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Show Times News Page A4 Thursday, February 6, 2003 Orem City Council discusses new ideas for infill development REVA BOWEN Times Reporter As part of its work Tuesday, Jan. 28, the Orem City Council discussed some new ideas on infill development in the city. Development Services Director Stan Sainsbury gave a presentation focusing on four proposals formulated by city staff. The new ideas are at least partially a response to council concerns about applications for the R5 zone, a zone originally intended to help develop infill parcels in the city that would be difficult to develop otherwise. Recent rezoning proposals for the R5 have met with increasing opposition in neighborhoods in the city, and the council has been studying options for change. Sainsbury said the four proposals pro-posals were based on several assumptions, including that density den-sity should not be increased from the base density of the zone, and infill development can be addressed through having more flexibility rather than increasing density. The first proposal was dubbed "lot averaging." This would mean allowing up to two lots in a subdivision to have only 90 percent of the required lot area if the average area of all lots in the subdivision is at least equal to what is required in the base zone. An example given was the R8 zone, a low density residential resi-dential zone requiring lots to be at least 8,000 square feet. Under the lot averaging concept, an R8 subdivision could have two lots with only 7,200 square feet, if two other lots in the subdivision had at least 8,800 square feet. According to the council agenda, the purpose would be to give a developer some flexibility in subdivision sub-division design on a lot with "a difficult shape or dimensions without increasing the density of the zone." The second proposal involved lot width. This concept would allow an existing metes and bounds lot to be subdivided with up to two lots with a lot width 15 percent less than what would be required by the zoning ordinance. ordi-nance. Lots developed with a reduced width would still be required to have the minimum lot area mandated by the zone, unless they were part of a lot averaging plan described in the first proposal. A third proposal dealt with deep lots. The idea was to increase the number of deep lots that could have access from a private drive from the current ordinance's two, to four. The width of a private drive serving more than two lots would be increased from 20 feet to 26 feet. This proposal could help develop long, narrow parcels that might have enough acreage for three or four lots, but not enough width to develop with a standard street. The fourth proposal was to allow part of a private drive to be figured into the lot area. Currently, city law does not allow the area of a "flag stem," or deep lot private drive, to be calculated cal-culated into the area require ment of any lot. If implemented, this plan would allow up to 10 percent of a lot to consist of the area of a private drive. Councilman Dean Dickerson asked Sainsbury if any of the proposals would address problems prob-lems that the council has been having with neighborhood resistance to the development of corner lots. Sainsbury said they would not, and the corner lots issue is a legislative one for the council. Councilwoman Karen McCandless said she had been thinking about concerns expressed by citizens. Of the four proposals presented, she said she most favored looking more closely at option number one, because the overall density would not change. She expressed a concern with the aesthetics of the reduced lot widths. Mayor Jerry Washburn noted that proposal four becomes a density issue, because counting the drive area diminishes the actual size of all lots. Sainsbury said that is one point of view, the other being that an owner pays taxes on all of the property, so why not count it? Washburn said he appreciated appreciat-ed staff coming up with the more well-defined options that would not solve all of the city's infill development problems but could help with some. He then opened the meeting to public comment. David Shorten, an Orem resident resi-dent in the Windsor neighborhood, neighbor-hood, voiced a concern with the flag (deep) lots. He said not all flag lots come "nicely packaged," and where there is insufficient parking, people park on the street. He encouraged the council coun-cil to make sure there is enough parking on any reduced-size lots. Bill Fairbanks of Carter Construction said he wanted to encourage the "lot averaging" concept, which accommodates those who want either larger or smaller lots. He said the new proposal "brings in loose ends," "ratchets down" and establishes better controls. Fairbanks made several suggestions sug-gestions to the council in terms of site plans. He advised y tto auuwjug tarpons Or go to be moved closer tn th n ic sidewalks, or send i4 moved back for Hpjnyi. . 4 McCandless reiterated n she favored looking further the first proposal, and the cept of density zoning an third proposal on deep lots 1 Councilman Doug p0 said he hated to eliminate l' the proposals from considJ that night and suggested loot at all of those possibilities Si others. 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