City Council - Regular Meeting

YouTube is all right. We should be all set. You good? Y. Welcome back everyone to Centerville City Council. Sorry we're a few minutes behind. Uh we went a little lengthy on a work session, but we welcome you here. It's April 7th, 2026. Uh we're starting at 7:15, so uh we'll do better on getting started on time, but uh let's make sure we can conduct business by doing a roll call vote of the council member with Councilman Mikum. Mikum present. Bangader present. Heman present. Hurst present.

Plumber present.

Thank you council members for being here. Uh we have all five council members present. We thanks thanks for staff for being here for members of the public. They're here as well too. Uh we thank thank you all for being here. Uh I will start with a uh legislative prayer. Our heavenly father, we're very grateful to gather this evening and we're thankful for these freedoms that uh allow us to be able to do this. uh bless us as elected officials and as staff with wisdom uh beyond uh what our experience is. Uh as we know that uh decisions that are made um affect uh not only life's now but life's in the future. uh bless other leaders around the world uh in as much as we're at a crucial time that that they may also have uh uh wisdom in in their thoughts and their decisions and that uh thy will may be able to be accomplished. Uh bless those that are in harm's way throughout this this world. uh that they can uh especially the innocent that they can be able to be supported uh by thy spirit. Uh bless our first responders, bless our u other uh workers that labor for those residents of our community that they may have the strength necessary to provide the services that we need. And we're grateful for this uh once again for the safeties uh and the freedoms that we have. And this we say in the name of thy son Jesus Christ. Amen.

Amen. Um we'll have a pledge of allegiance led by council. Please rise.

I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Um the next part is the open session. This is an opportunity for any member of the public to uh say say what might be on your mind. We ask you to keep your comments two to three minutes and introduce yourself and where you're from. Now, I would point out that we do have uh four public hearings uh where you'll be able to talk about uh zoning code amendment relation to Shorelines Commerce Park. Uh subdivision final plat amendment tumble weed condominiums. Uh zoning code amendment on water efficient landscaping and uh public hearing on centerville fee schedule amendments. Uh those are all public hearings that the public will be able to talk at as well too. So if you we're going to talk about those, you can you can wait until those come up. You don't have to bring them up here in the in the open session. But anything else is fair game. So that is now available. See nobody here. Everybody comment. I don't believe we have anybody online. Uh we will close the open session and we will go to our business items. Uh the first business item is one of those public hearing matters. It's a a public hearing on a zoning code amendment on the Shorelands Commerce uh park zone. Um so uh who is going to uh introduce that for us?

Mayor, can I can I just identify a conflict of interest? I you you bet you can. Nate Cook is my nephew, so I will not be participating in the discussion here. I guess nephew is close enough. Lisa, the V. Okay. So, should I leave the room or can I sit here? What's the process? Yeah, at least leave the DAS. Would you like to sit in the back or wait in the hall? That's fine. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, so staff representatives Sydney, were you going to present on it or Mike, are you going to present on it? Okay, go ahead.

All right. Um, so as you guys know, my uh staff reports are typically a little bit more lengthy and then I like to just give a generalization and hope that you guys um have read the staff report. So the background, the applicants, Tom Allred and Nathan Cook are requesting a zoning text amendment associated with the Shorelines Commerce Park zoning overlay. Uh they wish to add vehicle rental or sales new limited to the Shorelines Commerce Park zone and remove the vehicle equipment rental sales as a permitted use. On January 2nd, 2025, Salodto, the business um owned by Nathan Cook and Tom Alred, received approval for their conditional use permit request to sell specialty motorcycles in the Shorelines Commerce Park zoned area. Condition number four states, "No mechanical repair shall occur on the property until such time that the zoning text amendment to the shorelines commerce park zone is applied for by the applicant or other property property interests and therefore potentially approved by the city to include mechanical repairs within the zoning designation. So by allowing for this approval um the vehicle rental or sales new limited use this would fulfill this condition on the conditional use permit. So it is staff's recommendation to also include as stated before vehicle and equipment rental or sales to be removed from the shorelines commerce park as a permitted use. This application was recently reviewed by the planning commission on February 25th, 2026. The planning commission is recommending the

approval of the zoning text amendment um to include vehicle rental or sales new limited and to remove vehicle rental vehicle and equipment rental or sales um from the Shorelines Commerce Park. Once again, this is just stating that we want it to be a conditional use, not an outright permitted use. So, that is something just to keep in mind. Um, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask me.

Uh, questions for staff on this. Can I just can I just clear up one thing and absolutely maybe a change in report? I doubt that the planning commission was 70 with one absent. Tyler Moss probably wasn't on. So, it was probably 6 with one absent. Uh if that's correct, because we only have seven uh planning commission members. Just just so that can be fixed in the record. Am I am I wrong on that? Plus, we had eight attendant. That'd be great. 110% attendance. So,

so anyway, that's that's not part of the discussion, but but uh if you could fix that, that'd be great. So, to questions for staff for uh Sydney on what she said. So, that means that at the top of that report, then Gary Woodward should have been marked absent because it says he was present. Yeah, I'm looking at the vote, Bunny. Yeah, I see they got the vote up here, but at the top I I believe it's the top of this report. Maybe it's not uh minutes. Sorry, it's in the minutes, too. You're totally fine.

There is It shows that he was present, but I apologize. Yeah. And above the table, it does say uh Mrs. Patterson provided second and it passed 60. So, so yes, somebody was absent. It looks like it was Commissioner Woodward. Yeah. Okay. Thanks for pointing that out. Um so back to the discussion at hand. Uh what what questions uh for staff before um uh we we go to um the applicant? any

what was the purpose of removing the um vehicle rental or sales used limited

um so after we discussed with the applicant just um what they want to do we were looking at into the uses that would qualify that and in the shorelines commerce park that is a little bit more of sensitive area and just looking at what that use actually entails, the one that we're trying to remove. It's actually a lot more invasive um than than adding the new limited. So, that was just a protective measure that we've we're looking into. Um we're kind of looking at ways to protect that area a little bit more. So, and you're suggesting this with a as a conditional use, correct? Absolutely. It wouldn't be an outright permitted. would be a conditional use and that would be taken back to the planning commission for reviews of their approval.

So, hang on. You said it's going back to the planning commission. So, when a when a conditional use Sorry, it wasn't. Yes, they'll they'll then Gotcha. I'm sorry. I was a little confused by that, but n sorry. Okay. So, um there isn't going to be any maintenance or work done on vehicles at this location. Is that one of the things that we're doing to be sensitive to that area? So, when it comes to vehicle rental or sales new limited, they can do um minor um minor services and maintenance as long as it's inside.

So, that would not include any kind of storage outside for any kind of vehicles. This would be something that maybe um the applicant can clarify on. Typically, the reason why it got brought up is because for him to sell a certain type of motorcycle, the dealership actually requests that certain maintenance be allowed for the vehicles when they sell them. Okay. Thank you. Uh this is a public hearing matter, but before we go to public hearing, uh the applicant, either Tom or Nathan Cook or representative, if you want to say anything, you're welcome to. before we go to the public hearing. Just if you you want to just come up to the pulp and

I don't have anything so we're okay unless there's questions I can clarify.

Okay. Perfect. Thank you. All right. With that said, uh I I let's go to a public hearing on zoning code amendment shorelands commerce park zone permitted and conditional uses uh which is uh ordinance number 2026-04. That public uh hearing is now open. If you're so inclined to comment, just uh state your name and uh where you're from. See no one commenting, I will close the public hearing and thank you applicant for identifying yourself. Uh so we have both staff and applicant here. uh if uh uh they don't have to re re respond to any public hearing since there was no comment. But but council uh before I look for a motion, you have a chance to ask anything more of the of the applicant um or staff.

So moving forward in the Shorelines Commerce Park area, are we is this something that we are going to see a little bit more of? is uh these types is this what we're going to see as far as new businesses. Are we going to see impermeable surfaces uh being put in out there that will need to um we're talking about protecting. Are we going to be able to protect the wetlands in the sense that uh and and what are we doing to do so or or what are the applicants uh willing to do to help that and that we could see uh runoff of the uh from the hard or the impermeable surfaces. Is is that going to affect the soil content or the water aquifer underneath? How are we going to see this going forward? is are we opening up a Pandora's box when we do this and say, "All right, well, we're going to allow this and then we'll see start seeing uh a lot more of these types of businesses that are going to require a large impermeable surface footprint in that area. And if that is the case, are we willing to accept that?" I I I for one am not opposed to it, but I feel like we do need to understand the environmental impact.

I'm going to make a joke that uh it's probably not too cordial, but uh this would have been nice to have a general plan done a year ago, you know, to discuss some of this stuff. I do feel like that question is a little off topic with what you're discussing here. I mean, it's a fair question, but that's that's a a general plan type discussion. It is. It is. You're you you actually are point point taken and and this is a conditional use permit. Okay, fair enough. But I think that's a great discussion part of our general plan. It is because it's a great conversation. It's excellent for the general plan. You were going to say something, Council.

