By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
The Juab County zoning ordinance was amended to define
disability and to allow facilities for caring for such
individuals to be constructed in certain areas of the
county.
The modifications were made as a result of changes in
federal and state laws, an increased interest in facilities
relating to persons with disabilities and a determination
that certain provisions of the county zoning ordinance
needed updating and clarification.
Glenn Greenhalgh, county planning commission director,
said three full-text copies of the ordinance will now be on
file in the county clerk's office so that the public can
review the ordinance and the changes made to it.
"The commission needs to record, in the blanks on the
signature page, how each commissioner voted," said Jared
Eldridge, county attorney.
A roll call vote was needed to adopt the amendment to the
zoning ordinance. That vote, however, was unanimous.
"The planning commission has proposed these updates,
clarifications and revisions and the Juab County Commission
has held the required public hearing after the required
notice," said Greenhalgh.
"Based on input from the public hearing," said
Greenhalgh, "the number (of residents allowed in a
care-facility) was reduced from 15 to 12."
A short form of the changes made to the ordinance will be
published in the legal notice section of the Times-News this
week.
As part of the revision of the zoning ordinance, the
definition of handicapped was deleted and a new definition
of disability was added.
A disabled person was defined, in the ordinance, as a
physical or metal impairment that substantially limits one
or more of the person's major life activities.
That definition also includes a person having a record of
such an impairment or being regarded as having such and
impairment.
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