City Council - Regular Meeting

to the Planning Commission meeting on September 10th, 2026. We'll start tonight's meeting with a Pledge of Allegiance led by Commissioner Patten.

Will everyone please stand or repeat after me?

Thank you. Do I have a motion to approve tonight's agenda?

I'll make a motion that we approve tonight's agenda. Second.

I have a motion by Commissioner Patten and a second by Commissioner Trickler. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Do I have a motion to approve tonight's staff reports?

I move to approve tonight's staff reports with the change or inclusion of additional replacement of page eight of 10. I'll second that.

All right, I have a motion by Commissioner Butler with the change of page eight and a second by Commissioner Gregson. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Do I have any declarations of conflicts or abstentions from commission members? Seeing none, we will... get into the first and only agenda item tonight is number one is a public hearing for a code text amendment sections 10-15-47 accessory apartments the public hearing is to consider the request of pleasant grove city for code text amendment to amend section 10-15-47 accessory apartments to revise the parking requirements for accessory apartments Jacob.

Thank you. Good evening, Madam Chairman and members of the Commission. I'm Jacob Hawkins from the Planning Department. So the state legislature has required us to put some limitations on the parking requirements for accessory dwelling units, both internal and detached. And so here's what we have right now. So right now we require four off-street parking spaces for the main dwelling unit. So that's like say two in the garage, two in the driveway. And then we require an additional two off-street parking spaces for the accessory unit. And that equals a total of six off-street parking spaces for a property that has an accessory apartment. Now the state is requiring us to limit the amount of parking that we can have. So for internal accessory dwelling units, it says here, regardless of whether the primary dwelling is existing or new construction, we can only include one additional onsite parking space for an internal accessory dwelling unit. In addition to the parking spaces required under the municipality's land use regulation, except that if the municipality's land use ordinance already requires four off street parking spaces, the municipality may not require the additional space contemplated under the subsection. So basically, if we require four spaces for the home already, so two in the garage, two in the driveway, For an internal accessory dwelling unit, we cannot require any other parking spaces. If we're only requiring two, like say in the garage for the house, then we can have one additional for the accessory dwelling unit. Detached accessory dwelling units is a little bit simpler. If the detached accessory dwelling unit is 600 square feet or larger, then we can require up to two parking spaces, two off street parking spaces. If it is 650 square feet or less, then we can only require one parking space, one additional parking space. for that accessory dwelling unit. And so here's what we got. This is the proposed text. It says exactly what is required by state and nothing else. So if you want to, we can go over this. Otherwise you have it in your staff reports. I will note that the change that was mentioned to the staff report at the beginning to page eight, that is this section right here. It's just a switch of state code, a reference to state code because the state code changed. So this is that code that it's referencing now. And that's the only additional change. So with that, I can take any questions.

So looking at number five.

Number five, yes.

How is that enforceable?

Minimum width of parking areas and driveways shall be paved with concrete or asphalt. So basically we don't want people parking on the grass, is really what that comes down to. If there is a section, like say someone has their driveway for their personal garage, and then they have like a little portion just off to the side, they can pave that with gravel, that's fine, but that would have to be approved by our engineering department. gravel is fine under certain circumstances.

And it's that part that I was referring to as they crushed granite, minimum thickness, um, slag, you know, that kind of stuff. So they have to go through the engineer. The city engineer has to approve that. Yep. Okay.

Any other questions?

I'll scroll up a little bit.

And the city is the applicant. But it is a public hearing, so I'll go ahead and open it up to the public. And not seeing any, I will bring it back up to the commissioners for a discussion or a motion.

I don't know. There's a lot to discussing is how it's being dictated by the state.

I'll take a motion then.

I'll move the Planning Commission recommend that the City Council approve the request of Pleasant Grove City for a code text amendment to City Code Section 10-15-47, Accessory Apartments and Adopting the Exhibits, Conditions, and Findings of the Staff Report.

We second.

I have a motion by Commissioner Patten and a second by Commissioner Nelson. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes from August 27th, 2026?

I motion to approve the minutes from August 27th of this year. I'll second.

We'll let Butler have that. Yeah. I have a motion by Commissioner Trickler and a second by Commissioner Butler. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries.

Move that we adjourn.