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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, October 12-15, 2019 A-5 The Park Record County Seat COUNTY EDITOR: ALEXANDER CRAMER 649–9014 EXT. 15712 | Countynews@parkrecord.com New planning tool gets nod Mixed-use zone recommended to County Council ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record Summit County is changing the way it evaluates large development projects in the Snyderville Basin, and the process took a significant step forward on Tuesday. The Snyderville Basin Planning Commission forwarded a positive recommendation to the Summit County Council for the creation of a Neighborhood Mixed Use Zone at its meeting Oct. 8. It’s an entirely new land designation that Community Development Director Pat Putt said would allow for more design flexibility and yield projects that align with county priorities. The zone will affect projects that attempt to combine uses, like a three-story building with businesses on the ground floor and residences above. But another piece of legislation that’s being developed at roughly the same time might have a larger impact on how projects are assessed. That’s the new Master Planned Development process, which is expected to replace the Specially Planned Area process that was used to create agreements for projects like the Canyons Resort Village. The Master Planned Development process includes a list of more than a dozen criteria that Planning Commissioners will use when evaluating developments — things like sustainability, transit connection and open space. Putt has likened it to giving the developers an open-book PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO Summit County is in the process of overhauling how large developments are evaluated and one piece received a positive recommendation at a Snyderville Basin Planning Commission meeting last week. Developers could request to rezone their land to Neighborhood Mixed Use in many areas, including in Kimball Junction, if the zone passes the County Coouncil. Officials hope the new zone and a proposed new Master Planned Development process will yield developments that feature county priorities like traffic mitigation and affordable housing. test, and hopes the process will streamline approvals, yield applications that are closer to county priorities and reduce the number of meetings necessary to work through them. In its latest update of the Snyderville Basin General Plan, the county approved language that barred entitling any new square footage for development unless it promoted a “compelling countervailing public interest.” The county has approved a few projects since, with the benefits to the community generally being affordable and workforce housing on projects like Silver Creek Village. While it appears the county is taking steps to rein in growth in the future and do away with developments seen as disjointed like some at Kimball Junction, Putt pointed out at a recent public forum there exists millions of square feet of already-approved density that has yet to be built. It is a relatively common practice for developers to keep their applications alive and eligible for a building permit while they wait for the economic conditions they seek. Silver Creek Village and Canyons Village both operate under decades-old agreements. Putt, however, is optimistic. He thinks it’s possible that much of the entitled land will come back before the county to change the agreements before the projects are built. At that point the county would be able to push the projects toward priorities like open space, affordable housing and traffic mitigation. He also said that market forces may push owners of existing properties to redevelop. 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