Well, I I agree with you that it is a little off topic, but it does not change the fact that I can see why Brian's bringing it up. It is a concern that we um probably do need to just look into. I you know I Yeah, I just want to make sure that we haven't opened Pandora's box. I It's open. All right. Anything? Let's try to close this. Anything more on this issue? Uh I don't have a problem back on this issue. I don't have a problem with this particular use or anything. I just You open up Pandora's blog. Now Mike is coming up. Here comes Mike jumping out of Pandora's box.

I think this will actually help maybe give you some assurances of what's going on. The use that was being requested to be removed is actually more impactful to the SCP because it's you're talking like heavy duty trucks and large bulldozers and large um was that just sitting there? It was in the It was in the code

originally and you're doing some cleanup. Yeah, it was in the code and we were we were surprised to see the level of impact being in there already. So, ironically, an applicant asking us to remove it made sense to staff like, wo, do we even want these kind of uses in that zone? And in place, you get more of a typical automotive dealership that can sell automobiles, trucks, and motorcycles, which would have much less of an impact on the footprint of a site than some of those heavier equipment type of of dealerships. So we thought it was actually a good thing for the area and for the city.

Okay. So So this actually limits some of the things that maybe I guess in my mind I I knew we were removing one thing but I did not understand the nuances as well as I maybe Yeah. And then and then on top of it, obviously we have the SCP zone itself, but I think staff, we all agree as planning staff that the SCP zone could use some work to your bigger commentary, but obviously for this purposes, we won't get into it, but that is something that on the horizon we would like to work for the very things that you're talking about. I I don't have any issues with this business moving ahead. I think, you know, we want them to be successful. Thank you, Mike, for keeping it uh opening Pandora's box, but keeping it within the top.

You're welcome. We see the concerns as well. So, nice work. All right. So, I think we're looking for a motion then. I move that we approve ordinance 2026-04 for the zoning code text amendment proposal with the understanding that the suggested use category for vehicle rental and sale new limited be a conditional use in the shorelands commerce zone second further discussion let's vote counciloman I I I

I uh motion passes for with Uh and of course the conflict of interest uh was so noted as well too. So thank you. Thank you staff for that. And uh Nate, right? Tom. Tom. You're Tom. Close though. All right. Good luck to you. Thank you. Council Danger said hi to you. So, you know, I thought maybe you were the nephew, but thanks. Close. Yeah. All righty. Let's move on. Let's go to uh item number two. You have a conflict on this or you coming back up.

He falling asleep down there. I'm watching you from back there. Thank you. All right. This next one is uh another public hearing uh matter. This is on the uh subdivision final plat amendment for the Tumblewood condominiums. Uh, second amended subdivision. Uh, staff, uh, looks like Sydney, are you reporting again? I am. Okay.

Uh, so the applicant, Ken Hawk, which, um, is with Great Basin Engineering, is seeking the approval of the comm condominium subdivision plat amendment for the commercial properties located at approximately 1270 West to 1360 West Legacy Lane. Um, this subdivision is located in an existing industrial high zoning district. The applicant seeks to alter the boundary lines in the buildings of number four and building three. So, no external parcel alterations. Centerville Municipal Code 1509.090 090 states that the city council may approve the amendment of the plat or portion of the plat along with the proposed easement verifications on the following grounds. Number one, there's good cause for the vacation or the amendment. And then number two, neither the public interest nor any person will be injured by the vacation or amendment. The key factor that um staff really wants to hit on is that there is a cross access um agreement for the Tumbleeed Condominium and the South David Davis Metro Fire to access Legacy Lane. That is the road just south of the property. Um and that is for access for the Tumbleeed. Um, Legacy Lane, the private road, has never had a cross access agreement established. None of our records state that. Um, and neither did um the GE Estates LLC. Um, a separate agreement does exist though, however, between the South Davis Metro Fire and the owners of the GE Estates LLC for the health safety standards of

accessing the very back um, let me see if I can pull it up. The very back building of the GE estates at the end of that Legacy Lane Road. Um, and that was back in 2003. So trying to work together with both both parties, staff has agreed under these particular conditions um that a temporary cross access agreement between GE Estates LLC and Tumbleeed um LLC is okay to do so for 3 years knowing that potentially in the future there is a risk for the owners of Tumbleeed of this Tumble Reed project to not have access. Um it will be up to the two entities to re-evaluate the easement once the three years have passed. This temporary cross access agreement applies only to the Tumbleeed Condominium subdivision and it does not at all access the um agreement with the South Davis Metro Fire for health safety and welfare standards. Um staff believes that the proposed subdivision plat amendment um is compliant with all the city standards and zoning codes.

That's all. Thank you, Sydney. Questions for staff?

Nothing. So, this is really being I guess they did some renovations and they combined. Is that what they're doing with dining? They're redoing. Yeah, they're redoing the units on the inside and they're all individual parcels. So, as condos and now they're going to Are there three and four? Will it have the same amount? I'm sorry. It will have the same amount. It's just the configuration of the lines. Okay. Uh, is there a um applicant present or do you want to say anything before I go to public hearing on it? No, I'm good. Two for two. Pretty good.

We're so grateful you came though. It adds to our attendance number.

Great. Okay, we will go to a public hearing then on subdivision final plat amendment uh in regards to tumble condominiums. Anybody that wants to comment uh just state your your name and where you're from. Seeing no comment, I will close the public hearing and we will come back. Uh once again uh uh the applicant or staff don't need to res respond to any uh public comments, but council, do you have any further questions for the applicant uh or staff on this one?

I'll recommend approval of the proposed second amendment to the Tumble Week Condominium's amended subdivision plat. I'll second that. Do you make that motion for conditions one through five in the staff report with findings A through C? Yes. So noted as you still have a second on that. Second on that. That noted. Okay. Great. Uh further discussion. Let's start with a vote from Councilman Banger going to the right. I I I I I.

That motion passes unanimously. Uh thank you staff and uh thank you advocate for coming. All right. Uh let's go to the next item. Item number three on your agenda. This is a public hearing uh zoning code a bidman on water efficient landscaping ordinance 2026-05. And I know we have stuff in our packet but I'm excited to hear uh what Mike has to say about it as well too. So, Mike Egg, thank you, Mayor. Thank you, council. I I will lead out on this one and then Lisa, I will defer to you at some point to kind of talk about some legalities if you want to take that ball. Sure.

Um the background on this one, this started about mid year last year. Uh we started talking to city staff and we had some city leadership um showing some interest as well as residents in the rebate program, water conservation program that is provided through Weaver Basin Water Conservancy District as well as being aware that we were starting to see more and more drought behaviors and obviously we haven't really improved our circumstances this year. So, um, we we looked into it and and what happened is, uh, we started working on a draft probably last about September time frame. Lisa and I took some some stabs that I took the lead on it initially and brought a first draft to the planning commission on October 8th. Uh during that meeting uh they looked at it, asked us to invite a a representative from We Are Basin Water to come to the next meeting um to answer questions, talk about the program, look at policies, those sorts of things. Uh the documents that are associated with those programs are found in the packet as well if you'd like to refer to those. Uh they did accept that invitation. Uh John Perry with Weaver Basin Water attended the meeting on October 22nd of last year. Um and we had a really good discussion with the planning commission. um he identified that what had been presented to the planning commission in that packet back on that date did meet the requirements criteria of weaver basin waters program. However, there were still some some confusion and conversation within the planning commission itself to try to better um understand some some landscaping codes. There's some was even some older code features that were related to the previous efforts for water conservation but weren't quite as clear or tightening of the language that they want us to evaluate further. So, um, we did that, um, and they did set a public hearing for December 10th with the the updated language to come back to them following that discussion with L basin water. Uh, we did come back on December 10th, the planning commission and held the public hearing with that version of the code at that time. Um, and during the

conversation that followed the public hearing at the planning commission, we felt like we were getting closer and closer, but again, the appeal was to staff to to work even harder to tighten the pencil. We we started fleshing out some of the concerns relative to what does residential landscaping standards look like to meet the standard. What do commercial industrial landscaping standards look like to meet the the expectation of the weaver basin water program? And what does the state's um expectation with their newer bills that they had passed earlier that year in 2025 mean for the code that we were trying to amend. So, it was a pretty big um a pretty big task to look at all these elements as we were trying to refine this language. um following the guidance from the planning commission that we work on it and and really take a good clean effort at it. Lisa um offered and and took the ball to run with it and worked on uh the language for I don't know about what two and a half three months probably off and on um working on it and as she did that she realized that item four which is on the agenda which is relative to the municipal code uh as it relates to park strips and and park strip use would be um impacted by the language she was working on with this draft. And so she continued to work on it. She talked to me. She had talked to again the representatives from Weaver Bas and Water was running concepts through them. Ultimately came to a draft that she presented to them back in about February time frame to see if it would again sustain and and uphold the programming required to be um benefiting of the program for the residents of Centerville. Um they said it was good and at that point we uh set a public hearing through guidance of the planning commission for March 11th. We brought that version of the pack or of the language to the planning commission. Um, and following a a po a public hearing, make sure I get my right words, they uh they discussed it further. They

really liked uh where it had been. It was a a kind of a refresh final version, really supportive of that version that Lisa had put together. And that's the version that is found in your packet. You can see the voting history on that was a 660 6 vote with one commissioner not being present. Um and uh they they were very supportive and favorable of it. So with that again I will just note that you have in your packet the um some of the earlier commentary from the we were basing water consery team as well as their their guidance rebate program information and then the state conservation uh language that enables Weaver Mason have the funding to uh pay for and assist with this programming um for residents of the community who might want to benefit from it. I I will also say that Lisa did a great job adding a non-conforming statement in the code that creates a a protection for obviously all existing homes and businesses to maintain as they have it currently established with a a time frame of May 1st. Any new development after May 1st would then be subject to the standards of this code work to be approved tonight or at a future date prior to May 1. So with that, I will I guess turn it over to you. Oh, and I will note there's also state codes and statutes in there that further talk about the the nature of the um language that you see in your packet tonight. And with that, I guess I'll turn over to you, Lisa, and you can talk more about the features and things you worked on from there.

