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Snyderville Planning Commission Re-Opens, Review Of Dakota Pacific Resumes

Summit County

The Dakota Pacific proposal is back on the schedule for the Snyderville Planning Commission.

And Summit County Development Director Pat Putt is hoping it will get to an electronic public hearing by June.  

The Boyer Tech Park development was approved by the county in 2008 for a total of nearly 1.3 million square feet.

Dakota Pacific acquired the land and came to the county last year with a mixed-neighborhood design up to 1.8 million square feet.

But the applicants came back to the Snyderville Commission on April 28th with a revision that’s closer to Boyer’s square footage.  

As Putt noted in his recent report to KPCW, it has more open space, less surface parking, and less density.   The plan includes 1100 residential units, 235,000 square feet of office space, a hotel of 122,000 square feet, and without, at this point, a new county civic center or an underground transit location.

At their recent meeting, Snyderville Commissioners discussed if the project is walkable.       

“From the initial review of what we looked at last night, internally, yeah, we think that there are some areas that have some significant beneficial changes to it—sort of, the pedestrian connection within the development proposal and how it connects to the broader neighborhood and open space and recreation areas around it, and the services around it.  So our initial reaction is an optimistic “Yes.”

Planning Commissioners also were concerned how pedestrians can get across Highway 224 safely.   Putt noted that’s an issue larger than just Dakota, and entities like the state are involved.      

“UDOT is underway with its corridor planning for the Interstate 80/224 intersection and the corridor up the highway.  So it’s not precluded that we’re not gonna have a pedestrian crossing, whether that’s a tunnel or a bridge.  Where we are right now is somewhat agnostic of that.   But the Planning Commission is very, very concerned that if we’re going to introduce more residential units in that area that they want to have a very viable and safe way of connecting people across to the east side.”

The Planning Commissioners will have to consider if the 306 workforce housing units in the plan are appropriate, and if they would worsen traffic impacts.

And bottom line, Putt said they will have to consider if this plan is better than the old Boyer Tech Park concept.       

“Is the current plan, that has a number of office-tech buildings and surface parking lots—is that better than the plan they’re bringing in that attempts to create more open space, less surface parking area, arguably better neighborhood connectivity-is that a better plan?”

In the meantime, with the county conducting all its meetings electronically, Putt said they’re working to make sure that they can conduct effective public hearings on Zoom.

To prepare for a larger meeting, Putt said they will have hearings in May on a couple of routine plat amendments.

On some other developments, the Snyderville Commission at its last meeting picked Ryan Dickey as its Chairman for the coming year, with Thomas Cooke as vice-chair.

And Putt said that, contrary to what the public might expect, they’re busy with applications.   Those include a Canyons project, Vintage on the Strand, engaged in a do-over to get a final plat approval; in addition to small subdivision plats or accessory dwellings.    And Putt said the Canyons employee housing has submitted its final plat for review and could break ground in June.

Known for getting all the facts right, as well as his distinctive sign-off, Rick covered Summit County meetings and issues for 35 years on KPCW. He now heads the Friday Film Review team.
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