Syracuse Planning Commission Meeting Summary - December 3, 2025
Syracuse Planning Commission Meeting Summary - December 3, 2025
The Syracuse Planning Commission convened for a regular meeting on December 3, 2025, to review agenda items including minutes adoption, public comments on the architectural review board, and several zoning rezone applications, alongside a final plat review and a working session on upcoming developments.
Consent Calendar
- Meeting Minutes: The Commission unanimously adopted the minutes from the November 4, 2025, regular meeting and work session without corrections.
- Agenda Adoption: The meeting agenda was adopted as proposed.
Public Comments & Testimony
- Dave Mann (Public Comment): Suggested adding a current sitting Planning Commissioner to the Architectural Review Board to facilitate information sharing; expressed willingness to be considered for the role.
- Wayne Taylor (Resident near 963 South 2000 West): Expressed concern regarding potential fire station siren noise disturbing residents' sleep; questioned if mitigation strategies were in place and preferred lower density housing (R2) over R3 to maintain neighborhood character.
- Andrew Lynn (Resident near 963 South 2000 West): Expressed concern that adding a fire station adds value to the neighborhood and lowers insurance; however, raised specific questions about road widening impacts on irrigation meters at 1875 West, potential parking access limitations, and the risk of two-story homes overlooking existing one-story backyards.
- Additional Resident Comment: Expressed safety concerns regarding narrow roadways, construction traffic (dump trucks), and the protection of children playing near construction sites; thanked the developer for preserving the large tree on the property.
- Commissioner Comment: Expressed dissatisfaction with the potential for using the green space as merely a retention basin without public utility; suggested a third-party arborist review to avoid developer bias.
Discussion Items
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Regus/Leisure Villas Rezoning (2300 West Antelope Drive):
- Proposal: Rezoning 4.27 acres from R2/A1 to Light Commercial (LC) to permit up to two drive-throughs and two office buildings, consistent with the Town Center Overlay.
- Staff Analysis: Noted the LC zone (max 25 feet, 1-story) is compatible with surrounding single-family homes and restricts more intense commercial uses.
- Clarification: Confirmed a small A1 sliver was not part of the application, and the property boundary extends to the road.
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Chase/Freeman (Cole West/North) General Plan & Zoning (963 South 2000 West):
- Proposal: Rezoning 12.83 acres from Civic/A1 to R3 (Low Density Residential) and amending the General Plan; includes a development agreement to preserve a large central tree and set aside land for a potential future fire station.
- Public Debate: Residents questioned the necessity of R3 over R2 (min 8,000 sq ft vs 10,000 sq ft) and asked about fire station sound mitigation and road widening impacts.
- Developer Response: Stated that R3 allows the preservation of the tree without losing density economics; committed to working with the Fire Dept on sound mitigation (fencing/landscoring) and ensuring construction safety for children. Acknowledged that lot sizes in the area would be similar regardless of zone classification.
- Commissioner Perspective: Noted that while the fire station may not be needed for 10 years, acquiring the land now is strategic; emphasized the buffer ordinance requirements for future fire station construction.
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Syracuse Retail Subdivision Amendment (2052 West 1700 South):
- Proposal: Amendment to plat to condominiumize a single commercial unit within an existing strip mall to facilitate a specific sale to a physical therapy clinic owner, without changing current business operations.
- Staff Analysis: Confirmed the change meets city code requirements and parking adequacy.
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Legacy Park Estates Final Plat (Phase 6, 1230 West 2425 South):
- Proposal: Approval of the final plat for Phase 6, completing the preliminary plat area and stubbing a road into the city-owned land.
- Public Discussion: Residents discussed the potential for future park expansion on adjacent city land to improve amenities beyond the existing walking path and pond; noted the area is slated for expansion in the transportation master plan.
Key Outcomes
- Leisure Villas Request: The Commission recommended that the City Council approve the rezone of approximately 4.27 acres at 2300 West Antelope Drive to the Light Commercial zone. (Motion passed). One commissioner recused themselves from the vote due to missing discussion.
- Chase/Freeman Request: The Commission recommended the City Council:
- Approve the General Plan amendment for 963 South 2000 West from Civic/A1 to Low Density Residential.
- Approve the rezone from A1 to R3 for the 12.83-acre property. (Both motions passed). The Commission agreed to convey that the fire station land acquisition is for future preservation and that sound mitigation will follow standard buffer ordinances.
- Retail Subdivision: The Commission approved the plat amendment for 2052 West 1700 South for Jordan Brady in the GC zone.
- Legacy Park Estates: The Commission approved the final plat for Phase 6 of Legacy Park Estates requested by Ivory Holmes.
- Upcoming Agenda: Noted items for the December 16th meeting include:
- Let Them Be Kids (Site Plan/CUP).
- Lakeside Flat Subdivision.
- 7-Eleven Site Plan.
- Pickleball Kingdom and SimCity commercial sports park applications.
- Commercial subdivision west of the golf course.
- Indoor climate-controlled storage rezone request.
- Revised site plan for Take Five Oil.
- A working session was held for the Department of Business City Council Liaison report regarding new council members (Abraham Pollard, Andrea Brown) and election certification.
