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All right, we would like to welcome you
to the South Salt Lake City Council work

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meeting. It is Wednesday, July 8th,
2026. The time is 6:45 p.m. My name is

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Charlotte Bynum and I will be conducting
and I'd like to welcome all the council.

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Um we would like to excuse Nick
Mitchell. He had a a loss in his family

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and we send condolences to him. Um our
thoughts are with him.

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And then we'd like to welcome staff and
anyone who's here in person or watching

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us on Zoom.
We have three items up for discussion,

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so we will go ahead and start with item
number one. We'll turn the time over to

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Jed who will be talking about 100 116
East Garden Avenue zone change.

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» [clears throat]

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» Perfect. Good to be here. Um
My name is Jed Shawm from planner, city

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planner from community community
development. And

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» [clears throat]
>> today I'll bring to you a zoning map

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amendment application from the property
owner at 116 East Garden Avenue

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um for this location.
Um

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There we go. Um so here's some general
general information about this location.

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So this application is asking to change
the highlighted lot as indicated on the

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right from commercial corridor or CC to
R1.

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Um and the image on the bottom left
corner from is from Google Maps of the

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existing
um what it looks [clears throat] like at

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the existing location right now.
>> [snorts]

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» So the purpose um for this zoning map
amendment is to allow the property owner

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to have more financial options. As the
property owner expressed that buyers are

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are unable to acquire a loan from the
bank for for a purchase because

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residential is a prohibited use under
the current zoning.

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Also, not only financial issues, but it
is impossible for any other residential

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purposes to simply because residential
uses are not allowed in the in the

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commercial corridor zone.
And this leaves the property owner

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basically have no flexibility or options
to use this residential unit as a

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residential unit.
So, here's the zoning map for this

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location.
Um

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Um and then the lot size for this uh for
116 East Gar- Garden Avenue is 0.14 acre

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according to the county assessor map,
which is about 6,098

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square feet, and it is way below the
current CC minimum lot size standard,

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which is 1 acre.
Um but as you can see, this location

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meets all minimum R1 lot standards since
the lot is about is above 6,000 square

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feet and meet the 50-ft minimum lot
width standard in the R1 zone.

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Therefore, staff staff agrees that this
location at 116 East Garden Avenue is

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more suitable or makes more sense to be
zoned R1 instead of uh commercial

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corridor. And moreover, from my
observation of the zoning map, this is

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one of the if not the only single-family
dwelling that has a underlying

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commercial corridor zoning on the east
side of State Street that does not face

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State Street.
So, here's a more zoomed out version of

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the zoning map with the blue arrow
indicating

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um the project area today, um 116 East
Garden Avenue. And as you can see, the

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commercial corridor zone usually ends
where the residential units begin along

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the east side of State Street.
Um and I just want to point out that

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this reason one application is also in
line with our general plan. Um,

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which in the general plan's future land
use map, um, 116 East Garden Avenue

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falls under the neighborhood character
areas, which, um,

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the definition is that is
um, is that these are the areas with

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existing residential um,
where current neighborhood character

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defined by building mass, street
orientation, and overall density is to

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continue.
Um, and so we staff thinks that this

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action, um, to match the zoning with the
existing, um, residential unit at this

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location will perfectly match with the
vision,

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um, for this location in the general
plan.

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Um, ultimately for the next steps, the
plan is to bring this in front of, uh,

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plan commission
for a recommendation,

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um, on August 6th.
And then, uh, I'll be back, um,

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with this zone change application on for
an approval on the 26th of August City

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Council regular meeting. Um,
pretty straightforward, um, application,

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and yeah, feel free to let me know if
you have any questions.

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Thank you.
>> Any questions?

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Usually we're going the other way, and
so this is a nice thing to see in all of

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my years on the council to see that
we're adding

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» Yeah.
>> some residential single family zone.

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» Yeah.
>> Thank you, Jen.

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» Mhm.
>> Appreciate you.

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All right, next up, we'll invite Stuart
up.

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Welcome. Um, I believe he's talking
about a resolution to just kind of do

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some some cleanup, making sure you,
Stuart, have access to all the functions

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you need to complete your job. I'll let
you explain more.

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» Good evening, [clears throat] Council.
Stewart Acobia, the Director of Finance

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for the City of South Salt Lake. So,
here we're talking about a resolution,

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um, which essentially is appointing me
as the um

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director of finance and also in charge
of your financial institution accounts

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like your bank accounts and things like
that. Um in addition, the resolution

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um states that Joy Mandler is the deputy
director of finance

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and Charmaine Peck as a treasurer for
the city.

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So essentially this resolution gives me
in um control of the accounts to make

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sure um things are in line and
reconciled and um

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appropriate and
uh should be.

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» Any questions?
All right. I think we're just excited to

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have you and put you to work. So.
>> Great. Thank you.

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» you.
All right. We'll move on to item number

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three, appointment by the mayor.

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» We um had an we had a resignation from
the CRB. So we have a current opening as

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a regular sitting CRB or civilian review
board um member. And so the next person

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that would be online that we need to
move as uh alternate to a regular is

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Catherine Taylor and [clears throat] so
that's what I would be asking for this

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evening in the regular meeting is advice
and consent for that. She is here. You

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have questions for her.
Um

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» All right. Any questions? Her resume's
in our Dropbox. We're familiar with

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Catherine. We appreciate her service so
far.

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» Thank you.
>> We'll take action in our final our

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regular meeting.
All right. Well, seeing as we

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went through those three items pretty
quick, we will adjourn and start in

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eight minutes.
>> Please Sharlah.

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» Oh, just quickly, just a thought.
>> [clears throat]

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» It seems odd that we would have to have
a formal process to move an alternate to

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a regular member. I don't know if that's
spelled out somewhere, but it seems

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if we already appointed them an
alternate, do we have to appoint them as

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a regular?
I don't know if we that makes sense to

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streamline. Joey, you'd have more
>> is Joey, um it is written into the

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ordinance that that is how we move
forward with that so that it follows

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um other
uh established boards and committees

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within the city.
>> Okay.

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» I mean, I don't think anybody's opposed
to that, but because

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» I'll point out certain countries.
>> Oh, I was just saying because regular

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members have a vote in closed Well, not
a vote, but they have an opinion in

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closed door meeting, whereas alternates
do not. This is now moving someone from

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not having an opinion to actually having
a meaningful opinion.

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» Okay.
>> But just in in line with the council's

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role when someone is appointed, the
advice and consent process,

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this is still someone Yes, they're
appointed to that board, but their role

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is different. So, it's a different role.
So, clearly the council could say in the

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in ordinance, I think would be the way
to do that. We could do that research,

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but um that would probably be the best
way to do it is through a code change

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that
would have a process outlined for

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authorizing them to do that and the the
civilian civilian board to do that in

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their rules.
Uh

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that process of appointing, you know,
who moves up and who doesn't. So,

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» Yeah.
>> Um

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it's a good question, but typically
every appointment needs to be given

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advice and consent by the council. Yeah.
Um you know, for good reason. So,

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that's typically why we do it.
>> Oh, yeah, I attempt to simplify, but if

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it complicates, then ignore all that.
>> Yeah, I know. Sometimes

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it's a good before. All right. Thank
you. With that, we will adjourn and

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start our regular meeting in 6 minutes.
Thank you, everyone.