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Welcome to the March 6th edition of the Lehigh Planning Commission.

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North Lee High Station Area Plan presentation and discussion.

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Hello.

How are you this evening?

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If you'd please state your name for the record.

I am Christine Richman.

I am a consultant with GSBS Consulting, and we were the team that led the North Lee High Station stationary planning process.

So I'm here to present an overview of our findings and answer any initial questions that you might have tonight, very good.

Okay.

So we'll just dive right in.

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So tonight we're going to do uh go through an overview of the report, which I think there was a version of it in your packets.

Um review the planning process that we went through to identify the recommendations that are in the document and dig a little deeper into the preferred scenario and then talk about next steps, including the certification process that will come later with Mountainlands Association of Governments.

First, I want to thank your staff and uh Mountain Lands Association of Government for the opportunity to work on this and to coordinate with them.

We had a really good constructive process where there were a number of iterations that took into account a lot of the considerations that come into play for how we ended up uh with the preferred scenario that we do.

So just a little bit about station area planning.

You've probably heard this before because this is not your first station area plan, I know.

Uh but the the stationary plans are required by state statute, and therefore existing and planned stations.

This is a planned station.

So that that comes into play a little bit when you see the implementation plan because we're talking about what to do over the next five years when you don't actually have uh that rail line doesn't exist and you don't have a station there.

So you'll see that that implementation strategy is structured in a way to talk about things to do now while um that that line is in planning, things to do during construction, and things to do following construction of that line and creation of the actual stop.

Um the purpose of station area planning is to identify a shared vision uh that's informed by existing uses and how that what the community's vision is for that area, and as a result, we have to we have a plan that identifies opportunities and constraints within the station area, identifies opportunities for affordable housing, identifies and describes the preferred vision, and then provides those strategic recommendations that are pursued uh not just by you, the city, but also by UTA and other local government uh uh government partners.

So just some background.

This is the planning area uh based on the radius around the the planned uh platform for the North Lee High Station, and you can see it takes in a lot of area that's already developed and uh areas that already have um constraints to them, if you will.

So this particular area includes the flight park, the state flight park up on the hill above it, um, an entitled TOD that is under construction, existing single family residential, uh a park, your your new park is in this area, as well as some existing trail infrastructure.

Another um constraint to uh this area of development is the Jordan Valley water line that you can see.

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No, it's not doing it.

You can you can see there on the ditch next to I-15.

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Yeah, yeah, right there.

So that we can't build on that.

We can have some pavement over that, but we can't uh put buildings on that, so we have to take that into account as we think about what the future of this area is.

So when we put all of that together, uh you can see that the developable areas remaining are uh in ownership, uh including the city of Lehigh.

That that includes the park and ride lot that will uh eventually be transferred to UDOT and UTA once this the line and the stop have been uh built, and then some areas of transit supportive development within that parking lot in a later phase of this uh of the vision.

Geneva Rock products, they have a portion up right next to the um the planned station that is entitled for 500,000 square feet of office, as well as an area owned by ZG CG vertex uh that is entitled for another 500,000 square feet of office.

So those are those are the existing conditions that we know are in play as part of that.

We also have a large area of um undeveloped uh and developable area that is if you will in the bowl.

So just to remind everyone where we are, we're at the entrance to Lehigh where there's the bull.

We also have an area uh where we're planning where the there's a plan to construct a new I-15 interchange, so we have taken that into account in our planning as well.

So in the document, you'll see we have an executive summary and then an introduction in existing conditions, community engagement where we generated some of the underlying goals for this plan, and then uh the area alternatives that we we reviewed, the overall preferred vision and plan, and then the implementation uh strategy.

So basically the process we went through was to identify what you have.

That's the existing conditions, economic opportunities.

Uh this is a this is an interesting location for a stop.

It's in between the planned regional investments at the point and existing regional investments at Thanksgiving point.