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Sandy Planning Commission Meeting June 18, 2026: Restaurant and Subdivision Approvals

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0:00

Aisha, are we ready to get started?

0:03

Mike?

0:04

Okay.

0:12

Recording in progress.

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Those are the magic words.

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All right.

0:20

Yeah.

0:23

Okay.

0:26

Good.

0:27

Okay, awesome.

0:28

With that, we're gonna go ahead and kick off tonight's planning commission meeting.

0:33

Um, I'd like to welcome everybody to the planning commission meeting.

0:36

I am the current chair of the planning commission, Linny Stavenport, and I'm joined by my fellow commissioners, and we'll do a round of introductions.

0:43

Ron Mortimer.

0:45

Jennifer George.

0:47

Dave Bromley, David Hart, Steve Wrigley.

0:51

Thank you.

0:52

Um I'm also going to turn the time over to James to introduce the staff, please.

0:56

Great.

0:56

Um I'm James Swanson, community development director.

0:59

We have Mike Wilcox here as the planning director.

1:01

Brittany Ward is here with us.

1:03

She's the assistant public works director.

1:05

Ivan Hooper, transportation engineer, Clint Spencer, Development Services Manager.

1:12

Cash.

1:13

Nancy is a senior planner, Grant Hancock with us tonight, planner, and our famous Ayesha who controls and runs the meeting.

1:22

One day I'll say our last name.

1:25

Whoa.

1:26

One day.

1:29

I'm not gonna risk it.

1:30

I think I would mess it up.

1:32

Okay, all right, thank you.

1:34

Um just as a reminder, we meet at the call of the chairman, normally on the first and third Thursday of every month at 6 15 p.m.

1:42

here in the city council chambers.

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Our meetings are typically preceded by a field trip of the agenda items and an exec executive session, which consists of training by our staff and legal council.

1:52

These are part of the open meeting, and the public may attend.

1:55

The training and regular portion of the meetings can be attended virtually through Zoom webinar as well.

2:00

Um we will start our kick off the agenda with a pledge of allegiance.

2:05

Everybody will stand.

2:09

I pledge to the right of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands found nation under God in the visible with justice for all.

2:26

All right, tonight's planning commission meeting will follow the agenda that has been published.

2:31

This is made available at the entry to the room and digitally on the city's website.

2:35

Each item on the agenda will proceed as follows, unless it is on a consent calendar.

2:41

Staff will introduce the item, then the developer or the project applicant will present, then we'll return back to staff for their presentation, then we'll open it to public comment, uh close public comment, we'll have planning commission deliberation and then take a motion.

2:56

All right, so first on the agenda is um item number two, which is the outback steakhouse and bonefish grill dual restaurant, the preliminary site plan um review for that.

3:13

And then we'll start with Mike.

3:17

Thank you, madam chair.

3:18

Yes.

3:19

Um this item is located at 111 uh one four south state streets.

3:27

Uh they are proposing to develop this undeveloped vacant property as a dual restaurant uh that would house the outback and bonefish restaurants here at this location.

3:38

I believe the applicant is here for um uh representing the restaurantur.

3:44

They're joining us remotely, as well as the property owners, I believe are in attendance as well.

3:49

But I believe uh Craig Cheney uh will be providing the presentation of their request to the planning commission, and then the staff planner on this is Clinton Spencer that will follow up with our analysis and recommendation, Mr.

4:08

Cheney.

4:09

You may proceed.

4:11

Yeah, can you guys hear me?

4:13

Okay, yes.

4:15

Okay, great, terrific.

4:16

Um, did you want me to present my screen so you can see something?

4:21

Or uh are you just we're just gonna go with this?

4:24

Okay, that'll be great.

4:25

We'll just go with that.

4:26

All right, well, uh good evening.

4:28

I appreciate the opportunity to present this project for you.

4:31

Um that uh if you have any questions, then you'll feel free to extend them to me.

4:38

So um as mentioned, this is a uh vacant site on State Street at 1114.

4:46

It's a 2.4 acre site in the central uh business district.

4:51

It's a high visibility site located between umall drive on the west.

5:02

And it's got uh State Street on the east side, schoolyard on the retail center to the north and the Quick Quack car wash to the south.

5:11

As you can see, it's got from the uh site plan that's up right now.

5:16

It's got three access points.

5:19

There's a ride in right out off of State Street that is currently utilized by Quick Quack, and there is an additional uh existing driveway on the Auto Mall Drive side that also is used by Quickwack.

5:38

And then the third access point would be an internal access to the development to the north, the schoolyard development.

5:45

Uh, there's an easement there that's a temporary easement right now.

5:49

Uh well, it's not really a temporary easement.

5:52

There was preliminary easement language applied to the property property when the plat was originally approved, and um the city is uh has asked us to revise that.

