HomeMy WebLinkAboutLegislative Version Ordinance - 7/2/2025
V2 1
Project Title: Changes to Zoning Incentives for Building
Preservation Adaptive Reuse
Petition No.: PLNPCM2025-00039
Version: 2
Date Prepared: May 31, 2025
Planning Commission Action: Recommendation on April 23, 2025
This proposed ordinance makes the following amendments (for summary purposes only):
• Amends 21A.52.040.B to add the ability to request a one-year time extension of the preliminary
approval – consistent with our planning approvals.
• Amends 21A.52.060.B.4.b.1 to include a modification allowance for maximum yard areas in
addition to minimum yards.
• Amends 21A.52.060.B.4.e to expand the scope of administrative design review to include any
request that requires design review approval.
• Amends 21A.52.060.B.5.g to clarify that the prohibition of garage doors on street facing facades
only applies to single family attached dwellings.
• Amends 21A.52.060.B.6.c to clarify that projects using preservation incentives for new
development must guarantee retention of the eligible building that qualified them for the
incentives for at least 30 years. Currently, the provision applies only to new buildings, but this
amendment clarifies that new development—such as additions or expansions to an existing
eligible building—also falls under this requirement, even if it doesn’t involve constructing a
completely new building.
• Amends Section 21A.59.040.A to clarify projects that qualify for zoning incentives are not
limited to the scope of administrative design review identified in table 21A.59.040.
Underlined text is new; text with strikethrough is proposed to be deleted. All other text is existing
with no proposed change.
If adopted by the City Council, the Salt Lake City Council ordains the following, in substantial
compliance with the following:
Planning Note: Some of the text relies on the adoption of the Commercial and Mixed-
Use Zoning District Consolidation text amendment, which is currently pending adoption
by the City Council. If the Commercial and Mixed-Use District Consolidation proposal is
not adopted or if the proposed text amendment language is modified, the substance of the
proposed language in this text amendment would remain largely unchanged, though the
affected sections of the code may differ
.
1. Amends Subsection 21A.52.040.B as follows: 1
B. Preliminary approval shall authorize the preparation, filing and processing of applications for any 2
permits or approval that may be required by the city, including, but not limited to, a building permit. 3
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no permits shall be issued until final approval is obtained pursuant to 4
APPROVED AS TO FORM
Salt Lake City Attorney’s Office
Date: _____5/31/25__________________
By: _/s/ Courtney Lords________________
Courtney Lords, Senior City Attorney
V2 2
this Chapter. Preliminary approval shall be valid for a period of one year unless complete building 5
plans have been submitted to the Division of Building Services. The planning director may grant a 6
one-year extension of the preliminary approval when the applicant is able to demonstrate no change 7
in circumstance. Extension requests must be submitted prior to the expiration of the preliminary 8
approval. 9
2. Amends Subsection 21A.52.060.B.4.b.1 as follows: 10
11
(1) Modification to the minimum and maximum yard requirements. 12
13
3. Repeals and replaces Subsection 21A.52.060.B.4.e to read as follows: 14
15
e. Administrative design review is permitted for any request that requires design review 16
approval. 17
4. Amends Subsection 21A.52.060.B.5.g as follows: 18
g. Garage Doors Facing Street: For attached single family dwellings, Ggarage doors are 19
prohibited on the façade of the building that is parallel to, or located along, a public 20
street. 21
5. Amends Subsection 21A.52.060.B.6.c as follows: 22
c. Projects that apply the incentives to new development buildings on the development 23
site shall guarantee retention of the eligible building used to qualify for the incentives 24
for a minimum term of thirty (30) years or, if the eligible building is subject to 25
Section 21A.34.020, indefinitely unless otherwise permitted by the terms of a 26
certificate of appropriateness after such thirty (30) year period; 27
6. Amends Subsection 21A.59.040.A as follows: 28
21A.59.040: SCOPE OF MODIFICATIONS AUTHORIZED: 29
A. The authority of the Planning Director through the design review process shall be limited to 30
modification of the specific element referenced within each zoning district. For Planning Director review, 31
the design standards of the applicable zoning district (see chapter 21A.37, "Design Standards", of this 32
title), may be modified according to the following table. Administrative design review as authorized in 33
Chapter 21A.52 is not subject to the following table. 34
[end] 35
Effective Date: This ordinance, if passed, shall become effective on the date of its first publication and
shall be recorded with the Salt Lake City Recorder. [The Salt Lake City Recorder is instructed to not
publish this ordinance until the condition set forth in Section 2 is satisfied as certified by the Salt Lake
City Planning Director or his designee.]
Is there a penalty for violating this ordinance? If so, please state penalty or reference another ordinance
that prescribes the penalty here. _________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________.
V2 3
If penalty for violation includes possibility of imprisonment, include the following statement:
Per Section 78B-22-301 of the Utah Code, Salt Lake City shall provide for indigent defense services, as
that term is defined in 78B-22-102 of the Utah Code.
ATTEST:
______________________________
CITY RECORDER
Transmitted to the Mayor on __________________________.
Mayor’s Action: _____Approved. _____Vetoed.
______________________________
MAYOR
ATTEST:
____________________________
CITY RECORDER