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Commission approves 7‑Eleven final plan for 134 South with traffic access stipulation
Summary
Riverton Planning Commission approved a final detailed plan for a 7‑Eleven on the corner of 134 South and 130 West but asked the applicant to work with city traffic engineers to manage and discourage right-turn exits from a shared ingress to reduce safety risk; staff removed a storm-drain condition because the off-site pond is already built.
Riverton’s Planning Commission on April 10 approved a detailed final plan—the last administrative step—for a 7‑Eleven convenience store at the Village West pad near 134 South and 130 Fourth (identified in staff materials as PLZ20-4825), voting unanimously after the applicant agreed to additional traffic coordination with city engineers.
Staff said the project complies with the SLR (Salt Lake Reserve/Land Reserve) area development framework and that Stormwater and other infrastructure elements were already in place. Staff recommended striking condition 7 because the required off‑site storm drain pond had already been built.
Commissioners focused on a shared ingress between Apollo Burger and the proposed 7‑Eleven that staff and a commissioner said was wide and angled in a way that could invite drivers to use the ingress as an exit — creating a collision risk when drivers attempt to turn into the right‑turn lane on 130 Fourth. Commissioners asked the applicant and the city engineer to examine options to narrow or re-angle the approach, add signage, or otherwise manage the movement to discourage right‑turn exits; the applicant’s engineer, Rick Magnus of AEWA Engineering, told commissioners he would work with staff and the city to “narrow as much and angle it as much as we can” while still accommodating fuel‑truck circulation.
The commission moved and seconded approval of the 7‑Eleven final plan with conditions (staff’s conditions 1–13, with staff striking the storm‑drain timing condition because the pond is in place). The motion passed unanimously. Staff said they will draft the final wording of the traffic-mitigation condition and require the applicant to coordinate with city engineering on a mitigation design before final permits issue.
