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Bountiful council reviews draft 'Bountiful by Design,' signals changes on neighborhood nodes and transportation
Summary
The council reviewed a detailed draft of the city’s General Plan after a multi‑year process, instructed staff to remove or modify some neighborhood‑center overlays, asked for an Orchard Drive corridor study and directed planners to add active‑transportation language. Adoption will not change zoning immediately; code and map updates will follow.
Bountiful City Council spent the Nov. 25 meeting conducting a line‑by‑line review of the draft General Plan titled “Bountiful by Design,” with city planner Francisco Astorga summarizing three years of technical analysis, outreach and Planning Commission redlines.
The plan, staff and the Planning Commission position it as a policy roadmap rather than an automatic zoning change: Astorga read a paragraph stressing that adoption alone would not trigger immediate rezoning and that implementation requires phased code and map updates subject to additional public processes.
Council members offered targeted edits. Several members asked staff to remove proposed…
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