Owners of 314 homes in North Salt Lake's Val Verda neighborhood will get new street addresses under a plan the city council reviewed Aug. 4.

Community Development Director Sherrie Pace presented a draft re-addressing proposal to the North Salt Lake City Council that would shift the former unincorporated area from Bountiful addresses to North Salt Lake ones. The change also covers 10 acres of privately owned land that includes Adelaide Elementary.

The Davis County Commission asked North Salt Lake to annex the 96-acre Val Verda area in 2022 to improve public services and equalize taxation, the Davis Journal reported. Four years later, the addresses still reflect the old unincorporated system.

Nine-member committee leads the work

Pace proposed a nine-member committee to manage the transition. Members would include Pace herself, a city council representative, designees from the police, fire and public works departments, local business owners and neighborhood representatives.

The committee is scheduled to meet through September, October and November. The Davis County Clerk, Davis County Recorder, Bountiful's postmaster and North Salt Lake's communications director will join several of those sessions.

Tasks include estimating costs to the city and residents, developing a public communication plan, proposing new street names and creating transition packets explaining how to update driver's licenses and voter registration.

Timeline stretches into spring 2027

A draft reimbursement budget and formal resolution are scheduled to go before the city council for approval by February 2027. After that, the city would update municipal databases and notify agencies including emergency services, state and county voter registration offices, utility providers, USPS, FedEx and Google Maps.

Official notices to property owners would follow in April or May 2027, along with a transition kit covering how to update driver's licenses, deeds, bank accounts and voter registration. Street signs and intersection markers would be swapped out during the same window. Pace's plan calls for the physical sign changes to happen "hopefully overnight or a single weekend."

Both old and new addresses would be recognized by mail carriers and emergency services for three months after the switch.

Public input planned

The council praised Pace's work on the draft plan, though it remains subject to changes. The city plans to hold open houses where residents can raise concerns and describe their experience with the annexation process.

"The question is how will this impact you, and how can the city help to alleviate that," Councilmember Heidi Smoot said.

No dates for the open houses have been announced. Residents can contact North Salt Lake City Hall for updates.