Zoning

LAYTON -- City leaders have approved changes to a zoning ordinance, which will allow the location of a new animal clinic and pet hospital in a CP-1 (neighborhood commercial) zone at 1014 West Gentile St.

The change allows adding an animal clinic or pet hospital to be considered as a conditional use in the zone. It comes at the request of Sean Hackett who owns a commercial building on Gentile Street and has been approached about a pet facility in the structure.

OGDEN — Owners of historic properties in Ogden will now face greater scrutiny and legal action if they allow their buildings to deteriorate.

LAYTON — Neighbors aren’t waiting to express their opposition to a potential multi-family project on the city’s east side.

Residents from the Oakridge Drive area of east Layton came out en masse to a recent city council meeting to express concerns about a proposed small development at 2200 E. Oakridge Drive. The development involves apartment buildings on a 2-acre parcel of land adjoining single-family developments.

OGDEN — Legal live music and dancing at Ernie McKown’s Paris Cafe will have to wait at least another two weeks.

The Ogden City Council voted Tuesday night to table a proposal that provides new definitions to the terms “lodge” and “social hall” and provides several conditions for the approval of a social hall to be used in C-1, C-2 and C-3 zones.

Under the proposal, a social hall will be allowed in the aforementioned zones if the facility features live music at a maximum of only two days per week and closes at 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and at midnight on Friday and Saturday.

Several other stipulations, like a ban on alcohol, will be required as well.

NORTH OGDEN — Some residents will soon be able to put accessory buildings just 3 feet from property lines, provided they live in a zone that is 20,000 square feet or larger.

OGDEN — When it comes to tourism in Weber County, options have generally been limited to skiing in the winter, navigating the trails in the summer or attending a downtown convention. But with farmland making up much of the county, there is an untapped resource to attract visitor dollars.

A new ordinance in the works would allow agritourism on Weber County farmland.

Visitors may be allowed to pick their own produce, learn how a dairy farm works or get behind the controls of heavy farm machinery.