, that you have at least 70% of food sales.

7:26

So that distinguishes it from a tavern or a bar where you don't have those requirements.

7:32

Um it also ensures that they're mostly you know in a in a restaurant uh food sales business.

7:41

Uh the other thing that's coming from the state law that uh dictates where these things could go is that there's proximity requirements when you get this type of alcoholic beverage license, and that is you need to be separated from certain community locations such as uh schools, churches, libraries, playgrounds, and public parks.

8:14

So that is in existence now, and any time we consider a restaurant license, for example, that would want to serve alcohol, we would check to see the proximity are they might be allowed to do something in the zone, but if they're too close to a church, for example, they would not be able to do that.

8:35

So uh this map that was included in the packet for the planning commission illustrates uh like in all the red areas where we have a buffer around these types of community locations, and I'm mostly wanting to show that so you get a sense of the magnitude or impact of the separation requirements.

9:01

So it does uh limit where these types of things can go.

9:08

Now I think I are I kind of already explained this, but the land use and licensing requirement that a brew pub is enabled by having in the land use matrix a manufacturing brewing license uh brewery license in that zone.

9:26

But caveats or notations have been added that this would only be allowed in certain zones if it's on the same premises as a restaurant, because that's the intention of this initiative, and so we're making sure that that's clear.

9:43

Umso for uh the brew pubs to allow them in zones where you know we were evaluating well where should they be allowed beyond the downtown Cairns district.

9:57

That was the main question, one of the main questions of city council.

10:01

And so uh a restaurant that already is allowed in that zone to get a license to serve alcohol.

10:12

If that zone already allows that, because a brew pub has very similar operational requirements as the the restaurant, that the proposal is to allow a manufacturing brewery license in those same zones, and if in that zone, this restaurant with uh that's allowed to serve alcohol with a propriet license.

10:39

If that's a permitted use, we're proposing uh the brew pub or manufactured brewing license be allowed as a permitted zone, permitted use just like the restaurant, but if it's a conditional use, then we would propose that the manufacturer brewery license is conditional use.

10:57

So that's the methodology or logic that's used of why we would propose additional zones to allow these brew pub type activities.

11:10

And so in the staff report, I included a list of all the zones, and then in the red line strike through version, you can see specifically all those zones that are impacted or where we're proposing to allow that type of use.

11:26

This map illustrates in green those areas where uh this type of land use would be allowed, where brew pub would be allowed in red shows where those proximity requirements are impacting or not allowing that.

11:46

So it just gives you a sense of you know how big of an area that might be impacted, and as you can see areas that we're proposing as the neighborhood activity areas along some of our commercial corridors, and in the down um downtown uh cairns area in green, is where brew pubs are proposed to be allowed.

12:12

Lastly, there were some uh changes proposed to ensure that our code was in alignment within the city code and also with state code.

12:25

So some of the terms and definitions of the Utah Code, we went through those and to make sure there was consistency.

12:33

Uh, for example, they used to use the term club for you know, like a dining club or a fraternity club, um, but now it's a bar establishment.

12:46

So that type of a thing for consistency was was made.

12:50

Um the other thing is in the special development district, the JHS Miller zone, that's at around 9400 South State Street.

13:01

That is already in the Cairns district, and yet the land uses that the other zones in the Cairn district didn't include like restaurant that allowed to serve alcohol.

13:16

I mean, it had a a couple of temporary alcoholic beverage type licenses allowed, but um what we're proposing is is to make it consistent with the rest of the um kind of mixed-use commercial zones that are in the cairns, and so those changes were made, and lastly in the SDMU or mixed-use zone that's at 7800 South, 1300 east.

13:44

There we're removing the non-conformity because there's already an existing restaurant that's licensed to serve alcohol, and it's been there for many years, and so we're adding the restaurant the uh license to serve alcohol as well as the manufacturing brewing license.

14:05

So that restaurant would be then conforming if these code amendments were were adopted.

14:13

That summarizes the extent of it.

14:16

There's a lot of little red lines because there's just a lot of detail, and um, but it's fairly simple, and just the proposal is to allow for brew pubs, which is basically a restaurant with brewery to allow that in more areas beyond just our downtown Cairns district, and uh so we're proposing to allow them in areas that already are allowing a restaurant to get a license to serve alcohol.

14:47

So that's uh our recommendation tonight is for the planning commission to review and make a recommendation to city council because code amendments of the final decision will be with the council.

15:00

So if you have any questions, I'll do my best to answer.

15:04

Uh thanks, Mosha.

15:06

Are there any questions that the commission has?

15:10

Okay, well, thank you.

15:12

Um so we will uh open this meeting up for any public public comment at this time.

15:18

So if there's anybody here that would like to address this issue, if you can come forward to the um whatever that's called.

15:30

Podium.

15:31

Podium.

15:32

So uh seeing seeing none, um Mike, is there any are there any individuals online?

15:37

If you are joining us via Zoom webinar and would like to speak to this particular item, please use the raise your hand feature now, and we'll address you one at a time.

15:58

I'm seeing no hands.

15:59

Okay, all right.

16:00

So we'll close this meeting to public comment this time and then uh bring it back to the planning commission for any uh discussion, deliberation motion.

16:09

Mr.

16:09

Chair, I'm ready to make that motion.

16:11

Great.

16:12

Um I moved to forward a positive recommendation to the city council to amend Title 21 of the Sandy Municipal Code related to brew pubs based on the analysis and four findings in the staff report.

16:25

Great.

16:25

Do we have a second?

