Minutes of Oak City Town Planning and Zoning Meeting
Held September 17, 2025
The meeting was held at the Oak City Town Hall located at 30 West Center beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Town Hall Conference Room.
The following attended:
Town Officials Others
Interim Chairperson Dylan Finlinson Kirt Dutson attended by phone
Member Kendall Dewsnup
Member Mason Anderson-Absent
Member Peggy Kooyman
Member Colin Christensen-Absent
Mayor Shim Callister
The following Agenda items were considered:
A. Invocation. The invocation was given by Kendall.
B. Adopt Agenda.
Dylan moved, seconded by Peggy, to adopt the Agenda as written. Roll Call Vote: Dylan-Aye.
Peggy-Aye. Kendall-Aye. Mason-Absent. Colin-Absent.
C. Adopt Minutes of the Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting held Wednesday, August 20, 2025.
Dylan moved, seconded by Kendall, to adopt the Minutes as written. Roll Call Vote: Dylan-Aye. Kendall-Aye. Colin-Absent. Peggy-Aye. Mason-Absent.
D. Discuss Updating the Annexation Ordinance which Will be Included with the New General Plan. The Mayor explained that Jess Peterson, R6, was not able to attend due to other commitments but he sent some information and requested some information from the Planning and Zoning Commission.
The Mayor started out by stating that annexations should not create a peninsula. The Town can change the map somewhat to block things but when citizens want to annex the Town might not be able to block it all.
The Commission discussed some sections of the proposed new Ordinance and sections of the old Ordinance. Dylan felt the new Ordinance reads more like a paper than a policy. The current Policy is more straightforward. Dylan wondered if the Town has an annexation petition form? The Mayor didn't think so. Jess would probably have a sample. Kirt thought Ordinance 2025-01, the current Annexation Policy, had some good stuff in it. Dylan was concerned about the section that states that a map would be included if practical and feasible. He felt this should be stricken or changed to state that a map must
be included. The Mayor thought Section B in the new Ordinance could be stricken as it talks about school districts and special service districts and Dylan suggested striking B4 in the current Ordinance. The Commission discussed a few other items. Dylan thought it might be good to change the zoning designations to add a .5 acre minimum lot size. The Mayor stated that this would probably need to be done as part of a public hearing. Dylan proposed that the current zones be changed to RR .4, RR 1, and so forth.
Dylan moved, seconded by Kendall, that the Planning and Zoning Commission recommend to the Town Council that a .5 acre (RR .5) zoning designation be added to the Town Zoning Map. Roll Call Vote: Dylan-Aye. Peggy-Aye. Kendall-Aye. Mason-Absent. Colin-Absent.
Kirt suggested straightening up 200 West 100 South.
New annexation boundaries were discussed and sketched on the Town Map included in the new proposed Annexation Ordinance.
The Mayor wondered if the new Annexation Ordinance should include pictures like some of the sample ordinances. Peggy and Dylan didn't feel pictures would be needed.
Kirt wondered if the Town could have pre-designated areas proposed for future annexation which could encourage parties to annex in those areas instead of random areas. This can be done.
The Mayor will get a bigger Town boundary map from Jones and DeMille.
The Mayor stated that Barry Anderson has wanted to annex in an area by the Town Well, so he might be interested in looking at that again. Kirt wondered why the Town wouldn't want to go ahead and annex the Andersons now so the Town would have more control over the situation? Could look into this.
The proposed annexation area could just be a rectangle area around the Town to square it up.
Dylan suggested making the format for the Code more straightforward in both the policy and process sections. The Mayor will let Jess know that the Commission likes Fillmore's format.
Will try to get the Town's website back up so the General Plan and Annexation Ordinance can be posted there for easy access.
E. Miscellaneous.
There were no miscellaneous items.
F. Adjournment.
Dylan adjourn the meeting at 8.22 p.m.
Submitted by:
____________________________ Approved By, ____________________________________
Karen K. Lovell, Secretary Dylan Finlinson, Interim Chairperson