Planning commission recommends Chapter 3 sign and permit changes to City Council

The Fountain Green City Planning Commission voted April 9 to recommend a package of edits to Chapter 3 of the land-use ordinance, focusing on signage and building-permit language.

At a public hearing, the commission agreed to limit references in section 3.7 to Fountain Green City (striking prior references to Sanpete County and the State of Utah) and to remove redundancies such as a separate election-campaign entry that duplicates existing election rules. "So it's just within Fountain Green City," a committee member said during the discussion. Heather, a staff member, confirmed the edits and said she would update numbering and formatting after the strikes.

Commissioners also debated how to treat nonconforming signs and removed a conditional-use provision that the city does not apply. "We struck the mayor and city council" language and "we just said the purpose and intent," a committee member said as the group walked through the draft language.

The commission approved a motion to send the revised Chapter 3 to the City Council with a unanimous voice vote. Chair asked staff to renumber the sections and to clean up punctuation and titles before transmittal. The vote was procedural and does not itself adopt the ordinance; the City Council will make final decisions.

The commission also requested a technical follow-up: confirm whether references to street edge measurement should read "platted right-of-way" rather than "platted street," and to standardize how setbacks are measured in plots and site plans.