6:04

We're working with them to get the easement language revised to the satisfaction of the property owner and the city, and that's something that's in process right now, and there is a note to that uh in the staff report as well.

6:18

Um we're proposing a single story uh 11,195 square foot uh dual concept restaurant.

6:24

Uh the the restaurant owner is super excited to try out this new concept.

6:29

You think that you think there's some real potential here, um a hole in the market, as it were, and uh it feels as if Sandy's gonna be just a great home for this concept.

6:40

It's excited to try it.

6:42

Um essentially it's a restaurant with two dining rooms, but shared kitchen, shared restrooms, shared lounge.

6:50

Um, as you can see from our uh from the elevations there.

6:56

Uh well going back, I'm sorry, but back to the site plan.

7:00

The building does face State Street.

7:02

We located as close to the street as possible while retaining the uh existing shared entry drive, and then put the accessible parking up front, and then put the majority of the parking around the uh the side, and then I guess the majority is actually on the west side of the building.

7:22

Um the and then there's circulation all around the building.

7:27

There's pedestrian access provided from State Street on the right there, exactly, and then there's also additionally pedestrian access provided along um little walkway, landscape walkway from Automall Drive as well.

7:44

Um so we've got pedestrian access to both streets there.

7:50

Um to support the uh takeaway portion of his business as there's a growing aspect of restaurant business now where people are picking up meals and taking them home to eat.

8:03

Um, to support that, we've designated eight parking stalls, and I'll spend a little more time on this a little bit later.

8:08

But eight parking stalls up that corner of the restaurant right there, kind of inside the on the interior of the site, away from the access points.

8:17

Um, there's gonna be a lot of cars moving in and out of there.

8:19

They tend to arrive, they wait for the food, the food's delivered to them when they leave.

8:24

So this there's a lot of activity at that corner, and so we've tried to pull that away from the primary access points and get them onto the interior of the of the uh uh project so they're not contributing to uh congestion in and out of the space.

8:40

Um now under the building itself, we're we're proposing a uh modulated building clad with uh couple two different uh brick colorways, uh a full wood siding, and then stucco accents.

8:55

We're using modulation of material form and uh roof line to uh kind of add visual interest to reduce the scale of the building, um, make it a little more pedestrian scaled, and try to increase the perceived quality of what we're presenting here at the building design itself.

9:14

Um lots of running trim on it, um, and we provided uh some detailed features such as uh shutters, sunshades, so on as well.

9:25

We propose those to help add uh to the quality of the perceived perceived quality of the building itself.

9:31

So every facade has glazing.

9:34

There's a feature design element on every facade, so you're gonna see feature facade elements with windows and signage and modulation on every facade.

9:47

We've also included two exterior patios to help access activate the exterior, especially along the state street side, what what we call the front of the building.

9:56

Um and also to serve as sort of a transitional element that uh between the in two.

10:00

And also to serve as sort of a transitional element between the end two.

10:05

We are proposing roof screens to hide the HVAC equipment on the roof.

10:10

These are steel siding uh color matched with our running trim, and they will kind of sit back from the parapets and sort of recede up there, but they will hide the HVAC.

10:24

And then we talked about uh just to talk real quickly about the dumpster and recycling area.

10:28

It's located on the south west corner of the building right there.

10:34

Uh we're surrounding that with uh split face CMU wall intricately colored.

10:40

Um it uh and then the gates are steel gates with that same metal siding look to them as well.

10:50

So uh getting back to the parking now and addressing the parking.

10:54

We are proposing 181 uh parking spaces on the site.

10:58

Uh the calculating parking, the calculated parking load includes uh or is about 171.

11:07

So uh our requested parking load uh configuration includes a request for approval of uh eight of these takeaway services or or spaces rather, um, so that they are not or not being taken away from the actual parking for the interior because code's really designed for interior uh capacity or as keyed to incurrier interior capacity.

11:31

So we're requesting the approval for these eight additional temporary spaces or takeaway spaces.

11:40

Um so the customers that are picking up food, entering and leaving, aren't doing battle with the customers who want to come uh here and sit down and have dinner and um and we can accommodate both of them.

11:57

Uh just uh as a historical matter, they they do a lot of these takeaway spaces.

12:03

They've been doing them for uh quite a few years at their restaurants.

12:06

We have a pretty good indication of the the loads.

12:08

Their typical restaurant routes are about half the size of what we're proposing here because this is two restaurants, and um they see somewhere around 70 to 75 visits uh at a restaurant half this size uh through the dinner window, which is I'm guessing roughly two to three, maybe four hours.

12:29

Um, so that's a lot of people moving in and out, and um and they they need a minimum of four spaces for those uh uses, and we expect roughly twice that volume here.

