Planning Commission backs rezoning at 128 North N Street, recommends two‑bedroom condition

The Salt Lake City Planning Commission on Jan. 22 voted unanimously to forward a recommendation to the City Council to rezone 128 North N Street from SR‑1A (Special Development Pattern Residential) to RMF‑30 (low‑density multifamily), with a condition that any newly built units provide a minimum of two bedrooms and that the requirement be secured in a development agreement before any certificate of occupancy is issued.

Planning staff presented the petition and a history of revisions to the proposal. Alicia Seeley, the planner assigned to the petition, told commissioners the applicant originally asked for RMU‑35 (which would have allowed up to five new units and up to 35 feet) but revised the request to RMF‑30 after neighbor comments and staff input. An error in the staff calculation discovered the day before the meeting reduced the feasible number of new infill units to three; the applicant therefore dropped an offered affordable unit and instead proposed family‑sized rental units by making the units two‑bedrooms each.

The project site includes a historically significant fourplex that would remain unchanged; the…