2 Highland Drive

[Kerby Kolpack]

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Designed by Axis Architects, Highland Row would feature rear-loaded townhomes from a new driveway off of Highland Drive. The design is a slot home style, with minimal engagement of Highland Drive. One building will front Zenith Avenue to the south.

The 22 townhomes will feature three different floor plans, with some featuring one-car garages, others tandem two-car garages, and one with a standard double-car garage. This means there are 34 parking spaces for the 22 units. The units along Highland Drive will also have their front door entries facing the street.

While many townhome projects are focused on for sale and promoting home ownership, zoning restrictions and the ease of selling a single housing product instead of individual units still make it easier to build rental townhomes in many districts that allow multi-family but not single-family attached.

The townhomes required a public meeting due to the total building sizes, going over the gross floor area limit, due to their height, to accommodate rooftops on some units, and the distance of the garbage to the neighboring property.

There is some question as to when these will be built as it is similar to many projects by Axis throughout the city. While they received approval, the project may be sold with entitlements as with other projects by Axis.

While this project wants to address more multifamily options in the neighborhood, the Community Business Zone allows multifamily, but not single-family attached. A new proposal made by the development community could change this and may make projects like this more likely to be for sale rather than for rent.

Zeke Peters is a dual-masters student at the University of Utah studying Urban Planning and Public Administration. He works as a planner and designer in Salt Lake City. He currently resides in downtown Salt Lake and is from Austin, Minnesota, the birthplace of SPAM.

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