Um, yeah, I think it's helpful to have that background. Um, obviously these code amendments are a team effort and um, you know, want to thank Mike as well as the planning commission because I think our first round the planning commission asked some really good questions and how is this going to work and when is it going to go into effect and um, so we kind of went back to the code. Um, but I think we were trying to deal with three things in this rewrite. Um the first one is making sure that we can comply with the Weber Basin um water incentive program because that's the direction from the council is we want our citizens to be able to apply for this program. So that's what this code does. But with that understand that we are changing 180 degrees our previous policy on what went in the park strip. We essentially wanted lawn in the park strip. Um, we allowed some hardscaping. Uh, but now we are saying you cannot have lawn in the park strip on new development. Um, and I can explain the non-conforming clause, but essentially that was a big concern of the planning commission. What if somebody puts in a new pool? What if somebody puts in a deck? You know, when are they going to have to rip that out? So, the nonconformity clause that we put in is basically if you demolish an existing home and rebuild a new one or you increase the square footage by more than 50%. So, it's a major remodel or a complete demolition and redo. So, I think just to help those people, even council members, citizens that want to keep the lawn in their park strip, they can until and unless they do something very drastic with their single family home, they can keep that lawn in the park strip. But we're trying to move forward with water efficiency and let those that do want to conserve water and other efficiencies and put something different in the park strip, they can.

and they can also comply with um the incentive program. And then the third issue is that we were trying to make these edits to our landscaping code in chapter 1251 of our zoning code which previously only addressed commercial industrial and multifamily development. So, we were trying to put, you know, these residential landscaping standards in a commercial code. And so, and it was very repetitive. So, um, I'll just go through a few things that I think will help us administer this, but that's why it got a little wordy because every time we talked about landscaping, we had to talk about commercial and then we had to talk about single family residential. And every time we talked about landscaping, we had to talk about landscaping in general, but then exclude park strips or narrow spaces or single family. So, um, with that, I I just want to highlight that, you know, essentially the the biggest provision and instead of hiding it in various sections of our code, I just said, let's consolidate all of these lawn and turf restrictions into one section of our code, which is your new section on page 5, 1251065, lawn and turf restrictions. And so these are the requirements that in order for our citizens to comply with the Weber Basin Incentive Program, we have to have these in our code. So let me just go through those. Um park strips. And so we're talking about different areas of lawn in different zones, but park strips, every zone, every zone, we have to from here on out prohibit lawn in the park strip for any new development, new home, new commercial, new public facility. No more lawn in the park

strip. Can I just ask a quick question? When you talk about, so you brought up earlier, you know, somebody's putting in a pool or they're doing a major remodel. I mean, it's a pretty major remodel if it's they're if they have to comply with this, but what about commercial businesses? Are they have we got some language there to kind of protect them as well?

So, typically if something is non-conforming, we go to chapter 1223 and that's our non-conforming use ordinance. And we have non-conforming lots, non-conforming buildings, non-conforming, you know, uh, uses. Thank you. But our code specifically says that landscaping is considered a non an other nonconformity. So right there, so right in our code, we're saying landscaping is an other nonconformity under chapter 1223. Um I typically like to just refer back to that. Why rewrite code when you don't have to? So for commercial we just refer back and say okay for commercial you are going to be non-conforming and you can keep what you have until and unless you meet the standards in 1223 and the standards in 1223 actually say I think 30% um square footage or value in if it's a change in use. So anyway, we're just referring back. So commercial will have to bring their landscaping up sooner than residential. Um and then rather than referring residential, I think that it makes sense, and I did specifically say this to Weaver Basin, hey, read the non-conformity clause that we drafted because it's pretty broad, but we really didn't want to trigger making single family residential homes pull out their landscaping and put in other um requirements. And so they were okay with that and and really like I said it it won't trigger it unless you want to for a long time for single family but re but commercial uh and industrial and those things will just have to comply under our standard non-conforming use which is any other. So it's just going to follow like if they hit that criteria they have to bring their parking up to code. They

have to bring their landscaping up to code. And so because the idea of nonconformities is that essentially they need to come into code, but we're going to allow you to exist as long as you want until and unless you trigger. And um so I I think this is a reasonable fair and also takes away the the concern I guess that the the planning commission had that you know we don't want this to be hard to administer and we don't want people to think they have to go rip their park strips out because we actually you know many people this is some people want lawn in the park strip some people don't and so this allows people to do whichever they choose or existing

existing for existing. So, so new ones, in order for us to be able to have our citizens qualify for the rebate from the Weber Basin, we have to have all new um yes, for new development. So, a new single family, they can't have a choice. They can't have a choice. New will cannot have uh lawn in the park.

That makes me I mean, I will vote for it because I know that there are citizens that want it. I'm really sad to take people's I feel like they're property owners and if they want to have grass in their park strip, they ought to be able to have it. I think there are businesses that are coming out now with drip and stuff that the water is very minimal for the park strips if it's done right. And so I stress a little bit about that, but I can support this for the people that want it. And then if they, you know, if we get enough people coming and that want grass, I guess they'll come in and ask us to change it. Um,

I ask a quick question. Where do exempt properties fit into that? Churches, government property, are they considered commercial in this aspect or? Yes. And I tried to be more broad and that was something that the state wanted to know. does this um impact and I guess it was they were asking for I because we call those public facilities like schools they were specifically asking for schools and I said yes in Centerville a school is considered a public facility and so they would be subject to this and it it says any nonresident non-conforming status right okay

but new churches would be prohibited from um putting lawn in park trips if any new churches are built and then there's additional areas if I could go on to those that we have to restrict, not just park strips. So Lisa, before you move from park strips, can I just ask for clarification in the business park? Many businesses don't have a park strip because there's not a sidewalk. So how does this how does this refer to the front part of their property where it's right to back of curb, Mike?

Yeah. So we did cover that as um we did cover it and I don't um so what I did we well I was trying to address if there is no sidewalk because we have a lot of homes um in the townsite area where there's no sidewalk and so the what I did with that is because I really didn't want them to have to put in 8 ft of gravel because that's now under title 11 that's how we define park strip is if you don't have a sidewalk it's the whole area. So, I just said for this chapter, if you don't have a sidewalk, you don't have a park strip. Thank you. I appreciate that.

You're not subject to it. And I also pointed that out to them. I'm like, "Does this fly?" And he's like, "Yes, it's so limited." Um, so anyway, but that one's interesting. It's a little different. I did not think about that where you do have a sidewalk, but really you I think that would also apply because you don't have a park. Don't have a parking strip, right? So, and and that's where and it is okay because really the intent of this is we don't want to water these narrow areas whether it's Park Strip or anywhere else on a piece of property because they're just too hard to spray and we get the overspray and that's the easiest, you know, water conservation area we can target throughout the state. You know, that's what they picked. So,

60 to 70% of the water is wasted in a park strip on these narrow and and even on an 8 foot, you know. So anyway, that's where no matter what spring, you can go with low like low or the efficient ones and you still lose quite a bit of water. That's fine. And so when you don't when you're doing back of sidewalk, you know, you're you don't have that narrow strip issue that you're going to waste a lot of water. But anyway, I was very happy with that. Let's just exempt them. that was there's no it's not considered a park strip but only for this chapter because we do we may have other regulations that we want it to be considered a park strip but um so the other area any other questions

park strips are owned by the city we've we know this so but so in those homes that don't have um the park strip or sidewalk does the city own a or is it just an easement in that that particular area we own right away up to almost people's doorsteps here in this area. I mean, the rideway is almost their entire front yard. We have very large rideway, but typically we own um the four the curb and the 4ft park strip and the back of sidewalk. So, it's 8 ft,

but the streets are rarely built right in the middle of the rideway. I mean, now we do a better job, but so it could be, you know, but hopefully some sometimes you have we own another foot behind the sidewalk, but um often times on a on a residential, but on some of our old, as Brandt's saying, townsite streets, they're you know, we do have 80 foot wide residential streets, and we have been fixing that with vacating some of that.

Um so we also have to pro prohibit lawn or turf in all zones. again um in any area that's less than 8 ft wide. So if you have, you know, a triangle and it gets, you know, as long as that triangle is 8 ft, you can't water it. So you'd have to make that like a planter area. And then once you get something wide enough that that you're not going to have overspray, then you can do it

all zones. Um and then now and then for single family residential only the front and sideyards lawn and turf cannot exceed 35% of the front yard and the sideyard. So you can't just put lawn it cannot exceed 35% of your front and sideyard. And this is required by Weaver Basin. Yes. And it's actually more restrictive than the state. I think the state says 40 50% 50 I think it's 50% state. Yeah.

