*EMPLOYMENT ANNOUNCEMENT* Wasatch County Planning Office is seeking qualified applicants to fill a fulltime opening for the position of Senior Planner (Grade R $94,910-$102,211 plus a competitive benefit package). Under direction of the Planning Director, this position is responsible to perform complex planning and land use administrative duties with limited supervision. Wasatch County is situated in a rural mountain valley on the back of the Wasatch Mountain range approximately 15 miles south of Park City and less t ...Continue Reading

We have a discussion item coming up with our Planning Commission regarding tattoo services.  Currently, Brigham City only allows Tattoo Establishments in the industrial districts.  The discussion is whether or not to allow tattoo services as an accessory service/use with a beauty care, personal services, or wellness center in the General Commercial and Central Business District, but not as a stand-alone establishment.  Are there any communities that allow tattoo services as part of another type of servi ...Continue Reading

Urban Design Utah invites you to join our spring symposium program, co-presented with CNU Utah Chapter. *Barriers to Condo Development in Utah*Salt Lake City once led urban housing innovation, with the first condominium project developed in the continental United States. Per the latest U.S. Census data, condominiums make up only about 5% of multifamily developments in Utah. This may be a missed opportunity for households to purchase homes in urban areas, as urban growth and development expands ar ...Continue Reading

__ Save the Date, August 6-9 Please join us at our 2024 WYOPASS / WESTERN PLANNER CONFERENCE AUGUST 6-9, 2024 CHEYENNE, WYOMING REGISTER TODAY! CALL FOR SESSIONS OPEN UNTIL APRIL 30TH SUBMIT A SESSION PROPOSAL Session proposals should be submitted through the online form, available via the conference website.  Accepted formats include presentations, panels, interactive work sessions, and roundtable discussions. Sessions can be ...Continue Reading

Good Morning Utah Planners!Clinton City is in the process of changing to an administrative code enforcement process with most violations handled with civil citations as opposed to criminal enforcement. Part of this overhaul is the desire to effectively administer and track cases with software for online interface with the public and for tracking and administering cases. Presently, we use City Inspect to process and issue building permits. They offer a code enforcement module that we are considering, but we want to e ...Continue Reading

Good afternoon,   North Ogden City has a legacy business (vehicle repair) that has outgrown its current site and is dealing with parking issues. They would like to revise their Site Plan and add parking, but the only practical area on their site encroaches into a required front yard setback along Washington Boulevard. The parking setback has been consistently applied to dozens of businesses over the years, so removing that requirement for this business would be a visual impact and change the nature of the corrido ...Continue Reading

Good afternoon, Morgan County is looking to implement an AI tool for the County’s Website. We’ve heard that some jurisdictions in Utah have AI tools on their website that only answers questions based on text that is fed into it. Ideally, we'd like to feed our County Code into an AI app/widget and have that be a separate search engine on our website. That said, we do not want to have customers receive answers based on anything outside of the County Code. That could cause some serious problems if customers do a search ...Continue Reading

EMPLOYMENT ANNOUNCEMENT Wasatch County Planning Office is seeking qualified applicants to fill a fulltime opening for the position of Senior Planner (Grade R $94,910-$102,211 plus a competitive benefit package). Under direction of the Planning Director, this position is responsible to perform complex planning and land use administrative duties with limited supervision. Wasatch County is situated in a rural mountain valley on the back of the Wasatch Mountain range approximately 15 miles south of Park City and less tha ...Continue Reading

Hello everyone: Recently, one of our industrial property owners removed some 20 year old pine trees that were on private property because the trees were dropping sap on the customers vehicles.  Once we found out about this, 11 trees had been removed.  We are also experiencing business owners that are removing sod and trees in the parking lot landscaping in order to save water.  Some are replacing it with water wise landscaping and others are just using rock mulch.  I am positive that we are not the ...Continue Reading

The City of Bluffdale is seeking a Planning Manager.  Fun opportunities await near The Point, with a future FrontRunner station being planned here and much more.  Please let me know if you have any questions. Planning Manager   The City of Bluffdale is seeking qualified candidates to fill the position of Planning Manager. This position must perform professional current and long-range planning and permitting functions with limited supervision. As an expert in the field, you will bring a ...Continue Reading