Worries persist that the Kum & Go comfort retailer deliberate at 2100 South and 1300 East will snarl visitors and detract from a preferred park.
(Galloway & Firm) A rendition of a brand new Kum & Go comfort retailer and fueling station to be situated on the nook of 2100 South and 1300 East in Salt Lake Metropolis, as seen from 2100 South.
Skeptical neighbors obtained a glance Monday at slimmed-down and somewhat-greener plans for a brand new Kum & Go comfort retailer and fueling heart to be constructed at one in every of Sugar Home’s busiest intersections.
The retail outlet and gasoline station, which is pegged to change the previous Sizzler restaurant at 2111 S. 1300 East in Salt Lake Metropolis, has proved a fear for tons of of vocal residents and enterprise homeowners who level to potential issues with visitors, environmental impacts and its proximity to well-liked Sugar Home Park.
“I’ve nonetheless but to see the worth this supplies to the general neighborhood,” stated Brandon Hill, co-chair of the Sugar Home Chamber of Commerce. Different companies within the space, Hill stated, “share these issues. That’s been expressed to me dozens of instances.”
However beneath current zoning at that nook in Sugar Home simply off Interstate 80, the proposed gasoline station have to be authorised by town’s planning fee, which might set circumstances. That listening to may come as quickly as October.
(Galloway & Firm) A rendition of the north entrance of a brand new Kum & Go comfort retailer and fueling station to be situated on the busy nook of 2100 South and 1300 East in Salt Lake Metropolis, as seen from 2100 South.
In talks with Kum & Go officers final February, the Sugar Home Group Council urged a bunch of modifications to web site plans — many with pedestrians, congestion and the park in thoughts.
Kum & Go and its Colorado-based planning guide Galloway & Firm supplied its refreshed designs Monday as they work with metropolis planners to form the brand new retailer with six fueling stations to that 0.81-acre parcel adjoining the park’s northwest nook.
Based mostly on neighborhood enter, designers trimmed the dimensions of the shop by 800 sq. ft and added textured sidewalks and landscaping alongside the 2100 South and 1300 East entrances “to have a pedestrian-inviting, pleasant environment alongside the road approach,” stated Nate Abbott, venture supervisor for Galloway.
He stated new designs had additionally eradicated one of many property’s entrances, decreasing factors of potential contact between pedestrians and visitors.
The shop’s footprint additionally would come with a fringe of timber and shrubs on the japanese aspect, meant to defend it visually from the park.
(Galloway & Firm) A rendition of a brand new Kum & Go comfort retailer and fueling station to be situated on the nook of 2100 South and 1300 East in Salt Lake Metropolis, as seen from Sugar Home Park.
The shop could be tucked within the property’s northwest nook.
The dimensions discount and flopping the shop’s inner format worn out two parking stalls for a complete of 10 now, Abbott stated, and designers intend to tie the positioning’s design to plans for a brand new metropolis bike path and a park path managed by the Sugar Home Park Authority.
In response to questions in regards to the retailer’s worth to the neighborhood, Abbott stated it will be “nearly a concession stand for the park” the place individuals may “get some sunscreen or some sodas or what have you ever, with out having to cross over 1300 East.”
Representatives for the family-owned Iowa firm behind the nationwide Kum & Go chain of 400 shops in 11 states introduced in Could 2021 they need to construct greater than 30 new areas in Utah by 2026.
Ryan Halder, a senior supervisor for Kum & Go, advised neighborhood members it owns the development agency that may do the work and plans to take the time needed on the Sugar Home web site to attenuate neighborhood impacts.
It’s unclear for now, although, simply when the conditional use will likely be authorised and when town would possibly challenge a constructing allow.
(Galloway & Firm) A rendering of a brand new Kum & Go comfort retailer and fueling station proposed on the busy Sugar Home nook of 2100 South and 1300 East in Salt Lake Metropolis, as see from 1300 East.
Most of the neighborhood worries introduced up Monday stem from the prospect of snarling visitors at that closely traveled nook, given the station will service vehicles and semitrucks coming off the interstate with many autos coming into through 1300 East and exiting onto 2100 South headed east towards Parleys Canyon.
Kum & Go’s plans have included an in-depth visitors examine submitted to town.
To fears raised Monday over the potential of car backups on 1300 East brought on by gas supply vans, Christian Michaelson, visitors engineer for Galloway and a former truck driver, stated the positioning had been designed to favor proper turns.
“They’re the most secure,” Michaelson stated, “and so they’re the quickest.” There’s additionally a devoted flip lane on 1300 East included within the venture.
Kum & Go representatives have performed a soils examine and different evaluation of the positioning as a part of addressing neighborhood issues over potential water contamination, Abbott and others stated. Designs name for in depth underground stormwater programs, which the property didn’t have earlier than, to gather and handle on-site water circulate.
Geotechnical engineering research are also making certain the event has no influence on the small Sego Lily dam close by, Abbot stated.
Group members known as Monday for extra visitors evaluation within the wider neighborhood, extra buffering to defend the park from extraneous lighting from the station’s cover, and drought-sensitive landscaping.
(Salt Lake Metropolis Planning Division) A location map for a brand new Kum & Go comfort retailer and fueling station proposed on the busy Sugar Home nook of 2100 South and 1300 East in Salt Lake Metropolis.
