Council approves Avian Shores rezone and establishes Avian Shores Planned District at 400 South/1200 West
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Brigham City approved a pair of companion ordinances creating the Avian Shores Planned District and rezoning roughly 260 acres near 400 South and 1200 West to allow a master-planned housing community with trails, open space and a future neighborhood-commercial node.
The Brigham City Council voted to amend the zoning map and to establish a new planned-district zoning chapter for a proposed master-planned community called Avian Shores, located in the general area of 400 South and 1200 West.
Planner Bradley framed the two companion applications as a rezonage and a code amendment that would create a new planned-district zoning chapter (to be called Avian Shores Planned District with an underlying RM-7 zone). Bradley said the planning commission recommended approval and staff and the developer had worked together to produce the plan-district text; staff added some attorney-suggested, red-line changes that were included in the materials presented to council.
Developer representatives (identified in the meeting as Garth and Dave) described a mixed-use, master-planned community with multiple housing types — condos and townhomes, cottages and villas, and larger estate lots toward the west edge — and an emphasis on trails and open space that connects toward the nearby bird refuge. The developer said the full development could include about 1,200 housing units and a maximum of roughly 1,344 units under the allowed density, with an expected buildout window of about 12–20 years depending on market absorption. The plan shows a proposed neighborhood-commercial node near the 400 South / 1200 West intersection; developers and staff said commercial would likely come late in the buildout and that specific commercial standards would be returned to the council later.
The council discussed infrastructure items — including a regional storm-detention basin on city-owned lands, a planned regional lift station for sewer, roadway buildout of the 1200 West corridor, and about 5.5 miles of planned trails — and staff confirmed that detailed utility and phasing plans would come back to the council during subsequent approvals. Council member Smith moved to approve the zoning-map ordinance; Council member Jeffreys seconded and the rezoning motion passed on roll call. The council then approved a separate ordinance establishing the Avian Shores Planned District (motion by Council member Troxell, second by Council member Hipp); that motion also passed on roll call.