Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

We'd like to welcome you to the Midvil Planning Commission meeting on October the 8th. We begin our meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. If you'll please stand and repeat after me. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. Could I get a roll call, please? Chair Anderson, here. Vice Chair Ericson, here. Commissioner Tippetsz is excused. Commissioner Snow here. Commissioner Lkey here.

Commissioner Edwards, yes. And Commissioner Casperian is also excused. Thank you very much. Did we review the minutes? Did you get to take a look? Any issues? Nope. Minutes look good. Make a motion for them. I make a motion we approve the minutes from September 24th, 2025. I second. All in favor? I. Thank you very much. Tonight we are we're opening our public hearing and first item is Hammad. Oh, I'm going to murder this name, aren't I? You're going to do fine. Okay. Hamid Hazand. Hamid Hassan. Zad.

Zade. Oh, I liked it. Request preliminary subdivision approval for a four lot subdivision located at 7230 through 7240 South 525 East in the single family residential one with duplex overlay. Jonathan, [Applause] thanks Chair Anderson. Um, so you might recognize this project. This was before you was about year and a half, two years ago or so. Um, so they I think it was about a year ago. Um, it was the cottages at 7240 that they subdivided to to do a flag lot. Um, as part of that, they had to construct the duplexes before they could subdivide for individual ownership um of each side of the duplex, essentially making four twin home units. Um, so that's what this is coming back for is just a subdivision to subdivide those on the um party wall for the the duplexes. Um, we've reviewed everything. It meets all of our um new subdivision ordinance and everything. All of staff has reviewed it. Um, here's the plot that was in your um the packet. I've not received any comments on this. Um they are um basically complete um which is again why this is coming before you because they had to build them before subdividing them. So any questions for me?

No, I don't have any. Okay. I've got a motion for you when after the public hearing. Thank you. Thank you. Since this is the public portion, do we have any comments from the public? Seeing there's no public comment, I move that we close the public hearing portion. Second. All in favor? I. Thank you very much. This seems in standing with what we have asked of a lot of developers. So I move that we approve the preliminary preliminary subdivision located at 7230 to 7240 South 525 East with the findings included in the staff report.

Second. Can I get a roll call on that? Chair Anderson, yes. Vice Chair Ericson, yes. Commissioner Snow, yes. Commissioner Ludkkey, yes. Commissioner Edwards, yes.

Okay, thank you. Okay, next we have the transportation connectivity element of the general plan. I'll give a quick introduction. Um, this plan is a uh legislative mandate that came from the Utah legislature during this legislative session. And um, we decided to try to get ahead of this as quickly as we can because it can potentially give the city a leg up in um, applications for funding. Um, and Tyler will explain this uh a little more later. Um the plan basically highlights some projects that are already part of our transportation master plan and the state law has a provision in it that if projects are in this connectivity um addendum to the transportation master plan that they will um get priority and funding decisions that come from the state. So, and now I'll have Tyler talk with you. He's the lead consultant. He works for parametrics and he has worked really hard to make this come together.

Thanks you. Thank you, Win. My name is Tyler Smith and I'm a consultant at uh Parametrics. I'm a transportation planner and landscape architect. Uh I had a pretty heavy role in the transportation master plan that was released earlier this year. So it was quite nice timing to lead right into this because it was so fresh and all of the files were in the right place on our server. So it was quite nice to to uh lead into this. So you may consider this as kind of an amendment to that uh transportation master plan and to the general plan. So um generally this uh document's about 35 pages long as it sits now. Um it's mostly baked but there could be some things changed throughout but essentially it's organized into uh four major components which there's an executive summary and chapter steering committee summary and on the steering committee we had uh Wendelyn Jonathan Anderson Nate Rockwood Adam Olsen uh Brandon Anderson and from the WFRC we had Byron Head and Matt Ryan. So, it was a pretty well-rounded uh group that were familiar with the transportation, all things transportation in Midville. Um, so in this executive summary uh kind of recaps uh the process and the projects um and then the chapter 3 goes into impediment analysis um which uh looks at um uh completing the requirements set forth in the Senate Bill 1985. Um and they mentioned a couple types of impediments, mainly physical like waterways and canals. Um we took what they recommended and expanded upon it um to include a couple other categories that I thought would be more of a holistic analysis uh to try to be uh more comprehensive of the full community and the needs that um the citizens here face. Um and then chapter