Um and then for commercial commercial industrial public facility and multifamily basically everything other than single family residential shall not exceed 15% of the total landscaped area. So of your landscaped area. Yep. You can't have more than 15% of turf, but you can have plants and trees and zeroscape. Mhm. Essentially. Yeah. Yeah.

Um, and so now I'm I am on page six where I have I just wanted to put an effective date so that we don't have to research when this was adopted. if if adopted and you're welcome to table it because this is a lot and it's a change in direction but uh the proposed effective date would be May 1st or whenever the council wants to put this into place um which we can do if if you want it you know the date of adoption as soon as we record it but and then this is where the nonconformity provision is um just trying to state clearly that you can continue the existence of lawn or turf in your park strips or any of these other narrow areas. Um and but that oh sorry it's 1222 the non-conformities but non-s single family residential um have to bring it into compliance if and when it would trigger it under 1222. Okay, we're not reinventing the code, but single family, we are reinventing the code. And we're going to say single family, your nonconformity is not triggered to bring into compliance until and unless you demolish an existing single family dwelling and you construct a new one. So, if you demolish it, you still don't have to take your lawn out. probably would. But once you do that new construction or um the re a remodeling or expansion of an existing single family dwelling that increases the total square footage uh by more than 50%. And Mike did point out in the planning commission meeting that this is also the standard in under the flood control or

in a flood plan. Yeah.

Yeah. So um it's considered you know major reconstruction or damage after 50%. So, uh, one thing that I have thought about since, so it says right here, also wanted to be clear, the construction or reconstruction of a garage, barn, shed, or other accessory structure than the primary single family dwelling shall not be considered trigger. And then, as we talked about with the planning commission, I don't think we need to say deck, fence, pool, because those are pretty substantial structures. But you can do whatever you want. It's only the single family. You can tighten that if you want, but I think this was the main concern of saying, are we going to have to what's the impact of this? So, we need to communicate with our residents that, you know, those that want to keep their lawn, they likely can for the life of their house.

And in reading this, I wondered about ADUs. I was just going to say I just realized now that we have to do detached ADUs, we this wouldn't would not trigger it, but that's a great policy question. If they're going to put a second dwelling, do you want them to rip out their lawn? But we don't we don't allow detached ADUs as of right now. Well, we're maybe with state law, right? But they haven't passed that yet. They they did. They did. Oh, they did. Yeah. And some of us are very favorable to allowing that anyway. So, we'll have to have a vote on that in the future. But,

but why don't Yeah. And I That's a great question. I was just saying that we need to add that here and address it. Maybe we should try to remember to address it because we have to come up with an ordinance. They did allow local jurisdictions to decide the setbacks and other things with those detached. We have to allow them on but is it 5,000 or 6? It's 6,000 11,000 for a detached 1,000 minimum size. But I can see where some of those in some of our smaller lots might be more than 50% of the square foot of the primary residence. I mean, there's I

I guess the one thing I would say about that I'm I'm all for, you know, trying to reduce water use outside, but it also may become slightly I'd like our neighborhoods to kind of retain a certain like like it's all it's all voluntary right now. And if you have somebody put in an ADU and they didn't want to replace their turf, maybe it changes the look of that neighborhood. And I but I mean that's a pretty big change. You know, if you're talking 50% or more triggers that I mean a detached ADU is also a pretty big change. So maybe we should keep it more.

So I think that one we should just tackle with the ADU ordinance because looking at it how it feels, how it looks, how much of a change, but you know my sense is probably allow them to keep them on. My detach ADU is a garage, so I don't have to. It doesn't trigger it if I call it a garage, right? I'm just kidding. What? If I call it a garage, it won't trigger it. Even though it's a detach, I think because we deal with that right now, we deal with this constant shifting of anyway jargon. I think it would be nice to to deal with that later and try to get something passed sooner just because with the continuing drought conditions, it might be nice to give people this opportunity to

People are starting right now. That that's something I'm wanting to discuss is is because I I I see it happening in my neighborhood. People have started already. Can we uh I I guess it would we would pass it and then they would uh have to go through Weber Basin and work out some sort of uh that they had started before we had done this. They can't if they've pulled the turf out, they do not qualify. So like when the contractor killed my grass in my backyard and I'm not putting it back, I don't qualify. H and we can't help that in our ordinance. No, that's their that's their deal. They're the ones

they want pictures and photographs. Again, it's state money passing through the conservancy districts. Mhm. Mhm. So, the state has pretty good restrictions. I have a question in regards to u we have a few residential um developments going right now and they've and a lot of times they like conformity um HOA conformity uh how would this affect uh homes going I mean obviously uh we're saying May 1st is going to be the trigger date with so that may affect these uh developments that are already underway under

if they're underway. They've already been approved. So they So they are not going to be affected grandfather in underneath and they will be able to put turf in. Mhm. Okay. So would that be like up in Symphony Homes? Yeah. Symphony Homes isn't going to qualif I mean they're not going to be required. They could a homeowner could go in and do the rebate program. Right. Right. But if if a new home's being built up there, it doesn't have to. Okay, that was my questions.

Um, let's see, what was the other thing I wanted to highlight? I do want to highlight that by ripping out the lawn or turf, um, it doesn't mean that you can just put in gravel. um particularly to to qualify for the Weaver Basin um incentive, you actually have to put in live plants with a drip system and those plants at full growth have to have a certain coverage. So there still will be landscaping in the park strip and it's required. Um if you have the money

and I know we've I know we talked about this a few years ago when we did the park strip rebate program. I've got a few neighbors who have converted over to this, you know, some gravel, but a lot of plants in the park strip. They actually are looking really nice. Like that that is a really good look. Yeah, I think a lot a lot of homes have already made that change and, you know, there's a lot of new designs.

Um, and then just one more section on page 13 that I wanted to highlight. So, we had many of these provisions. Um this the state had adopted water efficiency or water-wise landscaping requirements some years ago. And so on page 11, this H, we already had water efficient landscaping design standards or schemes. And so we had some provisions. They were just shoulds or could if you want to. So I just took those out of that section because it was a very long section and created its own section 075. So if you want to find you know where are the turf restrictions and where are the water efficient landscaping. So now they're their own sections and I think it'll be a lot easier for staff and you know residents to find. Um, but anyway, these are just I took some of these, most of these are what we already had, but I also added some requirements from Weber Basin just so people get an idea that, you know, if you're applying for this, you do have to have and that's what um well, like 90% should be drought tolerant or water efficient um plants. Um what did they say? Yeah, the water irrigation systems should be water sense or smart controlled. Um, uh, and that yeah, where's the bark or mulch? Anyway, you need like 3 to 4 in of bark or mulch. So, but in reviewing the state code, these actually are not required. So, I didn't change that. Um, so 075, they're just suggestions for people

if you want to be water efficient. They're not requirements. Um, they're just suggestions. So, I I know, you know, this has been a priority for the council and we're sorry it took so long. Um, but it did require a lot of uh work given our commercial code and trying to add these. But also trying to be, you know, as so we can qualify for that the incentive program and having this be something that you know, Centerville, so we still regulate our park strips. So they're giving the money for the park strips, but are they giving it for people's backyards? I hadn't heard that.

Front yards. So this will also qualify for that rebate for the turf in the front yards. I think it's that's the big deal is ultimately you could flip your strip right now. they qualify. They don't like our ordinance cuz we strongly encourage or recommend these things, but with this change that now qualifies for the different pot of money that allows them to take turf out to put in zero skate, right? But and that c that would include their whole front yard or just the punching the front yard the front yard to a certain percentage or the it's a it's definitely more it's more lenient and more

I won't say lucrative but there's more money available in that pot to help rip out I think it's $2 a square foot and there's a maximum though it's not as someone who zero say lucrative I wouldn't say so so as someone who zero scapes it doesn't cover like maybe half the cost if even that a quarter of the cost if you're you're replacing it. So, it's pretty minor, but it does help offset the cost. So, I I just thought it was the park strips. I didn't realize it was No, this your backyard John and and others have come my backyard and I'm just saying they killed the lawn. I I was just making the example that because the grass is already dead and gone that it doesn't but Mike, I don't know if there's anything else.

