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Show iat, The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Friday, October8, 1999 ES Provo Ponders Family Friendly Zoning Near BYU proposed changesas an attempt to BY SUZANNE BATES that hug portionsof the northern offered to as manyas fourrenters. The change was madeto increase Brigham Young University, are complying with the existing ordinance, causing a decline in the housing for BYUstudents. Under a change to the ordinance governing residential areas passed in 1974, property own: ers in the two neighborhoods received a special variance allowing them to divide their houses into upper and lower rental areas. It requires that a “family” — not necessarily the owner’s — live in the upper half granted in 1974 should be repealed and THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE PROVO — If you buy it, you livein it. Thatis the gist of two proposed changes to Provo’s zoning ordi- nance that would require owners of rental properties in two city neighborhoods to live at the property. Organizers of groups from the Tree Streets and Pleasant View neighborhoods that drafted the proposals say notall the absentee landlords in the neighborhoods western boundaries of neighborhoods’quality. while the lower unit could be Monte Stewart, a BYUlawpro fessor whohelped draft the latest proposals, says the variance to bring the neighborhoods into compliance with the intent of the original ordinance and Provo’s Master Plan adopted in 1997, whichis to foster a “family envi. ronment” in residential neighborhoods. Stewart believes that when the 1974 modification was approved, it put a “bull’s-eye” on the two One neighborhoods for those seeking to make as much moneyas they property before the new i The som propes al would make Hesays about 40 percent ofthe e y for those who have owned property for longer than five years ago. could from their investments. houses in the two neighborhoods stop the neighborhoods from going downhill. He notes that absentee landlords arenotorious for not Maintaining their properties. I they wantis that rent,” he heyrefusetopolice them One downsideto the proposals is that it could result in fewer rentals for students. But Hatha way does not see that as a m Dixon Holmes,thecity admin: are owned by absentee landlords. As a result, student renters in- istrator preparing a recommendation for the city’s Planning Com. mission, which will consider the steadof families occupy the upper levels of some properties, with problemif BYUmaintainsits en rollmentcapat 29,000 propels on Wednest aid the pla addressing the five-year aanenKip clause will likely be some houses occupied by as many as 13 students. Underbothproposals, the ordinance would be changed to re- Barbara Jacobson, from Colo: rado who owns a_ housein the Tree Streets neighborhood, op: poses the change. the one the recommendation is basedonbecauseit has thepoten: quire that people who buy property in the neighborhoods live in ys if the city en tial for affecting morepeople. the structure. The difference between the two proposals deals City Councilman way says he esent ordinance absentee landlords would Mark Hatha supports the investin the area. Sprawl Can Be Battled From Within BY JOHN KEAHEY ‘THESALTLAKETRIBUNE Factories and warehouses over here, homes and apartments over there, strip malls and supermar- kets in between. It’s this kind of segregated development — often mandated by The World Wide Web city zoning laws — thathelpslead to suburbansprawl. That was the argument expressed this week during a Salt Lake City conference on private property rights. The discussion just got thinner. about myopic zoning laws — and each community creating these rules without consideration of their neighbors — was raised during a session that asked the question:“Is there a ‘Utah’ way to control sprawl?” There is, according to speaker Edward H. Ziegler, a law professor at the University of Denver. Leaders could redevelop innercity sites for mixed-use rather than continuing to shove development farther out, gobbling up moreand moreopen space. Ziegler pointed to Salt Lake City’s Sugar House area as an example. There, older commercial buildings, some abandoned, were demolished and a mixed residential-commercial-retail zone with interior open space was built. Such projects create small communities where people within a few blocks of their homes have access to restaurants, theaters and shops lessening their dependence on cars. But speakers also stressed that communities cannot combat sprawl by focusing only on growth within their city limits. 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