four is the priority projects as uh determined by looking at what these impediments are and and a couple other factors which I'll get into later on uh how we selected them and and then the the the last two chapters would be uh like just the funding sources where the money might come from. Some of these projects are partially or fully funded and others don't have any funding at all. Um uh and then just a references page at the end. So, uh, this just is kind of a recap of what Winland just said on regarding the Senate Bill 195. Um, there was a lot of things packaged in these bills. There's many parts that I was adamantly against. Um, but there's other parts that I'm quite uh positive and happy that they passed, which is why I'm here today. So, um, yeah, these these are just big U dot bills that wrap in just like comprehensive funding for all sorts of things. Um, so, uh, if you want to read into it, it's probably a million pages long. Um, and would be quite hard to follow what everything is talking about, but in this specific scope, we were looking at the impediments and the municipal submitt requirements that each uh, each city has to submit. And we're about two years early in this process. So, we do have a leg up and and potentially um have a benefit of of uh being an early submitter um for this. So, uh I think it's uh always good to uh be ahead of the curve on asking for money. So, so just just the main thing to take away from this slide is that the project timeline was quite um uh expedited. Um, so we started in August 4th on this effort. So a lot's happened in a short amount of time and our first steering

committee meeting was in late August followed by meeting two which was uh midepptember and just yesterday was our final steering committee meeting. So um it was quite expedited um and we were we were doing that so that we could hit the November 1st uh reporting window. Um I think this first rep reporting window might be flexible whereas the one and 27 um might be more of a mandated deadline. Um things could happen between now and then regarding this portion of the bill in the reporting but those things are uncertain at this point. So going into the impediment analysis, we had six categories and for each category, a mapping analysis was conducted by using a map overlay technique that looks at simple parts of the transportation network and then overlaying them into a theme. And so those those themes would be natural uh and physical uh constraints which kind of go right into what this the the bill mandated regarding looking at canals and and waterways like rivers. And then we had infrastructure um types of impediments which are just your major roads um I mean and then other things like railroads they're notoriously challenging to deal with. Um, and then things like safety performance, and that goes into the Wasach Front Regional Council's high-risk network, which was a a mapping exercise that identified priority areas for safety improvements based on past crash information. Um, and then that safety and performance also looked at things like active transportation, crashes, and uh, congestion. And so then the next category would be active transportation gaps. Where are your existing trails? Where are they not? Where's the demand? Where's the trail

not meeting that demand? And so we use various uh sources of information like Strava bicycle maps and walk scores and uh just looking at your existing networks um and just general unsafe crossings. Um land use analysis and ownership conflicts. This one was kind of challenging to blend in um because oftentimes transportation separate from land use, but we're looking at just like complexity of zoning um and the various uh the overlays or the uh WFRC vision networks uh development centers. Um so in general, if it was going from like a single family to single family, it was not a complex uh uh land use difference. So there was not much of an impediment. But if you're like going across a city through all this stuff, that would be more of a challenge. So then our last category was equity and access barriers. And I thought this was important. But we looked at it in a scope which is uh more based on health. Um and and so there's there's a map that is called the healthy places index and it it breaks down into census block group level data. And so um it it categorizes based on healthiness um of the population in that area. So if it was a less healthy based on the data then it would receive like a higher priorization in a way. And then so in that there's also things like transportation noise. Um like if you look at aviation noise it's almost the entire city except for some eastern parts. Um whereas if you look at roadway transportation noise it's pretty pervasive. that's everywhere but more along the major thorough affairs and uh interstates. Um so I'll just go through a couple of these maps. Uh I just kind of pulled three of them. So the physical and natural constraints going right into the waterways. I think these waterways I don't I don't see them as impediments. I

see them as opportunities because they're preserved right away. uh they they do have a a designated use, but that that use may change to be able to adapt and allow additional um uses like active transportation. Um you have flood zones which didn't seem to be much of a factor in really any uh project that we identified and then steep slopes which around the the slag uh from the old mine and just the interstates. So there wasn't really that much to take away from the other layers in this map, but the real takeaway is the waterways and having these run through your community is a huge asset as as I see it. Uh infrastructure barriers, look at major roads, railroads, um neighborhood connectivity where like the traffic signals uh are found. So between those neighborhoods, uh it's it's hard to navigate because there's a lot of major infrastructure. Um but where you see all those blue dots are are points of uh transportation uh funneling and and and people moving. So this is kind of a really interesting uh analysis that had a lot of impact and our uh later results. And then this is uh safety performance issues. So we're looking at things like overall crash density. That map is just everything since 2020. So it's not that long ago. It's kind of uh kind of eye opening. And then at crashes is 2020 through 2024. Uh so there's quite a a lot going on here and it's uh concerning. And then the high-risisk network is from the WFRC. They that was just a data. We could pull it in. So this composite map kind of shows a lot of information all in one. Um so when we were assessing these projects uh this was a really important map to look at.