16:27

I'll second Lynnie Stavenport, yes.

16:32

Cameron Duncan, yes, Ron Mortimer, yes, Danny Schoenfeld, yes, Steve Wrigley, yes, Jennifer George, yes.

16:40

Dave Bromley, yes.

16:42

This motion carries.

16:43

All right.

16:46

Okay, so we will move to the next agenda item, which is the Alta Canyon Sports Center.

16:53

Um review of modified uh site plan.

16:57

And uh Doug, looks like you are up.

17:02

Yes, yes, thank you.

17:04

Doug Wheelwright, I'm the development services manager in the planning division.

17:10

So we toured we toured this site tonight on our field trip.

17:15

Um also have Dan Medina, our parks director for the city is here.

17:21

Uh he's actually the applicant uh on this, so we'll hear from him a bit as well in this uh so the project involves the demolition of the existing building, which is this building right here.

17:36

Uh the removal of the tennis courts, we're just to the north, and uh the construction in the place of partially in place of the tennis court and totally in place of the old building is a 34,000 square foot multi-purpose recreation building.

17:55

Planning commission will be will be reviewing the building's mass height, architectural design materials, and colors, and you'll also be as part of the site plan the reconfiguration portion of the existing parking lot, and a determination of the number of required parking stalls for the new building.

18:18

Uh I'd like to run through the um the exhibits just to help orient everyone.

18:28

Uh so this one this is an overlay of the new building on top of the old building.

18:35

Here's the old building, and here's the parking lot, or excuse me, tennis court.

18:41

And so the building is expanding.

18:45

The swimming pool stays in place, and there's some modification to this portion of the parking lot, and a new parking lot between the building and uh 9510 South Street, which is right here.

19:01

So let's go to the next one.

19:11

So this was the uh site plan that was shown at the uh neighborhood meeting, and what's different about it is this parking lot and this driveway.

19:20

So there was some objection from the neighborhood about bringing this new driveway onto 9510 street, uh, that it was too close to the residential neighborhood.

19:32

There's a there's an existing home just kidding corner from where this would be.

19:37

Um so we heard that and we talked about ways to to fix that.

19:42

The reason that that was out there was deemed that we needed two accesses to the parking, that this was a long distance perhaps with um no way to get no more formal turnaround at the end of it.

19:57

Let's go to the next one, please.

20:03

There we go.

20:05

This shows the the extent of the area that'll be involved in the in the demolition.

20:11

So about half the parking lot, the whole building, all of this.

20:18

So here's the new site plan.

20:20

And you can see that what's happened is we've eliminated this driveway extension and shortened up the parking lot, but expanded it north to south into this area to pick up as many stalls as possible.

20:33

Um so the main entrance to the building shifts for where it is now to the northwest.

20:42

This is where you'll enter, and there's a drop off lane here.

21:04

So there's the new building.

21:06

What does it look like?

21:11

I don't know.

21:12

Are you advancing?

21:14

Okay.

21:15

If we could run through the rest of the mic, then we'll so this is showing the four elevations of the building.

21:24

This is this is the north side.

21:28

Um this is the west side, I believe.

21:35

No, sorry, this is the west side.

21:37

This is the north side.

21:41

There is a hill that will be built into a bit.

21:46

Uh all the architectural materials are uh meet our requirements.

21:50

There's no EFA stucco at all on the building.

21:53

It's all metal panels and masonry.

21:56

Um let's go to the next.

21:58

This is the colors, so the glass colors.

22:01

Um four different shades of gray, and then the uh subdued red brick.

22:12

So that's pretty much it.

22:14

I'm we also have a uh a fly through, and maybe uh Dan, if you wouldn't mind coming up to go through that.

22:27

I'm sorry.

22:32

Yeah.

22:34

I thought that's what I was doing.

22:38

Sure.

22:39

Dan of Parks and Recreation Director.

22:42

Um I've read the staff report.

22:46

I'm in agreement with the staff report.

22:49

Um I understand we need to look at the sign package.

22:53

Um that's not being approved tonight, but we need to do some things to take care of that part.

22:58

Um I feel like the improvements listening to the neighbors really helped that out.

23:03

I did get a chance to go around and talk to uh the neighbors yesterday, making sure that they were comfortable with the plans that we presented.

23:11

With the five people I talked to, I got good feedback.

23:14

So I feel like we're in good shape when we're there.

23:16

Um it's been a long time coming.

23:19

And um, you know, a history on this back in 2008, we were gonna do an addition to the building, but with the recession, we bailed on that and uh put it off to take care of other needs, and so now we're finally getting back to taking care of the center that needs these updates.

23:36

So and then I do have Lois Stellan and uh Nathan.

23:42

Uh Lois is our facility manager, and Nathan's with VCBO that are here that can answer questions if you have any.

23:49

So run through this fly through.

23:53

Uh-huh.

23:54

I'm gonna have Nathan do that because he's better expert at it than I am.

24:02

It's yeah, and it's just a video.

24:04

I mean, it's pretty self-explanatory, but why don't we do that?

24:07

We'll just run the video.

24:08

You guys have questions, we'll go back and pay parts of it.

24:13

Set to music.

26:05

I think it's a great overview of the building.

26:07

I think it's cool.

26:08

As you can tell from that video, we do have a lot of glass on the east side.

26:12

We're taking advantage of the mountain views and what's going on there.

26:17

And the swimming pool, as mentioned earlier, is staying in place.