12:41

So hence the request for eight temporary parking space.

12:46

We've also requested a small increase to the parsing parking capacity from 170 to 172.

12:54

Um that is well within the uh 10% increase that's allowed by code if it's justified, and we did provide a traffic report uh where the uh traffic engineer indicated that uh restaurants of this type at peak hours have uh parking demand that is significantly greater than what we would see on this site, even with the additional spots.

13:21

So we are uh respectfully requesting the approval of the increase, which with the temporary spaces works out to be about a six percent increase, without it's about a 1.1% increase.

13:37

So that is kind of a high-level uh overview of what we're proposing here.

13:44

I guess on landscaping as well.

13:45

We're proposing uh landscaping that is consistent with the um the requirements of the uh the code.

13:56

There's extensive landscaping throughout the site.

13:58

We've got plenty of uh trees within the site, and along uh we've got landscaping on the building perimeter itself, and we've provided a landscaping buffer along State Street as requested as well.

14:13

And we're currently with our revision to the site plan review, we'll be moving that one tree that's in the site triangle out of the site triangle so that it's not uh creating a problem for that state street approach.

14:25

So that's all I have for you.

14:29

Okay, thank you.

14:31

Great, thank you so much.

14:32

Um, the concept is the dual restaurant concept is really interesting, and I'm glad you're bringing it.

14:37

Um, does anybody on the planning commission have a question before we turn it to Mr.

14:42

Clinton or Mr.

14:43

Spencer?

14:45

Okay, Mr.

14:46

Spencer.

14:51

Uh good evening.

14:52

So I think Craig did a great job going over most of what I was going to present.

15:00

A couple of things that uh just to consider in terms of the of uh approval or some of the conditions that um Craig mentioned he and we talked about overall out on site.

15:08

Uh the first one being that the planning commission will need to approve the six percent increase over the required parking, uh, which has been justified with a parking study, and we're satisfied with that.

15:18

The second one being uh this uh this issue of cross access.

15:21

There is an easement that's provided on the plat.

15:24

Um we feel from a city standpoint that that language and that provision could be strengthened a little bit.

15:31

Talking with a property owner today, um that's something that they're amenable to.

15:35

So following the um this meeting today, we'll be working with them.

15:39

Uh our attorneys and their attorneys working together to come to a solution that will uh that will shore up this access that's that's uh that should be provided by you by ordinance.

15:50

The site plan obviously provides it uh through the site where they've got access um Alan to the what is it the schoolyard um retail to the north and then State Street and and to the south to the quick quack and out to Ottawa Mall as well.

16:08

But uh again, just to show up that easement language.

16:11

Um outside that uh we recommend approval and uh excited to see this come to the city.

16:16

Any questions for me?

16:21

My question is on landscaping.

16:23

So we have more parking spaces, which it's actually I think pretty good because there's no place else to park other than that their site.

16:31

There doesn't seem like there's any street parking.

16:33

But do we meet the landscaping requirements as far as percentage and stuff?

16:37

Yes, yeah, they've got 14% uh landscaping and then also the landscaping that's provided is that 33%.

16:43

Yes, so what's required 14% is fine.

16:46

Um there's not really a requirement for the site, just that um but the coverage meets the you know they have to know there's a ratio or whatever, yeah.

16:53

Yeah, so they meet the requirements for that.

16:57

All right, thank you.

16:58

Yeah, any other questions?

17:01

Okay, all right.

17:03

Um seeing none, thank you.

17:06

I want to take just a second to recognize our mayor, Mayor Zoltanski's um joining us.

17:11

Mayor, do you want to come up?

17:13

Is there anything you want to say to the commission tonight?

17:16

It won't disrupt your schedule.

17:18

Thank you.

17:19

We're glad to have you.

17:20

Hello.

17:20

Well, I was just heading home kind of late from my office.

17:22

I'm on the way to movie night tonight and Sandy it's the first movie night, so I invite everybody after the meeting to come to moving night movies in the park.

17:31

I I wanted to stop and say my deep thanks to the planning commission, to our staff, to all the applicants, the developers, the neighbors who come out and participate in this planning process.

17:42

I hosted today the council of mayors.

17:44

I'm the chair of the council of mayors.

17:46

All of the mayors from Salt Lake County meet every month to talk about issues, and it's of course uh in all our communities it's housing development, affordability, and so many mayors have asked me over the months how is Sandy doing it?

17:59

How did you manage to complete the general plan update and now part of the process to codify the vision of the general plan?

18:07

Stationary plans, and it's really because of your service, what happens here, this room on Thursdays, uh, the participation from our constituents, the support of the development community.

18:18

So so much good work is going on here.

