City Council - Regular Meeting

that and going to actually a I got the impression it's a volunteer part-time course for a five or seven body that will be instead of you know like Beth Hol Brook's been our representatives so they'll do away with her level and then they'll have more representation from throughout the state and um as part of that Davis County will be able to well between Davis and Weaver County we can uh submit names on who we feel like our representative should be. I mean, I know Beth's definitely interested in it and wants to continue, but they're also seeking other folks. The irony of this is is it's no one in an elected position to fulfill that role, but they are looking for professionals like attorneys and um engineers and accountants, you know. So,

no farmer or they didn't say what kind of propert. They didn't say real professional. They just said

no. So, anyway, that that was a big update um that uh the counties. So, we're going to, you know, submit names or whatever for that. Um, in addition, um, Davis County will be doing they're going to be seeking feedback on and input on their general plan. So, watch for that to be it's supposed to be open now, but they'll conduct meetings where everybody can attend, but part of that plan, they're also going to include a countywide water plan. So, we definitely want to pay attention to, you know, what they're proposing on their uh countywide general plan. Um, also the third quarter transportation grants that I know we've been pretty good about participating in. Um, that is now open and it will close April 17th and we'll need a 20% match. So, I know you guys are very familiar with that. I'm just letting you know that what the deadline is so that we can go ahead and plan on There you are, Steve. Back there. I kept looking over there. I thought, okay, I know you usually jump in on that because um and this and actually they're they're also saying we can include a bicycle plan this year. So, that's good. Um that was the updates I had. So, we'll go ahead and turn it over to you guys. Do you have any updates?

Yeah. This is the recreation here. I'll pretend like it's on my phone. But family night at the library is March 20th. It's free. Okay. And if any of you, I assume, want to go there and read to the kids, you can go do that. I did it a couple time. The 20th. Yeah, I did a couple times.

I got to do the run dick run Jane books. So, it's a lot of fun. And the museum has uh you know, they're growing the baby chicks. So, um you go over and look. I don't know when they're going to hatch. Chicks will be at the museum for two week week. That's after they hatch. So, I don't know when they're going to hatch. They've got I'm sure they will. A foster family already. Yeah, I'm sure they better. It's a lot of chicks they're trying to hatch. And we only allow six. Yep. That's right.

Then Surf and Swim has the Easter egg dive March 21st, which is a Saturday. I think that's this Saturday, is it? Three bucks a kid, under 14. If they're under five, they got to have an adult with them in the water, 10 to 12. And I believe if they pay the three bucks, they can stay in swim all day. And then we have our regular sports uh registrations. Uh, boys and girls, Steve ball, coach pitch, machine pitch, and then you also do the adult, not adult, uh, high school softball, girls. That is, is that closed already?

Okay. Anyway, I just Then they got spring volleyball and spring softball. And then all of you received the uh America 250. Uh, you can look at that. That's what they have in their department. I did notice one mistake. I'm sorry to bring it up in front of you, but on the second page under July 3rd activities, the second one says Leighton City America 250 Puppet Show. That's not bold, is it? Okay. So, anyway, I just wanted to let you know that

and other than that, um, happy birthday to those whose birthday is in this month. I won't mention any names so they don't feel slighted, but she's over here laughing next to me. So anyway, yeah, but you're going to want her treat. Well, of course I do. It's the only reason I come to these meetings. Okay,

I'll go next. Um, uh, the mayor asked me attend open doors board meeting. Uh, very enlightening. Thank you. Um, they got some good things that they're doing right now. Um, a couple things that the the board approved. Uh, if you don't know, they're relocating to a new new building. Um, they also are going to partner up with um the Bountiful food pantry. Food pantry um and actually turn over their food pantry to Bountiful. It's going to be rebranded. It's Davis food pantry or something like that. So the building up there that they have is

yeah they're they're they're working through a bunch of issues which um uh what was surprising is number of you know military personnel that used the food pantry especially during one thing they mentioned during the federal government shutdown. They had a big demand at that time. Uh but then the Bible food pantry which now will be the Davis food pantry will take over the whole operations of it. So, um, couple they they went through some of their other reports, the number of, uh, of, uh, residents that they've held and stuff like that. So, back back to my old roots, so to speak. So, thank you, Jordan. One thing on that on that military um that you know you guys need to know here in Lightning is um we knew they were short food and they're they were pretty desperate and um I got a hold of Faith Baptist Church and Pastor Dickle and they did a quick food drive as well as worked with some other folks. They they came they pretty much played the point personally is what I'm trying to say. But it was really a lot of people within the community and businesses and they were able they were able to gather 4,000 pounds in a very short time to get up there and and take care of them. And from what I understand it was well I know that they were so thankful that they turned around. Remember the guy that we did as our hometown hero that worked up there? All of a sudden I drew a blank his name. Anyway, they uh they honored him as well. The military folks did because they were impressed with being able to just be responsive for him. So, I guess my hats off to all the residents of Leighton and all the businesses that stepped up during that time.

Okay. Thanks. That's all we got. That's that's good. Are they relocating outside of Leighton? I'm sorry. Are they going to be relocating outside of Leighton? That sounds like there too if I remember right. Um bountiful I can tell you where I don't know about the food pantry where that's going to be. Do you know where they're being located? I know where the new location of open doors is being um I wish I knew the streets. 13 something 13.

Yeah, if you go up Main Street and Gosh dang it. Let me think of some landmarks. Okay. By cans or Rancho, it's Rancho markets now. Sorry. So that street where you got Rancho's Market and if you can go west if you just barely turn west, it's going to be the building on the south side. It's a two-story building and it used to be that daycare place. That's right. Yeah. So that's where they're located to and I know that they're under construction. I think they're doing all the construction. really close to to moving in it sounds like and the pantry is in

well the bountiful pantry. Yes, but I know that they've been looking for a location up in Davis County for the Bountiful food pantry. So, I mean, if they've struck a deal now with the existing on the 193 building. Yeah, they're working stuff out. I didn't know about that one, but I well I know that they were hoping that would come about, but nothing was ever said. So that would be that would be good just because the full south and so if that one closes completely, it's closer. Then you have north folks who'd have to go south um to get to it. So that would be they're gentleman that uh is running the he's retiring. Oh, that's the one that was

going to retire here in a few. Uh, I do know that they are trying to do they've been experimenting more with the mobile on that might be the hub, but then using vans to take the food out to different areas where the people are. So that I know that they've been working that and haven't attended to see what the results are, but I know that's the goal is to try to do that distributed closer to the source. Okay. Anybody else?

I got well two items. One, the ramp commission I know we we met a couple days ago, but ramp commission met and voted on the the grant application. So that's part of the budget. discussions going forward. And second, I had a I had a resident reach out about Flip Your Strip. Oh,

and that's been changed. So, it's no longer Flip Your Strip. It's been swallowed up into the landscape exchange program. And so, Leighton residents can still use it for your for your park strip. It's a$125 a square foot. They can also use it for their landscape, their front yard, backyard. Like the other program, landscape program that we weren't part of. We're still not part of that. And that's $2.50 a square foot for that, but we don't qualify because we haven't ordinance. Yeah, but we do qualify at $125 a square foot.

Is that just for the strip or can that$125 be applied to anywhere on the property? Anywhere on the property? Okay, that's good. So, that's a start. We were based. Yeah. And and I was I just asked a couple questions, but then I was kind of had to listen to the whole spiel for 20 minutes and urged us to look at it again and right all that. But anyway, that's that's good though. Yeah, that is. No, that's good feedback. It's good for us.

I mean, you know, any trying to save water, it helps period. Can I just thank um staff for their help with the latency DC and that um DFC grant. staff was really responsive just in getting the information that Tiffany needed to fill out the documents and she was able to meet um with all of the folks that she needed to and I believe that she has a signature to get from Tracy that she was supposed to get yesterday. So that should already be in the works, meaning that she can transfer the rest of that application over to the city to finish what we need to finish. But staff was very helpful. So, just wanted to give kudos and thanks for that.

Good. Very good. Okay. Anything else? Let's go ahead and move on then. Um, it would be our third item of business, which is our neighborhood town center zone. So, Weston and Brad, I think you're going to present on this. Yep. Um, so, uh, Brad's going to do most of the presentation here. over there.

Um really grateful for Brad and all the work that he's done. Uh he's done a fantastic job. Uh this is no light lift. Um as you can see, it's a fairly big ordinance. A lot of it is graphics and charts and um and so it but there is a lot of information in here. We do not have a code like this and so there is a lot of starting from ground zero creating this going to other cities identifying what works um getting into the minutia. This is definitely a draft. Um Brad was frant frantically changing things as we keep updating things. He was even working today and recognizing things that needed to be updated. So you might see some things that like clarity uh that that we need to have or but we wanted to bring it to you and and get your input. Um, as you guys are aware, uh, Gordon 89 property is, uh, going to come to an end of an auction at the end of this month, and we want to be ready for that. So, our goal is to have this back to the council next month, um, for a vote. Um, and so we wanted to get your input on this. We'll be taking it to planning commission next week for their uh, just work session review as well. Um, but I'll I'll let Brad jump in and I'll jump in if I have any other comments as well.