26:20

I know a lot of people were really concerned about the swimming pool going away, or that we are closed because we're giving the swimming pool a new heart, basically.

26:30

We're replacing all the mechanicals and updating all that because the boiler's 40 years old.

26:35

We kept crossing our fingers, hoping it doesn't go out.

26:38

So that's why that's happening, but the swimming pool is staying the same.

26:42

We hope to do some um changes to lighting and stuff in the future, but the poll itself was staying the same.

26:50

Um with that, I'm glad to answer any questions, or if you want to wait till I have to say some comments, whatever you desire.

26:59

Thanks.

26:59

That video was super helpful.

27:00

It was nice to see Cameron doing a squat or holding that squat for a while.

27:09

Uh any questions of Dan or his team.

27:14

Just one of the things are you getting rid of the handball courts?

27:17

Because those are really well used sometimes in the city.

27:20

The which courts?

27:20

The handball courts, the rackleball courts.

27:24

Yes, those are going away, unfortunately.

27:27

So yeah, the amount of space they take and the amount of use that in the 80s, they were the bomb when this place was built, but it's not so much anymore.

27:36

Yeah.

27:37

Okay.

27:38

I I have a question as well.

27:39

Is that video available on the city website or anything if if residents want to see it?

27:44

It is available online.

27:46

If you Google uh Sandy Community and Recreation Center, it'll take you right to our construction web page.

27:52

And it has that video on it.

27:54

It has the floor plans and frequently asked questions and information all on the center.

28:01

So you just want to show off your squat more.

28:04

Is that why?

28:04

Yes.

28:05

I I appreciate that in that video beliefs of the doors were all there.

28:10

We didn't have one missing.

28:23

And we're really trying to focus on ways that we can enhance or emphasize or create opportunities for pedestrians.

28:31

So for people to walk or bike to facilities.

28:53

Um on the site.

29:21

I agree.

29:23

That would be great moving forward.

29:26

Did you have any particular feedback that uh on that line or no?

29:32

Okay, great, great.

29:34

Okay, thanks, Dan.

29:38

All right, Doug, anything else, Sarah?

29:40

Yeah, so I'd like to continue.

29:42

Um Sandy City administration and city council have previously approved the building reconstruction project, and authorized its design development, construction funding, construction time frame.

29:55

And those actions are not a part of this consideration by the planning commission.

30:01

So as I mentioned, you're looking at the building, you're setting the parking, and you're uh I would attempt to address the uh concerns from the neighborhood meeting.

30:11

Okay.

30:13

So the main neighborhood meeting was held on July 30th.

30:16

It was well attended, it was a remote uh online meeting.

30:21

Estimated about 25 people participated and went 90 minutes.

30:25

Uh summarized the uh what I thought were the five main points that came out of that.

30:31

Uh they're listed there on page uh two, and then we'll come back to that.

30:38

Then the building architecture, which is a main part of your review here.

30:44

Um this design meets our requirement, our Sandy City architectural design requirements.

30:51

Um did want to mention it.

30:53

I don't know if you noticed there's an indoor track uh that circles those two courts.

30:59

One's a basketball, another one's a multi-use uh court.

31:04

Um addressing the and so we recommend that you approve the building design or architecture materials.

31:14

Uh dealing with the neighborhood comments, um there was a lot of concern that dealt with 9510 South Street and the uh connection at Highland Drive.

31:26

Some suggestion that a signal would help left turns.

31:29

Our public utilities department has looked at that extensively, and it it is not a possibility to put a signal there, it's too close to uh 9400 south, and then there's another signal a little further south that's the main entrance to the shopping center on the west.

31:46

So that situation is beyond the scope of this project.

31:51

Um there was a concern about street parking uh on 9510 and extending into the neighborhood.

31:59

Uh it turns that that is mainly these uh four events for swimming meets during the summer and possibly a triathlon or running event once or twice a yeah.

32:11

Um so um we've developed the public or excuse me, parks department has developed a parking management plan to deal with events, particularly with events, and it involves the formalization of an agreement with UTA to use the UTA park and ride as overflow parking as needed.

32:34

Um in addition, the plan talks about how you would how the staff would manage parking during the events, where they would actually have staff in the parking lot during the event uh to help direct people to the overflow parking.

32:50

Um tell them that the parking lot's full to park over there, and then they're gonna they're proposing signs, temporary signs that we put up along 9510, directing to the overflow parking, and also at a point that the east east portion of 9510 that no event parking allowed, and those will be put up and taken down just for those events.

33:12

Uh so we feel like that's a really good step in addressing the issues that the neighborhood had.

33:18

Another big issue was the number of parking stalls, and it was pointed out that we were increasing the building size from 26,513 square feet to 34,000.

33:31

You're actually reducing the available parking on site, even with the changes to the parking lot.

33:37

We're 12 stalls down from where we are currently.

33:41

Um so then we looked at uh well, what what do other communities that have uh facilities like this?

33:48

What do they do?

33:49

What are what are their ratios?

33:51

And and we found it was surveyed, and we found that anywhere from two parking stalls per thousand to six parking stalls per thousand is what's available, but most of them were in the three to four parking stalls per thousand range, and so making this change of expanding the building but decreasing the available parking by 12 stalls.

34:14

Um we went from six parking stalls per thousand with the current building to 4.3 parking stalls per thousand with the new building, and uh that is a reduction from current, but um we think we've addressed that with the event parking and the management plan and the overflow parking, and at 4.3, we're still at near the top of what other communities have offered.

34:40

Uh so we feel good about that.

