Ogden officials are launching efforts to see whether storage units have a place in the city’s residential neighborhoods as a six-story apartment building in Salt Lake City made of repurposed shipping containers opens to new tenants.
They are currently allowed in Ogden as long as they’re enclosed within another structure, like a garage. But City Councilman Ken Richey proposes allowing them as stand-alone accessory structures — if they’re properly retrofitted. He says they could serve as workshops, mancaves, she-sheds and, possibly, accessory-dwelling units.
“If there’s a viable way to make them look good and fit in the neighborhood with the siding and whatever, then it seems like it makes sense to me,” Richey said at a City Council work session on Tuesday, when officials discussed the idea. Other council members seemed supportive of the idea, and now Ogden planning officials will try to craft a more concrete proposal for future consideration…