A plan to turn over 40 acres of land in Salt Lake City’s East Bench into preserved open space and single-family home plots could get a facelift, with more home plots being included in recent plans while selling the majority of the land to local government. The new plan would also ensure public access to the Bonneville Shoreline Trail.
Revised plans for the area, called Carrigan View Phase II, would create five single-family home lots, each ranging from .67 to 1.5 acres each. The new plans were submitted to Salt Lake City late last month as part of a planned development application.
Previous plans called for only creating three single-family home lots and selling other plots (4 and 5 below) to Salt Lake City. The three homes were slated to be downhill of the BST. The new plans still have those three lots, with the addition of two more to the east and upslope. The plans also call for a private road and a cul-de-sac that would be maintained by a homeowners association.
Though the new plans have more home plots, which total around eight acres, the plans also call for the majority of land to be sold to Salt Lake City Public Lands. In the planned development application, applicant Adam Turville writes the land would be used for “conservation, trails preservation, and trailhead development.”
The open space to be sold to the government include a .5 acre plot zoned as Foothills Residential (FR-2) and 32 acres zoned as open space. The current plans do not show a trailhead parking lot or additional parking.
The plots in the proposal are drawn in a way to preserve access to the BST, and access would be preserved in a public access easement, according to the plans submitted to Salt Lake City.
Earlier this year, the Carrigan View project seemed to reach an impasse. The proposed plots are situated along a hillside in East Bench, and much of the plots include land that exceeds a 30% slope, which is the maximum pitch that city code allows for development.
Developers for the Carrigan View project initially requested an exception to that rule, but city planners recommended denying that request. The Salt Lake City Planning Commission obliged, and passed the development proposal without the steep slope exception.
But the new plans seem to breathe new life into the project. The updated plans include rough estimates of each plot’s buildable area, which shift in accordance with the recorded slopes, unlike the previous proposal.
As of Friday, the project is still in the pre-screening phase. The project has not been assigned to a city planner for review, nor does it appear it will be heard soon by the planning commission.
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