The Salt Lake City Council will begin their 2024-35 budget deliberations from May to Mid-June. The Council will meet weekly between May and mid-June to discuss, review, and fine-tune the recommended FY25 budget based on its priorities and public input. You can learn about the FY25 City budget and how ...

On February 28, the PC forwarded a positive recommendation on Adaptive Reuse to the City Council We have had questions about the Wendy’s on 1300 E, they are not going anywhere, just doing a much needed remodel. We learned about a new project called Fairmont Heights 2557 S 1100 East ...

SUGAR HOUSE IS TWO WORDS! Wells Fargo  - They are still working with the city, we assume to make changes to their original proposal.  if the new zone gets approved every parcel in that zone would be eligible, but each one would have to apply individually for each building to ...

The city continues its revision of the zoning code, and we reviewed text amendments at our December LUZ meeting. Building Services Ordinance (Construction Enforcement, Fines, Boarded Buildings etc) This was a pretty technical revision, and we did not write a letter. Mobile Business Text Amendment (Includes mobile businesses operating from ...

On December 5 the  Salt Lake City Council voted to approve Affordable Housing Incentives (AHI) zoning changes to encourage affordable housing construction across the City. This landmark decision comes after months of thorough Council deliberations, underscoring the City's commitment to making Salt Lake City an affordable place to live despite growth and change. The goal of this is to ...

In the November Planning Commission meeting, the General Plan and Zoning Amendments (Community Benefit Ordinance was approved with conditions and will now go on to the City Council for final approval. 2903 Highland Drive was approved as a Planned Development and for Design Standards. The citywide Transportation Plan was also ...

The Planning Commission has approved the daycare ordinance changes, to hopefully make it easier for someone to set up a daycare in their home. We are short some 20,000 daycare positions, and once the Federal subsidy stops in December, there will be a bigger need.  We have heard that a ...

DO YOU EVER WONDER HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE CITY? Check out this website www.myslc.gov.  You can ask questions of most every department in the city and if you don’t know who to ask, use the link at the bottom to send a general question. DO YOU SEE A PROBLEM? ...

Thriving in Place - The Salt Lake City Planning Commission voted to forward a positive recommendation to the City Council for the adoption of the Thriving in Place plan. Salt Lake City spent the last two years working with a consultant to understand displacement and gentrification in the city. Staff ...

The KUM AND GO in Sugar House is no longer. They their appeal with the city over denial of the conditional use for a gas station and convenience store at 2111 S 1300 East.  Apparently they are not going to take the case to district court, because according to the ...

Kum and Go appealed the Planning Commission decision to deny the project. The appeal hearing was held June 15. The Appeals Hearing Officer for this appeal was Mary Woodhead, she said she expected her decision would be out in two weeks, but might take longer. Thriving in Place. The Planning ...

The following items were on the April 26 Planning Commission, and were approved: Landscaping and Landscape Buffer Prohibition of Drive-Throughs in CSHBD1 and 2 Affordable Housing Incentives Housing SLC The following item was on the April 26 Planning Commission, and was denied: 1782 S 1600 East Zoning Map Amendment and ...

The proposal for the Kum and Go at 2111 South 1300 East was on the Planning Commission Agenda April 12, 2023. It was denied by the Planning Commission. The decision has now been appealed, and there should be a hearing soon. I don’t believe it will be open to the ...

At our March 20 LUZ meeting, we discussed the following: Sight Distance Triangle, which has to do with having clear vision zone areas at each intersection of streets, driveways and streets, and driveways and sidewalks.  It also includes the regulation of fences, walls, and hedges, and this will add other structures, including buildings ...

The Kum and Go application is on the Salt Lake City Open House Page.  You can read about it here.  We have been told that this is tentatively scheduled for the March 22 meeting of the Planning Commission.  You can watch here on our website for details on how you ...