Great. Thanks, Won. So, uh, as you can see, it's a real page turner. Um, lots of stuff there for you. Um, so we'll kind of go over this briefly. It is a draft. Um, um, and like Weston said, there's a lot of graphics. There's some a lot of tables in here that kind of take up a lot of the pages, but the the intent behind our code is that we wanted we've written it to be very specific for our account center. um also in a way that this could apply to the Gordon 89 area and we could then maybe take that like it starts there and then we could build off of this and use it for the Westlake Town Center area. Um and so this kind of shows the the initial like just the application process. Um our plan is that we would you know as we would reszone the property there would be a reszone with a concept plan and development agreement with the master developer on the site and that's what we're hoping to to see happen as they you know transfer ownership. And then we have written into the code uh that we would have a development plan which is similar to our mixed use um zone, our CTH zone and our mixeduse TOD zone. And so that further hammers down detail on exactly what they can do um the development plan would be at the planning commission level and it would have to still comply with the standards that are outlined in this in this ordinance. And then uh planning process, site plan approvals, those would follow our typical process that we would have um in those other zones. So, this is how the code is broken down. It's broken down into these different sections. Um, so it' be title 1928 that we'd be adding to our municipal code. And then within that title, you'd have these different code sections. So, I'll go through each one of those. Uh, the first thing is the zoning subdists. Uh the thought behind this is that when we looked at our town center master plan, it was very specific the spec, you know, for the Gordon 89 area saying this is where these specific uses should be and we didn't want to be disingenuous with the public on what they had seen and all

of the public input that was put into this. So as such, we decided to create a a code that is a zone overall, but then within that zone, you have these different subdists. So kind of like subzones of of the overall zone. So you can see that, you know, we've got a commercial, mixed juice, town home residential, neighborhood residential, detached residential, and open space. And so I'll go over um this just so you can see it a little bit better. So the commercial is the red area. You've got the two mixed use areas that and all of this aligns with what's in the master plan. This is neighborhood residential, which is a little bit this is more like duplex or the the mansion style homes. And then on that west side, just like the master plan says, we've got detached residential. Um, and in this area that's identified as open space, um, but based upon the grades that are there, um, I've only had one developer that I've talked to who said, "Oh, I could build on that." And I'm like, "Okay, knock yourself out. Let's see how you can actually make work." But, um, we we we fully anticipate that like this will probably be something that just gets transferred ownership to the county because it's next to the golf course and there's lot there's a huge grade change here. You'd have to do a lot of things to probably get very little yield on the property. And so we had that's why we've left it as open space.

When you get on this uh Garden Avenue South down at the very bottom that's all hilly water. Yep. Mhm. I mean so you can't build on that. You're talking to the west. Yeah. So this Yeah. All of this area to the west to the south. Well, you got some residential. Yeah. So you got some residential that's just to the south of that um right here. Yeah. But then you've got the H Homes Reservoir that's further to the south. But then also right here, this is a detention basin and you also have Cold Creek that comes down. Okay. So, it's just saying Yeah, it it it's it's within those subdists, but that's pretty much open space, too. So, that's maybe something we could redesate

because it's not they won't be able to build on it, but we could do like a trail or something like that around it. And Yep. Yeah. Just nice walking path.

And then um we get into different uses. So, um, because again, we're breaking this up into subdists, we are having it its own table within the zoning ordinance here instead of having it added to the other tables. And so, we would just be referring to the uses that are here. The main difference that you're going to see between this use table and our standard use table is that you have permitted uses and then you also have uses that are permitted with development standards. That's what the D stands for. Um, and so like a multif family dwelling that in the mixeduse zone, it's only allowed with development standards and I I'll go over those in a moment. And then same thing with a temporary sales office, it would only be allowed in these subd districts based upon development standards that are outlined in the code. And everything else is listed as a permitted use.

We'll probably get questions temporary as in how long? Temporary. Yes. So there are standards for that too and I'll go over that but mostly it's it's as something's under construction um and it can't be a mobile can't be turned it can't be used as a residence nobody can be living there um those types of things. So that's just kind of see follows the same type of format as the rest of our um you know code when it comes to the uses

um lots of commercial and service uses or related uses. And then here are examples of some of the development standards. So for example, a daycare, it would only be permitted on the ground floor and no more than 50%, you know, in a mixeduse building. Um, it would be permitted in a commercial building, but this is a development standard that applies to a mixeduse building because we don't want the whole floor area to take up u be taken up in a in a daycare. uh with studios and health um services as well, limiting it to to 5,000 square feet because it is a studio. And we also recognize that the larger we make those, there's going to be greater traffic impacts and so we'd like to keep that on, you know, kind of a smaller neighborhood scale type of uh use. Uh gasoline retail is another one where it's permitted as a secondary use to a grocery store. We've had lots of questions from potential developers on that like can they do a standalone uh gas station and or does it have to be tied to the grocery store as as it was shown in the master plan. It's an accessory use to the grocery store. So like you'd see like Harmons has their gas like fuel islands, Smith has fuel islands that are part of their their grocery store, but it's not a standalone.

So in other words, a Maverick can't be there and then a Right. In other words, it wouldn't be just straight up a maverick there on the corner. And as we went through the design standards of the master plan, it really discouraged having those types of uses. And and um a lot of it was in input and feedback from UD do saying that they wanted things that were that impactful when it came to traffic to be located off of the intersection of 2625 and and Gordon Avenue because um it would really increase the amount of traffic. probably require double left turns and take away some of that even if they went to the north like like I think your plan at one time had the

possibly yeah I think there is a gas station that shows like to the north as one of one of the alternatives but that's one of the things that we have drafted right now is there's two concepts one of it one of them shows it as being accessory to the grocery store and then the other one shows possibly a separated gas station that's just we've got drafted right now and then same thing with fast food eating establishments, having some limitations on those and how close they can be to each other. Uh limiting double drive-thrus. Um really a lot of it gets to the pedestrian focused intent of this town center and how there's supposed to be a mix of use and multiple residential uses there. Quick question back on the gasoline. You mentioned Harmon's Harman's and Farmington

is it's completely detached. Yeah, it's on the other side of Farmington station. Is is there some Are you saying that it needs to be adjacent to the grocery or or to the Yeah. to the grocery or can it be Yeah, that's the intent, but we probably need to spell it out a little bit more to say that it needs to be That's going to be a hot button for us. That's why we're questioning it.

No, no, I if I might. So, holistically, part of the goal here is to provide the city a different development pattern that we don't have. Right. We talked um on Tuesday, we talked about creating um and and having some diversity within our city. And this is intended to be a um you know what we're referencing as park once development where you we recognize people are going to walk there. We recognize people are going to ride their bikes there and we want that. This is a a beautiful area that connects to a lot of natural environment, but it's also against 89. People are going to drive there. We recognize that and we want them to drive there. And so creating a development where people can show up, park, and walk through the surrounding areas and get to the services they need is difficult to design. And so we're walking that line. And there are uses that compete with that. And anytime we add uses that are heavily auto oriented, they start competing with that impact. So it's not that any of those uses are bad. Drive-throughs, not a terrible thing. Maverick, we love them, right? It's about creating diversity. And so that's that's the goal here.

So in that light, perhaps having it if it if it were like um how Council Member Morris mentioned where the gas station is, you know, further away, but it's still connected to the establishment. If it were in some area, you know, a corner or something where it was less impactful on pedestrian, you know, and the walkability, that could potentially be an okay thing. Yeah, potentially. You know, just depends on the layout and how that would work.

Yeah, I think we'd have to look at that. If I go back to um just the kind of where the layout of the roads is. U Mary, I think you what you were mentioning is that in one of the concepts that showed possibly a gas station here and so that may be a possibility. The challenge with that is that it's then taking vehicle traffic through this to get there. Um and so what we've seen is in our concept a kind of a ger right here with some gas there. Um and then in order to make a left turn with Gordon Avenue, it's already going to be limited by UD do that. It will have only right in right out access on Gordon Avenue. So the left turns will have to be at 2625. Um, you know, so any traffic that that's highly automotive is going to have to come out of here and and then get to this intersection to the make a left and get back out to Gordon or to 89.

One of the other component Oh, sorry. I need to I was going to say it just looking at the map now. I guess if we were solely focused on the convenience of the convenience store, a better word, right? Sure. There's only one corner there that would even work, but it's already in orange, right?

Right. Yep. So, this is Yeah, this is the uh the town home residential and it would probably be this corner. And as we've talked to, you know, we we've talked to some groups where they've looked at our master plan. They said, "We would love to do this. We want to do this exact thing. We want to limit the amount of automotive traffic." But then we've talked to other groups that say, "Well, if I can't do eight drive-throughs and and car washes and this or that, I'm not interested." And we're like, okay, well then there's plenty of other areas in Leighton that you can do that. What we're trying to do is with with this and with our other town centers is provide a diversity of land use and location types. Well, and like I've said all along, you know, this is actually a new gateway to our city, right? And so we do need to make it presentable and nice.

So, yeah.

Yep. What one of the components that's good to think about as we're going through this is just that um we are we're walking into some new planning that you know we haven't done before which is good. There's a little bit of crystal ball conversations going on here. We we don't know what the developer is going to present right and so could there be a standalone gas station that would work in a very you know efficient way in this area? Yeah, it could. And that might meet and there might be little pieces as we're going through this code that we're like we might need to come back to your group and say council we'd like to discuss this because this is how we initially saw it. This is the development package and these are some tweaks that we'd like to make either to the ordinance or to the development agreement to manage that. But in an effort to get something on the books and to have some good efficient standards, we feel like these are good ones to start with.

Thanks. So, here are the some of the things that this code gets into a lot that we're not addressing a whole ton right now in some of our zones. Um, and so these are some things that we've added into the code. So, building facads and materials. So, this is an example of of multiple examples of some of the graphics that we have in here. Um, and so this is a building that would be on the corner. We're requiring that if it is at the corner that you have to have an angled facade here that kind of faces the intersection. So, it draws it brings that back a little bit.

Yeah. you know, and and is really attractive. And then this is, you know, facade requirements for how much um you know, you have to have horizontal articulation as well as vertical articulation. How many how much you can have on a building that's a blank wall and the percentage and how we'd be measuring that. And then also fenestration here. Um it's a term used to describe glass and how much transparency you have on a building. And so how we would measure that on a building and this would be say for a ground floor. we would be measuring that between two feet and eight feet and there would be a a minimum required transparency that you would have in on every floor as well as on the ground floor. Um and then also some limitations on you might be able to have some glazing where it's a window that you can't see through but that is that has to be underscored uh with more glass that you can see through. The idea is that if there's storefronts you can see into the storefronts. Um, for one, that that helps people be able to see there's a there's a relationship between what's going on inside and outside. There's a lot of benefits from that. You can see merchant, you can see product, you can see people that are inside. We also feel like it it helps with security as well when you have those buildings that, you know, when they've got the windows that are completely wrapped, you can't really see what's going on inside this store if you're outside. And so, we just think that really is good uh for the pedestrian oriented scale. These are some things when it comes to materials that we're trying to emphasize. So, being very specific in what we allow uh with brick and stone, we want to make sure that when they're using brick and stone, they're fully using brick and stone. It's just not a veneer that's being slapped onto the side. Good.

