Court Opinion

ID: 9622779
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 06:23:01.184408+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:05:19.609354
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HOWE, Associate Chief Justice,
concurring and dissenting:
I concur in affirming the judgment, but dissent from the holding that an appeal from the Planning Commission is not taken to the Council but to the Board of Adjustment. The Planning Commission is an advisory body to the Council, Utah Code Ann. § 10-9-4 (1986), and hence the latter reviews actions of the Planning Commission. The Board of Adjustment has no statutory authority to review decisions of the Planning Commission. §§ 10-9-6 through -9 (amended 1987). Indeed, one member of the Planning Commission sits on the Board of Adjustment, which would make any hearing of an appeal biased. § 10-9-7. Section 10-9-9 provides that the Board of Adjustment should hear appeals from “the administrative officer” — not the Planning Commission. See Walton v. Tracy Loan & Trust Co., 97 Utah 249, 92 P.2d 724 (1939), and Xanthos v. Board of Adjustment, 685 P.2d 1032 (Utah 1984), for examples and explanations of the Board’s powers.
HALL, C.J., concurs in the concurring and dissenting opinion of HOWE, Associate C.J.
ZIMMERMAN, J., having disqualified himself, does not participate herein, DAVIDSON, Court of Appeals Judge, sat.