Growth in Sugar House continues as a new for-sale townhome project along the S-Line at 2222 S Lake St is seeking approval from city planners.

Nefi Vasquez, in partnership with the Lotus Company, has proposed a four-unit townhome development along the S-Line just to the west of Lotus Gallacher, the recently completed 69-unit apartment building facing 700 E.

Zoned RMF-35, the lot doesn’t meet the 80-foot minimum width requirement for four units. The project is currently going through Salt Lake City’s Planned Development process to enable the fourth unit to be built. The proposed three-story building will stand approximately 33 feet tall.

In September Planning Director Nick Norris told Building Salt Lake that his department was “wrapping up a study of the RMF-35 and -45 zones,” intending “to ask the Mayor to initiate a zoning text amendment to make changes to the two zones.” Those changes are likely to follow in the direction of the RMF-30 reform, which allows more housing units, configurations, and types than previously. Lot size requirements per unit, like the one delaying this small 4-unit development, were also reduced in the RMF-30 rewrite.

Each townhome is designed with four bedrooms, three and half bathrooms, and a two-car garage. The townhomes are to be oriented facing the S-Line greenway. Amenities include close proximity to the S-Line streetcar, Parley’s Trail, and the recently-opened Trader Joe’s across 700 E. If all goes well at City Hall, the developer told us he hopes to break ground in mid-December.

Editor’s note: Luke Garrott contributed reporting to this story.