What: a Council-requested city-wide text amendment to Title 14 creating a Provo River High Use Node overlay zone, letting larger, mainly commercial projects build closer to the river (setbacks from 25 feet, with building height stepping up with distance) through a rezone reviewed by the Planning Commission and Council.
Where it stands: The Planning Commission voted 7-0 on October 28 to recommend approval to the Council, conditioned on removing ambiguity from the section allowing a 20 percent height adjustment and adding explicit requirements.
Next: The amendment is expected to go to the Council together with the related river design standards, which the Council has heard in a work meeting but not yet voted on.
Details
Built from the October 28, 2026 Planning Commission auto-generated captions only; no agenda or minutes were read.
Staff said the overlay pulls the high use node language out of the earlier river design corridor standards, adds purpose and objectives plus a project narrative and development timeline, and does not change the policy substance.