Developers pitch diversified rental project and offer to improve nearby retention area; council gives preliminary support

Representatives of Wasatch Development Group presented a concept plan for a mixed rental project along Wolfpack Way that pairs apartments, garden‑style units and for‑rent townhomes with roughly 14,000 square feet of commercial at the corner. The company also offered to revamp and maintain a nearby city‑owned stormwater/greenbelt area and asked the council whether it would consider a development agreement.

James Smith, a representative of Wasatch Group, described a site plan that includes apartment buildings with interior corridors, garden‑style walk‑ups, and three‑ and four‑story buildings with commercial on the First Floor. He said the plan would result in about 193 rental units on the site (including units whose First‑Floor area is set aside for clubhouse amenities) and roughly 14,000 square feet of commercial space in the mixed‑use building at the roundabout corner.

The developer proposed landscaping, cleaning and potentially reconfiguring a nearby retention area owned by Hyde Park (but located inside North Logan city limits) to make it both more attractive and more functional for stormwater retention. The developers said they would maintain that area as part of the project’s long‑term maintenance program and that redesigning portions of the basin would be part of the civil engineering work if the council supported moving forward.

Council members said they liked the diversity of housing types in the plan and that the proposed improvements to the retention area would be beneficial to the city; staff reminded the council that the parcel is already zoned mixed‑use and that the primary outstanding item for staff is negotiating the scale of public benefit the city should expect in exchange for any entitlements above the base zoning. Several council members said they were comfortable allowing the developer to pursue the additional engineering work required to return with a formal development agreement package for council consideration.

Staff emphasized that a firm staff recommendation would depend on the developer’s engineering work and a negotiation about how much of the basin work the developer would perform, whether the basin redesign would change stormwater volumes, and coordination with North Logan for work on the parcel they own. The council did not take a final vote but signaled preliminary support for the developer to continue engineering and work with staff to prepare a formal development‑agreement submittal.