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Planning commission split on West High items: recommends denial of public-lands text amendment, approves partial 200 North vacation to consolidate campus
Summary
Salt Lake City planning staff on Aug. 19 briefed council on two West High School-related legislative petitions: a proposed public-lands zoning text amendment to codify temporary school-related rules, which the planning commission recommended denying, and a partial vacation of 200 North to consolidate the West High campus, which the planning commission recommended approving with conditions.
Salt Lake City planning staff briefed the council on Aug. 19 about two city-initiated, legislative petitions tied to the Salt Lake City School District’s West High rebuild: (1) a proposed zoning text amendment that would codify elements of the Temporary Land Use Regulations (TLUR) enacted earlier in the year to support K–12 public-school construction in the Public Lands (PL) zone, and (2) a partial vacation of 200 North adjacent to the West High campus to enable consolidation of the district’s parcels.
Grant Amon, principal planner, said the TLUR provisions proposed for permanent adoption include allowing increased maximum height (the TLUR permitted up to 125 feet for K–12 public schools in PL zones), reduced setbacks where school property abuts nonresidential zones, exemptions from certain historic-preservation overlay provisions for K–12 public schools, permission for school-related obstructions (play fields, playground equipment, parking) in required yards, and a planning-director authority to approve modifications for health-and-safety…
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