Council adopts state-required tweaks to county moderate-income housing elements; removes one east-side strategy

The Summit County Council held a public hearing July 26 and adopted Ordinance 962 to amend the Snyderville Basin and Eastern Summit County moderate-income housing elements of the general plan. Staff said the changes respond to a state review: the county's earlier submission was deemed in compliance but the state requested exact statutory phrasing for several strategies and additional implementation timelines for some measures.

Jennifer Strader explained that the basin plan already complied with most requirements and that the East Side plan required one edit to match state language. The council discussed Strategy B (a provision concerning rezoning for densities to facilitate moderate-income housing) and, after deliberation, voted to delete that specific east-side strategy from Exhibit B while adopting the other changes. Council also requested a minor clerical change: add the Nov. 30 state compliance-letter date into the ordinance recital.

The motion to adopt the ordinance with the clerk's date amendment and deletion of the east-side Strategy B passed unanimously.

Next steps: The ordinance will be published and staff will incorporate edits; the county remains eligible for priority consideration for state housing funding when it implements the required strategies.