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Planning commission backs Ballpark rezoning amid neighbor concerns about lost green space
Summary
The Planning Commission voted 5–2 to recommend city council adopt CRA-sponsored zoning and text changes to implement the Ballpark Next plan, approving up to 150-foot frontage heights on 1300 South and a mixed-use vision that includes adaptive reuse, 460 housing units and about 4.8 acres of publicly accessible open space. Neighbors urged more contiguous green parkland and preservation of the stadium.
The Salt Lake City Planning Commission voted to recommend that the City Council adopt a Community Reinvestment Agency (CRA) proposal to rezone the city-owned Ballpark site and apply related text amendments to implement the CRA-adopted Ballpark Next community design plan.
Staff told commissioners the proposal would convert public-land (PL) and RMF-35 zones across the 14.8-acre site into mixed-use districts (MU11 and MU5), enable building heights up to 150 feet along the south side of 1300 South for buildings meeting active-use standards, and remove the existing ballpark sign overlay in the public land section of the sign chapter. Planning staff said the request implements the Ballpark Next plan and is consistent with Plan Salt Lake, the Ballpark Station Area Plan, and the city’s anti-displacement strategy.
CRA project staff described the plan as a community-driven vision that centers adaptive reuse of the stadium, a festival street on West Temple, daylighting a creek, and creating new publicly accessible open…
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