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Planning staff reports hires and development prospects; cell tower and collision-center interest noted
Summary
Planning staff reported a new planner hire and several pending development inquiries, including potential fast-food redevelopment of the former Linden Care Center, proposed office-warehouse buildings on Geneva Road, a cell tower with stealth design, and interest in a collision-center tenant for a mixed-commercial site.
Planning staff provided multiple development and staffing updates during the Lindon City Planning Commission meeting on June 24, reporting a recent planner hire and several pending commercial and infrastructure proposals.
Mike Florence, planning staff, said the department made an offer to a new planner who will start in late July. He identified the new hire (name provided in meeting) as having relevant regional experience.
On development prospects, Florence said a buyer purchased the former Linden Care Center site and proposes to subdivide the parcel and seek two fast-food tenants; one potential tenant is under discussion and the buyer plans to demolish the existing building. He also said proposals are advancing for two large office-warehouse buildings at the Grama property adjacent to Pheasant Brook Park; those projects are expected to come to the commission for site-plan review.
Florence told commissioners a cell-tower application will go first to the council because Lindon’s cell-tower ordinance requires proposals on city or school district property to be considered by the council; if council approves, the tower will return to the commission for a conditional-use permit. Staff said the city requires stealth designs for towers unless engineering makes a stealth solution infeasible; one proposal under discussion uses a water-tower-style design.
Commissioners also discussed an inquiry about allowing an auto-collision/body shop (Tesla collision center was mentioned) in a mixed-commercial-zoned property where a tenant recently departed. Commissioners expressed caution: several said they would be open only if operations (including storage of wrecked vehicles) were fully indoors and the design maintained the character of the business park. Staff said existing Lindon code generally does not allow new auto-body operations in commercial parks and that each request would be considered against existing standards.
Other items in the director’s report included potential tenants and projects (e.g., a Jack in the Box inquiry in a prior location), scheduling for upcoming meetings, and water-canal concerns raised by a commissioner about a regional Water Conservancy District resolution affecting North Union and Murdock canals.
