Dakota Pacific Actual Property has submitted a brand new growth settlement for the Park Metropolis Tech Middle underneath Senate Invoice 26, a new law that essentially guarantees the project will be built.
Summit County Supervisor Shayne Scott and Group Growth Director Peter Barnes confirmed that the County Courthouse obtained the draft doc in late Could. Nonetheless, employees have been unable to supply particulars about adjustments to the settlement by Tuesday’s publication deadline.
Officers have stated the most important change to the event settlement is a results of S.B. 26, which amended Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zones and seems to codify Dakota Pacific’s growth close to the Park Metropolis Tech Middle by together with language that forestalls the county from stopping or creating impediments to the mixed-use growth.
Summit County is now required to approve or implement the event settlement as an administrative motion moderately than a legislative one, which means the county supervisor makes the choice moderately than the Summit County Council.
Particular parts of the Dakota Pacific undertaking will as an alternative go to the Snyderville Basin Planning Fee, much like a conditional-use allow. Planning commissioners would then difficulty a optimistic or adverse advice, however Scott, performing as county supervisor, would have the ultimate say.
He stated Monday he is not going to see the doc till after the Planning Fee points a advice.
S.B. 26 didn’t point out Dakota Pacific or Summit County by title, however the specifics of the mixed-use undertaking described are practically similar to what the developer has proposed within the space. It additionally prevents a county from taking any motion or implementing an settlement, ordinance, regulation or requirement that might intervene with the event.
Dakota Pacific CEO Marc Stanworth has beforehand stated the event agency plans to stick to the county-approved settlement, which incorporates rezoning the land to permit for 725 residential housing models to be constructed and a public-private partnership to create extra group advantages akin to a brand new transit heart, underground parking and inexpensive housing.
County officers have been crucial of S.B. 26 when it handed over the past day of the 2025 common session as a result of it may enable the developer to avoid the referendum course of initiated by voters. The regulation considerably reduces the sensible impact of overturning the ordinance.
The Summit County Clerk’s Workplace counted 3,214 verified signers from folks searching for to overturn the County Council’s 4 to 1 determination approving the Dakota Pacific undertaking on Dec. 18. Referendum sponsors wanted at the very least 4,554 legitimate signatures by March 3 for the petition to be enough. The Clerk’s Workplace has till June 23 to make the official declaration.
Defend Summit County, the group searching for to place Ordinance 987 up for a vote, has stated it’ll pursue authorized motion if the referendum is said inadequate.
