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Show SraSoBlate. i UMi2 iRiinancG By GARY R. BLODGETT S'ORTH SALT LAKE -allowing a brief discussion only one minor change in ' proposed ordinance, vit, Salt Lake City Council wd unanimously Tuesday :;hi to adopt a new Hillside riinance. "1 THE ORDINANCE, in oeneral, provides guidelines j future residential development of the city's sdlside. A building mora-unum mora-unum has been in effect for hillside development for the pi 16 months. '" The only change in the final tall of the ordinance was to change the density for build-ig build-ig under Planned Urban Development (PUD) from 3.8 jj .mis per acre to 4.0 units per acre in areas where the slope is less than 15 percent. IN AREAS where the slope is 15.1 percent to 25.0 percent, the density is 2.8 units per acre, and on a slope of 25. 1 to 35 percent, the density ratio is 1.6 units per acre. Where single-dwelling detached de-tached homes are built, and the slope is less than 15 percent, per-cent, the density ratio under the new ordinance is 3.3 units per acre. This compares to 2.3 units per acre for slopes of 15.1 percent to 25.0 percent, and 1.6 units per acre for steeper slopes of 25.1 to 35 percent. NO HOMES are allowed under the Hillside Ordinance on slopes exceeding 35 percent. Mayor Bob Palmquist said a hillside ordinance for the city has been needed for many years, and the present ordinance has been under committee study for nearly two years. "WE HAVE had terrible flooding problems which have cost the city several thousand dollars and did considerable damage to residents of the area," said Mayor Palmquist. "We must do something to retain and control the runoff water." He noted that it has taken the city four years to accumulate ac-cumulate the funds needed to pay for the Center Street storm drain that is presently under construction. THE MAYOR also cited inadequate access to the hillside, hill-side, exceedingly steep streets in the hillside subdivisions sub-divisions and undue removal of vegetation as other problems which will come under the new hillside ordinance. or-dinance. Most developers who attended at-tended the public hearing on the hillside ordinance a few . weeks ago said they favored "planned urban development" develop-ment" (PUD) for most of the hillside above North Salt Lake. UNDER PUD, the ordinance or-dinance allows slightly higher population density, but not as great as multiple dwellings. The latter is now allowed under the new hillside ordinance. or-dinance. The original ordinance, as drafted, allowed for 3.8 units per acre under PUD. PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 2 . North Salt Lake OKs Hillside Ordinance CONTINUED FROM FRONT DAVIS COUNTY Planner Joe Moore said the density could be higher. "I don't know of any other similar area in Davis County where the density is as low as proposed by North Salt Lake for this type (PUD) development," develop-ment," he said. "PUD is attractive at-tractive if done properly." HE RECOMMENDED that storm control be enforced while any area is under construction con-struction and that runoff control con-trol be enforced even after ownership to not allow the owner to change the landscape land-scape in such a way as to provide excessive runoff. Realtors and developers earlier had asked the council to consider a compromise for higher density, maybe five units per acre instead of the recommended 3.8 units. CENTER STREET is the only access to the hillside above North Salt Lake and the city council has placed a building moratorium on the hillside until another street can be completed, probably on the south side of Garden Hills Subdivision. It is proposed that the moratorium, which has been in effect for 16 months, be lifted when the additional access ac-cess is provided and the Hillside Hill-side Ordinance approved, grb |