Courtesy of Facebook post from Rachel Kahler:
PLANNING COMMISSION Meeting Notes
4/12/2022
The View– 116 rooms condo hotel on Main Street (next to AutoZone) 3.33 acres
Restaurant, Spa, Bar, Pool, coffee shop, fitness room
303 parking stalls, including underground
5-stories– 56 feet of building with a six foot overhang. (For reference Best Western Hotel is 56”8)
Main Level is 14 feet high The second, third, fourth, five levels are 10 feet.
Summit Engineering, the civil engineering firm has consulted with the Wasatch Fire department and modeled this plan with their largest apparatus, and according to Client Neering this plan does accommodate their gear, including an aerial attack plan. Request 790 South Emergency Exit Only. The school district has not allowed access yet. According to Brian Balls, representing Summit Engineering, they are negotiating with the school district to allow an emergency exit.
Driveway access width is 26 feet, both on highway 40 and the north entrance into the AutoZone parking lot. City engineering has listed some requirements that this plat doesn’t meet. Russ Funk, Heber City engineering suggest 100 East access and 790 South for best traffic flow. 790 South is not a city street, and would require approval from the school board for an easement.
Building materials:
30% ground level stone
60% Glazing or windows
4-1 motion approved for the planning commission with the single Nay vote by Josh Knight.
*2015 city council modified the height ordinance to accommodate the proposed property for Best Western, however due to the flight path, owners were only able to construct a 4-story building.
**Wasatch County School District and Board must provide approval in writing to the emergency access on 790 South for emergency vehicles to enter the property from 790 south, and/or public access to the use of 790 south for traffic flow.
I’m concerned with the increased traffic that this project brings to Main Street, and the lack of access on 790 south if the school district declines the use of this road as an entry point. I’m saddened that the council in 2015 amended the ordinance to allow for 5-stories, to accommodate the development of hotels on the south end of Main Street, who then couldn’t build to the 5-story level because they were in the flight path of the airport. C-3 Commercial Design Standards & Guidelines and Heber City’s C-2 & C-4 Commercial Design Standards & Guidelines Ordinance was amended on 02-25-2015.
This project does NOT come before city council, with the approval from the planning commission, once the conditions of the approval are met, they will move into the development review process and into construction.
This is a project by RidgePoint Development Group, the original developers of the Sawmill Residential project.
