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West Valley City Council workshop maps housing, limited destination retail for 13-acre JRM site
Summary
At a Sept. 16 workshop, council members and consultants used a tile-and-sticker exercise to express preferences for the city-owned 13-acre JRM site at 1300 West and 3300 South, favoring targeted gateway commercial, multifamily along 33rd Street, and clustered open space due to a central power-line easement.
West Valley City officials and consultants on Sept. 16 ran a consultant-led land-use workshop to gauge council preferences for the roughly 13-acre redevelopment agency parcel commonly called the JRM property near 1300 West and 3300 South.
Jonathan Springmeier, the city's economic development director, told the council the exercise is part of a contract the city approved earlier in the year and that the parcel is RDA-owned. "Roughly 13 acres owned by the redevelopment agency," Springmeier said, introducing the consultant team and the purpose of the workshop.
Ben, a consultant with Downtown Redevelopment Services, led a hands-on "tile game" in which council members placed color-coded quarter-acre stickers on a map to indicate desired land uses and densities. The consultants emphasized the exercise was meant to produce broad distribution patterns, not…
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