18:20

I'm not here tonight on any agenda item other than to express my thanks on behalf of Sandy residents and the mayors in our region because what's happening here is really a standout and quality and fair process and your commitment.

18:37

You definitely don't get paid enough.

18:39

Uh but just thank you.

18:42

So very honored to serve with all of you, and I tune in from time to time just to see the process because I think what happens here is an example of really good process and how uh residents' voices are heard, and you set the set uh the tone for fairness and consider the vision and not just what is today but what can be in the future, and that's our our job as leaders in the city.

19:05

So hats off to you.

19:07

Nice.

19:07

Thank you, Sandy.

19:11

To see you all, and thanks for being here, and thanks to everyone here.

19:14

We have a great city.

19:15

We're so fortunate to be in Sandy.

19:17

You're here a big reason why.

19:19

Thanks.

19:19

Thank you.

19:20

We know how busy you are, so we really appreciate you taking the time, Mayor.

19:24

Okay.

19:25

Um with that, I will come back, we'll come back to this item and we'll open it up for public comment.

19:30

Um so we'll begin with those that are attending the meeting in person.

19:33

If you're here to comment on this item, please come to the podium and state your name and address.

19:38

You'll have three minutes.

19:42

All right, seeing none.

19:43

Mike, do we have anybody online that would like to comment?

19:46

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

20:02

I am not seeing any hands raised.

20:05

Okay.

20:05

Thank you.

20:06

With that, we'll close the public comment period.

20:09

Um and we'll turn to the planning commission.

20:11

Is there any deliberation we want to have before we make a motion?

20:17

I think it's a great project to welcome use in the area and and uh looks like a quality project is my opinion.

20:28

I would agree.

20:31

So if there's other I'll go ahead and make a motion if we're ready.

20:34

Yes, please.

20:36

Okay, I will make a motion that the uh planning commission determined preliminary site plan review is substantially complete for the proposed Outbeck Stakehouse slash bonefish restaurant building at one one one four South State Street in the CBD zone based on the uh four findings and actually have a question on that seventh or that uh Clint uh on that does number seven need to be rewarded, or is this just fine as is?

21:10

It says that the planning comes recommend approval of the approve of the proposed six percent uh parking increase.

21:19

Is that fine as it is?

21:22

Okay, okay.

21:23

So of the four findings and the eight conditions detailed in staff report.

21:28

Great, thank you.

21:29

Do I have a second?

21:30

Oh, a second.

21:33

Dave Bromley.

21:35

Yes, Jennifer George?

21:37

Yes, David Hart.

21:39

Yes.

21:40

Ron Mortimer, yes, Steve Wrigley, yes.

21:42

Lenise Davenport.

21:44

Yes.

21:44

This motion carries.

21:47

Great, thank you, Aisha.

21:48

All right, with that, we'll move to agenda item number three, which is the brand estates, the reconsideration of conditions of approval for subdivision and special exemption review at 285 East 110 South.

22:02

Um, and Mike, we'll turn the time to you.

22:05

Thank you, Madam Chair.

22:06

Uh, this item is uh request that's been brought to us by the property owners, uh, Ryan and Davina Brand.

22:13

They're requesting uh a reconsideration of the conditions of approval that applied to this uh brand estate subdivision.

22:20

Uh part of that request was also to review and approve a special exception for the creation of a new private lane, which was uh Sophie Lane uh was repurposed as a from a public street to a private street.

22:36

Uh there were three homes off to the side of this brand estate subdivision that were established with the Mertlich subdivision.

22:44

These three homes that are on that east side of the brand estates were accessed off of this Sophie Lane, which was a dedicated and partially approved at uh improved as a public street.

22:55

As part of the brand estates, they redeveloped that into a private street and requested a special exception for limited improvements on that uh private street.

23:04

They also uh as part of that approval limited the access onto this new uh Sophie court into uh limiting those to the access to that private lane to those existing three homes.

23:18

Uh the request tonight is to reconsider that to expand that uh access onto uh this uh from the adjacent lots to the north and the south.

23:27

And I believe the applicant is here and can present their request uh in further detail to the planning commission, followed by Cash Hancy, who's the staff planner on this project.

23:41

Do you can you bring up the exhibits?

23:43

Um can you show yeah, that's perfect.

23:45

So we um are we live on lot 14, I think it is right now, or lot that one right there, that's where we live.

23:53

Can you now tell us your name?

23:56

I apologize.

23:56

No, that's okay.

23:58

That's okay and your address.

23:59

I'm Ryan Brand.

24:00

And we so we were at uh 10961 South Sophie Lane, but now it's the 327 Sophie Court.

24:07

So, anyways, um so we live in that house.

24:10

We plan on keeping that house.

24:12

We've touched that street and paid for the street and took care of it for all these years.

