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Council approves rezone and development agreement for 1.67-acre State Street/7500 South site
Summary
Midvale City Council unanimously approved an ordinance rezoning about 1.67 acres at 58 West 7500 South and 7444 South State Street to RM-25 and adopted a development agreement limiting building heights near single-family homes, requiring landscape buffers and subdividing units to enable ownership.
The Midvale City Council on March 18 unanimously approved an ordinance rezoning approximately 1.67 acres at 58 West 7500 South and 7444 South State Street from Single-Family Residential and State Street Commercial to RM-25 (multifamily residential, medium to high density) and separately authorized a development agreement between the city and the project developer.
Elizabeth Arnold, senior planner, told the council the project first came to the council in September 2024 and had been tabled pending a development agreement to address neighborhood concerns. The finalized development agreement limits building height along the west property line that abuts single-family homes—reducing allowed height for structures within 60 feet to 33 feet rather than the RM-25 base 50-foot standard—and requires a landscape buffer with minimum caliper trees and spacing to provide a visual and physical separation between the new development and adjoining homes. The agreement also requires a landscaped buffer along a southern access point to prevent direct site access onto 7500 South adjacent to single-family properties, and it stipulates that the project will be subdivided to allow individual ownership of units.
Developer representative John Simononi of Signature Homes said the easement and narrow parcel on the site are “unusable for our project aside from utilities” and that the team has included a landscaped, pedestrian block in the master plan to prevent passage through that area. He said the developer would consider deeding a small landlocked parcel to the adjoining property owner once construction is complete.
Council members praised the developer’s responsiveness to neighborhood concerns. A roll-call vote on Ordinance 2025-004 passed unanimously; the council then approved Resolution 2025-R-13 authorizing the mayor to sign the development agreement with the developer entities named in the staff report.
No changes to city code were made beyond the rezoning and the development agreement provisions. The council’s approvals allow the developer to move forward with the small-scale master plan and subsequent permits.
