Council creates Flex Industrial zone, denies 1450 Gibson Avenue rezone 5-2 and authorizes up to $82.1 million in waterline bonds
April 23, 2024, 6:00 p.m. · Council Chambers, Ogden Municipal Building, 2549 Washington Blvd.
At a special meeting the Ogden City Council unanimously created a Flex Industrial zone, adopted a Lynn Community Plan amendment on historic preservation, passed a $7.5 million mid-year budget amendment and authorized up to $82.1 million in revenue bonds for the Ogden Canyon waterline project. It denied a rezone at 1450 Gibson Avenue 5-2. The work session covered a General Plan update kickoff and a short-term rental survey. Council Member Shaun Myers was excused from the work session and joined the evening meeting by electronic means at 6:18 p.m.; Vice Chair White attended electronically.
From the approved minutes. Updated October 14, 2026.
Decisions at a glance
Agenda, item by item
Budget
Ordinance 2024-10: FY2023-24 mid-year budget amendment
Approved · 7-0
The council recognized $7,508,720 in added revenue and matching appropriations across the general, capital improvement, water, sewer, refuse, storm sewer, medical services, fleet and facilities, IT and grant funds, from fund balance, interest, asset sales, grants and internal billing. Council Member Hyer asked about a refuse truck replaced after a fire; Management Services Director Lisa Stout said the city's share will be about $25,000 with the rest from insurance. One speaker asked about $225,000 for the Fire Department for homelessness mitigation.
- Budget$7.51 million
General plan
Ordinance 2024-11: Lynn Community Plan amendment on historic preservation
Approved · 7-0
The council amended the Lynn Community Plan to recognize historic structures and features and recommend local historic designation, monuments and markers, particularly around 2nd Street west of Wall Avenue, where a Shoshone Bingham Fort site is located. The change came from a 2022 council initiative by Council Member Hyer, with Planning Commission review, a community meeting and a survey. Residents supporting it said it could discourage future multi-family proposals and identifies a possible park site. Vice Chair White noted owners are not bound because the plan is a guiding document.
Zoning
Rezone of 1450 Gibson Avenue and 1483 Wall Avenue from M-1 to C-3
Denied · 5-2
The council denied the petition by Darcel Stucki, authorized representative of one owner, to rezone two parcels totaling 6.37 acres to allow multi-family housing; the other parcel is owned by UDOT, which was neutral. Planning staff and the Planning Commission (unanimously) recommended denial as inconsistent with the General Plan and Gibson Community Plan, citing the need to protect industrial uses and buffer housing. Mr. Stucki said nearby land was rezoned C-3, buyers backed out when told a rezone would not be allowed, and the current zoning limits uses to things like storage. Council Members Choberka and Myers favored housing given surrounding residential uses; Council Member Graf worried about limiting expansion of a nearby manufacturer. Residents on Gibson Avenue raised road condition, traffic and fear of displacement. Council Members Hyer and Graf said they would look at removing multi-family housing as a use in the C-3 zone.
- Applicant: Darcel Stucki
- Acres: 6.37 (two parcels)
- Current zone to proposed: M-1 to C-3
- Planning Commission: unanimously recommended denial
Zoning
Ordinance 2024-13: create Flex Industrial zone
Approved · 7-0
The council created a manufacturing-class zone for commercial and industrial uses limited in intensity but needing flexibility. Asilia Investments' Jake Jackson said the company will not seek to rezone airport property if the zone is adopted. Staff said legally established uses can continue, and a resident asked how noise, smoke and smell limits will be measured; staff pointed to the city's noise ordinance.
- Applicant: Asilia Investments
Budget
Resolution 2024-2: up to $82.1 million Subordinated Sewer, Water and Storm Sewer Revenue Bonds, Series 2024
Approved · 7-0
The council approved bond parameters for financing the roughly $100 million Ogden Canyon waterline: maximum par $82,100,000, 40-year term, maximum 3 percent discount and a maximum interest rate that the council raised from 5 to 6 percent on bond counsel Laura Lewis's advice to allow room for rate changes. Planned sources are a $34.3 million State Revolving Loan Fund loan at about 1 percent and a $42.6 million WIFIA loan at about 5 percent, with $10 million in state appropriations and $12 million in city ARPA funds. Estimated debt service is $39.965 million for the state loan and $75.06 million for the WIFIA loan. A public hearing was set for June 11, 2024 at 6:00 p.m., with closing in late June or early July. The amendment to raise the rate cap passed unanimously on a motion by Council Member Hyer, seconded by Council Member Blair.
- Bond$82.1 million
General plan
General Plan update kickoff (work session)
Discussed
Consultants Logan Simpson outlined a roughly two-year General Plan update expected to finish in September 2026, with an engagement plan. Vice Chair White disclosed that she works for the Wasatch Front Regional Council, the project's grantor, and said she has no conflict of interest.
City code
Short-term rental ordinance amendments and FlashVote survey (work session)
Discussed
The proposal would require on-site guest parking, bar outside visitors during rentals, require three forms of residency proof for owner-occupied rentals, require three years of ownership for non-owner-occupied rentals and allow rentals in the C-ENT and H25 zones. FlashVote's Kevin Lyons said the April survey showed parking is the top nuisance. Staff said better-defined parking rules are needed for enforcement.
Presentation
My Hometown Ogden annual report and FY2025 financial principles (work session)
Discussed
John Watson presented the volunteer program's year and goals. Executive Director Janene Eller-Smith reviewed FY2025 financial principle changes: allowing a property tax increase to be considered every year instead of every other year, a five-year financial strategic plan in FY25, and maintaining rather than aiming for a 20 percent minimum operating reserve.
What residents said
Gibson Avenue road condition and trafficIndustrial land and housingHistoric preservation consistencyShort-term rental parkingPark restroom vandalism
Residents spoke on the Gibson Avenue rezone (road condition, displacement, discrimination claims), a resident's frustration with a land-use permit process, historic preservation, short-term rental enforcement and praise for the waterline bonding. A speaker asked about the Lynn plan amendment's effect on park plans and a Shoshone Bingham Fort memorial on May 18.