34:43

Um so we acknowledge the uh the new driveway connection proposal, remove that from the plan.

34:54

Um, and then there was concerns about the use of the property to the east over here.

35:00

There's about two acres, I think.

35:01

It's got residential homes on one side of forget the name of the street.

35:10

Um anyway, this street over here has houses on one side and this vacant land that's owned by the city.

35:17

That's uh there we go.

35:19

So you can see the homes here, and we've got this parcel and this parcel that are undeveloped, and we pointed out that's beyond the scope of this project.

35:32

Uh it'll be future decisions by city council and administration on what happens to the rest of that park, and it's beyond our scope.

35:41

So staff is recommending that you set the parking requirement for this new building at the available 148 stalls, and uh we recommend that you approve the building architecture and design.

35:54

Um that's our the findings and and uh conditions, conditions that I want to point out, or uh that the shared off-site overflow parking agreement with UTA be formalized and recorded with the county recorder's office to address the facilities overflow parking needs, and the proposed special event parking management plan be formally formalized and adopted by the Alder Canyon Sports Center managers for all special events and overflow parking needs, and then the rest are standard conditions.

36:31

So, with that, are there any questions of me at this time?

36:37

Any questions for Dan?

36:39

Okay, thank you.

36:41

I do have one question, Dan.

36:43

Uh so that parking agreement that uh is in place or is going to be in place.

36:48

Um is there a term associated with that agreement at this point in time, like a number of years that it covers, or tell me how that's no.

37:00

I don't know.

37:01

Um maybe Dan.

37:04

We're proposing that we work that out during final site plan review.

37:08

Um we used UTA's parking lot in the past and have um done agreements with them for events.

37:22

Um fact we'll be using our parking lot tomorrow night with the midnight moon run.

37:26

Um as far as the term, we haven't worked with UTA on that yet.

37:32

We just started uh to uh renew this for like a year term based on the parking use, but we can look at that at the multi-year term if needed.

37:43

Uh but it's always gonna depend upon what events we have, what year with what dates.

37:48

So that's why we were looking at it as an annual basis to do that.

37:53

Yeah, I mean, I I would suggest to get it as long as possible, and then you know you can tie down for the agreement.

38:01

I mean, terms of the agreement, you can you can have the actual dates tied down, you know, annually or whatever, but uh I would say it'd be nice to have that term as extensive as an year term to be whatever with options or whatever else.

38:17

I mean, just to make sure that the things get covered, it would be my suggestion on that.

38:21

Yeah, that makes that makes sense.

38:23

Okay, okay, thanks.

38:28

Okay, um, so no more questions.

38:31

Um, so we'll go ahead and close or sorry, uh, we'll open this up uh to public comments.

38:37

If there's anybody here that would like to comment on this, uh, wouldn't you come up uh to the podium and state your name and uh address?

38:46

So you can go ahead and walk come up now and then just speak into one of the microphones there.

38:56

Yeah, hi.

38:56

My name is uh Albert Chen.

38:59

I own a house, life cost uh street, right street in the off the new building.

39:06

Um can you provide your address for the record, please?

39:09

9563 candle chilling.

39:16

Um I'm here to express my concerns regarding the noise and the safety, both during the construction and uh after construction because you know these recreation building.

39:32

If I correct, it's the only building in Sandy which is so close embedded in the residential area.

39:41

Um there are recreation center.

39:43

I think it's far away, and uh and do you know that uh gene is so popular nowadays?

39:51

Everybody go there, and uh I leave the concerns I have specifically two questions.

40:00

One is uh what's the next community meeting?

40:02

And uh I missed the last one.

40:04

I really want to attend the next one.

40:07

Second one is the exterior design, the color and the lighting.

40:15

Are they finalized?

40:16

I is it going to be uh commented by the public?

40:25

So that's my consum.

40:28

Thank you very much.

40:31

Thank you.

40:37

Is there anybody else here that would like to speak?

40:42

Okay, seeing none, uh, Mike, if you could check online.

40:45

If you are joining us via Zoom webinar and would like to speak to this particular item, please use the raise your hand feature now, and we'll call upon you one at a time.

40:54

We do have uh right now we have uh one hand raised.

40:59

Uh Miss Kathleen King, you may unmute yourself.

41:06

Hey, how are you doing?

41:09

Go ahead.

41:10

Can you hear me?

41:11

Can you hear me?

41:12

Yes, we can.

41:12

Can you state your name and address for the record, please?

41:15

Uh it's Kathleen Turner and John Turner, and we're 9521 Candle Tree Lane.

41:24

So we're right there on the corner.

41:28

Okay, go ahead.

41:30

We were just curious about during construction.

41:33

Is the exit, you know, the entrance and the exit where you show the construction trailer?

41:41

Um is that where all the freight's gonna come in?

41:45

The materials, the trucks, the cement.

41:48

Is that how they're gonna get to the job site?

41:51

After public comment, we can answer specific questions.

41:57

So just state any questions you have, and then when this is comment is done, we will address comments at that time.

42:04

Oh, I apologize.

42:05

Yeah, my question is is the entrance that's shown, and I appreciate the people that brought the map by last night.

42:12

We weren't here.

42:13

Was that dam?

42:15

Um, but it shows an entrance with the construction trailer, but it looks like when it's all finished, uh what you showed uh was one entrance, and the the one that showed uh during construction, it looks like it doesn't exist anymore.

42:30

So my question is is that the way this is going to be?

42:34

In other words, how do the materials get to the job side?

42:38

How do the trucks get in and out of the job site?

