Planning commission approves 27-unit Anderson Development townhome project with facade and parking conditions

The Midvale City Planning Commission approved a small-scale master plan and a preliminary subdivision allowing individual ownership of a proposed 27-unit townhome development at 6766 South 300 East, granting incentives for reduced setbacks and private-street design while adding conditions that several public-facing units meet the city’s facade masonry standards.

Staff introduced the Anderson Development LLC application as a small-scale master-plan request for 27 units on four existing parcels in the SF-1 duplex-overlay zone. Planners reported the proposal provides 18% improved common space (minimum requirement 15%) and 51% total open space (code minimum 50%). The applicant requested incentives available under the master-plan provisions to reduce interior setbacks (from 8 feet to 6 feet between buildings) and to permit a private street (the developer’s design shows a 41-foot-wide private road; 50 feet is required for a public…