North Ogden council postpones rezoning of 1150 East 3700 North after geotech, water and trail concerns

The North Ogden City Council voted 4–1 on July 28 to postpone consideration of Ordinance 2026-22, a request to rezone 1150 East 3700 North from split zoning (R1/R1-12.5 and HP3) to Hillside Protection HP2. Council members who voted to postpone said they needed the applicant and consultants to reconcile a 1997 North Hill site development study with the project's recent geotechnical work and to provide a checklist of engineering and trail-connectivity commitments before the council would act.

Resident Jana Thornock told the council that changing the zone would “take it from approximately 15 homes to 70ish homes,” and said she was worried about slope stability, wildfire and the parcel’s limited water supply. Council Member Pulver said the packet’s geotechnical material read as an initial, "cursory review" and “does not give me any confidence whatsoever that any due diligence has been done.” Hunter Murray of the Holland Group, the applicant, responded that the concept plan is an early yield study (the team has never exceeded 62 lots in yield analyses) and that engineering and Pineview Water approvals would have to be satisfied during subdivision review. “Trail connectivity is absolutely a priority of ours and something that we absolutely want to maintain,” Murray said.

City-contracted geologist Bill Black of CMT told the council the site sits on an older part of the Bonneville shoreline alluvial fan and that, from a debris-flow standpoint, it is lower risk than active fan zones; he said typical civil engineering and site grading can manage channel dewatering and runoff issues. Still, multiple council members emphasized that lot-level geotechnical review, wildfire defensible-space requirements under the Wildland Urban Interface code, and clearer commitments on trails and open space need to be documented before a zone change.

Council Member Pulver moved to postpone with the requirement that the 1997 North Hill study be reviewed and reconciled with current mapping and that the developer return with clearer engineering, trail and open-space commitments; Neighbor seconded. In a roll call vote the motion passed 4–1 (Neighbor, Watson, Pulver and Carney in favor; Dalpaz opposed). The council directed staff and the applicant to produce the requested checklist and analyses ahead of the next council consideration.