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Council approves DT-1 zoning tweaks to encourage for-sale housing, adds owner-occupancy timing language

2700310 · January 29, 2025
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Summary

The council approved changes to the downtown DT-1 zone allowing incremental height increases tied to percent for-sale housing, reduced average minimum unit size in parts of the zone, and added language requiring owner-occupancy (or rental prohibition) for the first year after each ownership change.

The Provo City Council on Jan. 28 approved amendments to the downtown DT-1 zoning to give developers limited additional height in exchange for providing for-sale housing, to extend reduced minimum average unit-size rules to University Avenue, and to add recorded deed/agreement language requiring individual for-sale units to be owner-occupied (or not rented) for the first year after each change in ownership.

Planning Supervisor Aaron Ardmore told the council current DT-1 height allowance is 100 feet (DT-2 is 80 feet) and staff proposed a stepped increase in allowable height tied to the…

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