24:17

Now we want to build another house and hopefully have one of our children purchase the house that we live in because we feel like that's the only way we're gonna be able to keep our kids around and maybe get them to stay in the city that we love so much.

24:29

So we're going to build on law 11.

24:32

Um, we were told during the development that we were already going to have access to Sophie Court.

24:39

So for us to come in and talk about it now is kind of surprising.

24:43

Also, there were some other shocking things that happened during the the development, the time frame.

24:48

We it was almost lost in foreclosure.

24:50

We just had to save it recently.

24:52

So thank goodness that we were uh um aware brought awareness to that issue and got that taken care of.

25:00

But we are close with the neighbors that are on the street.

25:03

We are currently working on a new um maintenance program.

25:06

We're we're just getting pricing back from some of the like people that we would need for us to maintain the street properly into the future, and then we'll have that all signed in for you guys.

25:17

So we really don't see a lot of difference than what we've already got.

25:23

Um we are grateful that they let us change the street entrance to the center.

25:28

I think it makes that neighborhood feel a lot nicer.

25:30

There was a crosswalk that's still there attached to Crescent Park, and we watched people almost get hit by cars many years because of the angle that it was on.

25:40

Now it's straight.

25:40

It it's been amazing since they changed that.

25:43

We're so grateful for that.

25:44

Um I don't really know what else.

25:48

Um I think that us having the side load entry um off of Sophie Court will take some of the burden off of the actual street that comes off of 110th because of the size of the lots in the neighborhood.

26:00

I think that it is gonna actually be more helpful than hurtful for us to do that.

26:05

Um Sophie Court was uh uh it's built pretty wide, it's 26 feet wide, so it's it's a very wide uh street, so it's not a narrow street.

26:14

And uh our intentions were to build um pretty decent sized house um with the front elevation on Brand Lane and then have the garage on the court side, so it would be facing south for um for good for snow, right?

26:31

In this in this community.

26:33

Um we were we are planning a hundred percent on doing a side load, so the front of the house, or if you approach the house from 110th, you would be seeing um a front um elevation with uh the the garage area would be a side load.

26:50

So giving that appearance that you're not seeing just a bunch of garage, you're seeing that, and then uh fully intend on having um uh the the garage set back so it won't be any parking, we won't be parking on Sophie Court.

27:05

We'll have a uh a massive piece of concrete for parking.

27:11

That's that's all I have, sorry.

27:13

No, that's great, appreciate that.

27:15

Yes, yeah.

27:15

I I have a uh a question.

27:18

Um you see up on the slide um where the old entrance used, I guess used to be uh huh.

27:26

Is that being abandoned now?

27:28

And will that property then flow to lot 13?

27:31

Yes, it does.

27:32

Okay, and he's planning on on putting a yard and that's great.

27:37

Why not?

27:38

And then to the north at the top, is that going to connect to something in the future, or is that just gonna be a dead end?

27:46

Sadly, it's uh one of our neighbors who's kind of gotten lost in the translation of all of this, and I'm not sure how to that was something else that we did bring up with um the city that we're working on as well because his address didn't change.

27:59

So where we are the ones that are in charge of taking care of paying for the sign, we're asking, is it supposed to still be called Sophie Lane, or is it Sophie Court now?

28:09

Because his home address number is still the 10967, and ours where in the house that we currently live in and will keep is 327 east.

28:20

So he kind of got lost back in there in the corner without there being a lot of thought or it being brought to anybody's attention.

28:27

So we do need to work on that still and figure out how I think maybe it would be best to pull him in.

28:33

Can we go back to that site?

28:35

Because when you say he, I'm trying to figure out it's they're the bernards, they're not showing up.

28:44

Yes, it's another house right there.

28:45

I think it's lot, it's one of the mergeless law emergency laws.

28:49

Somebody accesses their property off of that dead end.

28:53

Yeah, it's it's so it's just like ours.

28:56

We actually share a driveway.

28:57

Our driveway is on the east of lot 14, and his is on the the right, is that right?

29:03

East, yeah.

29:04

His is on the west.

29:04

So our driveway is tough.

29:08

So as you come in on so on that private landing piece, you would turn on to a large uh driveway.

29:14

So that's how that's always been.

29:16

Did you guys have a chance to go before you did?

29:18

Okay, so yeah, you can see how he's blocked over there, and we need to like roll him into the address change in some way, shape, or form.

29:27

So thank you.

29:27

So can you go into that previous page?

29:30

So does at the I guess that would be the south side where it doesn't reach the end of lot 13.

29:41

Does that need to reach the end of lot 13?

29:43

No.

29:43

No.

29:44

No.

29:44

So there's staff think so as well.

29:49

So the south side, that's just designed as a hammerhead kind of design, so a fire truck can turn around.

29:55

They fit in there great.

