Morgan County approves ‘Man Cave Subdivision’ in Mountain Green
Aug 17, 2023 09:55AM ● By Linda Petersen
The Morgan County Commission has given preliminary plat and site plan approval for a commercial subdivision known as the “ROAM Man Cave Subdivision” at 4950 West Old Highway Road in Mountain Green. This is northeast of the intersection of Old Highway Road and a new road, Queens Garden Road. The new road was installed earlier this summer. The development would be accessed from Old Highway Road and Queens Garden Road.
The development would provide 14 condominium units, also known as “commercial flex spaces,” on 1.45 acres. The units would range in size from 1350 to 1700 square feet and would each include a half to three-quarter bathroom and sink. Despite the term “condominium” these are not proposed as residences, something Commissioner Blaine Fackrell queried.
“It’s a form of property ownership under Utah law so you create units under the Utah Condominium Act and those units are called condominium,” Commissioner Robert McConnell said responding to Fackrell’s question.
The ‘flex” term is “commonly used in industrial development because a lot of the developments don’t represent a typically industrial-looking building, but they can be used for a public storefront like an insurance office or they can be used for like a contractor’s office. So it’s really a flex space that can be used for a wide variety of commercial uses,” developer CW Lands’ representative McKenna Christensen said.
“You may have both in a single unit; an office in front and storage or light manufacturing in back,” McConnell elaborated.
Two parking spaces will be provided per unit with some additional parking. All of the parking spaces will be owned by an owner’s association, Christensen said. Fackrell expressed concern there would not be enough parking for customers or employees.
“When we sell these we’re not finishing out the interior of these units, so whoever finishes out these units, depending on what use they intend to program into the unit, they’ll have to comply with parking standards,” Christensen said. “It would be up to the buyer to determine whether they would want to purchase the unit.”
CW lands has 13 acres of more traditional retail space west of this project, she said. “These are more flex units. We’re trying to appease a niche demographic of people; that’s why we only have 14 units. This is just a small snippet of our ROAM development.”
Another issue Fackrell brought up was that some of the proposed trees in the project might not be drought-resistant; he recommended that CW Lands look into that. The commission approved the site plan with the provision that the developer follow Fackrell’s recommendation.
