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Council reviews general plan place‑types; staff recommends a distinct hospital place‑type near South Davis Community Hospital
Summary
In a second agenda topic the council reviewed draft place‑type maps for the general plan, discussed whether community commercial boundaries reflect current development, and directed staff to preserve a hospital‑oriented designation to protect future hospital expansion.
After the Lakeview Mortuaries discussion the council spent remaining time on a review of draft place‑type boundaries for the general plan. Staff reminded the council that the land use map and the land use code implement the general plan and that the session would focus on place types rather than parcel‑by‑parcel zoning.
Planning staff said the council had previously discussed several place types at a retreat and that the work session would continue that review, emphasizing single‑family, neighborhood mixed residential and the community commercial place type along 500 South. Staff recommended creating a distinct hospital place type (or subcategory) around South Davis Community Hospital to allow higher building heights and to avoid inadvertently constraining hospital expansion: "We feel that the hospital area should have its own proper zoning designation ... the intention in the general plan is to protect the hospital zone for hospital related uses," Francisco said.
Council members and staff noted mapping errors and omissions in the draft map (for example, a commercial parcel that previously included Annie’s Cafe and the UPS store appeared excluded in the draft) and asked staff to correct those. Members discussed whether corridor segments along 500 South currently contain commercial frontage or are mostly residential now; staff noted much of the corridor between 100 East and 400 East is currently RM‑13/professional‑office and that the proposed community commercial designation represents a future vision for that corridor.
The council signaled general agreement with delineating a hospital‑protected area east of 400 East and asked staff to refine boundaries and wording so the general plan explicitly preserves the hospital’s capacity for taller medical buildings and future expansion. Staff said they will bring corrected maps and refined place type language back to the council for additional review.
No formal actions or votes were taken; the item remained in the general plan review phase and will be revisited in a subsequent meeting.
