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Davis County, Farmington discuss selling parking to Rock Hotel Dental; follow-up session set
Summary
At a Jan. 19 work session, county staff and Farmington city officials reviewed parking counts and proposals to make on-campus parking permanent for Rock Hotel Dental to allow the clinic to sell its building. No sale was authorized; commissioners asked staff for more information and agreed to a follow-up work session.
Davis County commissioners and Farmington city staff met Tuesday to review a proposal that would convey parts of the countys campus parking to Rock Hotel Dental so the dental office could obtain permanent on-site parking and enable a sale of its building to an investor.
Farmington city planner David Pearson presented parking counts and scenario analyses, saying the county campus currently falls short of ordinance parking requirements and that Rock Hotel Dental relies heavily on county-owned stalls. "We have estimated just based on our own study ... we think that they are using between 30 and 40 parking stalls at all times during the day," Pearson said.
The issue arose after Rock Hotel Dental said it would like permanent stalls rather than renewing short-term leases. County staff described existing lease arrangements that have typically ranged from one to three years and said the most recent lease for additional stalls expired at the end of 2024.
Pearson walked commissioners through multiple options Farmingtons staff and council discussed: revising the citys parking ordinance (currently 6 spaces per 1,000 square feet for…
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