42:43

Okay, is there any other questions?

42:46

Uh I just want to make sure you've got the snow load correct on that roof because that's a this area is a little bit different that way as far as the uh the stress on the roofs.

42:59

Okay.

43:03

Anything else?

43:05

Uh no.

43:06

Okay, thank you for comments.

43:08

Anything any other hands raised?

43:12

Next up, we have uh Mitch Gibson.

43:15

You may unmute yourself.

43:25

Mitch Gibson, you may go ahead and speak.

43:28

State your name and address for the record, Mr.

43:42

Gibson.

43:42

You can go ahead and speak.

43:44

Make sure you're you've unmuted yourself.

43:51

He may be having technical difficulties.

43:53

He did uh type in um some questions earlier.

43:57

Um so I'll read those since he's having technical difficulties.

44:02

Um he lives behind Alta Canyon Rec, and he was curious about whether they are keeping or updating the existing playground equipment.

44:12

Uh also asked if there are any amenities with this building that are going to offer for families with young kids during seasons that the outdoor pool is closed.

44:22

Temple Dell in Cottonwood Heights has lots of these things for toddlers year-round.

44:32

Um let's see, I'm not seeing any other hands raised at this time.

44:38

Oh, no, sorry, one more hand just popped up.

44:41

Um Chong Teng, you may unmute yourself.

44:50

Yes, go ahead and state your name and uh address for the record, please.

44:54

Yeah, my name is Chong Song.

44:55

I'm at uh 9509 Kendo Chile.

45:00

Um right across the street.

45:02

Um my question is uh you mentioned about the the on your line to the east of the building right uh across the shade off by home.

45:11

Um I noticed there is uh a little bit of gradient on that, you know.

45:15

If my home is a little bit higher than the uh current out of touch in there, are you going to do anything with that gradient and also the nice keep for the area?

45:26

That's my uh question.

45:27

Thank you.

45:32

Okay, thank you, Mr.

45:33

Tang.

45:33

I see no other hands raised.

45:38

Okay.

45:39

Thank you.

45:40

So we will now close this uh to public comment.

45:42

And uh so I guess between uh Doug and Dan, uh if you guys would like to come up and maybe answer uh the questions that have been raised uh during public comment.

45:53

Yes, so do you did you document them or do you want how you would just want to start going through them and then if you miss some of them we'll bring it up?

45:59

So one I heard was uh was there future public meetings available for additional comment?

46:05

The answer to that is no.

46:06

The uh planning commission is the approval body for the architecture and the sitting, the parking stall numbers.

46:13

Um, and so there'll be no additional public meetings on those matters.

46:20

Can I just add to that?

46:21

There may be an opportunity, however, and in talking with Dan that if if there are some individual questions that someone wants to reach out to Dan individually on and maybe look at the plan with him, he was mentioning that he'd be very willing to do that with applicants or uh neighbors if they want to see something closer up or something like that.

46:40

But like Doug said, this is the public hearing opportunity right here.

46:44

Okay, that's great.

46:44

And Dan, they can really find your contact info on the website on on this the uh Candy City website, correct?

46:50

That is correct.

46:51

Okay.

46:52

Mike, would you go to the plan that shows the overlay with the tennis courts and the building?

46:58

I think it was number two, please.

47:09

That one, thank you.

47:11

Um person asked regarding the construction zone.

47:19

Um I did go out and canvas the neighborhood, give them my contact information, latent constructions contact information and Lois' information so they know who to contact during construction.

47:32

Um as part of that, we are using the field as the staging area from materials.

47:40

The reason for that, too, is we plan on fencing off portion of the parking lot during the construction, but we want to keep the other area, the parking open for the ball fields along with the parking that's over by the pickleball courts for the ball fields.

47:57

So they do have one entrance that's coming in here that will be a temporary entrance during construction.

48:05

Um they will be storing materials over on this end of the site.

48:12

They will be parking in this area, and then the construction trailer will be in this corner of that lot, and that's all temporary, so that's just during the construction process.

48:26

Dan, does that require grading of that ground or what is there maybe clearing and grubbing just kind of to smooth it out because not really grading though?

48:35

But not doing cuts and fills and stuff like that.

48:38

No, um sorry, plus my train of thought a little bit.

48:45

So that area will be used for that type of uh work to take place during the project, and again it's temporary and it will be surrounded by a six-foot fence with the screen on it to screen that.

49:00

Oops, sorry.

49:01

Screen that so you're not necessarily looking into similar to what you'll see around the um hockey stadium that's going in with that fence that's around around it.

49:11

So that'll be surrounding that site, tying into the fence at the pool, and then coming in over here.

49:17

So that whole area will be screened off.

49:20

Um, why don't we go to the floor plans?

49:25

And I'll just share with you the amenities because that question did come up just to kind of explain a little more what's going on.

49:36

But Dan, you're not planning any exterior improvements as far as playgrounds or not at this time.

49:41

We're not planning on any exterior improvements with the playgrounds and that.

49:45

Now we are looking at that in the future, but that's a completely separate phase from what we're looking at now.

49:50

So this is the first floor of the facility.

49:55

Um we have is offices here for the staff.

50:00

This is the entrance, the vestibule and the front desk area.

50:05

Then this is the uh for lack of a better word, I'm gonna call it the aerobics room.

50:11

Um it's where they'll do aerobics and um hit classes, those types of things.

50:17

And then over here is the receiving dock, the pull equipment storage area, and that we have an area for the lifeguards and a break room for the staff, and then this all this area is the restrooms and the changing areas for the pole.