Meeting Transcript
citizens and uh others interested parties we invite the direction council at this time to uh help and and guide this meeting to uh come to a good resolution and and guidance that we may uh make the uh our city uh flourish and and have the best uh use of its uh land and and resources we invite thy grateful for the money blessings and and for our freedom to guide this meeting uh assee to continue to help us to enjoy them and to uh always appreciate them especially this uh time of uh thanksgiving and and other holidays and we say these things in the name of thy son jesus christ amen amen thank you appreciate going out of order on that um next is adoption of the meeting agenda move to adopt as proposed okay second we have a motion and a second to adopt the meeting agenda for tonight first up is meeting minutes this is the regular meeting and work session meeting minutes for november fourth 2025 any corrections or concerns i move that we adopt the meeting notes from november fourth as written okay great and those meeting uh minutes are adopted thank you next is public comment this is an opportunity to address the planning commission regarding items that are not scheduled on the agenda tonight for public hearing please consider consider others and limit your comments to three minutes so if you have any comments regarding things that are not on the agenda please come up to the podium and state your name and Dave Mann and uh thank you for giving me a minute I have one unscheduled item so I'm gonna use public comment it's recently come to my attention as we are uh putting new members on the architectural review board that we don't have a current sitting planning commissioner on that board we like to have one sitting planning commissioner on the architectural review board so that they can bring back information that may have come up during that other review is there any who would like to be on that committee to be considered I will be considered yes all right and you need more let me know where we okay yeah all right that's all I have tonight thank you yeah thank you any other comments okay thank you we'll now move to item number four on the agenda the public hearing um considering the Regus owned request by leisure villas for rezone of property currently zoned A1 located at 2300 West Antelope Drive on approximately 4.27 acres yes sir I've got this one let me go to the map here this proposal is just south of Walmart and like you said we've received this application from leisure villas uh if you look right here the the general plan you know any time we're looking at a proposed uh rezone we want to consult with the general plan um what they're proposing is consistent with the commercial designation uh the existing zoning is R2 and A1 you can see all of the parcel lines uh this is left over there used to be uh how many I think about five or six houses that were on the property and and then you dot expanded the road and of course demolish the homes and then surplus this property to the new owner uh the proposed zoning is light commercial uh light commercial zone is kind of a new zone that was created the city the intent is to be compatible with uh single family because and um you know this this particular context does have a lot of single family homes around the south east and west edges of of the of the property uh it's also subject to the limitations of the town center overlay zone I don't think I have a map in here of that but um the the process for uh rezone of course is to have a public hearing here at planning commission and for you to for a recommendation to city council where they'll uh make the final decision on on uh zoning map amendments uh so yeah I'll turn it back to you Mr. Seeing no public interest on this one, let's have the applicant come up if there's any questions from the commissioners. Uh at this point, uh, you know, we've had a couple presentations on this lot. Uh do you are we just looking to change the zoning, or do you have exactly yeah, we're just looking to change the zone right now. We're we're thinking maybe two drive-throughs and two office buildings on it at this point, but nothing's kind of set in stone yet, but that's kind of what we're thinking that you know applies with or complies with town center overlay and with the light commercial zone. So just just fitting, yeah. Both of those you'll kind of have work within the light commercial and the yeah, and I mean the light commercial basically reinforces the town center overlay just with a couple modifications. So that's okay. Uh did notice that there's one or in previous applications, the the one property that was up against like the worst west there. Is that part of your this acquisition, or is that the sliver of the same? There was a sliver over there. It was originally in a different well, it was combined it into one parcel originally, and then that parcel got split into two parcels, so it wasn't the original one, just under a different parcel number. Okay, so is that so is the L C zone going all the way to 2450 West then? All the way to the road, yes. Okay, yeah, it was like a five-foot sliver that yeah, I just removed they broke off into a separate uh tax ID number. So that's now all combined into this one of yeah, and that was already in there originally. They just you don't had a mistake that they had to fix, and so they had to go through and break it up into two different parcels. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Discussion. Thank you, sir. Thanks. Noah, just a question on the one small A1 zone on the proposed zoning. Is that just gonna say A1? Just the one small green. Uh you're talking about this right here? Correct. Yeah, that is actually this home right here. I believe purchased this property from UDOT prior to surplus, and now they have like mega backyard. Okay. Okay. Thank you. So that's just gonna be part of that home's property. Right, yeah. So that's not owned by the applicant and it's not part of the quest. Great. Okay, thank you. Okay. Recommendation or we'll take a vote or motion on this then. I was expecting at least some public comment from it. So I'm I've had my questions answered, and I it uh I think it's a good balance of what uh we want to see there commercial, but it's not gonna be just as a reference. The light commercial has a height limitation of 20 25 feet. And so it's gonna, you know, whatever buildings go there, are not gonna be some big commercial uh warehouse. Um big tall 30-foot building, and yeah, there's a lot of thought put into when we when the light commercial zone was created. Uh it's a one currently a one-story max height, 25 feet. Uh, there's a list of permitted uses, and there were multiple uses that are allowed in the commercial zone that were crossed off the list to for this light commercial. Um but yeah, you can still do um restaurants and office and kind of strip mall kind of stuff. Um but yeah, some of those more intense things were taken off the list. Uh and it can applicant did mention probably drive-throughs, so there's still fast food style that'll go as an option.
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