The Sandy City Planning Commission convened on October 16, 2025, to review legislative rezone applications, amendments to the Land Development Code regarding boundary adjustments, and several conditional use permits (CUPs) for accessory structures and alcohol retail. The meeting featured testimony from property owners and applicants regarding compliance issues, neighbor concerns regarding short-term rentals and parking, and the classification of tobacco and vape products in a local convenience store. The Planning Commission provided recommendations to the City Council for legislative items and approved CUPs with specific conditions.
Well, we'd like to welcome everybody out to uh the planning commission um this evening, and uh do we do the pledge first or introductions? We'll we'll begin with the uh pledge of allegiance. Okay, so we'll begin with some introductions now. Uh my name is Dave Bromley, and I'll be uh chairing the meeting this evening, and then we'll begin over here to my left with Jennifer on introductions. I'm Jennifer George. Craig Kitterman, Danny Schoenfeld, Ron Mortimer, Steve Brickley, Cameron Duncan. Thank you, and then James, uh, if you'd introduce staff. Um, I'm James Sornson, I'm the community development director, Sandy City. Here we have uh Darren Alcorn is a senior city attorney, Mike Wilcox is the planning director, Jake Warner, long-range planning manager, Melissa Anderson over here as a zoning administrator. Sarah Stringer, the planner at the office, Ivan Hooper. I think he's yes, transportation engineer, um, Travis Ackerman is the city engineer, and Aisha is the planning secretary. Someday I'll try the rest of that. Malaya Talua. Did I say it right? I wonder if James will say that. Okay, thank you. Um to kind of communicate what will happen through the evening this evening, uh, as for each of the items that's on the that are on the agenda, we'll have a staff member that will introduce the item that will then have the opportunity for the uh developer or the applicant to be able to uh provide any input that they would like to provide. Um, and then if the staff has anything else they'd like to uh add to that after the applicant and developer has uh uh discussed the item, then they would come back and up and do that. Afterwards, we would then open the item up for public comment, and uh, we would invite those of members of uh of the audience to be able to come up, or if you are online to be able to uh address the item and as you do that, if you could uh state your name and address, and then we will uh provide two minutes per individual for their for your comments. And if you do have comments, if you we're really interested in those. And so if but if you could also make sure you focus them on items that are new or have not been addressed already, that would be appreciated. And uh we would then close the item for public comment and then uh bring it back for any discussion or deliberation of the planning commission, and um uh have a motion as well from the planning commission. So we will now begin with the uh first item on there with the agenda, which is the uh public hearing for the creek road rezon. Good evening, planning commission. Uh good to be with you again for the public. My name is Jay Corner, Long Range Planning Manager for the city, and I will be presenting a rezone application submitted by Joe Goot, titled the Creek Road Rezone for property located at 2140 east Creek Road. The uh property is about 1.5 acres. Um property is currently zoned as R140. The property was annexed into the city with some surrounding properties about five years ago, at which time it was given the R140 zone. Properties around it are zoned R115, R140, R120. The applicant is requesting that the property be rezoned to the R115A zone. So that is a single family residential zone that requires a minimum of 15,000 square feet, and the A designation would allow farm animals on the property. The uh staff did hold a neighborhood meeting, and uh this item has been noticed for a public hearing. The applicant is in attendance. This is a legislative item, so it is coming before the planning commission for recommendation to the city council, and as a legis legislative item, the city council will be the final decision maker on the application. Um with that staff is will be available for questions. Thank you. Okay, so do we have uh the applicant uh did you say the applicant is here? Okay. Do you have anything that you would like to add? The well, if you do, you come up and state your name and address and I'm uh Joe Goot, the owner of the house you see in the picture there. And uh when I purchased the property many years ago, probably 93, I believe it was, uh, it was under the county, in which at that time there were sheep on it. In fact, if you just looked up about a hundred yards up, there's a home there with goats now, and and it's been horse property for so many years. I don't have any animals. I'm not necessarily intending to turn this into a farm at all. Uh I wouldn't say uh I don't want to commit to that because I I've thought about keeping bees and I know people keep some chickens and that. I'm not gonna turn it into a farm by no means. I'm trying to bring it into compliance. That's the main reason for the R15 zoning. As uh I've met with with the city I've come down, and uh there's some concerns.