30:00

And so meaning that there's going to be, I think to Dave David's point, there's no real other than that driveway.

30:03

There's no other future access that's contemplated on this.

30:07

Yeah.

30:07

Okay.

30:07

That makes sense.

30:11

Okay.

30:12

Okay.

30:12

Got it.

30:13

We're in process on that.

30:14

Just so the planning commission knows we're in process on that amendment.

30:20

Great.

30:20

Thank you.

30:21

Any other questions of the commission?

30:24

Applicants.

30:25

Okay.

30:26

Thank you so much.

30:28

All right.

30:29

Mr.

30:29

Hancy.

30:34

Thank you for your time tonight.

30:36

Just to address that law in the Murtler subdivision.

30:39

For whatever reason it wasn't included in the brand estate subdivision.

30:42

It's kind of left off on its own.

30:43

So we're in the process of doing an address affidavit to fix that to address it off of Sophie Cork to resolve that issue.

30:50

So besides that, I thought they did a great job.

30:58

That the all five of lots will be able to access that street that they will have to record a maintenance agreement like they mentioned they're working on.

31:14

Yeah, brand lane.

31:15

And then there will be no on-treat parking permitted on Sophie Court.

31:19

So any questions?

31:22

Yes.

31:23

Just a couple, specifically on a street street lights.

31:26

That's not required.

31:27

With it being a private lane access, we don't require that.

31:30

So there's no street lights.

31:33

Is that connected by the city?

31:34

And where is it?

31:35

Where would that be in the road or if it the road's pretty narrow?

31:38

And you put the cans out.

31:40

Is that a city trash there?

31:42

I I believe it is city.

31:48

Hold on, we need uh comments into the microphone.

31:50

Sorry, and Brittany Ward might also be able to help address that from public works' standpoint.

31:55

Um we would put the garbages where we're putting them now, which is we walk them down onto Brand Lane, and then we pull them back up to the houses that are up in the area.

32:04

And we'll also put the mailboxes over there on Brand Lane as well for the houses that are back in the back.

32:09

Okay, yeah, because it was pretty narrow to put the trash cans on there on either side.

32:13

Yeah.

32:13

And I also um I probably didn't mention this with you guys before, but I think if we do allow lot 11 and 12 that we have the garages offset so that those driveways aren't even interfering with each other either, like I know that's common in the city to do that.

32:28

So thank you.

32:30

All right, thank you.

32:31

That helps.

32:33

Any other questions?

32:35

I I have a question for you.

32:37

In the staff report, uh, if you go to additional findings and additional conditions, uh the numbering is funny.

32:47

And I'm curious about that.

32:49

So is it a word problem?

32:51

Yeah, it it's also I I can speak to that.

32:55

Yeah.

32:56

Because these are continuation of the of the original conditions and original findings that are for the brand estate.

33:03

So these are additional.

33:05

So the original subdivision was approved with four findings and six conditions.

33:11

We're proposing to have an additional finding number five, okay, and four additional conditions seven through ten.

33:18

And so when we make the motion we need to identify that, right?

33:21

Correct.

33:22

I notice in the write-up it talks about additional.

33:25

Correct.

33:26

Okay.

33:26

All right.

33:27

Good catch.

33:29

Anything else?

33:31

All right.

33:31

Thank you.

33:32

All right.

33:33

We'll now open the meeting for public comment on this item.

33:36

We'll start with those that are attending in person.

33:38

If you would like to speak, please come to the podium and state your name and address.

33:44

You'll have three minutes.

33:49

Sean Hogan 10973, Hiram Place.

33:54

On this uh image here, it's just to the direct west adjacent to this property.

34:00

I just want to speak to the brands themselves.

34:03

I know Ryan through just a new acquaintance, and it's always been quite positive.

34:09

Um great neighbor.

34:12

And I I know another neighbor also that mentioned that uh they had kids in scouts together.

34:17

So uh he's a really great community member, number one, number two.

34:23

Um I think that this new can we look at the other view.

34:27

Um there's always this this view is much better than I think what was displayed before.

34:34

I think it just seems to make more sense.

34:37

Um is always a little confusing what was gonna happen with that corner lot.

34:41

Um this just feels better.

34:44

That's it.

34:45

Thanks.

34:46

No, that's great, thank you.

34:49

Mike, is there anybody else in the audience that would like to speak on this item?

34:53

Seeing none, Mike, do we have anybody online?

34:55

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

35:17

I am seeing no hands raised.

35:19

All right, thank you so much.

35:20

We'll go ahead and close the public comment period on that item.

35:23

Do we have any final questions?

35:25

Do we need to deliberate?

35:26

Are we ready for a motion?

35:28

I'll make a motion.

35:29

Yes, please.