No, the in fact the landscape lawn exchange program is in your packet. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's $2.50 per square foot. Oh. For any area in your yard that's currently grass lawn that is removed and replaced with a more water efficient alternative. Yeah. So, it would have any area in your yard. And it needs to be permanent. I didn't know they were going to kill my yard maximum where the maximum but al also a big change is that we are allowing hardcaping is

Yes. So, that was the other major change and I was going to deal with that in the next one, but you know, we've worked long and hard on what we can have in our park strips because if you put bark or mulch, we don't really want that because it just goes down the the storm drain system and you know can clog the system and so we have limited it to rocks that are 2 in and above and but with this about phase saying okay well so we just kind of broaden that and we're going to going to allow more things but not necessarily all concrete you know I was going to say what you're saying hardcape we're not allowing concrete are we

well their program doesn't qualify if you look at program requirements and restrictions some permeables like pavers yeah you it says replacing lawn with concrete or other impermeable surfaces are not eligible for payment areas covered with artificial turf will not be included in the incentivized project payment okay so but I don't want people to be able to do so it's not allowed for the the incentive, but but yeah, you can still we can we're still allowing for certain heartscape in that if you do not want that incentive. No, we've never allowed heart you can't put concrete in. We've allowed parkscapes of short distances. We we had that issue we dealt with a few

years to go within a sidewalk, but you can't do your park your walk path and things like that. Oh, that's you know um

let's see. So, I'm just looking at title chapter. So, we had to go change our municipal code because that's where we regulate what you can put in the park strip under our streets. Um, so now we have to say there that lawn and turf is prohibited in park strips. Um, and landscaping shall comply with 1251. Hardscaping shall comply with this section. Okay. So, hardscaping um Oh, yeah. So yeah, we still just limit it to hardscaping such as 1 and a half to six inch diameter decorative rock or loosely laid brick pavers and/or flag stones. The use of concrete, asphalt, coarse wood or synthetic project products such as bark, mulch and wood chips um is prohibited because those are the things that

the big thing is if we have to do any work in the park strip, we have to replace that and we don't want to replace your concrete. But if we pull up some flag stone or you know um paper papers and things like that then put it back. So here's what our title or chap title 11 used to say on park strips. Except as otherwise provided all park strips within the city shall be landscaped with grass and plantings or hard surfaced with acceptable materials. So, we had to take that out and say, "No, you can't do that." And but you can put landscaping and hardcaping, but we're still limited to the hardscaping that we had agreed to with Mark.

I'm just a little concerned that we're are we kneejerking a little in this huge drought that we're all very concerned about to qualify for an incentive, you know, and how long is that incentive going to be? I wouldn't say it's a knee-jerk because they've been asking for it for about two years and that's true and and I recognize the need totally but I hope we're not overdoing it because I do and I think most of us appreciate like Robin some of that is is Centerville having you know some of that that lawn and softscape I don't want it to look like Arizona

but we are Arizona at the same time right though we are the second third and that's the the challenge is we got the grass, but we don't have the water to support the grass anymore like we used to. And so again, as a I guess I'm respect private property owners. If you want rock in your in your yard, you should be able to have that option. And what I love about this is it's only for new development. And we're we're mostly built out. So if you want to keep your grass, you can. Um it gives you the option as your I do think some cities have drafted stricter regulations. And I just want to make it clear that, you know, hopefully your question is directed to the council because this was this was a council decision directing staff. So

I get excited about presenting, but it's not actually, you know, I'm just it's you put a lot of work into it. It is true. We did I I will say this. I I do get what you're saying, um, Councilman Bangader. I This is something that has been requested multiple times by residents. Um, and I do appreciate what staff has done in allowing people as much flexibility like if they already have an existing home that they really don't have to and I and I really appreciate that also and I agree with that. I think people have a right to put in what they want. I don't want anybody being forced at this point. Now,

you know, we'll see what next winter does. We may be looking at something totally different. But the but the reality is is if you go back and look at um Like if you go into like water flows in the state, we've had we had really really wet years in the 1900s. If you look at the tree ring data, that was super super wet compared to what Utah is. So I think we do have to kind of start shifting some of our thinking that we probably just don't have as much water as we thought. It might come back. Let's have fun. I know. It's just hard to change. I I I agree. I agree. But I do like I really I I really appreciate what staff has done. I do too. I think you've done an excellent

with the nonconforming. I that is so like fantastic job. Seriously that I can see there's just been a ton of work put into this. And I want to applaud that too. I I agree. That's that's a tough one to tackle. And I think you've done a good job. Yeah. I think you've done an excellent job because we do have people that want it and and like I said, if somebody comes in and wants to do a huge and we don't really have the ground, but if they want to do it, then they'll come in and ask for it to be changed. Yeah. I mean, this isn't a binding thing for the next hundred years. We may be looking at more in a year or two. If we don't get any more water, we're going to definitely be cutting

back. I I do know many many years ago um I knew a business owner that was frustrated with all of the landscaping they were like all the turf they had to put in and they they're paying for culinary water most of our businesses and I'm not saying anyone they don't even have to change obviously but they may choose to change and do something different and this gives them that flexibility to do I think they have more choices in a lot of ways than they did before Right. Agreed. I'm I'm fine. Like I said, I appreciate so much that we've really left the door open for people to keep what they want, the ones that if it's already

Yeah. Is there so let's say um are there areas to educate property owners on these um new landscaping designs with the plants that are being recommended? Is that at Weber Basin? Do they have a document or something?

They actually have a garden you can go up and tour. So there's a plethora of of articles. Utah waterway Utah waterways um is a nonprofit started by the state that they all have. They're doing all this research. Utah V or Utah State that's got a lot of resources. All you have to do is link it. There's so much going on out there. But yeah, you can go to Weaver Basin and walk their garden and say, "Oh, that plant looks great. I want that plant." There's all the information on there. Could we also maybe put some information maybe on our web like on the front page of our website that said, "Hey, you can now qualify for this rebate. hit this link for more information or just got to fill out the form and

I think it'd be great to let business owners know as well because they are paying by the gallon in many cases for their water. I not and you know they need to know they don't have to change but and spring is a good time to get this message out I think. And don't forget the utilization of our utility bill. Let's put a little note on that. We got room down here. We got an opportunity. Yeah. Agreed. It is a public hearing item since it's our zoning code. You done Lisa question done with Lisa K. Let's go to the uh

public hearing. This public hearing on zoning code amendment water efficient landscaping the ordinance 20 26-05. That public hearing is now open. We just ask that if you're applying to speak to state uh your name and where you're from. I don't know if you can hear me. We can hear you, Heather. Right. This

This is Heather McKenzie Campbell. And um just in answer to the resources, Weber Basin has a website with past webinars. They have current classes. We've attended a class on drip a couple weeks ago and we're going to another one in May. So, we've just been waiting for this u discussion to see how it went. We're excited about uh working on our south face u front yard. um just because of the water situation and I've lived in Utah since 76 and this everyone knows this this year was historic as far as how dry it is and I'd rather preserve water for other needs than than my the my front lawn. So I'm supportive of it. Um I think if they go to some of the classes I I do know just briefly that when you do apply there's four phases and you have a year to complete the project and I believe that they have to sign off on each of the phases. So we're going to educate ourselves a little more on that. Um but I think there's a lot of support for doing it right.

And that's all I have to say. Thank you for your work. Thank you Heather. Will you state where you're from? Oh, I'm I'm Centerville on Pages Lane 579. Yeah, you just need to know where you're from the record. Thanks. Thanks for the comments. Appreciate it. Thank you. Anybody I didn't see anybody else online see anybody else here. So, we'll close the public hearing and we'll come back to uh council. What's your favor? Can I make a motion? You may. You may. Mhm.

I'd like to make a motion to approve ordinance 2026-05 for zoning code text amendments to Centerville zoning code 12.47.090 regarding landscaping and screening for the addition of water conservation amendments and other associated landscaping amendments with the following findings um listed 1 through four in um staff's report. Second motion to second. Further discussion. Let's vote. Councilwoman Haymon to my right. I I I I with a little reservation. I

That uh passes. Uh thank you. Let's go on to M municipal code amendment water efficient landscaping ordinance 2026-06.

I'm happy to just take that one. Um, as Mike mentioned, just reviewing uh the changes that we made to our zoning code. There are two sections of our municipal code that we need to amend to be consistent with those. Um, in 11.02010 on the definition of park strip. I'm ju we're just adding that despite this definition of park strip for purposes of streets and other things this title 11 for purposes of the landscaping um properties that do not have a sidewalk are not considered to have a a park strip and and then in 02 just deleting the language that said unless otherwise provided all park strips shall be landscaped with grass to the new standard that lawn or turf is prohibited within park strips for new development. So, um but again limiting our hardscape to those things that will help us maintain more efficiently our storm drain system and not send bark and mulch down the the storm drain. So, we're not making changes to that. And with that, we recommend um approval of of this ordinance. And I don't think we've scheduled a public hearing for this one.

