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Holladay staff present streamlined general plan update; council to consider vote on the 20th
Summary
City staff walked the council through a readability-focused update to the general plan, clarified the relationship between the plan and land-use/zoning, and described a water budget and moderate-income housing appendix; staff said a clean final draft is planned for a council vote on the 20th.
City staff presented a condensed, more visual edition of Holladay's general plan and told the council the document is intended to be more accessible to residents and easier for staff to use when evaluating land-use questions.
Unidentified Speaker (S2), the staff presenter, said the update is the product of grant-funded outreach and multiple planning commission and advisory-committee meetings. "We met with them, I believe, 4 times to really dive in and get specific about changes," she said, describing appendices that include engagement summaries and a separately maintained moderate-income housing plan.
The presentation emphasized two things the planning commission requested: (1) make it clear who should use the general plan and how it relates to the city's land-use code, and (2) simplify future land-use descriptions and maps so users encounter fewer planning terms. The staff presentation included a new "areas of opportunity" layer to highlight small-area master plans and corridors for future attention.
On the water element, staff acknowledged state-mandated revisions and showed a citywide water budget that staff said places the city "in the green" under current assumptions. The presenter explained that demand projections use the future land-use map and that different providers (Holiday Water, Jordan Valley, Salt Lake City Public Utilities) cover different service areas and timelines for added capacity.
Council members pressed staff on the map's purpose and whether its geographic display could be misread as absolving some providers of growth-related responsibilities. Staff said the map reflects provider service areas and growth scenarios, not a fixed guarantee that a given provider will ignore growth in its current service area.
Staff asked for follow-up questions before the next meeting and told the council the revised, clean draft would be prepared and "teed up for a vote on the twentieth." The council directed staff to circulate comparisons and to bring back materials that show how the moderate-income housing appendix links to the general plan.
The next procedural step is a scheduled vote on the final adoption of the plan; staff recommended additional outreach materials be available online before that vote.
