Initial plans at Cedarwood Mobile Home Park site call for 6-story apartment complex
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- Cedarwood Mobile Home Park in Layton, photographed Monday, Feb. 13, 2023.
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- A rendering of the proposed six-story apartment building to be built on a portion of land where Cedarwood Mobile Home Park in Layton now sits.
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- The area outlined in red represents the footprint of the first phase of development on land where a portion of the Cedarwood Mobile Home Park sat in Layton. Plans call for a six-story apartment complex on the land and a pair of two-story commercial buildings.
LAYTON — The first phase of a proposed development on and around the Cedarwood Mobile Home Park site in Layton calls for a six-story apartment building and a pair of two-story buildings meant for commercial development.
The second phase of work on the land has yet to be publicly unveiled, but Chad Wilkinson, head of the Layton Community and Economic Development Department, expects the developer to submit a building permit application for the first phase of the project “any day.” City staffers would need to sign off on the application, but filing of that plus the final plat are the last steps before the initial work can proceed.
The development plans have been a point of public debate and concern among mobile home park residents since mid-2021. Those who lived in the footprint of phase one, home to around 15 of the park’s 70 or so spaces, had to depart Cedarwood by March 1 last year to make way for the development.
Those living in the phase two area, which contains the remaining 55 or so spots, do not yet face a departure deadline. Nevertheless, the development plans on the phase two land and the specter of having to eventually depart looms heavy for some, worried about their future housing prospects. Some have already started to leave.
Through it all, developers have publicly said little about the development plans, residents say, but it turns out the Layton City Planning Commission approved the phase one development scheme on July 12 last year.
According to those plans, the phase one area covers 6.26 acres, encompassing part of Cedarwood at 189 Main St. and other adjacent land owned by Prov0-based Boulder Ranch and affiliated companies. Cedarwood is one of several mobile home parks managed by Boulder Ranch.
The two commercial buildings that are part of phase one, measuring 15,600 square feet, would front Main Street and sit at the main entry to the six-story apartment complex, which would house 253 units — a mix of studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units. Plans call for 401 parking stalls, 158 of them contained in an internal parking structure in the main apartment complex building.
“The property consists of vacant land that once housed Randall Brothers Distribution, King’s Auto Repair Shop and a small portion of the Cedarwood Mobile Home Park,” read Layton planning documents.
Rockworth Cos. of Holladay is the project developer, but reps from the company didn’t respond to Standard-Examiner queries seeking comment. Wilkinson, the Layton economic development official, doesn’t know what’s planned for the second phase of the project or the timeline for that future phase.
Notably, the Cedarwood site sits east across Main Street from the Utah Transit Authority FrontRunner station in Layton. UTA is talking about or helping spearhead development on land it owns around FrontRunner stations in Clearfield, Ogden and Roy, but no specific plans are currently afoot around the Layton stop, where the transit entity owns less land.
Nevertheless, Paul Drake, UTA’s director of real estate and transit-oriented development, indicated that UTA supports moves to create high-density development around transit spots like FrontRunner stations, like the Rockworth plans.
“Such development improves residents’ access to transit and opportunities provided near the transit network,” Drake said. Creating housing around FrontRunner stations creates a pool of potential FrontRunner customers, bolstering the light rail network, officials have said, and can help reduce auto use.
The phase one plans at the Cedarwood location call for extension of the Kays Creek Trail along the northwest side of the development. The city would maintain the trail when complete, according to planning documents.