The Sandy City Council met on September 15, 2026, at 5:15 PM in the Council Chambers. The meeting included special recognition awards, a joint informational session with the Planning Commission on the Land Development Code update, public comments, and voting on rezoning, general plan amendments, and accessory dwelling unit (ADU) code changes. The council voted to deny the Canyon Gate rezone and development agreement, and adopted ADU amendments with several modifications. A closed session was held for security discussions.
Recording in progress. I'm on. I'm going to start here. Madam Chair, we're ready whenever you're ready. Thank you. We will go ahead and begin then. Welcome everyone. We are grateful to have you with us for this evening's city council meeting and for those who joined us earlier for our award night. Thank you for continuing to celebrate and be here with us tonight. We will start our meeting the way we always do with a prayer and a pledge. We'd like to invite uh Chris McCandless, a Noel Bateman committee member and former City Council member to offer this evening's prayer. Thank you. Good evening. Our kind and gracious Father in heaven, as we gather here tonight as citizens and elected officials, we thank thee for the opportunity to live in this great community. This great state and nation. We thank thee for the blessings thou has bestowed upon all of us. We ask thee this evening, Father, for a blessing upon all of our city council people this evening, all of our elected officials, the administration, those who serve in uniform and serve as sworn officers of our community that they may be held safe in thine arms. As we know they place their trust in thee every day and ask thee to keep them safe. Keep them vigilant in their desires to serve us as the citizens of this community with those decisions which will continue to build upon this great community and serve our nation. We thank thee, Father, for all of those citizens who have served diligently and volunteering their efforts, and especially this evening, Father, we ask thee for a special blessing upon Steve Fairbanks as he receives his award and Ms. Cadell as well. We ask thee, Father, for those decisions to be made without bias, without challenges to the integrity of the system at all times and always. We say these things, Father, in the beloved name of thy son Jesus Christ, amen. Thank you, Mr. McCannless. Um now we'd like to invite Mr. Ben Christensen up, who will lead us in the pledge. Please follow me in residing the pledge. I plagiarized to the flag of the United States of America. And you in the republic stands our nation, under God, indivisible. Thank you so much for for the prayer, and Ben, thank you for the pledge, and for all of you joining your voices together with us. We'll move on with quick introductions and then we'll jump into this evening's meeting. So if we could start with our council office over here, start with introductions. Thank you. Apologies, Madam Chair. My name is Dustin Fratto. I'm with the City Council Office. We have a couple other council staff members in the back of the room, Justin Sorensen and Matt Perry. Hello, my name is Tracy. I'm counsel for the council. Chris Edwards with the Council Office. Chris Nickel, District Three. Cindy Sharkey at large. Bert Christensen, District 1. Marcy Houseman, District 4. Alison Stroud, District 2. Erin DeKaiser at large. Mayor Monica Zeltansky. And we have excuse Miss Councilwoman D'Soussa is unable to join us. She's an additional at-large.