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Council approves group‑quarters use in limited Center Street PO zone as conditional use; staff to define density limits
Summary
The council amended the professional‑office (PO) zone to allow group quarters along portions of Center Street but converted the use to a conditional use rather than a by‑right permitted use; council also requested staff to return with density and definition standards.
Provo Municipal Council approved a text amendment to Provo City Code to permit group quarters in the professional‑office (PO) zone along Center Street, but the council adopted a substitute motion placing group quarters in the conditional‑use section rather than as a permitted use. The substitute passed 6–1. Councilors also directed planning staff to return as soon as feasible with definitions and density limits for group quarters.
Planner Hannah Salts described the proposal as a narrow text amendment limited to PO properties with frontage along Center Street (roughly the 200–400 East block faces). Staff said the change is intended to allow an adaptive reuse of an existing…
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