Um I I've seen this before where there was the wall that was by it was Boston's before, now it's but some of the brick started to fall off of that wall because it was just a brick veneer um over concrete. And so seeing that example like well we could do a veneer but if it's not maintained well over the years it might just fall off and then doesn't look very well. Some other elements that we'd want to have and then also so we would have primary materials that has to accommodate either 60 or 75% of the building facade depending on the type of building that it is and then the remaining percentage could be secondary materials. Um, and then this this comes directly from the town center master plan. Wanted to incorporate these architectural styles into our code. Uh, the main architectural style that we're going to be leaning on is the mountain modern architectural style. This shows, um, in all four of these examples show twin homes or, you know, a town home type of configuration. Uh, but we look at the mountain modern as we looked through the master plan, identified that because this is at the the foothills of the Wasatch range, it's on the east side. we really want to have that mountain design. So, this would be the mountain modern would be the one that we lean on for all commercial. Um, and um the Craftsman farmhouse and prairie, they're complimentary architectural styles, but those could be used on residential uh buildings, but not on any of the commercial buildings. Um, and then mountain modern could also be used on on residential buildings as well. But, you know, this kind of shows you what we've come up with. Um, this is Weston and I diving into AI and generating images based upon those styles. So, um, you know, we're working smarter, not harder, I guess. I don't know. So,

um, but then as you can see here, also town homes, and this would be kind of a a farmhouse style. You see that and how it kind of looks the same. And each one of those things, they have different architectural themes. Um, and then this shows how we would be breaking up all of the development standards for the buildings. Uh, so this shows a commercial building uh on the corner in our master plan. This just shows that AI generated grocery store. Um, and then for a commercial building type that we would have, it would only be allowed in the commercial and mixed juice subdists. And then these are the standards that would apply. And so, you know, we talk about setbacks, the overall the maximum overall height or excuse me, the minimum overall height, the maximum overall height, how what the floor plate is for each one of those. So, if it's a ground floor commercial building, it has to have 12 or 24 feet. That's the minimum and that that's the maximum. And then you get into some of the the transparency that I talked about before that you have to have so much transparency and and possible glazing that you'll you're allowed. And then another key component is having a minimum required occupied space. You want to make sure that whatever buildings are building being built that there's at least 30 feet or 40 feet of depth of that building. So, it's a nice it's a good usable space for any commercial tenants and it provides flexibility for them to go in and and be able to build it to their needs. Some other building design standards that you see here is very specific design standards for each building type, architectural style. Um, and so I'll go into those. So, we've got in here, it's it's essentially like a menu of different entrance types that you could have. So, this is a contemporary entrance type where it's just flat along the front. You've got a storefront entry type that that has the the the door that's recessed a little bit. And then different roof types. So, this is a parapit roof. Shows some examples of that. And then there's also a um a flat roof. And then one of the big things that we're proposing for the the town center area is introducing this idea of having an enhanced streetscape. Um this

streetscape would have what our proposal is that we would have either on street parking or a bicycle lane there based upon what what we are, you know, getting. And then we would like to have street trees within tree grates that are planted uh every so many feet apart. Uh street benches that are provided within this area. We call it a furnishing zone because these are street furnishings. We also have trash receptacles that you know we would like to have maintained by the adjacent property owner. We're still working through that on the and the legality of if it's in our furnishing zone, can we have them do that or not? And if if we can't then we probably don't want to have trash receptacles there because then we have to maintain them. So it's just one of those things that we're looking into. And then also continuing to build off the the decorative street lights that we have in Leighton City, making sure that those are being provided in these areas. Um and then having wide sidewalks

trees. Yeah, the street trees. Um I mean, do you have a you can have these kind? Yep. We're we're narrowing down that list. We've been working with Joelen uh pretty closely on that. So, we have street we have we already have a street tree list, but then with that, we we're building off that street tree list and saying that these are the ones that would be within our town center areas and kind of going through we we have some street trees that are allowed. There's not a whole lot of them that are allowed within tree grates. And so, we're looking at like what could also work in a tree grate.

And then this is the this would be the idea for our street bench benches. These are just out outside here. Um they're nice decorative street branch. We already have the standard. We've used this company as a vendor before. This is the same company for trash receptacles. So having a decorative design there. And then tree grates, you know, that all are all consistent. It's a 6x6 tree grate. What's nice about these specific ones is that as the tree gets bigger, these different sections, you can knock those different sections out to accommodate the growth of the the um stump of the tree. That's cool.

That's really good. And then this um we would have different street types within this in order to address that urban streetscape. This is just an example of what maybe a developer could come forward with based upon the existing um overall master plan. What we would have is that as part of that development plan, the developer would have to provide you know the different types of street types that we have. It'd be a regulatory plan. And so we do have these two streets. So this is Gordon Avenue which is an arterial and then 2625. And then as it goes to Hops Creek Drive, that's a collector street. Um, and then these other ones, these could be local streets that are just they essentially build off of our neighborhood street standards. And so

we take into consideration commercial trucks not going into resident. I mean, you know what I mean? Yeah. So with those I don't know how you stop that but I mean you want to build it so the trucks want to go into the into the commercial areas or not. Yes. And so we're actually we're taking the baseline of our engineering standard. So our public work standard that's already in place. The only thing that's really changing is this streetscape right here. Everything else when it comes to an arterial the top back of turb curb to top back of curb that is the same as our city standard for an arterial.

Same thing with the asphalt width. Same thing with the collector. So, this would be, you know, you got a higher street, higher volume street, a lower volume street, and then you get into a local street. Okay. What is the um and you may have to get into this later with engineering, but what would be the buffers aside from trees because they wouldn't be along the entire road, but what would be the buffer between where the pedestrians would walk in this expanded sidewalk versus the

Oh, yeah. So you're talking, you have this area here between the street and the Yep. So this would be an 8 foot wide furnishing zone and then an 8 foot wide sidewalk um along the arterial. Right now our standard is to have a four 4 and 1/2t park strip and a 5ft sidewalk along all of our arterials. And so the idea is that we anticipate and we're planning that this will be an area that has more pedestrian volumes. Um, so just like how we increase the travel lanes on roads for more vehicles, we're increasing the width of the sidewalk to accommodate more people walking. Um, can I ask a question on go ahead on the same lines then? I'm still looking at the auxiliary drawing

where you've got the bike lane and then you have a two-ft buffer and on that are you thinking paint or are you going to do a race? Yeah, that that's so that goes fall that falls back to our our active transportation plan. And so this right now what I'm showing is just a painted buffer of 2 feet um and then a 5 foot bike lane. It it really boils down to cost

cost and m and long-term maintenance, right? And so I included that stuff based upon what's in our active transportation plan. But it could also be that we determine as a city we see that it's more valuable to have on street parking lanes instead of the the bike lanes and those accommodate. So we would just have to work through some of that stuff. But that's what we've got planned right now because it aligns with our active transportation plan. And so going back to let's go back to this one, mayor. So along uh Gordon Avenue that identifies that there would be a buffered bike lane. There's also the the trail here and then the collector street here that shows um actually on the Utah trail network. I don't know how familiar you are with that, but um there would be a trail that would go along 89 and then it comes off of 89, goes along Holmes Creek, and then it would go right up through our town center and then continue here,

which then eventually provides that connection to the underpass that would go to, you know, the Caves Creek Trail and then underneath. And so, you know, anticipate that there would likely be, especially with this being in the mount, the hillside area, people might be biking on the hills and those types of things, there there might be a lot of use. And that's what I'm saying. Again, this is kind of like a I think it's a crown jewel and an opportunity to really kind of implement the new thought process and really encourage people for active mobility and stuff like that. So, so raised Yeah. So, yeah, possibly raised one because safety wise, that's the best thing,

right? And even with the like extended sidewalks for folks, if I mean I'm not an avid, you know, professional biker like my good council member across the lake would be, but when I'm riding, I'm I'm going to be on the sidewalk because I don't want to get hit. Um, so if it weren't less safe and that's where I was riding, I would probably more inclined to be on a wider sidewalk. So if there is an actual raised buffer that lets you, you know, feel more secure and the folks driving know that you can't just run folks over. Yeah.

Then I think that something we should definitely Yeah, there's lots of examples. Um yeah, there's there's lots of good examples of that. Um there's, you know, Won and I went and looked at a few locations where the the bike claim was actually raised and so you had it. So, say for example, if I were to look um at this specific location right here that this so the curb would be right here and then this would be a right raised bike uh bike lane I guess you can say or mult a shared use path. You would have the furnishing zone and then the sidewalk. Um so that's that we've seen that in other places. We've also seen it where it's on the street and completely separated as well. So

still kind of working through all that. But yeah, at a at a minimum this is what I've got showing. Well, I'm I'm just thrilled that you have it in there thinking. Yeah. Um and then we've also gotten this idea that as we go through our commercial areas that we would have the a primary access way. And so, um what's what's a good thought about a good example of this is the area where there's WCO and the street comes off of Wash Was and then it starts to go down through and that's all private right there. The problem is is that that we're now missing areas where the sidewalk connects into it. So you could be walking along Gentile, but now you can't get to the front door of Winkco. You have to walk through the parking lot. Yeah.

And so the idea is that we provide they're private, but there have to be sidewalks that go through there. And so we call these essentially primary access ways through a parking lot. And so along these access ways, it's providing those pedestrian connections from a p public street to the front door of whatever the use is.

And then getting into a lot of detail with landscaping standards. This is just what it would be for uh a parking lot landscaping buffer. Uh high landscaping standards within the interiors of our parking lots. Um a good example of this if you want to see what we're kind of talking about is if you go over to the business area that's by um Red Robin and and the mall, they have parking islands and medians that look just like this. And and an example is in the uh code. I just didn't have it in the presentation here. We want to make sure that these are really wide. Uh we've actually updated this. Um we want that to be eight feet wide instead of five feet wide so it can accommodate a larger tree in that area. Make sure they don't bear fruit.