35:30

Uh I'll move that the planning commission approve the revised conditions of approval for the brand estate subdivision and special exception as described in the staff report for the property located at twenty uh two eight five east, eleven thousand south, based on the following revised additional finding five and the additional conditions seven through ten.

35:53

Um I'll second that David Hart.

36:00

Yes, Steve Rickley?

36:01

Yes.

36:02

Dave Bromley?

36:03

Yes.

36:03

Ron Mortimer?

36:04

Yes.

36:05

Jennifer George?

36:06

Yes.

36:06

Lenise Davenport.

36:07

Yes.

36:08

This motion carries.

36:11

All right.

36:12

Thank you so much.

36:14

Yeah, congratulations.

36:15

Thank you.

36:17

Okay.

36:19

Let's see.

36:19

With that, that ends, I think our official business, and we can go ahead and um cover the administrative business.

36:26

Beginning with the minutes from the June 4th, 2026 meeting.

36:29

Is it do I have a motion?

36:31

Motion to approve the minutes for the June 4th, 2026 meeting.

36:34

Thank you.

36:35

Second.

36:36

Second.

36:36

Second.

36:38

All in favor.

36:40

Say all in favor.

36:41

All in favor.

36:43

Aye.

36:44

All right.

36:45

Lastly, we have the director's report.

36:47

Okay, I'll turn it over.

36:48

I don't have anything, but um Mike has a couple items he wants to go over.

36:52

Thanks, James.

36:53

Uh item number one is that um we have canceled the meeting for the July 2nd due to lack of quorum uh requirements.

37:03

Um enjoy your 4th of July and this special twenty 250th anniversary of our country.

37:12

Um so uh the only other item that I have, I think, is that the planning commission needs to vote for a new chair and vice chair for the following six months.

37:23

So the first meeting would be that July uh what is it, July 16th?

37:30

July 16th meeting would be our first meeting in July, and that term would run through December.

37:35

I think we've all been duly impressed.

37:38

And I think we could just do it by voice.

37:41

Sorry.

37:46

So that will allow you to write in uh your selection for both vice and uh and chair and vice chair.

37:55

If there are people that you want to nominate, you can make that known.

38:01

Great.

38:02

You want to see this now, obviously.

38:04

Correct.

38:05

Thank you.

38:06

And you can also nominate people that are not here.

38:15

However, I shouldn't mention that people that are all alternate members cannot take the position of chair or vice chair.

38:22

So just well, you can you can vote actually for chair and vice chair.

38:28

You just can't take the position.

38:35

So Craig Kinnerman and Jennifer George would be the two that would not be eligible to hold either of those positions.

38:41

Lucky.

38:42

Oh whoever becomes chair, can they change that?

38:49

No, there's a couple values there.

39:00

Okay.

39:02

Where do we pass them?

39:05

Pass them down to Aisha and she'll tally the votes.

39:09

I thought I could vote for Jennifer.

39:12

Not too bad.

39:15

You just sneak under the radar every time.

39:20

Sorry, Ron.

39:24

That means we're having a Christmas party here.

39:27

That's what I just thought.

39:29

Yep.

39:31

Might be in St.

39:32

George.

39:34

I don't think we will have to do that.

39:36

So it looks like Lenise is our new chair.

39:40

I don't know.

39:41

And Cameron's our new vice chair.

39:48

Was it unanimous on camera?

39:50

Just about.

39:54

It's always dangerous to show up on a voting night for chair or vice chair because you might you might get picked.

40:01

You will get picked.

40:04

You know that, unless you're going to be able to do that.

40:06

And good job, Lenice.

40:13

Thank you so much.

40:14

Okay.

40:15

That's all the administrative business that we had for tonight.

40:18

All right.

40:19

Okay.

40:20

I think with that, we have one fine.

40:22

Are we ready for a final motion?

40:23

I've only got four walls.

40:27

All in favor?

40:28

I thank you.

40:31

Well done.

40:32

Thank you, Bray.

40:35

Congratulations.

40:36

I don't know if it's something that deserves.

40:38

Congratulations, but we'll take it.

40:40

Oh you'll enjoy it.

40:41

It's fun.

40:42

Good job to everyone.

40:43

Good job, Chris.

40:44

All right.

40:45

Ron, how are your friends?

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Summary of Proceedings

Sandy Planning Commission Meeting - June 18, 2026

The Sandy Planning Commission met on Thursday, June 18, 2026, at 6:15 PM in the City Council Chambers. The meeting included review of a dual restaurant project and reconsideration of subdivision conditions, along with administrative business. Both agenda items received unanimous approval.

