The City Council met for a Site Visit/Walking Tour on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, at 2:35 p.m. East Side of the City County Building, 451 South State Street.
In Attendance: Council Members James Rogers, Kyle LaMalfa, Luke Garrott, Erin Mendenhall, Charlie Luke, and Lisa Adams.
Absent: Councilmember Stan Penfold.
Staff in Attendance: Jennifer Bruno, Executive Council Deputy Director; Nick Tarbet, Council Policy Analyst; Robin Hutcheson, Transportation Director; Rick Graham, Public Services Director; Wilford Sommerkorn, Planning Director; Maryann Pickering, Principal Planner; Nick Norris, Planning Manager; Sean Murphy, Council Policy Analyst, Russell Weeks, Council Senior Public Policy Analyst; DJ Baxter, Redevelopment Agency Director; Ed Butterfield, Redevelopment Agency Project Coordinator; Benjamin Davis, Redevelopment Agency Project Coordinator; and Scott Crandall, Deputy City Recorder.
Guests in Attendance: Judy Short, Salt Lake City resident, and Chris Smart, Salt Lake Tribune.
AGENDA ITEMS/ITINERARY View Attachments
#1. PARTICIPATE IN A WALKING TOUR OF AN AREA AFFECTED BY THE SUGAR HOUSE STREETCAR CORRIDOR MASTER PLAN AND ZONING AMENDMENT.
#1. Board vans near east steps of City and County Building.
#2. 4:01:56 PM Arrive at 500 East S Line station to discuss potential effects of form-based streetcar edge zoning on neighborhood between 500 East and 600 East streets.
#3. 4:07:28 PM Walk along corridor to 700 East station to look at housing and commercial structures that would be affected by form-based zoning; walk to Green Street to look at potential effects of zoning changes on housing on the west side of Green Street.
#4. 4:34:49 PM Walk to 900 East stop to look at properties potentially affected by proposed zoning changes on 900 East and Sugarmont Drive.
Items discussed throughout the tour included impact on residential properties, setback requirements, height restrictions, visual pollution, rezoning/development opportunities, exiting commercial properties, limited numbers of tools available to provide incentives, environmental issues that impact redevelopment, only area with S-Line double track, explore ways to increase ridership, potential to create a pass-through bike/pedestrian corridor from Green Street to Wilmington, property acquisition, development potential/rights scaled to parcel size, residential property sales, quality of life issues, potential for tall buildings to block sunlight, property assemblage, utilize step-back approach to mitigate impacts, master plan directives, landscaping/tree planting issues, consider residents needs/desires, potential ordinance revisions to facilitate development, Boys and Girls Club issues, and traffic/parking issues.
#5. 4:41:55 PM Tour Wilmington Gardens project at 1201 East Wilmington Avenue. View Attachments
#6. Returned to City and County Building.
This document along with the digital recording constitute the official minutes of the City Council Walking Tour held June 24, 2014.
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