In their regular meeting on Tuesday, the Snyderville Planning Commission will again look at a proposed soccer arena and other uses on a residential lot in Silver Creek.
The county’s planning staff is recommending approval for the application, some two months after concerned neighbors spoke out at a public hearing.
The Snyderville Commission meets on Tuesday, starting at 4:30, at the Richins Services Building.
Two items on the agenda are scheduled to be continued to future meetings.
So the major item for the Planning Commission is an application from an owner, off Westwood Road in Silver Creek, seeking a Conditional use Approval for a building of a little over 14,000 square feet, which would have a large soccer arena, an apartment or living area, and a warm-up and storage space.
The parcel, of a little over nine acres, already has a single-family home, a barn and an outdoor riding arena.
Neighbors at a public hearing in early October said the mass and scale of the building would be out of character with the neighborhood. But the staff report said that nearly all Silver Creek homes have some accessory buildings, and they range from less than 100 to 23,000 square feet. The report said that within about 1,500 feet, there are three structures of approximately, the same size and design as the soccer building. They said the new barn is architecturally compatible with surrounding buildings and the single-family home.
Neighbors also said that a large herd of elk us a drainage near the site as a migration corridor. The staff said they contacted a representative of the state Division of Wildlife Resources; whose primary concern was that animals could still walk through. He recommended that no fencing be installed, or if it was, it should be wildlife-friendly.
The staff also said the project complies in terms of sanitary sewer, water supply, and parking. They said it won’t encroach on critical land, and has 89 percent open space.
