For Salt Lake City planning petition documents, use the Planning tab in Citizen Access, then open the matching petition’s Record Info → Attachments. The Planning Division’s lookup instructions distinguish this route from a building-permit search. Start with the petition number if you have it; if you search by address, leave Street Type blank.
This guide is for a Salt Lake City planning application or petition and its available files. If your question concerns a construction permit, inspection, or older building record, use the separate Salt Lake City building-permit history guide. The two kinds of record can concern the same property without answering the same question.
Use the petition number, or simplify the address
The City’s published steps offer three ways to search after selecting Planning:
- Known petition number: enter it without spaces. Keep the remaining identifier as supplied, and keep building permit numbers out of this field.
- Petition type: choose the appropriate type from the dropdown. A date range can narrow the results.
- Street address: enter the street number, select N, S, E, or W, and enter the street name. Leave Street Type empty, even if the address you hold ends in St, Ave, Rd, or Blvd.
Choose Search and select the matching record. The City says a petition-number search leads directly to the application. If you used an address or type instead, check the result’s identifier against the notice, report, or correspondence that brought you to the search.
Before changing the address itself, check how you entered it. Putting the suffix into Street Type conflicts with the published instructions, and an accidental type or date filter can also narrow the results. Correct those inputs and search again before reading anything into an empty result.
What a Salt Lake City petition attachment shows
Once the correct petition is open, use Record Info and choose Attachments. Select the document you want to download. The files available vary by application.
Check the document itself before relying on the filename. Record the petition number, document title, date, and any revision or decision date shown. Compare the address or project description with the application. If a file refers to an earlier submission or another petition, preserve that reference instead of assuming all related material sits under the record you opened.
For example, suppose you have a planning notice and want the drawing considered with that petition. A proposed site plan can explain the applicant’s layout, while a later decision may add conditions or refer to a different revision. Connect the drawing to that decision before describing it as the approved version. The example is hypothetical.
The same care applies to an application, staff report, hearing material, or decision you encounter: identify what the file says it is and what action it records. A planning download shows a proposal or decision; construction starts, building permits and inspection results are in the building record.
When an older Salt Lake City petition or one of its files is missing
The Planning lookup guide gives no historical start date and no promise of a complete attachment set for every petition. Dates quoted for building-permit records apply only to that search. An empty Planning result is a reason to contact staff about whether an application existed.
For help identifying the petition, use the assistance contact on the Planning Division’s lookup page. Explain whether the application itself is missing, opens with no attachments, or shows attachments but lacks one named document. Those are different gaps for staff to investigate.
For a copy request, the City links its Government Records (GRAMA) request portal. The City Recorder’s Office administers the public-records request program. Identify the requested material as a Planning petition record so it can be routed appropriately, and ask whether the document survives and can be released.
Prepare a focused description before you submit anything:
- Case identity: exact petition number, or the project/address and approximate application year if the number is unknown.
- Document needed: the application, a named plan or revision, staff report, decision, or other specific item. If several versions matter, say why.
- Known evidence: the notice, existing document, or application reference that points to the missing item.
- Search gap: which inputs you tried, whether the petition opened, and which file was absent or inaccessible.
For example, a request for “the plan referenced in the dated decision for petition [your number]” tells staff more than “all records for this address.” Use your actual reference rather than an assumed approval date. If the City reports that it found no file, ask what record class and date range were checked and whether another office holds it.
Keep any retrieved planning decision separate from subsequent permit issuance, inspection, and occupancy evidence. Our building permit and certificate of occupancy comparison explains how those records differ. A missing attachment leaves the document history unresolved, and construction completion is confirmed in the building file.
Salt Lake City Planning Division and City Recorder pages checked October 5, 2026.