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Planning commission approves Powder Mountain parking expansion and CUP amendment for Sundown Condominiums with access conditions
Summary
The Ogden Valley Planning Commission recommended approval of a design-review parking expansion at Powder Mountain Resort and approved an amendment to the Sundown Condominiums conditional-use permit that requires a minimum of two UDOT-approved accesses for Phase 2 and a recorded access easement across Phase 3.
The Ogden Valley Planning Commission on Aug. 27, 2020 moved forward on two development items affecting Powder Mountain and the Sundown Condominiums.
Design review: Hidden Lake / Powder Mountain parking Tammy, planning staff, presented a design-review application (DR 2024-04) to expand parking serving the Hidden Lake Lodge and Sky Lodge at Powder Mountain Resort (approximately 6965 N. Powder Mountain Road, Eden). Staff said engineering and fire comments had been addressed and recommended conditional approval. Staff described mitigation measures including compacted road base for the access roadway and parking stalls, erosion-control blankets and seeding, screening/buffering along adjacent residential lots, and bonding for proposed landscaping. After questions from commissioners about slope, winter parking and legal road status, a motion to recommend approval of DR 2024-04 subject to agency review and the conditions in the staff report was moved and seconded; the motion passed on a voice vote with “ayes” recorded.
CUP amendment: Sundown Condominiums PRUD Tammy then presented an amendment to the conditional-use permit for the Sundown Condominiums PRUD (approx. 6700 N. Powder Mountain Road; FR-3 zone; ~7 acres). Staff summarized the project history: a 1983 CUP authorized 80 units (phase 1 = 20 units, phase 2 = 60 units); a roadway realignment was proposed because of topography and HOA concerns. Staff emphasized that final subdivision approval is issued by the planning director and that UDOT approval of any new accesses is required before final subdivision approval.
Applicant Guy Williams (civil engineer and owner representative) told the commission the roadway realignment reflects a long mediation and litigation history with the Phase 1 HOA and that a phase-3 owner has agreed to grant an access easement; he said the easement could be drawn and recorded within weeks and that UDOT is reviewing the proposed connections. Commissioners pressed for explicit conditions to ensure Phase 2 would have legally recorded access and UDOT-approved connections.
A motion was made and amended on the record to approve CUP 2024-09, with conditions from the staff report and explicit clarifications: require a minimum of two UDOT-approved connections onto Powder Mountain Road for Phase 2; require that the proposed access easement across Phase 3 be recorded to allow Phase 2 occupants to access Powder Mountain Road; and replace references to "planning commission final approval" with the appropriate land-use authority (planning director) for final subdivision approval. The commission voted by voice; the motion passed and the CUP amendment was approved.
The public comment period produced no speakers. The commission closed with routine director and legal remarks and adjourned.
