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Community Correctional Facilities and Jails Text Amendment

Salt Lake City

Description

A zoning text amendment removing jails and community correctional facilities as conditional uses, making them prohibited on private land. Hearing held; vote expected October 20.

Impact summary

Would bar privately sited correctional facilities citywide; state and federal property is unaffected.

Applicant

Name: Salt Lake City Planning Commission (initiated)

At a glance

Hearings: 1
Public comments: 0
Total mentions: 1

Last vote · City Council

Tabled7–0, unanimous

Discussed at 1 meeting in the last 60 days; most recently Oct 6, 2026.

Meeting timeline (1)

Oct 6, 2026Tabled 7–0

Council Formal Meeting - Oct 6, 2026

A zoning text amendment removing jails and community correctional facilities as conditional uses, making them prohibited on private land. Hearing held; vote expected October 20.

Related issues (1)

Prohibiting private jails and correctional facilities

A text amendment would remove community correctional facilities and jails as conditional uses from the city's zoning tables, making them prohibited on privately owned land. State and federal property is exempt. Final vote expected October 20.

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