Yes. And so we've been talking about that like we don't want cars to be parking underneath them and then they're just getting shower. Red Robin has something. It's a little red. Yeah. And it is. I mean, I came out to my truck and I thought bunch of birds would fall over. Yeah. But it was the tree. Yep. And we've been talking to Joan about that as well. One of the things that's in the master plan for this town center is that because it used to be an orchard there. Yeah. An idea that there's that central parking lot and so how can we make that still somewhat look like an orchard? So, what kind of trees can we provide that look like fruit trees but don't actually bear fruit? Um and so we've been having good conversations about that.

And then this is this goes along with that access way, but having roosting. Yeah. Having sidewalks that go through a parking lot. So either go, you know, this way and then you also have bisecting uh paths that go the opposite way for every so many um lanes of parking. That's good. Um and then sign standards. Um this is something that was there was a lot of work done on this before um in city code. Um and so we're now just getting to the point where this this makes a lot of sense to start to implement this. It's kind of hard to see here. Your document is probably better to see that one. I was going to say it should be the very last page. Yep.

Yeah. Your document. Yeah. So, if you look at that, what we're proposing is essentially just signs, standards that are more um town center focused awning signs that are on awnings, signs that project from a building that you can see as you're walking. Uh different uh window signage and some limitations on how much window signage, you know, you could have like I talked about before, we want to be able to see into the businesses and we don't want the the the windows to be fully wrapped. And so having some limitations on how much window signage you could have. And then these are just some examples of what an internally illuminated sign would look or external illumination, internal illumination or um you know with a halo um or internal illumination just within the the channel letters of the sign. Yeah. With that that's concludes my presentation. Happy to answer any questions that you have. But um

that's a lot of work. Yeah, there's there's a lot in there. Um that's good though. I I think I when I told Weston how many pages it was probably taken back a little bit like what are we doing here? So, but the the real intent behind this is that wanted to have a robust code that really hits the vision that we were working on with the the general public and hopefully doesn't leave us short on what our our hopes and visions were for that area. Well, I I applaud you for thinking of things that I don't never thought of. I mean, you know, this is a town center, so let's make it a town center. Yeah, I like that.

Well, a lot of credit also goes to, you know, the the amount of time that we've spent with our engineering staff going over things as well as our legal staff. And then, you know, Jill Ellen's a valuable resource, you know, to to pick her brain all the time. And I think I said to her the other day that I one of these days I need to return the favor and help her with something. How much I've asked her questions. in your um maybe this comes after I know we talked about gathering spots and water features and play areas and to where Yeah. You talk about people getting out of their cars and spending the afternoon there and having places to go, not just shop. Yeah. To gather.

Is that after we've found the developer or how does that Yeah, I think that'll be part of it. Um because we're trying to write into the code that with the with each development, they do have to pro provide certain amount of amenities um like mixed use and and the town homes, but on the commercial areas where there's plazas and those different types of things,

we you know are trying to figure out how to do that like outdoor dining areas or those types of things. But we do want to make sure that we're addressing that. We thought about putting standards in here to say that like these are public spaces, but they're really quasi public spaces because they'll be owned by the development, but they'll be open to the public and we don't want to be maintaining them, but we want them to be nice and and accessible to everybody. So, yeah, probably hammering out out a lot with whoever developer is. Well, this should give them all good guidance. Yeah, I mean this is definitely a good view of what we're after and how u beautiful we want the area to be as well. So I appreciate all the work that's a lot of work. Thank you.

Yeah. Can you go back to the original plat? Let's see. Was it this one or Yeah. So So it's just the the red dash. Oh, yep. Correct. Yep. That's correct. That's that's the property that you got owned right now. Correct. Yep. That's correct. So, where it says example, that's empty right now. Correct. Yep. That's that's empty right now. Will this ordinance fall into that area there? It could. It could. Um, really good question.

Do we need to expand it? Because if these are vacant lots, can we expand it to include some of those areas so that the area we're not just limiting to the UD do property, we're looking at that whole area? Yeah. So that that it it's some there's actually some homes that are still there, just really big lots. Yeah.

Um and respectively the the person that owns those properties said that when I die, you can develop on those properties. And so we've actually spoken to uh the Wall family. Um and they're actually one of the developers that came in and had a meeting with us to talk about what what's the potential because they they owned a lot of this orchard area. So they they have some interest in in what goes there. Um but yeah, the intent is is that when that area is ready to develop, we will likely then just expand the town center zone to that. Can it expand can expand to the west? Right.

Yeah. Couldn't expand like there's a there's a chapel that's right here. Um and then over here that's already an existing single family neighborhood and then to the south you've already got existing single family. So we're kind of limited to this. This is really the area that we could have some expansion up to Cherry Lane, but that that would be when they're ready. And so we're not we don't want to be in the position right now to try to reszone their property until they can do it.

I have um probably a followup. So, I know when we talked about having um zoning for the town centers, there was some discussion about having to do different ones for the different town centers. But I love your overview earlier saying, well, if we can work on this, then maybe this is something that we can use, you know, for the West Oregon and maybe really any other town center um areas that we have. um was your intent to be able to do that because we have the different options and so like for example the mountain modern you highlighted that because that's what we that's the idea that we have for this area. Yeah.

But out west you know for example we might have chosen or choose one of the other options country style. So with that in mind, um I love that idea because that's something I was thinking before is that if we have a town center zone instead of trying to have a zoning for each town center we may have and that's too much. Um, and so to me, this is more of like a um an over overview that just helps us to be able to, as um said earlier, tweak. Maybe we need to tweak something here and there, but it's also um broad enough to where maybe you don't have to specify every single thing, but what we've got in here is good enough to get what we think we need. So,

y um kudos to you for that because that just helps us to be more thorough, but it also gives residents visibility into what a town center, you know, should look like or can look like. Um because everything's already here in this huge document. It is a huge document. Yes, it is. And because there's a lot in there and so yes, that's yeah, we we've gone through multiple iterations with through something where we would just do a master development agreement with the developer, but then it's like, well, then there's just a lot that's out of our control. Yeah. No, that's a lot of lot of indepth work.

Yeah, a lot of details on when he's examining a specific design component or some scenario and how we're going to build this out. Although we're looking at the Gordon 89, he's examined that and said, "How will it affect an existing town center? How will it affect out west?" And so there's still some questions to be answered, but he has he has been doing a lot of that ground work so that there's not much more to do once we've got this done.

And then that goes back to um approval of this zone when it's ready to go would be at the council level. But then after that, if someone purchases an area, you know, as long as what they're doing falls within what we've got here, then it wouldn't necessarily come back to the council. Correct. Correct. Yeah. The we did.

So, right at the very So, number three, development agreement. We we made sure to be specific that like as part of a reason application because state code allows us to do that that we could require a development agreement. And so this would only if anybody wants this, they're going to have to reszone to it. And so we feel like at that point that gives us the leverage to say, well, let's do a development agreement and cover anything that maybe we might be missing. But yeah, after that, they would still have the development plan like they do with those other zones that we have. And that would go to the planning commission and it would be enforcing these standards. Okay. Okay. Yeah, that's helpful. All right. Anything else? Because I know we got two more items yet. It's good. Thanks for having

Thank you very much. We really appreciate that. You haven't been busy at all, have you? Yeah. Welcome to Leighton. That's right. Okay. Next up is the Eastgate development. And Logan's going to give us an update there. Smaller packet lawn. It is, but that's not that's not what we're going to be going over actually. So, oh, okay. It's even shorter what I'm going to show you. So, well, what's nice is there's more pictures per day.

Actually, Alex asked me to uh give you an update on Eastgate and the construction and things that are going on up there based on a new development, which is exciting. Um, but while he was doing that, I thought Councilman Colle could use um some background information. Yeah. I don't know if I can do that, but I'll try.

Uh, and so what you have in front of you will remind you of all the work that many of you have been through to get to where we are now. Uh, and actually give you some information of bringing up speed. Um, there's been a lot of work and so hopefully that'll provide that. Um, for tonight, um, we're going to talk about this area in red and this is our EGA. Uh mainly we're going to talk about the area up at the north end of Fairfield where most of the construction is happening. We we did have um a great new building built right here this past year and ES3 moved into there which is a a global defense contractor. Um it's it's fairly well known. We're pretty excited about that with 200 engineering jobs in that location. And then we'll talk about this up here. Uh, this map shows you the ownership currently. Um, which brings us to why I am here. Uh, if the council recalls, in 2016, um, the city went into an opt signed an option agreement with Wasach Integrated Waste to purchase these two lots at the top of Fairfield and it's about 24 and a half acres. Um, In 2024, um I had the property appraised knowing that something might happen soon. Uh and at that point in time, um the city executed that agreement and purchased the property from Wasach integrated 2025. Uh we transferred that you transferred that option property to the redevelopment agency which is also used. So that's hard to explain but um and then the agency accepted that transfer and this is a requirement of state code which is why we went through that. Uh and then in

2025 the EDA approved an option agreement with JL for them to purchase the property and this was last fall. Uh a few weeks ago, JL decided to execute that agreement and provided an offer uh for the $8 million which we've asked for in the option agreement. Uh that was reviewed by everybody everybody and the mayor signed that per the agreement and right now they have 45 days for due diligence. Uh but they should be purchasing that property uh for $8 million and continuing the development. uh to bring you up to speed here. Um right just the buildings that are under construction which uh you're aware that KMAC will break ground on a 67,000t building um soon. They've been attempting to do that for a little while. They're ready to move. We know that uh Janicki actually also has an expansion plan they're working on. We expect to see that soon. Uh this was completed and moved into by Northrup in the spring of this past year. Uh and they're currently working on uh these two buildings right here. Uh this is expected to be completed in the fall and and there's more on the way. Uh this number right here does include the Grand View building which was the the one I showed you in the corner over here on the other map uh which was 46,000 square feet. So basically right now this past year and and then this next coming year we we have about 842,000 square feet of manufacturing building being built at about 124 and a half million dollars of investment into Leon City and to to give you some reference the entire East

was valuated at 210 million last year or for 2024 and so it's significant Um, and about 1,300 jobs are coming with that construction. And so that's where we are. We know there's more. There's exciting news. Some people know. And uh, and once we're able to let you know, we will, but honor the uh, agreement to not speak first. we did for many many for a long time. So, thank you. I don't even know who he's talking about, but I'm just referencing our agreement with uh

there were four of us that were under an NDA for almost 5 years. Yeah. Which was hard, but it's exciting to see everything going on up there. It is. We do know that Northrep is planning a wall, which we're not sure when they're going to submit or construct that, but they expect a wall off the whole property. um for security reasons and there's other reasons um which help like a concrete wall like a fence wall. We don't we don't know what they call yet. Most of these types of facilities it's a brick wall so I'm not sure but North also has one that's chain length with slats. I hope it's not that.