It's not an agenda as such. Is there a reason? No. It's just a municipal code, so it does not require it. Okay. Further questions on that one. You confirm? Yeah, sure. Motion. Okay. I'll move that we approve ordinance 2026-06 for municipal code text amendment to Centerville Municipal Code 11.02 2 regarding park strip and park strip trees for the amendments to park strip areas in conjunction with water conservation amendments and other associated landscaping amendments with one through four in the staff report. Second further discussion let's vote councilman hurst go right I

I I I that motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Let's go to a public hearing matter. Another one on Saturday B schedule a amendment professional services. Um Lisa,

thank you mayor and councel. Uh we have a proposal to amend our fee schedule. Um this one is a team effort. staff has been requesting this probably from the finance department and engineering and just even our community development um to eliminate what we refer to as a professional services deposit. So when an applicant comes in for any kind of application, we have a lot of different types of applications that require these professional services deposits. Um and professional services are for legal engineering or any other kind of consulting that you know costs that the city incurs. For instance, on a subdivision, the city engineer reviews the legal descriptions and everything and we incur those direct costs. We put those costs onto the developer and they pay those. We're not changing that. The developer will still fa pay for professional services. The only thing we're requesting is to eliminate the deposit because the deposit is a time-consuming task where we take $250 from someone and we have to put it in a bucket that says if we use this then we keep it. If we don't we give it back to them. But on these, I think in the last few years, we have not, you know, mo we have not refunded a $250 professional services deposit because all of these applications require extensive costs either engineering, legal, etc. So, we would like to eliminate this because it's also an accounting task for our community development director who has to go through all the bills and say, "Oh, yeah, this one still has a deposit, so apply the deposit or don't apply the deposit." So, we would just like to eliminate the professional services fee deposit and add it to the application

fee. As I've stated, we already have good history that we always use this deposit um for professional services. Um even like on this first one, it's the telecommunications franchise fee. Um you know, that will require legal services and other things. Um I will say our fees staff will be be bringing more amendments to our fee schedule because we undercharge and we subsidize. We understand that we provide services and at at some level we are going to subsidize those applications but um many of these fees have not been increased in many many many years. Um so our fees ha cannot be revenue raising. They have to be justified by the services that are provided. But in my opinion I've gone through these and these are justified. Um, and we will be bringing additional changes back to you. I was going to make some more substantive changes, but I got really good advice from the development review committee that said keep it simple. Just take the deposit and put it in the fee so there's nothing of controversy in this amendment and then we'll bring substantive changes back to you later having gone through all of these many many pages of our fee schedule with with required changes. So, that's our recommendation. Um, I don't know if Nate or Mike want to comment. Um,

I probably covered it. Covered it. Great. Okay. So, we're just recommending and requesting these changes. Um, and although we are not required to have a public hearing in response to council comments, I which I think is relevant to to have a public hearing on any fee increase, this isn't essentially technically a fee increase in my mind, but we might as well let people comment. And if we have some that have already been paid, then they will they could get theirs back if we don't use it all. Yes. Well, and our yeah, our code, yes, they would, but we haven't been refunding for quite some time. But

have we done, excuse me, Mr. Robin, have we done any research on comparatively speaking, how we stack up with neighboring cities?

We did not do that on this one. Um, I think as we do more subsidive, we're happy to do that on, you know, other changes. But for instance, on our subdivision fees, we really need to do more analysis because we are spending a lot of time with these new state changes and the checklist that we have to have and the time frames that we have to respond in and we only get two reviews and so everybody has to drop everything and meet the time frames. So anyway, I think we should increase our subdivision fees, but when we do so, we're happy to look at what other cities are are charging. I would appreciate us doing that.

Lisa, how long until all of our existing deposits for professional services are likely exhausted, right? Because this is only going forward for new applications. So, we're still going to have to manage the existing ones on the books. Yes. I don't know, maybe Mike or Nate would know how many of those we have in the works. I'm I I don't need like an exact. I'm just like in six months. Usually it's taken as soon as they apply, you know, because we bill those monthly. Um, so most of them don't hang around for very long. I mean, I'd be maybe dozen or not even probably not at this point. Majority of them have already been processed. You might have like couple two to four, five maybe at this point.

Oh, that's good. Okay, this uh this is a public hearing. Um so I will open the public hearing for centerville peace schedule amendments resolution 2026-02. Those that want to comment just state your name and where you're from. That public hearing is now open. Seeing nobody commenting online or in person, we will close the public hearing, we will come back to see if there's any further discussion or if somebody's ready to issue a motion or make a motion. I'll move that we approve resolution number 2026-2 amending various sections of the Senatoral fee schedule to eliminate professional services deposits and add such deposit amounts to the applicable application fee set forth in the staff report.

Second have a motion to second further discussion. Councilman Plameumber, you start the voting going to the right. I I I I I That passes unanimously. Thank you. Go to municipal code amendments uh professional services deposits. This is ordinance 2026-08.

Thank you. I'll take that one. Um but just as a preface, I do want to say so the previous resolution amending all the fee schedules was the task that started me looking into the ordinance creator that municipal code provides with our software service. Um because otherwise we would copy and paste all of these sections of code into a word document and then make the edits. But now I can make the edits directly in our code and it creates the red line and strikeout. It creates all the this section we have to type in the whereas but it automatically and so we had to give up some flexibility and customization on our ordinances but I think it's amazing and it is saving an incredible amount of time as you will see. I've put out twice as many ordinances and resolutions. It's It's She's

addict This is awesome. Yes, I'm addicted to it. So, because you could just put it right in and

it and oh, and you can leave them there in the background. So, like when we're in DRC, if some we're like, "Oh, we should make that amendment." I'll just start a new amendment like and then it reminds you, oh yeah, here's what we wanted to amend on site plans. And when we have enough of those ideas or amendments, then we can bring that forward. So I think it's going to be a really great uh yeah efficient it's it's a it's an efficiency creator. Okay. Plug for MUN code. Um so the next ordinance is also on these professional services deposits. There were four sections in our municipal code uh that address professional services deposits. So we're just recommending that you eliminate those references. Um, and no public hearing is required for this one because it's just a municipal um, ordinance change and and this document is actually raising the fees.

It's just a cleanup bill. Yes. Yeah. Further questions for it. I'll re I'll recommend that we approve ordinance number 2026-08 amending various sections of the Centerville Municipal Code to eliminate professional services deposits and add such deposit amounts to the applicable application fees set forth in the Centerville. Second. Further discussion council me I I I I thanks that pass unanimously. Let's go item number seven. This is personal policies amendments. Uh Lisa,

yes, thank you. This one was actually brought to my attention u by Chief Aerson. So I appreciate that. But the state did change. So, we we all recognize um Junth, which officially occurs on June 19th, but the state of Utah had this very lengthy calculation that if it was on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, we were going to celebrate it on the previous Monday and if it was like Friday, Saturday, Sunday, we the next Monday. Anyway, it's very complicated, but we decided to follow state law. And luckily this year the legislature realized because this year Junth is on a Friday and we would be celebrating on a Monday. So we're just going to go with the day like any other holiday. So June 19th will be the holiday unless if it's Saturday, it'll be the preceding Friday. If it's Monday, it'll be I mean if it's Sunday, it'll be the next Monday. So this is great. We're all happy for this because the fire agency would actually celebrates it on June 19th. So there was a lot of confusion even among employees when we were celebrating this holiday. So

many cities did it differently. Some celebrated on the day of and others celebrated on the Monday following what the state did. So this will bring a little bit more consistency. I think I know other cities will be changing it as well. So, we're just recommending um amendment to our um personnel policy and recommend approval of resolution 202603. I'll move we approve resolution number 202603 changing the date. The Junth holiday is observed by the city to coincide with the observation date of the state of Utah. I second that. Who wants it?

You got it. You guys want to do Russell? It's hard to get a word in edgewise to do that around here. Okay, we have a motion to second. Further discussion. Councilman Banger. I I I I I Good change when I come. I came one year on June 16th to the city and uh nobody was here. Doors were closed. I was wanting to talk to people. You know, mayor mayor and I have talked about we we had a conversation on Junth and we're so saying what are we doing here? I ran into Mayor Petro of Leighton and she Anyway, she was kind of having that same conversation. Anyway, all right, let's go to our summary action. Are we doing all these individually then or are we doing one by one?

Sum action can all be approved at the same time. It can. But I guess with that said, we do have four items. uh bond reduction, two bond, three bond, four bond reductions, Paris Creek, the hive uh pre-plat, the hive postplat, and the hens bayer subdivision. Uh do we have any questions on any of this summary action? If not, I would need a motion just uh that would bring uh each one of these with the amounts. Would you want that, Lisa, on the motion? Or could we just say all for bond reduction staff report?

Yeah. What would you guys would feel comfortable with? Uh uh Lisa attorney. Yes. I think you can just approve the summary action item with those items listed, but you could reference the the bonds. I mean the projects. Any questions on any of these? Okay. Somebody want to tackle a motion then?

Okay. I will move that we approve the bond reductions listed in in staff report numbers one through four. That includes the Parish Creek PDIO amended phase one, the Hive PUB pre-plat recording bond, the Hive PUB postplat recording bond, and the Hind minor subdivision BR. Second number one. We got a motion, a second for discussion. Councilwoman Haymon going to my right. I I I I I.

All right. Thank you. We go to minutes. We got minutes of March 3rd, 2026 work session, March 3rd, 2026 city council. We have a March 18th, 2026 budget retreat, a March 19th budget retreat, and a March 24th special uh 2026 special city council minutes. Uh you probably all remember those happening during March in what you saw on the minutes? Uh anything that uh we need changed? Brian, were you going to make any any adjustments to the March 3rd meeting? City Council,

by saying my name, you make me feel like I should. U may I point out on the bottom of page two, it talks about where Mr. Hup responded that all source files would be provided with the uh SUS report and I'm I'm almost positive I remember you actually specified including a word document and that was verified. I would like to add to the minutes that after the word provided and an editable word document.

I did request that that all source files would be provided including an editable file. Second. Okay. Uh any other changes to any of the other minutes?

Um then I would look for a motion to uh with that change to approve the minutes. So moved. Second. Uh all in favor I I

posted. Great. That passed unanimously. uh finance report Nate has provided for you uh Nate Pazair uh our finance director of financial statements through February. This is not the end of a quarter but they are there provided for your information and if you have any questions on them then uh he is there. If you if not they are presented for your purpose. Um as as you recall we usually just have him present in more detail on the quarterly financials. Any uh anything for Nate on those financials? Okay. And they were there for your uh purposes. All right. Let's go to Thank you, Nate, for doing that. Let's go to council report. Uh council member Haymon is going to report on her committee assignments, including Davis County Mosquito and Trails Committee.

