On Oct. 16, 2025, the South Salt Lake Planning Commission unanimously voted to forward a recommendation to the City Council to adopt the Meadowbrook and Mill Creek Station Area Plan, a draft station‑area planning document prepared with consultant Design Workshop.

Senior Planner Spencer Cawley introduced the item and turned the presentation to consultants from Design Workshop. "My name is Chris Geddes. I'm a principal at Design Workshop," the consultant said, describing the two station areas as culturally and economically diverse neighborhoods and noting the study’s goals to increase housing diversity, improve walkability and transit connectivity, and identify catalytic opportunity sites.

Consultant Mariana Stuck and Geddes described the required state timeline: the plan responds to a state requirement in House Bill 462 for communities with fixed‑rail transit to adopt station area plans within a half‑mile of stations. Geddes said the team moved the study quickly to meet a deadline and reported 12 meetings and events and about 370 participants during outreach.

Recommendations presented to the commission included increasing housing options (for‑sale and rental, including senior housing), improving pedestrian and bicycle connections (including better crossings, new bikeways and links to the Jordan River Parkway), identifying sites for neighborhood‑serving retail and community facilities, and considering redevelopment of a UTA park‑and‑ride and the former Salt Lake Community College parcel near Meadowbrook Station.

The presentation differentiated opportunities on 3300 South (a UDOT road with constrained change options) and 3900 South (non‑UDOT, with more room for pedestrian improvements), and included concept illustrations for higher‑density housing stepping down to townhomes, structured parking paired with infill, and a pedestrian bridge over tracks to link housing and parkland.

Commissioners discussed implementation challenges, especially the difficulty of making changes on UDOT‑controlled corridors and the long time‑scale and expense of acquiring some private properties identified as opportunity sites. One commissioner noted the uphill effort needed to clean or redevelop historically industrial parcels near Wasatch Steel. Another said the plan’s goals could help shift people out of cars if pedestrian and transit connections were improved.

There was no public testimony during the hearing portion for this item. Commissioner Southey moved to forward a recommendation of approval for a resolution to adopt the Meadowbrook and Mill Creek Station Area Plan; the motion was seconded and passed unanimously on roll call.

The plan will now proceed to the City Council for formal adoption. If the council adopts it, the city intends to use the plan to guide zoning, capital investments and coordination with UTA, UDOT and regional agencies to advance housing, transit access and public‑realm improvements.