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Ogden City seeks county's agreement to hold transferable development rights from Ogden Valley property
Summary
Ogden City requested a development agreement that would allow the city to retain transferable development rights (TDRs) on city-owned property at the end of Stringtown Road. County planners noted the parcel is zoned CBR-1 and could yield as many as ~521 units under current code, but development is constrained by wellhead source-protection zones, a
Ogden City asked Weber County to memorialize transferable development rights (TDRs) from city-owned property in the Ogden Valley via a development agreement. City and county staff said the parcel—at the end of Stringtown Road and currently zoned CBR-1—could, under the existing code, generate a substantial number of development units (staff's calculation showed as many as ~521 units depending on building configuration). Ogden City said it paid market value for the parcel and seeks recognition of the rights it purchased.
County planning staff cautioned that the property sits inside wellhead source-protection zones and that infrastructure constraints (water, sewer and single access) make large-scale development expensive and uncertain. Planning staff also noted the Ogden Valley Planning Commission recommended denial (5–2) because the application did not meet certain general-plan requirements and lacked a requested market study.
Ogden City proposed a development agreement that would allow it to retain TDRs for an extended term (the city proposed 100 years). Commissioners discussed alternatives: limiting the agreement term, reducing the number of units memorialized, or restricting transfers to DRR-1/recreation/resort receiving zones (consistent with the county's general plan goal of shifting density off the valley floor). The county attorney recommended obtaining a legal opinion on enforceability and on how interjurisdictional transfers would operate after incorporation of a new city; commissioners requested a work session with that legal opinion and asked staff to provide unit/value examples.
