Minutes of Oak City Town Planning and Zoning Meeting
Held August 20, 2025
The meeting was held at the Oak City Town Hall located at 30 West Center beginning at 7:20, due to lack of quorum until that time, in the Town Hall Conference Room.
The following attended:
Town Officials Others
Interim Chairman Dylan Finlinson-Absent Dave and DeAnn Steele
Member Kendall Dewsnup Kirt Dutson attended by phone
Member Mason Anderson Jess Peterson R6
Member Peggy Kooyman-Absent
Member Colin Christensen
Mayor Shim Callister-Acting as Chair
The following Agenda items were considered:
A. Invocation. The invocation was given by Shim.
B. Adopt Agenda.
Colin moved, seconded by Kendall, to adopt the Agenda as written. Roll Call Vote: Dylan- Absent. Kendall-Aye. Colin-Aye. Peggy-Absent. Mason-Aye.
C. Adopt Minutes of the Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting held Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
Mason moved, seconded by Colin, to adopt the Minutes as written. Roll Call Vote: Dylan- Absent. Kendall-Aye. Colin-Aye. Peggy-Absent. Mason-Aye.
D. Discuss and Possibly Make a Recommendation to the Town Council Concerning an Application for
Amendment to the Oak City Town Zoning Map-Dave and DeAnn Steele. The Commission went through this last month but it was decided an Application needed to be turned in. Dave did a computer presentation on this explaining where the lots are that they would like to change from the current R 2 to R 1. The selling of these lots could allow for the financing to pay for a road. Mason asked if the water lines could be looked at on the map. Dave went to the Town's Website and found where the water lines are currently. There is a water line that goes through the Steele's property that supplies a water trough that Mason uses on Anderson Lane. It was agreed in the discussion that Mason wouldn't lose the use of the water line although his meter may be fed from a different point in the water system. In the future, Steele's will be applying for annexation for part of the properties.
Collin moved, seconded by Kendall to recommend that the Town Council approve the Steele's Application to change the properties from R 2 to R 1 with the stipulation that the road will go in as needed and Mason added the requirement to make sure the water was taken care of for all lots in the area. Roll Call Vote: Colin-Aye. Kendall-Aye. Mason-Aye. Dylan-Absent. Peggy- Absent.
The water and the road will also be addressed during the subdivision and/or annexation processes.
E. Discuss the New General Plan Draft. Due to the fact that the Annexation Ordinance has to be in place to include in the General Plan, this item was tabled.
F. Discuss Town of Oak City's Annexation Ordinance. Jess passed out sample annexation plans from Fillmore, Nephi, and Monroe. He came up with a sample annexation policy for Oak City Town.
Jess mentioned how important it is to plan annexation ahead so the town has a way to refuse annexation to those that are not in the proposed annexation areas. The Plan could be flexible but the proposed annexation area would be the general rule.
Mason's concern with annexation is how much water could the town supply for annexed properties? Kendell stated that many communities require that those annexing have to provide water. Jess stated that in order to annex, the town has to have an annexation policy. If the Town wanted to change the proposed annexation area, would have to change it by resolution. The Mayor will email copies of Jess's Proposed Annexation Policy to each commission member. The Commission Members will look at this and then discuss this and the General Plan next month. The Mayor suggested having a separate meeting to discuss the Annexation Policy and General Plan, which could last a couple or several hours, instead of just doing it at a regular meeting. These could be the only items on the agenda. Decided however, to just do this at next month's regular meeting. Jess will pull definitions from Nephi's Policy and possibly from others, and put them in the sample Oak City one.
G. Miscellaneous.
There were no miscellaneous items.
H. Adjournment.
Kendall moved, seconded by Colin, to adjourn. The meeting adjourned at 8:20 p.m.
Submitted by:
____________________________ Approved By, ____________________________________
Karen K. Lovell, Secretary Shim Callister, Acting Chair