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Council continues 'Bountiful by Design' review after hours of mapping, Orchard Drive and water debates
Summary
Council continued review of the draft general plan "Bountiful by Design," discussing planning commission recommendations, neighborhood-center overlays (including a contentious Orchard Drive 'bend'), a proposed Orchard Drive corridor study, active-transportation language additions, and refinements to hospital-area and foothill place-type descriptions. Council directed staff to make multiple map/text edits and continued the item to Dec. 9.
Bountiful City Council spent the latter half of its Nov. 25 meeting on an extended review of the draft comprehensive plan "Bountiful by Design," which staff and consultants compiled after roughly three years of analysis and public outreach.
Planner Francisco Astorga summarized the planning-commission process and emphasized that adoption of the general plan would not automatically change zoning; implementing code and map amendments would follow a phased effort. The planning commission had reviewed and reopened public hearings across multiple meetings and forwarded a positive recommendation to council with edits and clarifications redlined in the draft.
Key topics and council direction:
- Neighborhood-center overlays: Council reviewed several proposed neighborhood-center nodes (for example along Bountiful…
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