Dual Restaurant: Outback Steakhouse & Bonefish Grill (1114 South State Street)

  • Presentation: Applicant Craig Cheney presented a proposal for a single-story, 11,195-square-foot dual-concept restaurant on a 2.4-acre vacant site in the Central Business District. The design features shared kitchen, restrooms, and lounge, with two dining rooms and exterior patios. The site would have 181 parking spaces, including a request for 8 temporary "takeaway" spaces and a 6% parking increase (from 170 to 172 spaces), justified by a traffic study. Staff recommended approval subject to eight conditions, including strengthening a cross-access easement.
  • Commission Deliberation: Commissioners praised the project as high-quality and well-suited to the area. No public comments were received.
  • Outcome: Motion to approve the preliminary site plan as substantially complete, based on four findings and eight conditions. Vote: 6-0 in favor.

Brand Estates Subdivision Reconsideration (285 East 110 South)

  • Background: The Brand Estates subdivision was previously approved with conditions limiting access to Sophie Court (a private street) to three existing homes. Property owners Ryan and Davina Brand requested reconsideration to allow access for adjacent lots (11 and 12) for new construction. They also sought approval of a special exception for the private lane.
  • Presentation: Ryan Brand explained that they live on the property and plan to build a home on lot 11, with a side-load garage facing Sophie Court to minimize visual impact. They are working on a new maintenance agreement for the private street and addressing an address discrepancy for a neighboring lot from the Mertlich subdivision. Staff confirmed no on-street parking would be permitted on Sophie Court.
  • Public Comment: Sean Hogan, a neighbor, spoke in support of the Brands, describing them as great community members.
  • Outcome: Motion to approve revised conditions with an additional finding (5) and four additional conditions (7-10). Vote: 6-0 in favor.

Administrative Business

  • Minutes: The commission unanimously approved the minutes from the June 4, 2026, meeting.
  • Director's Report: Mike Wilcox announced that the July 2, 2026, meeting is canceled due to lack of quorum, and reminded that the next meeting is July 16, 2026.
  • Election of Officers: The commission elected Lenise Davenport as chair and selected a new vice chair (the transcript identifies the vice chair as "Cameron," though no commissioner by that name was introduced; this may be a transcription error). The new officers will serve for the next six months through December 2026.

Key Outcomes

  • Approved preliminary site plan for Outback Steakhouse/Bonefish Grill (6-0).
  • Approved revised conditions for Brand Estates subdivision (6-0).
  • Approved minutes of June 4, 2026 meeting.
  • Elected Lenise Davenport as chair and a new vice chair for the upcoming term.

Meeting Transcript

Aisha, are we ready to get started? Mike? Okay. Recording in progress. Those are the magic words. All right. Yeah. Okay. Good. Okay, awesome. With that, we're gonna go ahead and kick off tonight's planning commission meeting. Um, I'd like to welcome everybody to the planning commission meeting. I am the current chair of the planning commission, Linny Stavenport, and I'm joined by my fellow commissioners, and we'll do a round of introductions. Ron Mortimer. Jennifer George. Dave Bromley, David Hart, Steve Wrigley. Thank you. Um I'm also going to turn the time over to James to introduce the staff, please. Great. Um I'm James Swanson, community development director. We have Mike Wilcox here as the planning director. Brittany Ward is here with us. She's the assistant public works director. Ivan Hooper, transportation engineer, Clint Spencer, Development Services Manager. Cash. Nancy is a senior planner, Grant Hancock with us tonight, planner, and our famous Ayesha who controls and runs the meeting. One day I'll say our last name. Whoa. One day. I'm not gonna risk it. I think I would mess it up. Okay, all right, thank you. Um just as a reminder, we meet at the call of the chairman, normally on the first and third Thursday of every month at 6 15 p.m. here in the city council chambers. Our meetings are typically preceded by a field trip of the agenda items and an exec executive session, which consists of training by our staff and legal council. These are part of the open meeting, and the public may attend. The training and regular portion of the meetings can be attended virtually through Zoom webinar as well. Um we will start our kick off the agenda with a pledge of allegiance. Everybody will stand. I pledge to the right of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands found nation under God in the visible with justice for all. All right, tonight's planning commission meeting will follow the agenda that has been published. This is made available at the entry to the room and digitally on the city's website. Each item on the agenda will proceed as follows, unless it is on a consent calendar. Staff will introduce the item, then the developer or the project applicant will present, then we'll return back to staff for their presentation, then we'll open it to public comment, uh close public comment, we'll have planning commission deliberation and then take a motion. All right, so first on the agenda is um item number two, which is the outback steakhouse and bonefish grill dual restaurant, the preliminary site plan um review for that. And then we'll start with Mike. Thank you, madam chair. Yes. Um this item is located at 111 uh one four south state streets. Uh they are proposing to develop this undeveloped vacant property as a dual restaurant uh that would house the outback and bonefish restaurants here at this location.

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