Feasibility Studies in Salt Lake City, UT

Connect housing, transport and land-use plans

Salt Lake City’s planning index includes Plan Salt Lake, Housing SLC, Connect SLC and the Water Conservation Plan, with separate links to neighborhood plans. These documents address different aspects of the setting around a proposed investment. Identify which plans apply to the location and record their adoption or amendment status before comparing sites. For a housing, hospitality or neighborhood-service concept, use them to organize questions about the intended local market and physical setting. Confirm current zoning separately and distinguish policy objectives from completed improvements, so the study’s assumptions about nearby activity and access remain grounded in present evidence.

Bring the proposed operating load into utility discussions

Salt Lake City Public Utilities’ Development Services division covers construction review and permitting for water, sewer, storm drains and street lighting. Its resources provide a route for project-specific service questions and direct applicants to the appropriate review process. Prepare the building concept, existing service information and equipment or occupancy assumptions before seeking guidance. For a car wash, laundry or lodging project, ask about the current requirements affecting the proposed use and any infrastructure work needed. Keep conservation assumptions, provider responses and unconfirmed costs visible in the feasibility model rather than inferring project capacity from the presence of nearby infrastructure.

Check which Wasatch Front transport plan is being used

The Wasatch Front Regional Council distinguishes its adopted Regional Transportation Plan, later amendments and the next plan under development. Its plan covers roadway, transit and active-transportation improvements with identified phases. Use the current adopted materials to investigate how the property relates to the regional network, and label draft scenarios clearly when testing alternatives. Check whether the relevant improvement is operating, planned or still being evaluated. For a site whose market appeal depends on a future connection, retain the present travel pattern in the base case and explain which customers or employees would benefit if that connection materializes.