by Luke Garrott | Apr 20, 2026 | Policy, Salt Lake City
Rendering for the Denver Street Apartments. Credit: Axis Architects Housing advocates have long identified zoning regulations like parking minimums, density limits, and lot size requirements as relatively easy, low-hanging fruit for cities and towns interested in...
by Luke Garrott | Sep 4, 2024 | New and Proposed Development, Salt Lake City
Imagine this, fans of micro-infill development: Two single-family detached homes added to a .22 acre lot where an existing 1891 structure is preserved and restored. Too good to be true? Not so, if a proposal for zoning change from RMF-35 to RMF-30 is approved by...
by Luke Garrott | Oct 19, 2022 | Policy, Salt Lake City
In an avalanche of votes last night the City Council cemented the direction of its land-use regulations concerning density and infill growth. After more than two years of discussion and deliberation at the council, a sizable slab of regulatory reform was allowed to...
by Luke Garrott | Aug 16, 2021 | Policy, Salt Lake City
Growth. Affordability. Preservation. Cultural capital. Density. The Salt Lake City region is struggling to manage its success over the last two decades, since hosting the Olympic Winter Games in 2002, in attracting new residents and investment. Growth has...
by Luke Garrott | Apr 22, 2021 | Glendale, New and Proposed Development, Salt Lake City
Developers plan 58 townhomes on a 2.37-acre commercially-zoned parcel in Salt Lake City’s Glendale neighborhood. The property – long known as Glendale Plaza – is zoned CB Community Business and currently hosts a grocery store (20,000 sf) and a large...
