Planning commission recommends city adopt changes to building‑preservation incentives

The Salt Lake City Planning Commission on a unanimous vote recommended that City Council adopt a zoning text amendment to refine the city’s building‑preservation and adaptive‑reuse incentives, Planning Department staff told the commission.

Staff planner Amy Thompson summarized the proposal as “a text amendment, for changes to the, building preservation incentives,” saying the petition was initiated by Mayor Erin Mendenhall and that “staff is recommending that the planning commission forward a recommendation of approval to the city council.”

The amendment clarifies how the incentives created by a July 2024 ordinance operate and makes several targeted changes. The ordinance offers two incentive tracks: adaptive reuse, which permits land uses not normally allowed in a zoning district to encourage reuse of older buildings, and building preservation, which allows flexibility in zoning standards for existing buildings at least 50 years old. Incentives include waived lot area…