Utility installation exemptions text amendment
Clarifies zoning exemptions for utility installations and sets an administrative approval process, with public notice, for new public utility structures. After the Oct. 21, 2025 hearing the Council continued it, with a request to state that exemptions do not apply to utility structures in parks.
- Where it stands
- Tabled
- Type
- Code change
- Location
- Citywide
- Applicant
- Salt Lake City Planning
Every hearing and vote
September 2, 2025 · City Council work session
Utility installation exemptions text amendment (briefing)
Discussed
Planners described new exemptions and an administrative approval process, with public notice, for new public utility structures, including in historic districts, where Historic Landmark Commission standards would still be considered. In a straw poll all Council Members present supported adding language that exempt government antennas must be critical infrastructure providing utility or public safety service, and footnotes keeping antennas out of the Eco-Industrial Buffer Area overlay. Council Member Wharton asked for a small group meeting on remaining questions.
- Petition: PLNPCM2024-01352
- Straw poll support: all present (Council Member Young absent for the poll)
September 9, 2025 · City Council
Consent agenda
Approved · 6-0
The Council approved the consent agenda 6-0. It set Oct. 7 hearings on a partial street vacation at 1100 West and 400 South, the HOME-ARP plan amendment and the Liberty Heights alley vacation, and Oct. 21 hearings on the residential buffer and utility installation exemption text amendments. It also set a hearing for local landmark designation of the Sampson and Altadena Apartments (276 East 300 South and 310 South 300 East), and appointed the applicant, Denise Begue, Pablo Cruz-Ayalo and Nicholas Pedersen to the Arts Council and reappointed Aaron Wiley to the Parks, Natural Lands, Trails, and Urban Forestry Advisory Board, all for terms to Sept. 9, 2028.
October 21, 2025 · City Council
Utility installation exemptions text amendment
Continued · 6-0
One speaker commented on public involvement for utility projects in public parks and suggested residents may offer lower-cost alternatives. Council Member Wharton asked that the ordinance state the exemptions do not apply to a utility structure in a park, and for more information on design standards; Council staff said they would draft language with Planning. The Council continued the hearing to a future meeting.
- Petition: PLNPCM2024-01352