um would like to just so the the selected projects reflect a combination of factors including uh results from the imped impediment analysis, the steering committee recommendations, findings from previous city-led feasibility studies. A lot of them are found on your website. um funding uh available funding opportunities and each project's potential to improve the health, safety, and welfare of uh Midvil residents and visitors. So, here's here's kind of a overview map. We have 10 linear projects which are like trails, sidewalks, uh from point A to point B, and then one spot improvement project, and that's at Ram Ramy in, uh 7200 South. Um, so just kind of going down the the list, we have Tuscanyany View Road Extension, which is just right here. Um, there's quite an impediment there with the railroad tracks. However, it's not like a major thorough fair for Union Pacific or the the tenants that rely on uh the train cars moving down the line. Um, so I I think that's going to be a big impediment of time just to deal with the headache of moving the road through that. Anytime you're dealing with railroad companies, they're monopolite, quasi governmental with uh not much care. But uh this is this is one I have a colleague that deals all the time with railroads and this is one that uh he said that this is an overcomeable obstacle and and and can be done. Um, and you can see for each one of these there's kind of a quick reference on cost, complexity, and duration. And this is just kind of in the middle of the road. It's not going to be very expensive. It could take some time. Um, and then it complexity is relatively

straightforward. Um, the the next one would be Bingham Junction Park Bridge to Jordan River Parkway. Um, I worked on that master plan for the park back in the day, so it's great to see things move along with this park. Um, and the next one would be Union Park Trail Connection. There's a lot of uh future plans for rec center, county rec center there. So, making that connection to the neighborhood would be awesome, especially for kids and uh uh people trying to make it there without the car. Um, Fort Union Boulevard. Uh, this is a a big project with a a lots going on. So, it's it's a high a high cost, high complexity, long duration vision that um you could kind of lay the bricks for the future planning commission council leaders of the city to realize. Um but it has a huge uh impact on uh the health, safety, and welfare. Um this is the Fort Union part um west of uh Romany to the city limits and then the next project would be east. And uh the reason why that spot project is right there is because there's a transition from mixed use side path in the concept to separated bike lanes. And so that intersection will help facilitate bicyclists going eastbound to come down onto the south side of the road um to keep on going east to 900 east and to the canyons beyond. and that that's similar in its cost and uh complexity and duration. And the next uh six projects are Porter Rockwell Trail. Um that's a I added an extra dollar symbol onto that that supposed to be only out of three. I don't I don't totally know. Um there's a lot going on uh on that project and

there's potential reroutes. So, I think you could realize portions of it in in a mediumterm fashion, but a long-term realization of that alignment may be quite quite challenging without acquisition of right away. Um, Allen Street, this is a easy win if you ever want to take a road network improvement project on. Uh, it's right there for the taking. Looks like the uh other side of the property uh um south of here is already built. So, it's just kind of tying in. You just have to one property I believe to um buy right away from a Fort Union crossing improvement at Ramen. Um talked about a little bit. There's a couple options on how that might be done. There could be a toucan crossing which would restrict left-hand turns out of the neighborhood or you could have a hawk intersection which is the one where you press the button and flashes. Um I think both would work quite well. I have a a toucan right next to my house that I use all the time on my bike and I love it. So, it works real really good. Um, and it even senses bikers as they come. So, it's like it kind of helps them get a green light, per se. Um, and then we have 900 East. Uh, there's a lot going on. There's partial funding for this. We've submitted a proposal to the city to have an amendment to this project actually to further study this. Um this this is really great project for safe routes to school as the high school's right there and um connecting further up 900 east which is a really great street especially as you get closer to Salt Lake City for u at active transportation type movements through the community and then we have Maple Street um tracks connection. I know there's probably a lot of resistance to this in the that immediate community because they perceive people coming from the tracks as maybe not desirable. But I think for

