Clearfield City Council recap — September 22, 2026

What the Clearfield City Council took up on September 22, 2026

Brief summary of the September 22, 2026 Clearfield City Council meeting:

• Approval of minutes (September 8, 2026 work meeting and policy meeting) — consent.
• Public hearing on the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) 2025-2026 Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report (CAPER) — public hearing.
• Public hearing on the city-initiated zoning text amendment removing trailer sales as a permitted use in the T-C (Town Mixed Commerce) zone and establishing it as a conditional use in the M-1 (Manufacturing) zone — public hearing.
• Public hearing on the zoning map amendment request to rezone approximately 2.6 acres at 1000 East Antelope Drive from M-1 to C-2 (Commercial) and approximately 5 acres on the southern side to R-3 (Residential) — public hearing.
• Public hearing on the city-initiated zoning text amendments to Title 11 for residential design and parking regulations — public hearing.
• Approval of the CDBG 2025-2026 Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report (CAPER) — action.
• Ordinance 2026-17, the zoning map amendment for 1000 East Antelope Drive (M-1 to C-2 and R-3) — land-use/ordinance.
• Ordinance 2026-15, the zoning text amendment on trailer sales in the T-C and M-1 zones — land-use/ordinance.
• Ordinance 2026-16, the zoning text amendments to Title 11 for residential design and parking regulations — land-use/ordinance.

Every hearing on this agenda has a matching decision listed as its own numbered item, so the order — comment first, vote second — is visible on the page, and the four hearings are noticed individually rather than combined. The backgrounds are specific: the CAPER was available for review from September 1 to September 18 with no comments received; the trailer sales amendment explains that the use was added to the T-C zone for a prospective State Street business and that staff now considers it better suited to M-1; the Title 11 amendments are tied to Utah Code § 10-20-618 limits on regulating dwelling size, garage requirements and parking stall dimensions. The rezone is the item with the most at stake — 7.624 acres, with the southern 5 acres going to R-3 for a townhome development — and its recommendation is written as "approve, table, or deny" rather than a staff position. The background says the applicant is willing to negotiate a development agreement covering timelines, owner occupancy and design standards, but no such agreement is on the agenda, so the rezone can be voted before those terms exist. All four hearings and their votes fall on the same night; the three zoning items were discussed at the September 8 work meeting. The open comment period and the Communication Items reports are not counted here.

*Procedural-transparency score grounded in the agenda as published: 9 listed item(s) — 4 public hearing(s), 1 on consent, 3 land-use/ordinance, 1 other action, 0 presentation(s).*

--- *This recap lists agenda items as published and draws no conclusions. Verify against the official packet or minutes on the Clearfield portal. Source: Clearfield City council agenda.*