Summit County residents will have an opportunity next week to comment on future growth in Browns Canyon as part of a public hearing regarding Ivory Development’s proposed Lost Creek Community Zone. The hearing will be on Thursday, July 16, at the County Courthouse in Coalville, with the exact time to be announced later. Ivory Development, a division of the Salt Lake-based Ivory Homes, has been working with the Eastern Summit County Planning Commission to draft the Lost Creek Community Zone, which could potentially allow the company to build up to 3,000 homes in Browns Canyon. However, commissioners have repeatedly expressed concerns about the scope of the project. They’ve noted the lack of infrastructure in Browns Canyon, plus water needs and traffic impacts the development would likely have on the traditionally rural area. Planning Commissioner Bridget Hayes previously said she’s also worried about the project creating a landscape of urban sprawl in Browns Canyon, telling Ivory Development representatives that she visited Terraine, one of the company’s neighborhoods in West Jordan, and left feeling unimpressed. “It didn’t feel like community,” Hayes said. “It felt like a model home, mish-mashed suburban sprawl, at least in that town center. I think to be successful here, that town center needs to have more of the rural character, the rural appeal. It wasn’t what I was expecting based on what you described, and maybe I wasn’t experiencing it the right way, but I didn’t feel a sense of community.” The Planning Commission is responsible for reviewing the proposed zone and forwarding a recommendation to the Summit County Council, which will then issue a final decision on whether the zone will become a permanent fixture in the county code. Creating the Lost Creek Community Zone is only the first step in Ivory Development’s process, though. If the County Council were to approve the zone, the housing company would still need to negotiate with the Eastern Summit County Planning Commission and County Council for a second time to draft and finalize a development agreement. Planning commissioners met with Ivory Development representatives last week to discuss the finer details of the zone’s text, although they still mentioned outstanding concerns regarding water, traffic and infrastructure. However, the meeting was mostly procedural, with commissioners and Ivory Development representatives revising grammatical and linguistic choices in the drafted document. But the Planning Commission also scheduled a public hearing on the Lost Creek Community Zone to allow residents to weigh in on whether the zone and large-scale developments should be allowed in Browns Canyon. The Planning Commission is tentatively expecting to vote on its recommendation to the County Council at the same meeting, but the decision could be delayed. The post County to hold public hearing on Browns Canyon development next week appeared first on Park Record. ...read more read less