50:36

Um then there's a hallway here for that and a hallway into here.

50:43

Then we have one basketball court for multi-purpose type facility where we can put pickleball on that during um the winter, and that too, and uh kids will be able to use that area.

50:57

Then in between here, we have a community room that can be used for other um recreation classes, it could be reserved for a party if you want, or community meeting, that type of thing.

51:09

And then one of the things we decided to do is to go with the field house type thing.

51:14

If you saw in the video, it was astro turf in that area, um, artificial grass.

51:20

So you could do soccer, lacrosse, um, other types of activities like that that the youth enjoy.

51:27

And then this area is just mechanical on that first floor plan.

51:33

And then if we can this is exterior, but that is also mechanical area.

51:38

And then if we can jump to the second floor, please.

51:45

So here you'll come up the stairs from the lower level and elevator, and then there's some restrooms up here.

51:52

Then we have this uh uh walking track, which is a desired amenity by all the people that we talked to in the open houses over the last several years.

52:03

Um we have our weights and cardio equipment all in this area and this area that'll be up in the upper levels.

52:11

Um that's where you can walk on your treadmill, those types of activities.

52:16

Then we do have a deck on this back side where we pitcher maybe doing some outdoor yoga on the deck, or it'll be fenced off.

52:25

So if you're in there and you want to take a breather after you've been on the treadmill for my case, maybe 10 minutes, but not an hour.

52:34

You can go out on the deck and um you know enjoy the sunrise or whatever you may have.

52:41

Um then of course the pull area off to the main level, which is all there too.

52:47

So um, I think I got all the questions that were asked.

52:53

If you guys think I missed one, please speak up on it.

52:58

I think there was a question about the exterior elevations and maybe some of the colors.

53:03

I don't know if we want to look at the 3D view that kind of showed a lot of the windows.

53:07

Yeah, let me have Nathan.

53:09

You cover those.

53:10

You'll be definitely better at that than I so we're gonna look at this one or do we look at?

53:20

Well, we can start here.

53:22

Um that way so I can use the announcement of the people online.

53:28

The the lower walls of the building are the brick uh veneer.

53:33

We're doing that for durability and having a good solid mass for the building to sit on.

53:40

The metal panels are reserved for the upper floor, and these are lighter materials that you saw on the material board.

53:46

Um we have two different types in the building, one for this western wall, and we repeat that type on the eastern wall.

53:53

The north and the south walls have yet another type of uh a pattern, uh like a profile metal we would call it.

54:02

Um there is a good bit of glass, especially along the eastern elevation to take advantage of the spectacular views toward the mountains.

54:11

Um at the pool level, we have glass that looks from the locker room and uh and lifeguard out into the pool.

54:20

Uh the front door, we have offices here with glass windows.

54:24

There's the aerobics room uh with a glass window out to the west.

54:29

And uh the running track have windows around located around that track.

54:35

So as you uh run around it, you get views out every side of the building.

54:43

That's it in a nutshell.

54:44

I you have any specific questions about the material?

54:47

The average height, probably around a little less than 40.

54:50

Yeah, I would say the average height is uh mid-30s.

54:54

On the west side is the highest.

54:55

On the east, we'd be probably more like 16 to 18 feet.

54:59

Okay.

55:00

So the highest is 40.

55:03

I was uh I wish I knew that number off the top of the head.

55:06

I would say 32.

55:08

Because you have a 14 foot floor to floor, and we usually have about a 16-foot pair of it.

55:15

So I yeah, maybe below 30s.

55:18

Okay.

55:20

And you've engineered it for the snow loads.

55:22

We're good with snow ones.

55:24

Okay.

55:24

We have a great engineer on this project.

55:26

Thank you.

55:27

Do you want to check that camera?

55:33

Okay.

55:34

Uh I I think they've thank you for answering the questions.

55:38

Uh I think you answered the ones that I wrote down there, so I appreciate that.

55:42

Um, so we will uh close this to public comment now and open this up to the commission for discussion deliberation motion.

56:04

Okay.

56:06

I'll make a motion.

56:08

Okay.

56:08

Are we okay with the parking reduction?

56:10

Yeah.

56:11

And the parking plan.

56:12

Okay.

56:14

So I'll make a motion that the planning commission determine the preliminary modified site plan review is complete for the proposed Alta Canyon Sports Center building located at 9565 South Highland Drive, and approve the building height mass architectural design materials and colors as proposed.

56:33

Um set the required on-site parking stall requirement at 148 stalls based on the five findings and seven conditions as outlined in the staff report.

56:48

Okay, thanks.

56:49

Uh do we have a second?

56:50

I'll second in it.

56:52

Cameron Duncan?

56:54

Yes.

56:54

Steve Rigley?

56:55

Yes.

56:55

Ron Mortimer?

56:56

Yes.

56:57

Danny Schoenfeld?

56:58

Yes.

56:58

Lenny Stavenport?

57:00

Yes.

57:00

Jennifer George?

57:01

Yes.

57:02

Dave Bromley?

57:03

Yes.

57:03

This motion carries.

57:05

Okay, good luck.

57:07

It can be a good project.

57:12

Sorry.

57:13

Time to get busy, huh?

57:14

Yeah, let's go.

57:17

Okay.

57:18

So we uh next item what looks like uh our minutes approval of minutes.

57:32

We have a motion or motion to approve all in favor?

57:38

Aye.

57:38

I aye.

57:40

Okay, and then uh James Development Report.

