In the next couple of months, the Ogden City Council will consider the Union Station Framework Plan, but officials are quick to note this doesn’t undermine ongoing attempts to gather feedback on what the public wants to see around Union Station.

“It’s a plan for how the site at Union Station, north of it and south of it, could be redeveloped in the future with eyes on being economically sustainable and protecting the history and culture of Union Station and providing transportation options in the area,” Ogden Planning Manager Barton Brierley told the Standard-Examiner.

The Ogden Planning Commission recommended approval of the framework plan at its June 7 meeting. The Framework Plan lays out options for the 29.6 acres of land and the station itself, from the return of transportation options — FrontRunner — to possibly moving the museum properties out of the station proper. There are also renderings of buildings that could possibly be added to the land.

On June 15, developers held an open house at Union Station where it was announced that they would be seeking public feedback on what residents would like to see done with the campus. One emphasis of the meeting was that there is nothing set in stone at this point.

“What we’ve been very careful about — this development team in particular — is to not pick up a pencil or start drawing until we authentically go through this process with the city and the community to find out what they want,” Robb Berg, president of Denver-based Design Workshop, told the Standard-Examiner in June. “We have not drawn anything. What you see on the board are the boundaries of the development, but we have not planned anything. That’s purposeful because we want to hear what people want in this and how to respect the historic nature of this facility in the development before we start to draw anything.”

The process of gathering public feedback is anticipated to last six to nine months. Brierley said, ultimately, the framework plan that was recommended by the Planning Commission does not conflict with what was presented in June.

“It’s the basic principals and ideas of how the area could be developed,” he said. “Now that we’re working with a development partner, they can develop plans following the framework plan and getting input from the public on what’s really important to track and save and develop in the area. The framework is a very high-level. document and the process they’re going through now is a refinement from that overall framework.”

He said that the current process working with the public will ultimately determine what is placed in the 29.6 acres.

“One of the big things on the framework plan was to look at what ares could be developed, what kind of densities and what kind of buildings could go there,” he said. “The process we’re going through now, we’ll determine the types of development and buildings that will go there.”

Brierley said there isn’t a date for the framework plan to appear before the City Council, but he expects it will occur sometime in the next couple of weeks.