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Wasatch Front Regional Council certifies six station-area plans, advancing nearly 51,000 planned homes
Summary
The council certified six station-area plans and three 'resolutions of impracticability', bringing the program's planned station-area housing total to nearly 51,000 units.
The Wasatch Front Regional Council on Thursday certified six station-area plans and approved three related resolutions of impracticability, actions staff and the regional growth committee recommended.
Council members certified station-area plans for portions of Layton, South Jordan, and others; the approvals included West Haven’s limited Roy FrontRunner site, Herriman’s portion of the Daybreak Parkway/TRAX area, and Clearfield’s small developed parcel adjacent to the FrontRunner station. The regional growth committee said those three were impracticable to plan further because they are already developed or consist of rights-of-way.
Byron Head, West Central regional staff, told the council the certification work to date covers 44 station-area plans in the region (42 in the core Wasatch Front area) and that the program now accounts for almost 51,000 planned housing units across certified station areas. The committee recommended certification of the Layton FrontRunner station area plan, South Jordan’s portion of the South Jordan FrontRunner station area plan, and related items; the council approved the recommendation by voice vote.
Layton officials noted an expected pedestrian bridge across the railroad to connect trails and improve east–west active-transportation links. Layton’s mayor, Joy Petro, said the bridge would tie into the city’s trail system and that additional funding remains pending.
South Jordan Mayor Dawn Ramsey described the South Jordan station-area plan as a constrained but important area: roughly 300 acres bounded by I‑15 and the Jordan River, with topography, floodplain and conservation easements limiting buildable land. Ramsey said the plan protects the river corridor and includes almost 600 new homes in vacant and infill parcels, including a development with 225 housing units, more than half planned as for-sale product.
The council’s motion to certify the resolutions and station-area plans carried by voice vote; a motion and second were recorded during the regional growth committee report. Staff materials and the committee’s findings remain available in the meeting packet for reference.
