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New 200-Unit Housing Application Submitted To Summit County

A brand-new development application has been submitted to the Summit County Planning department that would go in on the south side of SR 248 above the Tuhaye neighborhood.

The applicant is Henry Sigg. He is proposing a rezone for a 21-acre parcel in eastern Summit County between Kamas and Quinn’s Junction. Summit County Community Development Director Pat Putt says the applicant intends to build homes for a range of median income earners in the county.

“And the proposal is to rezone the property which currently is an agricultural 882 commercial to develop a 200-unit multifamily project that based on what the application narrative is saying is designed to be a multifamily attainable housing community.”

The east side planning district doesn’t have a mixed-use zone so the only option would be to rezone the property to commercial.

“In the event that the project would move forward and there is an entitlement on that through the rezone and the master planning process. There would be a development agreement created and ultimately adopted that would take a look at what other uses would potentially be possible on that property given the commercial zoning.”

Sigg is also pursuing a rezone of the Silver Summit property which he wants to develop as a mixed-use community. Sigg’s development application goes back a couple of years and the planning commission has recently made a positive recommendation to the Summit County Council.

“Council actually held a work session on that a week ago Wednesday, not a public hearing still a work session. The element of that zone that they were focusing most of the discussion on is the density that should be associated with it.”

Putt says a rezone initiative takes into consideration a handful of livability issues, infrastructure access and how it comports with the Summit County’s general plan.

"Does it comply with those standards? And we're going to be looking at things like the infrastructure.  Where’s the water and the sewer going to be coming from? What are going to be the traffic implications associated with this? Because you know let's face it there's no existing services immediately around the proposed project area that would help sort of capture the trips which has always been kind of a fundamental objective of our planning process’s here in the last several years.”

Put says the project will go to the East Side Planning Commission early in 2020. 
 

KPCW reporter Carolyn Murray covers Summit and Wasatch County School Districts. She also reports on wildlife and environmental stories, along with breaking news. Carolyn has been in town since the mid ‘80s and raised two daughters in Park City.
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