PROVO -- The LDS Church wants to add 40,000 square feet to the Missionary Training Center for additional services and more housing for senior missionaries.
Church spokesman Scott Trotter said the renovation of the east wing of the Jacob Hamblin building, which is the northernmost building on the Provo campus, will improve delivery efficiency and give the MTC more space for on-campus services like the bookstore, mail room and barber shop and more space for senior missionary apartments.
The building permit and conditional use permit requests will go before the Provo Planning Commission on Feb. 10 for a public hearing. Planner Nathan Murray said the building, also known as 2M, is used for senior couple missionaries. This project, if approved, will be a three-story building with senior apartments on the third floor and the MTC's consolidated services on the first two floors.
It will end up being a fairly significant change for the MTC, which Murray said hasn't done much major construction since the early 1990s.
"This is pretty large for them," he said.
The church, which is petitioning the city through BYU because the school owns the MTC property, needs the conditional use permit to add a third story. Murray said they are not anticipating much additional traffic on 900 East because of the construction, and traffic may actually improve once the construction is done. There may be another exit built on 900 East that is north of the main entrance to the MTC campus, and that road will run closer to the Hamblin building and be for deliveries only, thus leaving the main entrances free for employees, missionaries and their families.
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