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Provo planning commission backs amendment adding strategies to moderate-income housing appendix
Summary
The Provo City Planning Commission on June 11 recommended approval of a text amendment to the General Plan’s Appendix B to add and update moderate-income housing strategies required under state code; the vote was 4–1.
Provo City Planning Commission recommended approval on June 11 of a text amendment to Appendix B of the city’s General Plan to update its moderate-income housing supply and strategies, a Development Services staff proposal intended to align local actions with a state statute. The commission’s recommendation (4–1) sends the amendment to the City Council for final action.
The amendment updates the implementation table in Appendix B to add strategies the city is already pursuing and to remove or postpone items staff says are no longer active. Melissa McNally, Development Services staff, told commissioners the change is driven by a state requirement (quoted in the staff packet as “UCA 10 9 a 4 0 3 2 b paragraph 3”) that cities adopt a moderate-income housing plan with actionable strategies and report progress annually. McNally said the city must maintain active strategies year after year and that listing strategies the city already pursues helps secure priority state funding.
Key changes in the amendment include removing single-room-occupancy from the land-use strategies, striking an item that referenced a housing committee that no longer exists, and adding items the city has been implementing: participation in a community land trust through Utah Regional Housing, a down-payment assistance program funded from a redevelopment-agency set-aside for first responders and other public servants, and planning a housing-and-transit reinvestment zone to follow station-area plan adoption. McNally said the redevelopment agency’s tax-increment set-aside is already intended for moderate- and affordable-housing programs and that staff is coordinating with the Provo City Housing Authority and Utah Regional Housing on program details.
Commissioners pressed staff for measurable goals. Several asked whether the city has a numeric target for “how much more” moderate-income housing is needed; McNally replied there is no single numeric goal in the plan and that the state’s requirement is to continue implementing and reporting on chosen strategies rather than reaching a single fixed target. Commissioner comments ranged from support for adding strategies the city already implements to requests that staff return with an annual report on progress, which McNally said staff can provide.
A motion to recommend approval included a staff edit to strike the paragraph referring to the housing committee in Goal E; the motion carried 4–1. The commission’s recommendation advances the amendment to the City Council, and staff said council consideration will be the next step.
The record shows no public speakers on the item during the meeting.
