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Council opens public hearing on allowing multifamily housing in Park City Business Center; directs legal review
Summary
At a public hearing the Summit County Council considered an amendment to allow multifamily dwelling units as part of commercial developments in the Park City Business Center (service commercial) zone to enable a climbing gym project with an affordable-housing component. The council did not vote on the zone change; it directed staff and county attorneys to return with legal options that comply with state law and development-agreement approaches to lock in affordability.
The Summit County Council held a public hearing April 26 on a proposal to permit "dwelling unit, multifamily as part of a commercial development" in the Park City Business Center service commercial zone, a change the applicant says is needed to build a climbing gym and an on-site affordable housing component.
Ray Milner, county planning staff, said the application asks for three code changes: raising the maximum height in the zone from 32 to 45 feet, adding multifamily as a permitted use within a commercial development, and reducing the front-yard setback from 30 to 20 feet. Milner said the Planning Commission forwarded a positive recommendation after lengthy review but the county attorney raised questions about how state law constrains local requirements for mandatory…
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