Mama's got wire on the phone. Okay, I guess I could mention also engineering staff's been working on a roundabout at this location and they're currently working with Komac to get a little corner and Janick to get a little corner to create that and then it'll head east and stuff to Sun Hills. We're not sure when the funding will come around to make that happen, but we're planning it because of the development that's going to occur uh in the area. So, just so you know, and that's all I have. And I don't know if you have any questions. That's good to say questions you can't answer yet. Yeah, we'll respect that. Yeah, we won't ask. We won't ask.

Yeah, we won't. I don't know if Dave may, but yeah, well, gee, that's move along then. We'll have time for celebration here in a minute. Okay. Um, we'll sing to you. Okay. Next up is uh our ordinance regarding the uh kioses throughout the city then um which I think is is achieved. Who's which one? It's going to be me. Oh, excuse me. Okay. Sorry. Yes, I knew that. They're just here for my moral support. Support. All right. Well, in case I get too nervous. Oh, wait a minute. It's not on the agenda. So,

it's the last item number five. It doesn't have his name. It doesn't have my name on it. It's true. That's true.

I'll try and make I'll try and make this quick because we had a long discussion about it two weeks ago and we have a birthday to celebrate. So, um after the discussion that we had and the the you gave us the the go-ahhead to to proceed and just just to remind you this is an ordinance that would prohibit virtual currency kiosks. um as the our police department um very articulately described um it's a problem uh not just within our community but within the state. Um in the last four years we've had a well in a four-year period we had our residents um lost about $2 million. According to the Iowa State general, there's been a Iowa State Attorney General. They did some research on the virtual currency kiosk transactions within their state. They found that 98% of them were fraudulent. So, it's a problem. Um they are praying on um vulnerable portions of our population in particular and the steps uh that the police department has taken have been admirable but have not been sufficient because um a lot of people either don't read notices or don't uh don't believe notices. So, um, with that, we have proposed the the ordinance with it with that's located in your packet. Um, it would make it unlawful to post, allow, operate, permit, or locate a virtual currency kiosk in any place that's open to the public or or generally accessible to the public. Um, gives a 60-day time frame for which they can they are required to remove it and and provides penalties for not removing it. um it's not meant to restrict personal transactions or personal possession of ver virtual currency. That means if you're a Bitcoin trader or a Bitcoin owner that that is this this does not this doesn't have anything to do with that. Um purchasing or using trans or transacting Bitcoin uh through your

personal devices like an uh a tablet, a a phone or or a computer completely legal. It doesn't touch that. We're very specific about that. Uh, so that's the the extent of of the ordinance. I'm happy to answer any questions if you have any. And we have our fine police officers here too if you'd like to. How come 60 days? Just to give them give the the uh shop owners an opportunity to to notify them and and get them out. It it might take some time. Well, hopefully it'll happen sooner and it should, but it was also modeled in other states and other cities that have done it and that was the the time frame in which they used and we felt like that was reasonable.

I disagree. That's okay. I'll go with you since you're lawyer. Well, when you remember that there were folks who wanted to get rid of them, but they had like a contract or something and so they couldn't. So, this gives Well, you can always unplug it. That's true. But this gives them teeth, right? to be able to say, "Hey, and we don't we can't have this here." And and I and I have heard that there are instances of shop owners, not necessarily within our city, that have unplugged them because they're tired of people getting, you know, I mean, ripped off, basically. If they are what they are, and they are, then get rid of them. Yep. So, if 60 days is what we're going to do, fine. But

we we think it'll happen sooner than that. That that gives the shop owners an opportunity to to if they can get out of it, take whatever measures they need to. Okay. We haven't had any others that have come in since you guys have brought awareness of it, have you? Yeah, there's been more cases coming through. Oh, she means more machines. Oh, yeah. No more cases. Did we have 18 machines? Is that what it was? Yeah, but more cases. So, that's too bad. Just had a case a couple weeks ago where was a youngster going to put 3,500 in. thinking it was the FBI and he out of work. So, wow. Well, I applaud you guys for getting right on it doing

these gentlemen right here. Put a lot of work into this. Why not? It's exciting. Thank you. So, yes, assuming this passes tonight and all this happens and they're gone. What if one comes back? What is it? It's prohibited. Class is But what's the class B? Class B. How does that affect the shop owner? Because so is the shop owner. That was the shop owner. It goes against the shop owner not 60day is intended to kind of transfer that too, right? Like there's a grace period for the shop owners to to remove those things. But to to then bring them in after that, then that's going to be our focus right now is going to be would be if we could would be on the actual owners of the of the kiosk themselves. Right.

But it's going to push the pre It's going to push the pressure to the shop owners. Keep them out. Good. Any other questions on it? Sweet. Okay. Well, that was a lot quicker than what I thought. I knew that, you know, we had two more items left on the agenda, but uh that actually wraps up our work meeting agenda other than a nice little birthday celebration that uh we need to acknowledge for Betina. So, do you want to have the honors of passing your treats around your your treat of choice or do you want us to? I mean, I'll be happy to I would just put them first.

No, we don't need to yet. I mean, if you guys want to adjourn, we can. You want to? Do you have something on social? I move we adjourn if we can celebrate your birthday so we can celebrate our birthday. Sarah, do you guys want to acknowledge? Do you want? Okay. There's been a motion that we adjourn. I need a second. Second. Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. Okay. We're officially adjourned. And let's uh No problem. Partake then. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. It's like

you guys need to come. There's enough that you guys can grab one. Did you see? I did. Thank you. You're okay with that? That's what I was thinking it was, but I wasn't, you know, strange. Well,

starting started this evening. Um, I'd like to welcome everyone out to our Leighton City Council meeting for March 19th. Our start time is 7 p.m. It's always exciting to see uh folks in the audience. And um as customary though we do like to start our um meeting with a prayer and a pledge and again we take turns up here on the dis and um we have the option to invite others to to partake of that or do it ourselves. And tonight um I have asked uh Miss Irene Hill to say our prayer and lead us in the pledge or I'll lead us in the pledge if you'd like to say the prayer. So, I'd like you to come up to the mic and go ahead and state that. And um just for the record, I know that you're part of Faith Baptist, First Faith Baptist Church here in Leighton, correct?

Okay. Thank you. Please join us. Dear heavenly father, we thank you for this day and we thank you for everybody that is here today that they had safe travels and God just please bless this meeting and that your will will be done and please help everybody have safe travels home. In Jesus name we ask. Amen. Amen. Amen. Okay. Thank you very much. If you could please rise and follow in the pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance 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.

Okay. Very good. Um, like I said, this is kind of a a fun night here tonight, but first off, I need to acknowledge a special guest we have here on the stand with us. Um, as you know, Leighton City has our own youth council. And so, it's a great opportunity for them to kind of really understand how the city functions and and witness it firsthand. So, uh, to my right here, I have, um, gosh, Addison, sorry, Addison Hedgepath, um, who is on our council. So, I'd like to turn some time over to her and let her kind of explain or tell us something special about the council.

Okay. So, I'm Addison. Um, one of the things that I thought to bring up today was just about two weeks ago, we had the opportunity to travel up to Logan and go stay at their the Utah State campus for three days. Uh, it was a big conference between everybody and every uh, youth council within Utah and we were able to just have a fun time like they had a lot of activities and we got to make connections that otherwise would not have happened. And okay, out of curiosity, two questions. What was your favorite event? And did something special happen? My favorite event, honestly, was one of the classes. It was on uh civility and the teacher that taught it was just an amazing guy. Like he was very clear in what his like what he wanted us to understand and taught us a lot. And then one thing that was special is I got asked by one of the guys up there to go to Green Canyon's prom with him. Oh, that's I didn't expect that, but that's awesome. That's That's pretty good. Well, thank you. We're glad you're here with us this evening. Okay. I'd also like to acknowledge we have uh looks like some special guests out in our audience as well. And um I'm going to ask we do have some scouts with us. So perhaps um I'm maybe you guys could tell me what uh troops you're with. 007. Okay. Is there another troop?

I'm walk. Awesome. Well, welcome gentlemen. We appreciate you being here. This is a great opportunity for you. Okay. I need to uh go ahead and bring the uh meeting back to order here and acknowledge the fact that we have four sets of minutes that needs to uh be approved. So, council, if you've read through your packet and if you have no changes, I would accept a motion to um adopt the minutes. And if you could please state uh the date and what it is.

U Madame Mayor, I'd like to make a motion. Um, I move that we accept or approve the minutes of Leighton City Council work meeting January 15th, 2026. Uh, Leighton City Council meeting January 15, 2026. Um, I do have one correction that was made for the Leighton City Council work meeting February 5th, 2026. There was just a modification, a change from the word where to about in a sentence for clarity. Um, and our clerk has provided that change to each of us. Um, and so I would like to make them make the motion that we accept or approve those minutes with that correction. And then finally, the Leighton City Council meeting minutes for February 5th, 2026.

Second. Okay, it's been moved and second. All in favor say I. I. I. Any oppose? Okay, thank you. I failed to acknowledge the fact that uh council member Bloxom is uh he's ill today and uh is was not able to attend but uh um we hope that uh he'll you know get better and uh recover from his from his illness at this time. So I'll bring it back around then for any type of municipal announcements we might have. So Council Member Thomas Yes. For the parks and recreation uh this uh f March 20th. Is that Friday?

Tomorrow. Tomorrow.

