Residents will be able to weigh in on the draft general plan at the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission Tuesday starting at 6 p.m. The draft is available in full through the commission’s online agenda.
It includes 11 chapters, two more than the previous general plan adopted in 2015. Topics range from housing to open space to transportation, economic development, health and recreation.
General plans in Utah are often advisory or nonbinding. However, Snyderville Basin code says all developments must be “consistent with the general plan.”
Residents in the Trailside neighborhood, between Round Valley and Silver Creek Junction, have taken a keen interest in the general plan process this summer because of development concerns.
Karen Riley is one of the residents who organized the group “Trailside Together,” to oppose a potential project nearby and educate neighbors about the development process.
“We have read the county's own survey findings, and they are consistent with what we hear from our neighbors: Residents place the highest value on open space and access to natural areas,” Riley told planning commissioners July 14.
Summit County principal planner Ray Milliner told Riley to expect neighborhood-level planning after the overall general plan is solidified.
“Once those chapters get through the process, then the direction that I've had is to start working on the neighborhood plans,” he said. “So the neighborhood plans would probably start some time in the winter.”
The general plan lists 16 neighborhoods in all, and only Kimball Junction has a neighborhood plan right now. The others would be created from scratch.
Although the neighborhood plans won’t be the subject of Tuesday’s public hearing, residents will be able to weigh in on their area’s future land use map.
According to the general plan, those maps are “flexible” but show “a general intent as to preferred future land uses.”
Changes have been made to the future land use maps since 2015, many reflecting the growth of Park City boundaries.
For example, the Park City School District parcel where Trailside residents are concerned about development was listed as “medium density residential” in 2015. Now it’s listed as a potential annexation area for Park City.