So, a couple of updates. So, we have a new executive director. His name is Greg White. He is terrific. We have hired him from Salt Lake City. mosquito abatement district. He is also a Centerville resident. So, yay for Centerville. He is terrific. Um, last month, is it last month now? Yeah. Um, the last week of March, I had the opportunity as a member of the board to go attend the National Mosquito Abatement Conference. Yes, there is such a thing in Portland. And it was really fascinating. Um, I learned so much about mosquitoes and abading mosquitoes. I learned that we are actually Davis County. We're very well known nationwide. People would ask me where I was from and I stupidly would just start to say, "Oh, we're with the Davis Mosquito Abatement District." And then I would stop and say, "Oh, that's in Utah." And they would say, "Oh, no. We're familiar with Davis." I mean, we just we have a pretty big national reputation, which I thought was really interesting. and our former executive director is apparently a mosquito rock star. Um, everyone everyone knew Gary, but um I I learned it it's really a great opportunity speaking of why I think that being able to mingle and chat with other people in in different areas is really helpful. I was able to meet other people in other districts and learn not all entities and not all states manage mosquitoes the way we do. We do it through a special improvement district, right? But others have elected members in other places that are municipalities. They don't even want to deal with mosquitoes. So they'll hire private third-party companies to manage mosquitoes and they just pay people to do it. So and the technology that they have right now is incredible. Um in terms of uh we we have one spray plane, but other places are using helicopters. We have a drone. We're actually pretty on the cutting edge of drone technology.

So people are interested in that. They even have they can they they have equipment that they can irradiate mosquitoes. So essentially it sterilizes mosquitoes so that they're not breeding, right? It sterilizes the male mosquitoes so that they can't repopulate. Unfortunately, the type of mosquitoes that we have here really that's not a great um option for us. But there is a type of mosquito that is moving into Utah right now. It's started in St. George. It's coming up through we've got it into the Moab area. hasn't made it up this way yet, but maybe that's an option for us once that type of mosquito gets here. So, really fascinating. I mean, did you know that we have a nationwide shortage of entomologists? Yeah, bet you didn't know that. So, I it was a really really great opportunity and um I I learned a lot and I was really glad to be able to go. So, I got to nerd out over mosquitoes. So, um, anyway, so that's the update on the mosquito abatement district, and we're continuing to move forward with building our new facility. Um, on the trail side, this I I took over this role from Spencer Summer Hayes, who is the prior trails committee liaison, and I have to tell you guys, our trails committee is incredible. This group of people really, really get excited about trails. They're doing a lot of research. They're very proactive about trying to protect our trail systems. Not only do they do a lot of trail maintenance projects without a lot of taxpayer dollars. I mean, these people are volunteering a lot of their time and money. We give them like this much money, right, to to do anything. And yet they they take it and they're protecting our trail systems. They also have some really great ideas. Um they're looking at putting in a potentially they're going to come talk to us. they want to do a work session because they want to present all their ideas. Um, looking at putting a dual trail head um up in an area to protect that. Looking at partnering with the county to put in a

restroom. Um, looking at putting in some safety lighting. I mean, they have really big plans. And so, um, we're I'm I've been working with mayor. We're going to try to get once if we have a lot I know on work sessions, but I would really love to have the trails committee come present their ideas to us so that we can start considering these. So, not for this year's budget, but maybe for next year's budget. Maybe we can start working in some some things. So, but really just top top-notch people on our trials committee. Um, mayor, you've done an excellent job of staffing that committee. They're they're phenomenal. Passionate people, they're Yeah. And that's all I have.

Uh, and we're I've talked to Brent. We uh couldn't find a date. I think the first meeting in May is tenative. That's what we That's what I thought. That's why I wanted to bring it up to see if anything could interfered or not. So, okay. That's what we're looking at. So, thank you. Um I did uh because I think it's very pertinent with the water issue based on uh our low waterfall this year in the mountains and what we have just discussed that council Bangader I felt had some important information to pass on from Dual Creek too.

Thank you mayor. met with the Centerville Dual Creek Water Board last week, well week couple weeks ago at their annual budgeting meeting. And there's some real important things I think would help us to understand. And may I just identify first of all their shareholders meeting will be on June 18th at 6 pm and this might be a particularly important one for residents and other be aware to to to contribute or have some knowledge with respect to that. And mayor, I'll just mention this point. I am not I'm going to be in Alaska on June 18th and they would really like somebody there who can represent the number of votes that the city has. So if somebody could

June 18th at 6 June 18th at 6 p.m.

Okay, then let me let me just identify a couple of things. We're also concerned about this drought we're experiencing and especially the impact on Centerville and Centerville Duo Creek is such a blessing to us to have that water source and how much has been done there. First of all, they are on board. They feel like they're going to have enough of the parts in time for the deadlines, which deadlines keep getting moved back a little to meet their their their grant and their funding uh for that. it it still seems kind of edgy to me, but they they're confident it's it's going to work out and they they'll have enough equipment and and whatnot. Uh but a a very enlightening aspect to me was was they've moved the date back, which I think we're all aware of, to to start supplying water to the city to May 15th instead of April 15th. Uh right now our reservoir there is not enough supply coming out of the canyon to fill our reservoir each day even now and this is higher runoff than it'll be few weeks from now

and I don't know that most I didn't I wasn't aware of this the capa if that reservoir is chuck full and we don't get water by the way from we were basing until after all this but if that reservoir is chuck full with the normal supply we can't even meet a day's use for the whole city. It it completely would empty the reservoir in one day, less than one day. So, because my question and and some of us were interested, well, could we help replenish the groundwater by having enough of our own source with the canyon runoff going into our reservoir to maybe do a little bit of watering between April 15th and May 15th and have less need yards lawns in better shape and and whatnot. And the uh the uh problem with that is is twofold. We we can't supply the whole city with that reservoir. So, we talked about, well, could we maybe proportion part of the city and have have maybe, you know, five I don't know, maybe you can divide it up into LDF stakes or something and have each steak water on a certain day that that week. But,

but Rick, you also need to know that Dual Creek only goes from It only goes to pages to chase, right? It wouldn't satisfy the whole city. It is not the whole city. It does it is only from pages to Chase. So if I mean if they did that that would be fine but it wouldn't have to be that big. You wouldn't have five stakes and it it would help some. But then it was enlightening to find out that it's really hard for them and very hard on the system to charge the system, decharge it and then charge it back up. A lot of cause a lot of problems with valves and brakes.

And so they only want to charge it up as minimal times as they can to prevent maintenance nightmares. So, I just hope that our citizenry could understand that it's not a viable resource to try to to serve our own need with just that through May 15th. They will be charging the system on May 11th, but but users are not going to be allowed or encouraged or or want to use it until May 15th. Uh that's where it stands right now. the uh the uh they do believe that they are not going to have to ask for a rate increase this year. Uh thing things are looking positive with the budget at this point. Um so uh any questions or anything that I might have missed there? Uh, so we got a flyer in the mail today from Weaver Basin that had instruction some instructions on what's what they're anticipating. I'm assuming because that came to Dual Creek shareholders as well since I got one that they're going to follow the same process and procedure through the summer twice a week and 20% reduction in water use

at this point. Yes. Okay.

Yep. That's what they mentioned in that meeting. And one other thing you might want to be aware of uh there there is water available from uh Parish No, the Parish Creek pumps are the ones that are down Barnard Creek. There's water coming down Barard Creek and there are two pumps that the we were or Centerville Dual Creek has not been able to to uh repair and upcharge and there there could be some more water supply for the for the needs of the district if we were to they or we or somebody were to get these pumps back online and they could supplement what's coming out of Dual Creek and help fill that reservoir a little bit faster. But that would only be for the early part of the summer. And there was just some discussion about, you know, should we look for some funding? Should we talk, they wanted to know should talk to the city about the city maybe participating because obviously Centerville Duke Creek is a benefit to us and our water supply and system and everything else. But and they did mention that that was considered a couple years ago and that there was some real feedback and dissatisfaction with residents below there who want the little creek to keep running through their yards. I think all of us appreciate that, but water need is communitywide necessary. Anyway, just think about that's something that's on the table. We he didn't even have a number to know how much pumps might might be at this point, but it could be in the extreme conditions we're under to have a backup and have pumps functioning on that source of water as well.

But there again, it would probably only be maybe a month. So, I can tell you Dual Creek probably the earliest that they have ordered had to order water has been the middle of May. and they actually made it to July 3rd once without having to order water. But unless we had a super wet year, you're only going to get water from those pumps for probably the month of May. So it probably would be very expensive water. Yeah. And we get a certain supply guaranteed for from Wever Basin and we have to pay for that whether we use it or not.

We do. And it but it is and it is all utilized each year. The there's a there's a concern with that too. And the Weber Basin is saying mandatory 20% reduction and it very likely could increase as the summer moves on for sure. Thank you. Anybody else have any pricing with our committee?