That's Friday. Yeah. Don't say tomorrow. Say Friday. Okay. I don't get it. Anyway, it's free. Uh it's a history and beyond type thing. uh 6:30 to 8:00 at down here at the central branch and uh they'll explore America 250, which it's their birthday this year. The museum has a bunch of baby chicks. I don't know if they've hatched yet, but they're there. So, if you ever want to go see a bunch of eggs that are going to get ready to hatch, go to the museum. Surf and Swim is having an Easter egg dive on the 21st, which would be Saturday. is three bucks a piece. You have to be under 14. Children under five, you need to have a parent with you in the pool. Um time 10 to 12. And like I said, surf and swim. And uh if you pay your three bucks, you can stay and swim after the egg dive. And then they have their regular sports registrations. uh the boys and girls t-ball, coach pitch, machine pitch, uh some adult volleyball, uh softball. So, if you're interested in that, time to do it. Thank you.

Okay. Anyone else?

Uh Mayor, thank you. I do have two uh community announcements. There is a coalition called a Boulder Way Forward and it's a coalition that focuses on girls and women and helping families thrive. Um the Davis County Coalition is having the annual spring or not annual but having a spring meetup. It will be this Monday, March 23rd from 6:00 to 7:30 at the Davis County Memorial Courthouse in Farmington. um light refreshments will be served and at this meeting there will be information about our county um surveys that were done by members of our county. We know that Leighton is the largest city in our county. So a large portion of that is from residents here um who live here with us and we'll just provide lots of information about the county's focus on how to continue to help our families thrive. Um, and so I'm inviting everyone to that. And then also Loveies Cakes, which is a bakery here in Leighton, um, at 2146 North Main Street. They are, um, sponsoring a promotion for kids, K through 12 grade students with all A's on their report card will receive one free cupcake or cookie. And if they have exclusively have A's and B's, then they can get half off of one cupcake or cookie. They'll need to show their school ID or have a parent with them in their report card. But Loveies is wanting to promote um education and we'll also with parents consent be able to post your child in the store as a high achiever for getting good grades. So just wanted to share those two events for the community. Okay. Excellent. Is there any others? Okay. Well, that leads perfectly into our next agenda item, which is our verbal petition and presentations. But

speaking of high achievers, we have the great opportunity here to acknowledge uh two uh gentlemen who have achieved the ranking of an Eagle Scout. So, we'd like to acknowledge them personally. Um what what we've done is we've got a letter here and um we'd like them to We'll we'll have them come up one at a time and if you could, I'm going to have you stand over here by the podium and then we'll read our letter of appreciation and acknowledgement and then we're going to have you walk through and shake our hands and then we'll acknowledge the next one. And being that uh uh yesterday was Council Member Smith Edmonson's birthday, I'm going to have her go ahead and start out with our first one acknowledging Walker Heiner.

Well, thank you. All right, Walker, come on down. So, I'll read this letter. It's dated March 19th, 2026. Eagle Scout Walker Heiner. Dear Eagle Scout Walker Heiner, on behalf of the Leighton City Council and Mayor Joy Pro, we extend my heartfelt congratulations to you on earning the distinguished rank of Engle of Eagle Scout. This remarkable achievement reflects extraordinary dedication, leadership, and character. These qualities speak volumes about the young man you are and the leader you are becoming. Earning the rank of Eagle Scout in just over a year and a half is a rare accomplishment, and it underscores your focus, discipline, and commitment to excellence. Your record of 53 merit badges along with two gold palms, two silver palms, and three bronze palms represents an exceptional breadth of knowledge and service well beyond the standard requirements. Your membership in the order of the arrow further highlights your dedication to the scout oath and law and your commitment to cheerful service and leadership among your peers. The council and Mayor Pro are especially impressed by your Eagle Scout project, the creation of a freeunning clinic focused on movement and motivation at Weber State University benefiting youth impact and the Boys and Girls Club. This project demonstrates not only initiative and organization, but a genuine desire to uplift and inspire youth through physical activity, confidence building, and positive mentorship. Your work has made a meaningful and lasting impact on the community. Please accept our sincere congratulations on this outstanding milestone. Leighton City is proud of you

and we look forward to the positive contributions that you will continue to make. This is signed sincerely, Mayor Joy Pro. Congratulations.

Thank you. That's very impressive. Okay, now if I could have Eastston or I mean yeah, Eastston Hiner, would you mind coming up and standing over here? Okay, Eastston, on behalf of the Leighton City Council and myself, it is an honor to extend our sincere congratulations to you on your achievement of achieving the prestigious rank of Eagle Scout. This accomplishment represents the highest idols ideals of scouting and reflects exceptional dedication, leadership, and character. Here's the fun part. Earning this rank of Eagle Scout at just 12 years old. Yeah, it's an um is an extraordinary milestone and it's a place and it places you among the youngest scouts to ever reach this level. Your achievement is even more remarkable given the your impressive record of 64 merit badges along with three gold palms, three silver palms, and three bronze palms. Your membership in the

order of the arrow further demonstrates your commitment to service, leadership, and living the scout oath and law. The city council and I are especially proud of your Eagle Scout project, organizing a shoe drive that collected an outstanding 304 pairs of shoes, of which 100 of them were donated to the Youth Impact and the Boys and Girls Club, while the remaining shoes were provided to Souls for Souls. extending your impact far beyond our local community here. This project is a powerful example of compassion, organization, and service to others, and it has made a meaningful difference in lives of many. Your ambition, your ambitious goals to earn every merit badge speaks of your curiosity, your determination and the love of learning. These qualities combined with your strong work ethic and the serviceorientated mind mindset will undoubtedly lead you to continued success in scouting and in all your future endeavors. Eastston Your achievements bring great pride to your family, your scouting community, and the city of Leighton. We commend you on your hard work and your encouraging and encourage you to continue striving for excellence and service. And I announce that on behalf of myself and this entire council. Congratulations.

I'll have him come back. Okay. If we could could would um both of you come up and stand right here in front and we'd like to um actually I think we need a picture with the council down here and then we'll also present you with our letters

down Congratulations. I thought it was well well worth the honor to be able to acknowledge both these scouts tonight. I mean, I know that the scouting um has been in a a change and um it's great to see that you guys are keeping the the scouting program alive and how valuable it is because I know firsthand the importance of that program and how it builds uh great lives and good leaders for us uh in the future. So again, I commend all of you scouts that are in attendance tonight. Thank you for being here, for being supportive of your um fellow scouter scouters and um again all of you are very worthy of this and I hope that we see more of you. Okay, I'd like to go ahead and continue our meeting tonight which I'll now brings us to our citizen comment portion

of our meeting. So if anyone's here that wishes to address this governing body, you're more than welcome to. you can come up to either podium, just state your name, what city you're from, and um just please keep and keep in mind that we will not get into a dialogue. We will not discuss it, but certainly we'll gather that information, make sure we follow back up with you and take whatever action we need to. So, the time is now yours. I should mention though if you're here for one of our uh public hearing portions a public when we go to address that public hearing you at that time we will open it up and you can give us specific uh comments on those items. Sure.

It's okay if I stand here I guess. Yes. Uh, I'm Wayne Potter and I live up in East Leighton and I just had a suggestion for the council. I see, you know, that land up there by Highway 89, there's a whole bunch of it and they're auctioning it off. I thought, geez, that'd sure be nice to have a a park up in the east part of Leighton um for uh you know, baseball, soccer, a number of sports that the the youth enjoy and and I know there's a lot of fields out to the west, but there's really nothing up on the east side. Just a suggestion for the

Okay, thank you. And I don't know if that's possible or how much money or anything or maybe somebody' buy it and donate it to the city. Uh I thought it'd be great. So thanks. Thank you. Okay. Anyone else on our citizen comment portion?

Okay. Being that there's none, I'll go ahead and go on down to our consent item tonight. We do have two items on our consent items. And once again, these items will be presented to us and um this council will be able to uh take action on both items in one single um motion. So, with that, I'll go ahead and turn the time over to Mr. Steve Jackson for a bid award. Uh thank you, Mayor, Council. It's good to be with you tonight. uh for your considerations resolution 26-17 uh bid award to Orman Construction for the 490 West Hillfield Road sewer project. Um project location is is directly west of Northridge High School on the west side of Hillfield Road. Uh indicated there in the red. Um the the pipeline is in um it has some bellies in it that create some backups for us. So we've had a couple sewer line backups we need to get this pipeline fixed. Um unfortunately it's not in a great location in along Hillfield Road and then through a private a set of private driveways. So um the project includes the removal and replacement of 8 in sewer lines uh that are and then manhole replacements as well as some um storm drain pipe re relocations and installations. So you could see on that map along Hillfield Road, there's a a fairly substantial um section of the the roadway here that is the sewer line needs to be replaced. And then across the entire uh frontage of the two homes that are on that private drive and then as well this entire intersection, the storm drain sits right on top of our sewer line. So we need to remove the storm drain in order to fix the sewer and then put the storm drain back. So um quite a bit of work there. Um, we we solicited bids for this project. We had eight bidders actually pull the plans on the project. Only three chose to

pre-qualify for it. Um, and we only received one bid from Orman Construction as the lowest responsible responsive bid in the amount of $36,159. Uh, the engineer's estimate was $275 or $275,000. So, uh, the city re or staff recommends that the council adopt resolution 26-17 and award the bid to Orman Construction and authorize the city manager to execute the agreement for this project. Are there any questions I can answer for the council? Any questions, council? Is it going to do anything to Hillfield Road? I mean, I know you're going to dig something up, but

it's actually outside of the rightway of Hillfield Road or excuse me, it's in the right way of Hillfield Road, but it's behind the sidewalk. Um there's there's actually a North Davis sewer district line right there that we're going to have to work around as well. So um project will be about 13 ft deep. So it'll be a fairly substantial trench there, but um we'll use some shoring to make sure we're not impacting the roadway. Okay, any other questions? Okay, excellent. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, we'll now go on to our second item here and um which is an adoption of an ordinance prohibiting currency kiosk and our city attorney, Mr. Clint Drake, will be presenting that for us.

