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Hooper awarded $100,000 regional grant for zoning and design standards; city share $10,000
Summary
Wasatch Front Regional Council awarded Hooper a grant to help update zoning ordinances and design standards. The city will pay a $10,000 match and expects consultant support from regional planners and JUB Engineering.
Hooper City staff announced the city was awarded a Wasatch Front Regional Council grant to update zoning ordinances and design standards, with the council agreeing the city'0s share of the program would be $10,000.
The grant, described by staff as roughly $100,000 in total program funds, is aimed at assisting Hooper with ordinance revisions and design standards refinement that can support commercial development, update the general plan elements, and potentially be used to inform impact-fee studies. Taylor Stauffer of JUB Engineering (the consultant) is scheduled to discuss the work and how it may be coordinated with larger impact-fee studies at an upcoming meeting.
Why it matters: City staff said the project can help the city bring zoning and design standards up to date and may reduce future consultant costs by piggybacking related studies. Taylor Stauffer indicated the work could dovetail with planned studies of roads, sewer, storm drain and parks impact fees; each of those studies was estimated by staff to cost about $100,000 individually.
Staff told the council the grant-funded work should not replace the larger fee studies but could help shape zoning and design policy while reducing the scope and cost of future consultant work.
Ending: Council members agreed to review the project scope and discuss the $10,000 local match during upcoming budget discussions and to receive a presentation from JUB and Wasatch Front Regional Council staff as part of the planning commission or future council agenda.