57:44

Um as far as the director's report.

57:47

I don't uh have anything specific.

57:49

I was gonna ask Mike, but if he had anything, but we'll come back to that.

57:54

Wow, that's about our last item though, right?

57:56

Yeah, yeah.

57:57

Hey, Mike.

58:01

Do you have anything you want to bring out?

58:04

We're good.

58:05

Okay.

58:06

All right.

58:07

Do we have a motion to uh adjourn?

58:09

Motion to adjourn.

58:10

All in favor?

58:13

Yeah.

58:14

Okay.

58:15

Thank you.

58:17

Thank you, you guys.

58:19

A lot of work.

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Summary of Proceedings

Sandy Planning Commission Meeting: Brew Pub Amendments and Alta Canyon Sports Center (September 4, 2025)

On September 4, 2025, the Sandy City Planning Commission met to consider two major agenda items: amendments to Title 21 of the Land Development Code to expand allowed locations for brew pubs, and a modified site plan for the Alta Canyon Sports Center. Both items received unanimous approval from the commission, with conditions. The meeting was chaired by Dave Bromley and attended by commissioners Lenise Davenport, Jennifer George, Danny Schoenfeld, Ron Mortimer, Steve Wrigley, and Cameron Duncan. Staff presentations were led by Melissa (community development), Doug Wheelwright (development services manager), and Dan Medina (parks director).

Public Comments & Testimony

  • Brew Pub Code Amendments: No public comments were offered, either in person or online.
  • Alta Canyon Sports Center:
    • Albert Chen (9563 Candle Tree Lane) expressed concerns about noise and safety during and after construction, asked about the next community meeting, and whether the exterior design, color, and lighting are finalized for public comment.
    • Kathleen Turner (online, 9521 Candle Tree Lane) asked about construction access for materials and trucks, and whether the snow load had been properly engineered for the roof.
    • Mitch Gibson (online, location behind Alta Canyon Rec) submitted questions via chat (unable to speak due to technical issues) asking whether the existing playground equipment would be kept or updated, and what amenities the new building would offer for families with young children during months the outdoor pool is closed.
    • Chong Tang (online, 9509 Candle Tree Lane) inquired about plans to address the gradient and landscape buffer on the east side of the building adjacent to homes.

Discussion Items

  • Amendments to Title 21 – Brew Pubs: Staff presented a proposal initiated by the city council to allow brew pubs (defined as a restaurant with a brewery, requiring both a manufacturing brewery license and a restaurant alcohol license) in more zones beyond the downtown Cairns district. The changes would permit brew pubs in all zones where restaurants are already allowed to serve alcohol, following the same permitted/conditional use designation. Additional amendments align city definitions with state code and update the special development district (JHS Miller zone) and mixed-use zone (SDMU) for consistency. The commission had no questions and no public testimony; staff recommended a positive recommendation to the city council.

  • Alta Canyon Sports Center Modified Site Plan: Staff and the parks director presented plans to demolish the existing building, remove tennis courts, and construct a 34,000-square-foot multi-purpose recreation center. The review focused on building height, mass, architectural design, materials, colors, parking reconfiguration, and a determination of required parking stalls. A neighborhood meeting on July 30, 2025, raised concerns about a proposed driveway on 9510 South Street (too close to residences), parking reduction (from 6.0 to 4.3 stalls per 1,000 square feet), and event parking on residential streets. In response, staff eliminated the new driveway, reconfigured the parking lot to maximize stalls (net loss of 12 stalls compared to existing), developed an event parking management plan with overflow parking at a UTA park-and-ride, and addressed building architecture with masonry and metal panels. Staff recommended setting the on-site parking requirement at 148 stalls, approving the building design, and imposing conditions including formalizing the UTA overflow agreement and adopting the event parking management plan. Commissioners asked about the term of the UTA agreement (suggesting a multi-year term) and praised pedestrian improvements. The commission also acknowledged that future use of adjacent city-owned parcels is beyond this project's scope.

Key Outcomes

  • Brew Pub Code Amendments: Motion to forward a positive recommendation to the city council (based on staff analysis and findings) passed unanimously. (All commissioners voted yes.)
  • Alta Canyon Sports Center: Motion to determine the preliminary modified site plan review complete, approve the building height, mass, architectural design, materials, and colors as proposed, and set the required on-site parking at 148 stalls based on the five findings and seven conditions in the staff report passed unanimously. (All commissioners voted yes.)
  • Consent Calendar: No consent calendar items were listed.
  • Minutes Approval: The minutes from the previous meeting were approved by voice vote (all in favor).
  • Adjournment: The meeting adjourned by unanimous consent.