Thank you, mayor. Um we talked about this in the meeting prior to this as well as our work meeting two weeks ago, but just for the public's benefit, I'll give a a brief description. Uh located within our city and throughout the state are what is known as virtual currency kiosks. Excuse me. Um they they appear to look like ATMs, but they don't they don't operate in the same way. They um uh we have our police department has done an investigation and has taken several cases over the past uh several years and has found that these kiosks are being used to defraud our citizens of considerable amounts of money. Um, from the years 2021 to 2025, Leighton City residents alone lost more than $2 million through these kiosks. The way that they operate is is that there are different types of fraudulent scams that uh different people, oftentimes vulnerable adults, will be um tricked into or pressured into depositing large sums of money into these virtual key currency kiosks. sometimes in amounts like $5,000, $10,000, $20,000. Um, and once they're deposited in those kiosks, they cannot be recovered. Um, our police department is rightfully concerned about the health and welfare of our city. Uh, did a presentation to the um the city council. One interesting thing to note is that thei Iowa state of Iowa the Iowa Attorney General's office did some research on this and found that in the state of Iowa 98% of transactions through virtual currency kiosks are fraudulent. Based on that information as well as the the uh experience of our own residents and our the many police reports that our police have taken, uh the city recommends that the council adopt the ordinance prohibiting virtual currency kiosks within the city. It would make it a class B misdemeanor to host, allow, operate, permit, or locate one of these kiosks was within a

business or a place that's accessible to the general public. These shop owners have 60 days, if passed, these shop owners would have 60 days to remove those kiosks. Um, and just for clarification, it is not meant to restrict the use of, uh, virtual currency. Uh, just through these terminals and kiosks, uh, that doesn't prohibit anybody from using and purchasing, selling, transacting, um, virtual currency through computers, cell phones, tablets, things of that nature. And with that, I submit to the council. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer. Okay. Council, do you have any questions on this? I don't have any questions. Um, but I believe the first time we discussed this was in a work meeting. Mhm.

So, just to give a little bit of background maybe to the public um about and you may have said this already, but could you restate if it wasn't stated how much money residents have lost from these types of in in Leighton City alone from the years 2021 to 2025, it was over $2 million.

And then also, there were signs placed in front of these. Um in the work meeting a few weeks back, we were able to see video footage of um folks who were using these machines and even were being um stopped by folks who work at the rest at the uh stores to say, "Hey, don't put your money here." And it was very obvious that um a lot of these folks were just in a frantic state of mind and really didn't even want to adhere to folks who were trying to say, "Hey, don't put your money in here. It's going to take it." So, um I just wanted to give that a little bit of background at least for those who are present and those who may be watching that this has been um a pretty big deal and the the officers who did all of the research on this really did their due diligence and wanted to to do something to actually help the residents. Um even sometimes you're in a situation and you don't really accept help. And so this was a way for for the city to try and help those folks out um and to not continue to lose the funds in these types of machines. So just thanks for that background and and to the officers for following up on this.

Yeah. And those our police investigation as well as other investigations in other cities and other states has found that the the notifications don't really they're not very effective. Um, most people ignore them and and when they do read them, they don't believe them. And uh, as as you mentioned, when when they're warned, even in person, one of the videos that we watched was actually a law enforcement officer telling somebody not to deposit money into a machine, and they were on the phone with somebody that was telling them to put the money in the machine, and they said, "Well, I'm on the phone with the police." And the the uniform police officer said, "No, I'm the police. You need to stop doing this." So, it is a problem. Like I said, it uh typically, not always, it can happen to anybody, but it typically presies on uh the more more vulnerable portions of our community and our society. And uh that's why the city is or the staff is recommending that it be passed,

you know. And I might add here and I think once again kudos to our uh police staff but uh um from what I understand and being that this council will pass this tonight that Leighton will actually be the first in the state to take action on this. So that once again it just shows how forward thinking this city is in protecting its residents. So, um, again, thanks to all those that that helped undercover this and really do the deep dive understanding what was taking place. Okay, that was our second item of business regarding our consent items. So, now I'll bring it back around to the council to go ahead and take action on our consent items. So, council. Yeah, I'd like to make a motion that we accept the bid award to Orman Construction uh project 25-43, resolution 2617. And on the second one, it's probably the first time I've ever been excited to pass a resolution. I wish we could do more, but to adopt the ordinance prohibiting virtual currency kiosks, mostly it's a crypto automated teller machines. And that is ordinance 26 07.

Okay. Is there a second? Second. I'll second that. Okay. It's been moved and second that we uh accept both consent items as presented. All in favor, please say I. I.

Any oppose? Okay. Thank you very much. That was very good. Thank you, Chief. I failed to acknowledge we have our chief back here with us. So, good job. Okay. Let's go on to our public hearing portion of our meeting. We do have three items tonight. Um, and Mr. Weston Appaloney is going to present all three of them. So, we'll go ahead and start with the first one, which is a reszone request for the overlook at Case Creek. Thank you, mayor and councel. Uh before you tonight is a reszone request of 3.57 acres that is identified within the sensitive lands. The property is located east of Highway 89 at approximately 2550 north with frontage on valley view. Give you a closer uh view of this. The properties are located the properties located to the east at the subject property um are consistently RS which is residential suburban single family um lots and there is a church building that is located to the south with with highway 89 um located to the west. Blake Anderson is representing Omner Holdings, uh, who's the applicant, requesting a reszone for the subject's property from RS to R110 single family residential. This is a standard single family residential subdivision, uh, that's before you tonight. The proposal includes 10 single family residential lots. The city and the applicant have been working um with the applicant's geotechnical engineer and the city's thirdparty geotechnical engineer to identify and mitigate geotechnical and geological issues that are identified on the property. The items were explored were fault scarp locations, slope stability, the stability of soils, groundwater, and liquefaction. These are portions of the subject property that have been identified as and then there's excuse me and then also portions of the property that would be

identified as unbuildable. Um a fault scarp is located through the center of the property traveling from Valley View towards uh the State Road Highway 89. So you can see that section cutting through here. What is it? Scarf. It's a scar. It's a fault scarp line. three.

Um, so this area is a non-buildable area. It measures 61 feet in width and will be part of a recorded plat note uh designating such. Based on the reviews from the geotechnical study, no other geological or geotechnical concerns need to be mitigated with the property. On February 24th, 2026, the planning commission voted unanimously to forward a recommendation of approval to the city council for the reszone request from RS to R110. Staff supports the planning commission's recommendation and recommends that the city council adopt ordinance 2602 approving this reszone request. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. Okay, council, do you have any questions? Go ahead. Okay.

Scarp. Did you call it a false scarp? Yeah. Okay. You can't build on it. You cannot build on it. But they can own it. Yes. Okay. That just seems odd that you know, you can't do anything with it, but you can own it. Well, you can't you can't put a building on it. Like they can't place the home on it. That's right. They can't place the home on it. They can't place accessory structures on it. I couldn't place a pool on it. Um, yeah. I mean, you can play on it, but that's That's right. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Any other questions? One question. Can you

Can you identify the difference in the number of homes that it was being reszoned from? So, the RS to the R 110, what's the difference in the

Yeah, an RS is is generally 15,000t lot. Uh, the R110 is a 10,000 foot lot. These lots range um I thought I had that number in here. It's quite large. Um, that might be on my other report, but um yeah, here we go. The minimum lot uh ranges from 10,500 ft² to 18,800 ft². um when when you decrease in the from the R110, excuse me, from the RS to the R110, it also allows them to have smaller frontages. So, with a subdivision like this that's navigating uh a fault line and trying to fit lots in a specific area, it gives them a little bit of flexibility to have a little bit narrow of lots up front and wider lots in the back. It just gives them a little bit of more flexibility to put in the the lots they're looking for. Okay, good question. Okay, any other questions?

Thank you, mayor. Just the um can you go over the notice requirements for those who would purchase these lots knowing that there's a a fault running through their property? Yeah, absolutely. So, there the the the lots themselves will be um will have a restriction on them. Um, and then there would be a document recorded at the county stating that restriction as well as a note on the plat. Go ahead. Just a followup. And we'll we'll see this. I know with this with the sensitive lands ordinance, we see this a few times, don't we? You're going to see it preliminary and final as well. Okay. Thank you.

Just a clarification on the recording, that means it would show up on a title report. So, when they go through closing, it would be it would show on the title report. Okay. Any other questions on this? Okay. Uh, this is a public hearing, so council, I'd need you to, uh, make a motion to go ahead and open the public hearing so that we can hear any comments from those in attendance. Uh, Madame Mayor, I move that we open the public hearing.

Okay. Thank you very much. Okay. The time is now yours. If anyone wish to speak to item A of our public hearing, you're more than welcome to. at this time. Um, we will have an opportunity if you're here for any of the other items that you can speak at that time regarding those items. Okay, seeing that there's no comments on this reszone request, let's go ahead and move on to item number B, which is alsone request.

