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North Ogden council and planning staff open multi‑month review of general plan, focusing on housing variety and annexation
Summary
City planning staff and the City Council held an extended discussion about updating North Ogden's general plan to address a statewide housing shortfall, local entitled units, annexation strategy and whether to 'vest' the plan to provide development predictability.
City planning staff and members of the North Ogden City Council spent the meeting’s first hour discussing how the city should update its general plan to respond to regional growth pressures and a statewide housing shortage.
Scott (city planning staff) told the council the state is working from a 44,000‑unit housing shortfall figure and said North Ogden currently holds “over 2,000 entitled building units that we would give a building permit to tomorrow,” listing West States annexation, Northside Valley, Village of Prominent Point and Patriot Point among the identified projects. He said developers are not building those units now because of financing and materials costs and that the city should focus on policy levers it can actually control.
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