Um I I I am sorry. I know we're beyond this um beyond the water and landscaping ordinances that we just passed, but can you clarify, Lisa, for me? Um obviously the new new applications effective May 1st. If somebody um has been watching tonight and they want to get started tomorrow with the Weber Basin rebate, is that effective immediately? Can they go get going on that? Well, we know. I just

that's probably up to Weaver. Like we could say these are effective tonight, but I I think they could I guess it's up to Weaver Basin if they're willing to let them go through, but they will not be eligible for funding until this is in effect because we still wouldn't comply until So May 1st is when we are effective on these ordinances. But if you want to amend your ordin amend your motion and you know say I don't know that we need to amend it. I just want to make sure that I don't tell somebody to go get going and because I think we're going to have some I've already I already just saw that I had received a message with a question about it. So

we could say April 15th. That gives Jennifer time to get back because we do have to post. They can't they can't water anything they put in till May 15th. I'm not saying we need to change it. I just don't want to tell somebody something wrong. I want to I want to make sure I'm communicating. Effective May 1st, work with Weaver Basin to see what you can get started on. That's that's what I wanted to know was just I want to make sure I get the right information. But thank you.

And excuse me. Could I just mention one other thing? They're concerned and we need to be concerned as a city with residents uh illegally uh directing their culinary water to their secondary water system. There are contamination concerns about that and of course overusage of purified cleaned water. Uh obviously we'd be metering that and be some charge for that but that is illegal and we need to be careful of our maybe our compliance.

We have an ordinance in place but we probably should remind our residents through the website and other resources. same thing, utility bill, whatnot to just get the word out that they cannot do that because of they don't have backflow prevention. Do we have an or is it is there a penalty for doing that? Is there a fine or something? I don't know.

Yeah, Mike wants to talk all about it. Look at him coming up. He's been waiting uh to have a this place on tonight's show. So yes, we do have a backflow ordinance and yes, it is illegal cross connect between potable and non-pottable water. My crew will be watching for it all the way to fire up time. So we catch it, we'll shut them off, whatever. We usually find a few a year. So it's and it's probably pretty easy to tell just from the water usage. You can see if somebody Well, not always cuz it's non meter. So one person would fill up their swimming pool with our culinary. It wasn't metered, but they were tapped into our culinary line.

Well, if they're not if they're Yes, in that case. But shouldn't we kind of be tapped in like shouldn't we have meters on every connection? But that but if they tap into it illegally without our permission. Oh, that's never happened before. We do watch it. We've we've watched sort of that like assuming that most people are trying to be honest and just don't understand they really can't water their lawn with our culinary water. I you would you would be able to tell by a jump in usage if it's behind the meter.

One thing that we may need your guys' help with depending on how it goes is we may need to create an ordinance for people that irrigate with city water to follow whatever the irrigation company is doing with watering. So, we're going to try to monitor it, get information out, but we'd rather self-govern, let them self-govern themselves first, and then for if it doesn't work, then we'll be coming back asking city council to to adhere, help us to hear anybody that waters with culinary water to meet what the requirement is with the local irrigation companies. So, that is something we'll be watching, but they are paying for it, but it's still not right.

I think we should do that. Don't we have ordinance in place already that they can't they can't waste water. It's a vague ordinance as I remember a week or two that and an inclining block rate structure. I know you've never heard me say that. Love it. So So anyway background is Council Mahur. I know what her background is. Yeah. In case you weren't sure. I'm just guessing. Mike, congratulations on that awesome grant you just got. Well, it was a great team effort and yeah, we're excited. So, it's uh one way we keep our city going, right? So, yeah, that was a big deal.

Hopefully, I will be able to get the grant list out pretty quick. We're proofing it, making sure that it's as accurate as we can get. Yeah. Uh rough numbers were over $13 million worth of grants and I think it's just a little over two million. the city will be out for those grants. So amazing. That's the cost share. Hopefully that there's a bigger one coming at the end of the week, right? We hope so. So two two million is our cost share portion. It's about in there. I'm still working on the numbers. So 13% is what the city's paying for all of that grant money. Amazing. Of the of the 15 total million improvements. Yeah. Great team effort. We got a great team working on it. So awesome.

It's all good. All right. Uh, thank you everyone. Mayor's report. Hey. Um, it was a neat neat month. I had a chop opportunity has invited my wife and I to the Jenny P. Stewart to their school play. The kids were excited and they did a great job. And my wife went uh to Reading Elementary a couple days later and uh represented us. She said they did a great job as well too. I hope you all What did reading? What did reading do? I know Stuart did Peter Pan, but what was reading? I don't know. I didn't go, so I can't remember.

Yeah. Uh had some great Easter events last week. I hope hopefully some of you got to. We had Stations of the Cross down at the Bridge Church. We had images of Christ at an LDS chapel on the north end of town. Um, I went to the lamb of God which uh at couple weeks back at tabernacle in Salt Lake Interfaith Choir uh made up for the Davis County people. Uh that was fabulous. Uh and just the talent that was shown and and the care that was shown uh just appreciated uh all the efforts that everybody put in. Um uh I hope that you're all uh we took council off two weeks ago to go go to our or three weeks ago to go to our caucus meetings. Hope that if you're not a delegate, you're working your delegates for county convention a week from Saturday and the state convention a week after that. Uh uh we got some important races up which I think uh on the county level especially really sets the foundation of our county moving forward which is pretty critical and what we do as well too. So if you're not a delegate find out who your delegates are and uh be be educated on the candidates and talk to them about them. Um, uh, youth council's been involved. Obviously, they're up at Utah State and then they were doing the Easter egg hunt and and, uh, Gina represented, uh, us up there, her and her husband, and she's going to have, uh, a couple of them come and do a report. Aren't you?

Mhm. So, uh, I'll be looking for her to give me a date. Yeah. We had two We had two youth members that, um, presented at that conference. They um and I think our youth mayor also helped plan they they planned the whole thing. It's it's pretty impressive. Those are those are some sharp youth and we have awesome staff. Haley and Bryce were up there and helped

great great great kids and great program. Great staff. Yeah. uh South Davis Metro. Um uh we do have a couple of the board uh looking to uh make a recommendation on what we're doing moving forward as far as uh hiring a new chief. Uh, and as Brent mentioned earlier tonight, uh, we just have an inter chief right now, but, uh, we'll be, um, uh, trying to lay out a time frame of when we can get, uh, the new permanent chief hired. Um, and then the last thing I have for you is I received an email two days ago. Hopefully all of you have checked your mailbox. I know that to the old uh postmail, you don't do much anymore, but things are dropped off in your mailbox. And this was the message I got two days ago. Mayor Wilkinson, I just wanted to make sure that you and your council members receive the invitations to our community event at Centerpoint. We're inviting you to come to see Finding Neverland this Friday, the 10th. I haven't received any RSVPs from Centerville and wanted to reach out and make sure that the invitations have been picked up from your boxes. I'll be accepting RSVPs to this uh up to this Wednesday, so tomorrow for the event. If you could possibly reach out to your council members and remind them, that would be great. Neverland is a beautiful show, and I'd love for you, your team, to be able to take advantage of this opportunity. Thanks so much, Holly K, director of outreach, uh, PR, Centerpoint Theater. Now, what I feel really bad about here is she hasn't heard from Centerville and it's in our town and this this is an event uh a community event. Uh all councils from all our cities are being invited. Uh so I'm hoping that somebody can make it uh

to it. My dilemma is uh been scheduled for six months a training meeting with Wasuch Integrated Waste Management that that Friday night and Saturday. I'm having a tough tough time to go to that, but I'm going to go. And so I can't I can't get to this unless I I I skip at least the Friday portion of that. So hopefully somebody can go. Uh I h I have a commitment, but I'm I haven't been going because we have season tickets. So I've already seen it. It's wonderful. Bryce, didn't you send a query to us about that? Yeah. So, I'm I can talk to the mayor afterwards. It's usually she just said

because I responded. I'm planning on going and I thought that was in response to your but this is the night they chose which I told the council about a couple three months ago in addition to legislative night where they were inviting uh all the councils from throughout all the cities. Yeah. Usually she just sends me an email. I send it out. But this time she decided to send hard invitations. So I didn't know anything about it. And those are and that's what I say. We do get for other things on different nights. I thought was the same. We got an email from you and I responded positively that my wife and I would be there and it's on my calendar. Okay. So it could be double check. Are you going Friday? Yeah, that's Friday.

I can let her know. I can record the email if you want. That's Friday the 10th. Yeah, could be true. Anyway, uh maybe I'll I'll just forward this email to you guys and if you can uh do do it, let her know tomorrow. So, um it's nice they're doing it. So, um so thanks Bryce. You have something else on your mind? Nope. All right, that's all I have. Any questions for me? Okay. Uh, city manager report.

All right. Thanks, Mr. Mayor Council. So, most of what I had to report was has been discussed, but I just want to let you know in two weeks, our next city council meeting, I will be in St. George attending UCMA, the Utah City Management Association, and the Utah League of Cities attendance. So, I will be out that week, but I'll attend the meeting virtually if it's held. But any questions for me? Great. Thank you. You're welcome. It just was such a short report. It was longer, but it's all been kind of discussed. We've been around great. So, uh, I'm not aware of anything to close session. Motion to adjurnn. Summit.