Meeting Transcript

This evening who are here physically as well as anybody that we might have online, and we do apologize for the slight delay in starting this meeting. Um, but uh we will begin by uh if you can stand and join me with uh saying the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and for which it stands and individuality and justice for all okay. So we'll begin with uh a few introductions, and uh my name is Dave Bromley, and I will be chairing the meeting this evening, and we'll start off uh to my left uh with Lenise. Lenise Davenport, Jennifer George, Danny Schoenfeld, Ron Mortimer, Steve Wrigley, Cameron Duncan. Thanks, and then James, if you could introduce staff. Sure. Um I'm James Swans, the community development director. I think tonight, just in the we have mostly staff here, so I'll just have staff who are here tonight raise their hand. And they'll be addressing most of the issues with the planning commission tonight. So appreciate all them being here. Thanks, James. Uh okay, so as we address the items uh on the agenda, um we'll we'll go in this manner. We'll we'll start uh with a staff introduction and then the project applicant will have the opportunity to provide any presentation as applicable, and then staff will have the opportunity to um uh end the presentation if they so choose as well. We'll open the items for public comment and um take any that uh uh comments at that time, and if you could limit comment, come up when you if you're here physically uh if you come up to podium and state your name and address, and uh we'd like to limit the comments to two minutes and and uh to comments that are unique, um, so meaning that they're not uh duplicative of what has been said previously, um, and then um uh we will uh after public comment has been completed, we will close public comment and then we'll open it up to the planning commission for deliberation and a motion. And so we'll begin with the um item number two on the agenda, which is uh amendments to Title 21 of the land development code and uh Melissa, I think yep, you're thanks. All right, thank you very much. Good evening, Chair and Planning Commission. So this evening we have a proposal to amend the code, and uh this would be to allow for more areas in the city to allow for a brew hub. And uh this slide just shows there's a number of sections of the code that are proposed to be amended, um, our land use matrix for non-residential zones, um, special development districts, um, some standards in our commercial section and definitions. So to begin, the main uh thing to understand is that this was an initiative that was initiated by our city council to allowing more brew pubs in the city, and the understanding or how we uh interpret what is a a brew pub is that it's intended to be a restaurant with a brewery that sells beer as well as heavy beer for on-site consumption, so it's not um a tavern necessarily or a bar, but it is meant to be um the the brewery with restaurant combination. So um the other um directives that the city council had was uh specifically in in expanding areas, it would be specifically to expand it beyond just the Cairns district because we do allow for that now in our downtown Cairns district, um, but they also wanted staff to look at regulatory and financial barriers uh to entry to allow them, streamline the permitting and the licensing process, which is in Title 15 for our business licenses, and aligning um our code with Utah code. So we analyze this and make recommendations addressing all the points that the city council had wanted us to look into, uh, brought that forward to the city council, and they were supportive of the effort, and so they directed us at that time to go ahead and make uh code changes and then just begin through the normal adoption process. Now, tonight I'm presenting our land development code proposed changes. This initiative also addresses our business licensing, but we don't need to go through the same review and public hearing process for that. So when we go to the city council, it will be both Title 15 with our business license administrator as well as myself for addressing land development codes, just so that you know that the context of the process we're going through. And there were a number of things we look looked into, but tonight, since we're at this stage of this project, we are specifically trying to implement the direction the council gave us and making amendments to the land development code specifically to allow for brew pubs. So now to do a brew pub in the city, we need two specific alcoholic beverage licenses from the Department of Alcohol Beverage Services at the state agency. And so they do apply at the city for a license, but then that's coordinated with the state. So we're not in our land use tables or listing of a land use that would be allowed. We're not saying it's a brew pub necessarily, but what we're saying is that if you have a manufacturer brewery license and then the restaurant license able to serve alcohol, that would enable one to be able to do a brew pub. Right now, the manufacturing license is mostly contained just in our downtown Cairns district. And so just so that you understand, we're not adding a line item that says brew pub, but it we're enabling that through a manufacturing brewery license, and then it also is uh combined, you'd have to have the restaurant license to serve alcohol. And the important thing about the restaurant license is that it requires, and this is state law, uh, that you have at least 70% of food sales. So that distinguishes it from a tavern or a bar where you don't have those requirements. Um it also ensures that they're mostly you know in a in a restaurant uh food sales business. Uh the other thing that's coming from the state law that uh dictates where these things could go is that there's proximity requirements when you get this type of alcoholic beverage license, and that is you need to be separated from certain community locations such as uh schools, churches, libraries, playgrounds, and public parks. So that is in existence now, and any time we consider a restaurant license, for example, that would want to serve alcohol, we would check to see the proximity are they might be allowed to do something in the zone, but if they're too close to a church, for example, they would not be able to do that. So uh this map that was included in the packet for the planning commission illustrates uh like in all the red areas where we have a buffer around these types of community locations, and I'm mostly wanting to show that so you get a sense of the magnitude or impact of the separation requirements. So it does uh limit where these types of things can go. Now I think I are I kind of already explained this, but the land use and licensing requirement that a brew pub is enabled by having in the land use matrix a manufacturing brewing license uh brewery license in that zone. But caveats or notations have been added that this would only be allowed in certain zones if it's on the same premises as a restaurant, because that's the intention of this initiative, and so we're making sure that that's clear. Umso for uh the brew pubs to allow them in zones where you know we were evaluating well where should they be allowed beyond the downtown Cairns district. That was the main question, one of the main questions of city council. And so uh a restaurant that already is allowed in that zone to get a license to serve alcohol. If that zone already allows that, because a brew pub has very similar operational requirements as the the restaurant, that the proposal is to allow a manufacturing brewery license in those same zones, and if in that zone, this restaurant with uh that's allowed to serve alcohol with a propriet license. If that's a permitted use, we're proposing uh the brew pub or manufactured brewing license be allowed as a permitted zone, permitted use just like the restaurant, but if it's a conditional use, then we would propose that the manufacturer brewery license is conditional use. So that's the methodology or logic that's used of why we would propose additional zones to allow these brew pub type activities. And so in the staff report, I included a list of all the zones, and then in the red line strike through version, you can see specifically all those zones that are impacted or where we're proposing to allow that type of use. This map illustrates in green those areas where uh this type of land use would be allowed, where brew pub would be allowed in red shows where those proximity requirements are impacting or not allowing that.

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