The developers who want to build the Park City Heights project along the city’s S.R. 248 entryway cleared the Planning Commission on Wednesday night, convincing the panel that City Hall should annex the land.
The Planning Commissioners have spent months discussing the project, and the deliberations continued on Wednesday before they voted, 5-0, to recommend in favor of the annexation. Jack Thomas, a Planning Commissioner, did not attend the meeting.
The developers want to build 157 regularly priced units and 116 income-restricted work force units on about 287 acres near the southwest corner of Quinn’s Junction, the U.S. 40-S.R. 248 intersection.
Commissioners lopped off another 30 of the income-restricted units that the developer had wanted, saying the project was too big otherwise.
The developers, known as Boyer Plumb Park City, now must face the Park City Council, which will consider the lower panel’s recommendation. The City Council holds the authority to accept or reject the annexation proposal.
If the land is brought into the city, the developers will likely face another lengthy series of meetings before the project’s designs are approved.
There has been little interest in the project from regular Parkites.
Brooks Robinson, who runs the day-to-day operations of the Planning Department, said afterward he expects the City Council to start its talks as early as April 24.
As the Planning Commission voted, members talked about the potential of the developer reducing the size of the project during the upcoming negotiations with the City Council. A less dense project, they said, would better reflect City Hall’s General Plan, an overarching document that guides growth in Park City.
The amount of work force housing in Park City Heights would be greater than City Hall rules require, and Boyer Plumb wants to build some of the worker housing other developers must put up, including Intermountain Healthcare and Talisker Corp.