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Show Davis County Commission Adopts Changes In Four Ordinances By MARK D. MICKELSEN FARMINGTON The Davis County Commission voted Tuesday to amend the county's home occupation, overnight parking, park-ing, child day care center and native material mate-rial removal ordinances. THE COMMISSION'S unanimous okay came after a short public hearing in which planning commission members pinpointed the changes and recommended approval. Under the revised home occupation ordinance, ordi-nance, business license applicants will be required to make application to the Davis County planning director, rather than the planning commission. Final approval for the license will be decided by the planning director. APPLICANTS who dislike the decision may appeal to the planning commission. In addition, the revised ordinance allows successful applicants to use an "accessory building" outside the home for business operation. The original home occupation ordinance prohibited applicants from using a garage or outside facility to carry out business affairs. ALL OTHER requirements, including a provision that applicants must provide a list of those residents within 300 feet of the proposed business remains the same, according to assitant Davis Planning director direc-tor Albert Cole. Property owners against the proposed development may appeal to the planning commission. UNDER THE revised overnight parking ordinance, residents are prohibited from parking along designated streets between midnight and six a.m. from Nov. 1 through March 1 to allow for snow removal. The previous ordinance prohibited overnight parking 12 months of the year between two and six a.m. Mr. Cole said the county may post no-parking no-parking signs on either side of the road in some of the unincorporated areas depending depend-ing upon the location and condition of the street. THE COMMISSION amended one section sec-tion of the Davis County zoning ordinance to include child day care centers in agricultural, agricul-tural, or A-3 zones, as a "special use." The location of the centers is subject to review by the county planning commission. commis-sion. CURRENTLY, churches, public build ings, public parks and playgrounds and privately-owned playground and recreational grounds not operated as a business, public utility substations and buildings, and schools are acceptable as "special uses" under the A-3 zoning. Prior to the ordinance revision, day care centers were allowed only in commercial or residential "special use" zones. MR. COLE said the planning commission commis-sion had received application from one Layton individual who requested that a day care facility be allowed in an agricultural zone. Lots in the A-3 sector must be at least one-half acre in size and are traditionally secluded from major traffic areas. Cole told commissioners. Under the newly-revised native material removal ordinance, materials may be removed re-moved from any property in any zone if the purpose is to improve the land and providing provid-ing an excavation permit is obtained from the planning commission. IN ADDITION, the following conditions must be met: Erosion control measures must be taken to minimize increased solids loading in run off. All erosion control measures must be constructed as part of the first site improvement. AS ALL or portions of the operation are completed, the site shall be revegetated with plant materials appropriate to maintaining main-taining soils stability and the visual quality of the area. The operation shall be conducted in such a way as to eliminate any nuisance, including noise, dust, hours of operation to the residents of the area. THE GRADES of slopes left by the operation shall not exceed the normally accepted angle of response of the soil type. There shall be no processing of materials mate-rials on the site. A MAXIMUM length of operation may be imposed by the planning commission if necessary. The operation may be required to post a bond to assure rehabilitation of the site. ACCORDING TO Mr. Cole, residents wishing to excavate their ground previously previous-ly were required to obtain various use permits per-mits to accomplish what they had set out to do. They were also required to go through what Cole called, "the entire government process" of hearings and approval, before any decision was handed down. |