City planner outlines North Canyon rezone options; residents push back on density and parking

A city planner (S2) presented a rezone application for a North Canyon parcel that would use an 'Avenue' prozone to alter allowable density and align the site with other nearby medium‑density projects.

Staff said previous approvals limited the site to a development agreement tied to 16 units and that the applicant is now proposing a prozone consistent with an avenue‑style development that could allow substantially more units if built to prozone allowances. Conceptual elevation renderings and parking calculations (roughly 2.25 parking stalls per unit cited in the presentation) were shown as examples.

Residents pressed on school impacts, sewer infrastructure work that had constrained previous approvals, and whether a developer would offer a development agreement to cap units. The planner said Public Works had worked on sewer solutions and that the applicant could propose a development agreement if they wished; several scenario options were discussed at the meeting (keeping the existing development agreement and 16‑unit limit, approving a prozone with a developer‑offered agreement that limits units to 46, or other outcomes).

The meeting included an advisory hand‑raise poll of attendee preferences (emphasized as nonbinding). The planner said department review is ongoing and the application will return to formal hearings where planning commission and city council will consider the zoning change and any development agreement.