Standard-Examiner: Ogden Sells Lots to Kick-start Inner-city Housing Development

Now's your chance to play the role of Ogden City urban planner for a day

One of our thoughtful WCF readers asks this question:

"What do you think of the city's plan to put single-family homes on this property just a block from 25th Street. Shouldn't we be promoting higher density within walking distance of a major transit corridor?"

Here's this morning's Standard-Examiner writeup:

• Ogden sells lots to kick-start inner-city housing development

"The block is currently populated with homes around its perimeter but is virtually vacant through the center," according to the Standard-Examiner reporter Mitch Shaw.

And to verify that statement, we've provided the Google Earth "bird's-eye" project view:

2300 Fowler Avenue Infill Project

What say you, folks?

Higher density housing might be something to contemplate, since a nascent Ogden Street Car project still remains on the transportation planning back-burner, or so it seems to us.

Now's your chance to play the role of Ogden City urban planner for a day.

And yes, this will be on "the test."