The developer who is hoping to create a commercial/residential center on over 300 acres of land—a prospective annexation by the town of Hideout into Summit County—reviewed the outlines of his plan for Hideout’s Planning Commission Thursday night.
Developer Nate Brockbank told the town planners he’s aiming to negotiate with them over the details of his project.
Last week, the Hideout Town Council, for the second time in recent months, passed a Resolution of Intent to pursue annexation, and authorized their Mayor to enter into a Pre-Annexation Agreement with developer Brockbank.
Council Member Jerry Dwinell told the Planning Commissioners that an annexation isn’t a certainty, but they want to explore the idea. While the state law enabling Hideout’s annexation has been repealed, that action doesn’t take effect until the end of October.
Brockbank’s plan is situated on some 350 acres extending toward Richardson Flat and Quinn’s Junction. A previous incarnation of the plan was 650 acres. But Brockbank said he is dropping acreage that is legally disputed by Park City or Summit County—though the developer still maintains that he’s acquired the land.
He said the project is located in a bowl, with some of the site, to the north and east, crossed by the Richardson Flat Road.
Brockbank said the Town Center would be about 25 acres, including retail, restaurants and a grocery store.
The plan also includes some 497 residential units.
“Single-family lots, different-sized lots, and townhomes, different style of townhomes. We want to try to meet all the—hit different pricing. The Ivory subdivision is just down the street from us. They have homes in the $2 million price range. And they also have some moderate-income homes. We want to hit all different prices that would be a different style of homes—in the $500,000 price range, up to the million-dollar price range.”
He added that he had previously planned to develop 297 workforce units, on a parcel across Highway 248 to the north, but that is one of the legally disputed properties he dropped.
However, Brockbank said there is a huge need for affordable housing, and he could include it in the current housing plan if the Hideout planners are interested.
He said the plan includes a possible school site, and just this week, he decided to add a location for a church.
Brockbank said that ultimately, the project will have 15 miles of trails. And as an important benefit, they will link up to the Rail/Trail.
“With my other developments that I’m doing in the town, you’ll be able to get, from, basically, the town of Hideout all the way into Park City without being on a highway, just riding your bike. And then you’ll also be able to get to Deer Valley just riding your bike on an asphalt trail, which I think is amazing. With the trail system we’re doing here, and the parks, and the commercial and the school and the church, we’re just adding a lot to the whole—not just Hideout, but, we think, the whole community.”
The prospective annexation is in the vicinity of the Superfund site at Richardson Flat (known technically as OU-1). Brockbank said he has never been interested in annexing that land.
He assured Hideout officials that they wouldn’t bear a financial liability for cleanup of any contamination. He said there will be continual monitoring of the development site. Any contaminated material will be taken to Tooele or another off-site location.
“I’ve done a Phase One report and a Phase Two report. I’ve done a Phase One and Phase Two on everything that says ‘Not Annexing” I’ve done a Phase One report on everything else. So I have five, I have six Phase One reports on the stuff we are still trying to annex into the town. And those have come back clean. But because of the OU-1 site that’s in the area, we will have someone on site, checking the soils every time we dig.”
Developer Nate Brockbank.