the broader uh community that that project uh the circle that of the benefit of the population is quite large for people to be able to get to that from adjacent communities. And then finally we have one that I really love is the the Jordan Salt Lake Canal Trail. similar to the Port of Rockwell. Kind of goes in the other north south direction um but seems like it has a little bit less impediments to realize and uh has has a lot of good regional uh connectivity. Here's an example of uh kind of the detail that we get into with this. It's kind of high level planning level estimates. And and so this project is the Jordan Salt Lake Canal Trail. just kind of show a an image with a couple sections. This this is these sections were pulled from concert engineering study from a couple years ago on the two canals. Um and then there's a project description and we kind of list the impediment. So for this one, uh one of the impediments is the canal itself. Uh so there's a couple types of alignments that could happen. uh there's private property um and it the impediment is active transportation gaps that this project could solve uh those issues. Um and then this estimate was also derived from the consour engineering uh study feasibility analysis but we just added a inflation factor of 16% just so you could see an updated number of what that might be and then kind of get into the the the last chapter of funding sources. you have various state, local um and federal sources um that you have uh option to pull from. So, are there any questions? I know it wasn't a long time that you

had to review this. Um so, I'm happy to help answer anything you might have. I don't really have any questions. So, I think it's great that we did our transportation plan so closely to this. Um, yeah, that kind of worked good, didn't it? Yeah, it worked out well. Um, way to keep it way to keep it organized on your servers. Yeah. So, you can make this easy. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm impressed with the timing that Yeah. You know that it the part of that is probably because you worked on the master. So,

it would have been harder to do this in 27 because I would have had like 40 projects between my head of the last time I worked on the TMP. So, uh whereas we kind of led right into this with only a few projects in the middle there. So, yeah. Yeah, I think it's great for the amount of time. You may want to revisit the font. It's pretty difficult to read. I'm just saying that that is the the PDF document is good to go. Okay. There was an export that happens thing with PDF to PowerPoint. Yeah. So, sorry that was kind of wonky. No worries. Yeah. Has nothing to do with the information. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have anything else.

No. Nope. All right. Thank you. Oh, we have to do public hearing. Let's open this to the public hearing. Seeing there's no one here to make a public comment, I make a motion we close the public hearing. I second. All in favor? I. Thank you very much. Thanks, Tyler. Very much. Okay, let's get a motion. Yeah. I move that we recommend approval of the transportation connectivity element of the general plan. I second. Can I get a roll call vote? Chair Anderson? Yes. Vice Chair Ericen? Yes. Commissioner Snow. Yes. Commissioner Ludkkey. Yes. Commissioner Edwards. Yes.

The motion passes. Thank you very much. Next. Good luck at city council. Yeah. Oh, that'll be fine. Yeah, it'll go great. Yeah, that'll be fine. We have a staff update. Somebody, anybody? Yes. Uh, it's going to be me.

Okay. Um I have some good news to um report from city council. We had four items on the agenda and um they well technically speaking three of them got approved, one got tabled, but the table was more on a technicality that's going to be on the consent agenda next week. So um and these are you know the items that you had recommended approval for. One of them was the changes around vehicle related uses that the city council approved. Um then the other one was the changes around master plan developments and then we had um the water use and preservation plan that got approved. uh the formbbas based code the there was only one concern that they had and the city council um deliberated a little bit about the time when music and outdoor dining should end and it seemed you had discussed that a little bit too

and um so there were different approaches and in the end the city council settled on just syncing it up with the noise ordinance. Okay. And um so that's going to be with that little change on the next agenda. And um next time we'll most likely have the parks plan on your agenda. Mhm. And um yeah, we I guess there's there's still a lot of things going on. We've actually had quite a few inquiries um for development. That's good.

Yeah. Which I don't not quite sure if that's because of interest rates, but it seems there's some new life. So that's all I have for you today. Anything else? Um the next meeting next meeting is in two weeks. Two weeks. Okay. And then we have the APA conference for those going tomorrow.

And then we were also informed um the Midvail trunker treat no midvail trick or treat is October 25th um starting at noon. It's only 2 hours this year. Um so the little kiddos don't have to walk for 4 hours. But yeah, all are welcome downtown Main Street October 25th. And are are there still volunteering opportunities? If you guys are interested in volunteering, there are still volunteer opportunities for you guys. Um, if you guys just want to come and no pressure to volunteer. Yeah, there will be candy regardless. There will be candy after drugs. So,

there we go. Okay. I move that we adjourn at 6:29. All in f Oh, no. Second. All in favor? I thanks. Thanks, Sh. Thank you.