What: a proposed year-round entertainment venue at the mouth of Provo Canyon on about 93 to 95 acres (about 66 city-owned), with an amphitheater of up to 20,000 seats, hotel, venue retail, parking and open space, requiring a general plan amendment, a new regional entertainment zone (map and text), a concept plan and a development agreement.
Where it stands: The earlier applications, which the Planning Commission sent to the Council with a recommendation for denial in June, were withdrawn. New applications are being prepared and the application was still incomplete on November 10.
Next: Possible Planning Commission hearing December 9 (not confirmed; could slip to January), then Council hearing and decision. A separate state-law process for taking offers on the city land was expected to end around early December.
Details
Per the captions, staff described changes from the first version: a unique zone instead of a shopping center zone, about 6,000 parking stalls instead of 10,000, one access point on US 189 instead of three, 50 foot buildings with up to 125 feet for the fly loft measured from a base 20 feet above the highway.
Open items named by staff: UDOT traffic plan, sound study including low-frequency sound, parking and shuttle plan, fire flow and emergency access, utilities and water, hillside grading and gravel removal, usable open space, earthquake fault study, and a city buy-back right in the development agreement.
Residents at the neighborhood meeting were mostly opposed, citing traffic, noise, public land, access and safety; a few supported trying to make a venue work.
Information-only neighborhood meeting: staff explained the withdrawn applications, the new unique-zone approach and open studies, answered note card and online questions, and heard mostly opposed resident comment; possible Planning Commission hearing December 9.