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Planning commission refines ‘live-work’ rules, creates neighborhood mixed-use category in Cottonwood Heights
Summary
Cottonwood Heights City Planning Commission members reviewed a city-initiated zoning text amendment on June 4 that would replace the loosely defined “live-work” use in the Neighborhood Commercial zone with a new “neighborhood mixed use” category and add standards to ensure a visible commercial presence at the street level.
Cottonwood Heights City Planning Commission members reviewed a city-initiated zoning text amendment on June 4 that would replace the loosely defined “live-work” use in the Neighborhood Commercial (NC) zone with a new, narrowly defined “neighborhood mixed use” category and add standards intended to ensure a visible commercial presence at the street level.
The commission was told the amendment is a response to a February city council moratorium on live-work applications in the NC zone. Staff said the moratorium (valid for up to 180 days) gave the city time to define live-work and prevent projects that are effectively residential developments from bypassing the NC zone’s intent to provide neighborhood-scale commercial services.
Staff described the proposed definition of neighborhood mixed use as “a single building containing more than one land use type, at least one of which is residential, or a single development of more than one building in…
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