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Show utitj zzzzzzzr:: City Council Continues Discussions Residential and Commercial Growth in The Grove and PG Boulevard Following a lengthy discussion discus-sion at the Pleasant Grove City Council meeting on April 19, 20 1 1 , the members of the council decided to take no action at this time on a request to amend the ordinance or-dinance regarding Permitted and Conditional Uses of the city code in the Grove Interchange Zone District. Ken Young, Community Development De-velopment Director, told the city council that during the past year the city has been in review of potential po-tential and proposed uses within The Grove Zone, Interchange sub-district, and subsequently the city council has made some determinations deter-minations regarding new zoning boundaries for this subdistrict. Young said that specifically, the types of uses in question, fast food, convenience stores, government gov-ernment buildings, influenced the areas and tine boundaries for where these uses would be appropriate. appro-priate. By expanding the area of the Commercial Sales sub-district into areas currently within the Interchange Sub-district, the city has determined it would be set to restrict the above mentioned uses from the remaining Interchange sub-district, to be that area below North County Boulevard and 700 South. He added that the changes would allow mixed use development, develop-ment, commercial elements as well as residential. It was noted in the discussion that in mixed use it is possible that housing could precede business in this area and then it would not leave room for as much commercial commer-cial in the mixed use. Council Member Jensen said that the city may be getting the housing in before be-fore the commercial and the density den-sity may be too great. Jensen also noted that he wants to be sure the zone change is what the city really wants. Some developers interested in residential development in the area indicated that they had requests re-quests from retirees and others for housing in The Grove but not right on Pleasant Grove Boulevard. Other comments indicated that developers could easily build phase one now and this would allow al-low developers to get the project started in The Grove by putting mis in a possible plan. One man indicated that residential sells, but getting financing for commercial is difficult. Councilman Jensen stated that the upshot of this is that residential resi-dential would take over Pleasant Grove and it would become a high density city. Members of the council seemed to feel that commercial development along with the residential resi-dential is alright but the commercial commer-cial should be first. City Administrator Scott Darrington gave some thoughts about what the council is comfortable com-fortable with in development of this area. The parameters are not definitely defined, it was noted. Councilman Jensen said he is concerned about the density and feels it seems evident that the developers could do whatever what-ever they wanted on the property. Council Member Wilson mentioned men-tioned that after the condos are purchased the owner rents them out and docs not live there himself. him-self. That is something to think about, too, Wilson noted. Council Member Jensen added that some people say "Ah, this is going to be wonderful" and then someone else says, 'Ah, mis is not going to be wonderful!" wonder-ful!" Whom are we to believe, he asked. Council Member Wilson added that the city started out with the council wanting a large commercial zone and this has been broken down into a much smaller commercial area. At this time the mayor took a vote of the council and the result was two in favor and two against and one said "I don't know". After some discussion, dis-cussion, the I don't know was changed to a "No" vote. Some other aspects of the matter discussed were mixed use which would allow businesses busi-nesses along with residential. The council indicated that the zoning would allow for restaurants along the area of Pleasant Grove Blvd. After lengthy discussion, the council seemed to be ready to take a step back and take a good look at the project before making any changes or allowing allow-ing development to begin. In other action, the council approved a resolution to authorize autho-rize the issuance and sale of not more than $7,500,000 aggregate principal amount of the storm drain revenue bonds. |
