On Oct. 1, the City Council approved a rezone request and development agreement to facilitate Intermountain Health’s development of an urban hospital on the former Sears site at approximately 754 S State Street. The property is now zoned as D-1 (Central Business District) from D-2 (Downtown Support District).  The Council ...

SHCC LUZ  REPORT OCTOBER 2024 I hope by now you have heard that on September 11, the Planning Commission denied the two petitions from Wells Fargo.  Here is a link to the video if you would like to watch  it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NxbubU-Utg The minutes for the meeting have not yet been approved, ...

NEW WELLS FARGO PROJECT -We have learned that the New Proposal for a new Zone on the Wells Fargo parcel will be on the September 11 Planning Commission Agenda at 5:30 pm Room 326 Salt Lake City Building 451 S State Street. This will include the MU-15 zone, being suggested ...

This is an interim newsletter to try to clarify what all is going on with Land Use in Sugar House. Salt Lake City has been working on its zone consolidation project.  They are consolidating 27 zones into nine.  You can read about them here. Sign up for the updates to ...

Salt Lake City has been working on its zone consolidation project.  They are consolidating 27 zones into nine.  You can read about them here. Sign up for the updates to keep up with the project, and don’t miss a deadline. So far, they have combined the MU-8 zone and the ...

If you are interested in what the City Council did with the budget, here are two links June,4 Recap, and the June 11 recap. On June 4, they authorized financial assistance for the new affordable Fairmont Heights Senior Housing units on the corner of 1100 East and Sugarmont that will ...

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 ...

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? ...