Planning Commission Work Session - May 1, 2025

Meeting Summary

The Planning Commission's May 1, 2025 work session covered three interconnected policy areas: development code revisions, wireless communications regulations, and bicycle infrastructure planning. On the code front, staff reviewed proposed changes to Chapter 39 and other sections of the Lehi development code, with particular attention to the residential table of uses, which currently contains twelve conditional use designations. Staff outlined a path forward that includes legal research into state standards for wireless communications facilities and towers before updating Chapters 12 and 23. The plan also calls for creating a new standalone chapter — Chapter 12-C — to consolidate supplementary approval requirements that are currently scattered across multiple code sections. The most resident-facing discussion concerned Lehi's draft Bike Plan, which uses a gap analysis methodology that extends to neighboring cities to identify where connections in the network are missing. Staff noted that the city's planning framework prioritizes directness and destination access, but that public feedback has pointed strongly in a different direction: roughly 70 percent of residents who participated in community outreach cited safety as their primary concern with biking in Lehi. That gap between planning priorities and resident concerns was flagged as a key issue to address as the plan is refined. No formal votes were taken at this work session. Code update items and the Bike Plan were expected to continue through additional review sessions before coming to formal hearings.