The Salt Lake City Council is considering making changes to city land uses and expanding the types of industrial uses that wouldn’t be allowed near housing. On Tuesday, the council received a short briefing regarding the changes, which were first initiated by...
In the 1850s, the Avenues became Salt Lake City’s first platted neighborhood. With relatively small blocks and narrow streets, its urban design encouraged the neighborliness and community that was hindered in the rest of the city by the spatial separation of 10-acre...
The Salt Lake City Council unanimously approved an ordinance that made a number of immediate changes to the city’s design review standards that aim at stopping variances from zoning rules that have frequently been used by developers. The entire process was first...
The Utah government will soon begin a new pilot program that involves selling select parcels of state-owned land for the purpose of developing owner-occupied condominiums, according to a top state housing official. Steve Waldrip, senior advisor for housing...
South Salt Lake is moving closer toward approving a plan that could lead to a more connected urban core being built in the city’s northern edge. Last week, the South Salt Lake Planning Commission quickly voted to approve the South Salt Lake Downtown Connect plan,...
The Road Home wants to turn a parking lot in Central 9th along State Street into new, deeply affordable housing units, and they need the Salt Lake City Community Reinvestment Agency’s help to make that happen. Members of the Salt Lake City Council are...
Peter Corroon has a problem. The longtime affordable housing developer and former Salt Lake County mayor started to notice some of his studio and one-bedroom low-income apartments weren’t leasing nearly as quickly as other projects had before. Whereas new buildings...
Salt Lake City has approved its long-discussed plan to consolidate its mixed-use zoning code — but the vote came after a last-minute complication that some council members said could derail a large redevelopment in Central City. Members of the Salt Lake City...
This story has been made free for all readers. If you would like to help support BSL's independent journalism, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. The bill that took away Salt Lake City’s ability to control many of its own streets stemmed from shadowy...
Designers and developers: Salt Lake City’s design review standards look to change in the near future. Super-long facades may be on the way out. On Tuesday, members of the City Council heard a briefing on potential changes to the design review process, which could lead...
Salt Lake City Council members continue to tweak the city's proposed overhaul of its mixed-use zoning code, and they appear poised to vote on the ordinance in the coming days. Council members approved a handful of straw polls during a work session Tuesday afternoon,...
The owners of a five-parcel, .78-acre assemblage that fronts the 400 South transit corridor at 800 East has applied for an upzone for three of their parcels that will allow development of a four-story, 84-unit building in the East Central neighborhood. At 370 S 800 E,...