 Mission StatementProvide a vision for planning and preserving a high quality, livable community that reflects Salt Lake City's unique culture, population and sense of place. The Planning and Zoning DivisionThe Salt Lake City Planning and Zoning Division is responsible for creating land use development codes and their implementation. PlanningThe Planners’ duties include developing master plans to provide vision and goals for future development in the City, creating and implementing the City’s Zoning Ordinance to ensure that minimum development standards are met, creating and implementing the subdivision ordinance to ensure the division of land is carried out in a way to ensure adequate sized lots for development and access to the property, and protecting historically important neighborhoods and sites in the City for existing and future citizens. Board SupportThe Planning and Zoning Division provides staff support
for four City boards
including the Board of Adjustment
which has the authority to grant
exceptions to the City’s zoning regulations; the
Housing Advisory and
Appeals Board which has the authority to ensure minimum standards for
residential development are met; the Historic Landmark Commission
which
ensure the preservation of important historic structures and sites and
the Planning Commission
which determines the appropriate types and
intensity of uses in various geographic areas and determines dimensional
requirements (such as maximum heights of structures, amount of open
space on a lot and the distance of buildings from property lines) to
minimize impacts on other properties. |
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