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Planning commissioners debate residential classifications, call for clearer neighborhood definitions
Summary
At an Orem Planning Commission work session Sept. 17, staff presented draft residential land-use classifications. Commissioners questioned terms such as "stacked units" and "transitional residential," urged clearer definitions of “neighborhood,” and used a mapping exercise to discuss buffers between commercial corridors and single-family areas.
Orem — At a Sept. 17 work session of the Orem City Planning Commission, planning staff presented proposed revisions to residential land-use classifications and commissioners spent the meeting pressing for clearer definitions and limits on where certain housing types would be allowed.
Planning staff framed the draft as two broad categories: neighborhood residential (with subcategories ranging from rural neighborhood lots to conventional single-family zones) and multifamily residential, which the draft breaks into neighborhood-scale multifamily (townhomes, duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes), mid‑rise and high‑rise categories. "We have neighborhood residential, and that's kind of three different subcategories," planning staff summarized during the presentation.
Commissioners and staff discussed whether…
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