Okay, thank you again, Mayor. Um again we are on the east side of 89. Um this is a proposed uh reszone containing 2 uh096 acres uh in the identified sensitive lands area. It is also a annexation which is uh partly unincorporated Davis County that would be annexed into Leighton City. Um, Eric Krathor with Cray Developments is seeking an approval for the annexation and reszone within the RS uh to the RS to develop the subject property with a standard single family home subdivision. This is the location. We're again east of 89. Um, and the uh properties to the east is the Crrathornne gravel pit. And then properties to the north um are a um R110 and you have an RS development to the west and an R110 PUD uh development to the south. This just identifies the uh general plan designation u and identifying the density of 1.1 to 3.5 units per acre and that this uh request falls within that those parameters. So I'll just caveat when you see um plans with that many lines on it, it makes it seem like it's very steep. They actually did um a twoft separation between those lines and so the the slopes are not as great as you would see as it feels like they are. The slopes on that property is around 10 to 15% generally. Um so it's not similar to the the steep slopes that we've seen on other um sensitive land properties. The conceptual plan for the uh total project area includes four lots. The four single family lots comply with the minimum lot size and they range from

15,000 square excuse me 15,04 square ft to 58,000 square ft. Uh the four lots will have direct frontage onto a new culde-sac street extending east from east the east side drive. Um access to the gravel pit will continue to be provided from a new street by the way of a property on the south side of this development but that property is not included within the subdivision. The city and the applicant have been working with the applicant's geotechnical engineer and the city's thirdparty geotechnical engineer to identify and mitigate geotechnical and geological issues. The items explored um with this report include scarp fa fault scarp locations, slope stability, stability of soils, groundwater and liquefaction. The geotechnical study identified that the Davis uh aqueduct along the eastern uh boundary line of the subject property and the Weaver Basin water storage facility were areas um needed to be addressed. As identified with other subdivision developments within sensitive land areas, a planned res residential unit development can be a good design. However, the PED, similar to the uh subdivision we just looked at, um is not necessarily needed for uh sensitive land developments on every um on every subdivision. As outlined in the engineering staff memorandum, certain lots may be restricted for subsurface geotechnical issues in a way that is sufficient to address the underlining sensitive land issues. Additionally, the area um in the conceptual subdivision does not include um the areas of slope, excuse me. Um additionally, the area of the conceptual subdivision does not include areas with slopes greater than 15.56%. As such, the conceptual conceptual plan may de be developed on in accordance with the development standards of the RS

and sensitive land ordinance. On February 24th, 2026, the planning commission forwarded a recommendation of approval to the city council for the reszone request from unincorporated area to RS, residential suburban, subject to meeting all city requirements. Staff supports the planning commission's recommendation and recommends the council adopt ordinance 2604 and 2605 approving the annexation and the reszone requests. This recommendation is based on the compliance of the city's annexation policy plan, general plan, city code, and the development guideline standards. be happy to answer any questions you may have. Okay, council, go ahead.

On lot four with the detention area there. Will that give them enough room to have to face the the road? I can't see the numbers for here. You're talking about this lot here. Yeah, right. Yeah, they'll have enough room to face here. Okay. So, that Okay. Okay, go ahead. Um, I have a question about these existing buildings that are already there. Can you speak to what those are and if they will remain or be built around? Okay. Yeah. Okay. Any other questions?

Mayor, thank you. Uh, the planning commission, you did how was the discussion on this item? I know you mentioned approved unanimous or were there questions? There was no general concerns or comments that came.

Okay. Any other questions? Okay. If not, I'll go ahead and turn to the public. If they'd like to address us regarding item B on our reszone request for the Love Valley View property, you're more than welcome to stand up. And once again, you got to state your name and what city you're from. Okay, seeing that there's no comment, I'll go ahead and move on to item number C then, which is a development agreement for trail for trailside on West PRUD.

Thank you, Mayor Sean Athie with LHM um deev TRS uh which is also referred to as destination homes. Um, you want to restate that?

Is seeking approval to amend the development agreement for the Trailside West PR. Trailside West is a master planned residential community with small area of commercial flex industrial space uh in the front. This is identification uh of where Trailside is and the commercial components here. Uh, this subdivision includes um uh single family, detached homes, town homes, and eventually will include condominiums and apartments. Uh the development agreement which was executed in the fall of 2001 included specific development standards for the residential and commercial buildings in the trailside west ped as well as a provision of highquality unique open space amenities. The applicant is requesting an amendment to the development agreement to provide some flexibility to the design of the town home units while also maintaining the same level of quality and design that was originally approved. The development agreement includes strict adherence to specific development standards for each of the resident residential units within trailside as well as provisions for highquality unique open spaces. The applicant has found that tandem garages on the town homes have not performed as well. And one of the components that they're looking to do is alter some of those town homes that will allow them to put in uh a standard twocar garage instead of a tandem car garage. This will result in the uh the de decreasing the number of units by 12 town homes. They're not offsetting this by anything else. So, the number of units that were approved for the development was 58, excuse me, 568 and that number will drop to 556. Due to the specifics um of the development agreement, any minor design modification to the residential units required a formal amendment to the development agreement um to provide greater flexibility in the design while maintaining compliance with the development agreement. They're

requesting this change um just some um anecdotal experiences um as a part of this development agreement because it was so specific and they brought a very very specific plan of how it was going to be developed. staff followed that plan and so as building permits came in we compared it to that plan and said if it is not exactly this as we discussed then we need to have discussions and so we held that line very firmly um it got to the point where there were some decisions that um were reasonable and we're not changing the context of the design um and we're talking about movements of windows redesigns on the interior that might remove a window or place it in a different position and it was it was causing some issues with their ability to to sell some of the units minutes. Um, and so that's the main reason why we're here today and and having that's the main request that they're bringing forward to to bring a resolution to that. What they have offered and what they're presenting is to change the design components to a pattern book. The pattern book is intended to address all the residential building design standards for trailside west pedi such as the uh the amend excuse me such as the amendment outlines what language of the section of the development agreements are being amended and replaced with the standards provided in the pattern book. Staff reviewed the proposed pattern book with and the development standards to ensure consistency with zoning and the project and terms of the development agreement. There are no new terms being proposed that would violate any of the previous agreements upon the terms of the existing development agreement. The pattern book uh provides detailed design standards for single family homes and town homes. Sections of the development agreement relate to design standards that are applicable to all residential buildings uh will remain in the development agreement. This includes references to the Leighton City Municipal Code requiring compliance to uh compliance from the apartments and condominium buildings. The pattern book also includes a page to address uh the condominiums. The only design standard

change for the condominiums is a call out of a 7 by7 ft uh porch as opposed to a 49 ft porch. This was a request from the developer specifically to make sure that that porch was actually livable. You can obviously have a 49 foot porch and not have a reasonable depth. And so we appreciated their uh addressing that. During the public hearing um from the planning commission, it was discussed that the development agreement um does not prevent similar units uh excuse me, doesn't prevent similar units from being repeated um when next to each other when the municipal code requires town homes to expressly have unique town home uh units next to each other. We worked with the applicant and identified that that was never their intent to have town homes that were the exact same town home next to each other. Um however, there was a component of the pattern agreement that was reviewed by the planning commission that allowed for a repeating pattern. The um and so you'll see that as crossed off within the plan. Um the recommendation tonight will be to remove that section. The develop the developer was uh in agreement with that and they as I said didn't have any plans to to do that anyway. Um, in addition to the pattern book, changes to the master plan exhibit B and master plan exhibit, excuse me, diagram B2 have been updated. I'm just going to Here's exhibit B1. Um, it's just updating. This is really um going through the the town homes and just realigning that a little bit. Updating the graphics. This is again, there's actually a small error in this graphic showing a section of the single family when it wasn't supposed to be. So, this is just clarifying. Um, this is just going through uh, and this is in your packet, but this goes through what the pattern book would look like. It pulls out the general conditions of the single or excuse me of the town homes and what the standards are that they'll need to apply apply to. Um,

and this outlines the standards for uh, the again it's duplicated in the um, development agreement, but this pulls out the requirements for the um, porches that we just talked about. This really is the the nuts and bolts of um this type of plan where they are set up to show us the types of units that they're going to construct with um placements of porches and windows and those ideas, changing design styles, moving locations. And so it gives us a broad range to be able to review those plans and say as long as it's meeting these standards, then they can build. Um on February 24th, the planning commission forward a recommendation approval of approval to the city council for the development agreement uh amendment um and requ um staff supports the recommendation of the planning commission and recommends approval of resolution 2614 approving the development agreement amendment subject to the removal of the repeated town home assembly in the pattern book as outlined in the staff report. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Okay, council, any questions? Okay, Councilman. Thank you. Um, I do have a couple of questions. Do you know how much of that development is complete presently? I don't think I can tell you that one of the uh Mr. Sean Athy is here. He might be able to address that. Um, but I don't have that information off the top of my head.

Okay. Um, and maybe I can have some follow-ups if if the applicant's willing to answer. Um, but I was just wondering what was complete, what is still being what is still waiting to be completed. It sounds like there was some difficulty with finishing some of these because of the inability to sell and so probably not moving forward. And so I just wanted to understand kind of the scope of what's still left. It did sound like apartments and condos have not been started on yet. Correct. But from what you described, it also sounds like there are still town homes that haven't been completed as well.

That's correct as well. Um and and I'll let um Mr. Ay addressed this further, but um they have been moving forward with a number of buildings. Um and we've worked with them as much as we possibly could can to get um units built. He'd have to address if there's any units that they've held back on specifically for these criteria. Okay. And I really the crux of the question is to also understand what was the original timeline. I think this was slightly before I started but what the original timeline was for completion of this development. Um so those are some of the questions that I have. Okay. Go ahead.

I I need to remind you though, go ahead and state your name and what city you're from.

Sean Ay. uh represent LHM DSHT Larry H Miller Destination Homes um out of Sandy, Utah. Um the development lesson, can you go back to the slide that shows the overall project? We're probably about 30 to 40% built towin there. First time using a laser at a city council meeting. So, this portion of the subdivision on the south is built out. The park is in these town homes right here. We just put in the infrastructure on that last year. We built the single family homes on that part and we're waiting for this amendment to be able to modify these town homes. That's where we had the majority of the single family product or the single car garage moving forward that we just couldn't sell. We had a bunch that sat on the market for a long time. Had to cut cost significantly to get them taken care of, but they were not a big mover. And then these have almost all been built out. This section is built out, and this section is built out. So really the bulk of the project left for us in town homes and single family is this center section which I'm working on the civil engineered plans right now for half of that to submit this in the next couple of months and start that development portion this summer. So we're close most of the open space is in. We just finished all these walking trails. There's some bike parks right here with some jump features. And then the playground in here is put in and the playground on the north is just getting finished up. So a good portion of the subdivision has been being built at this point and sold quite a few units.

Okay. And then with the pattern book, I know that there was another development that um I'm going to say destination because I'm not going to remember all of those acronyms. The destination came in presented on and that was a kind of a new concept for us at the time. Um, but I think understandable about maybe the need to have a little bit of flexibility in in that. And so it sounds as though you may have decided to use that same method here.

Yes, that you're referencing the Stevenson Fields project which we were here a November, December, which we're hoping to start that here pretty soon, too. Yeah. Matching the same situation. We want to be able to make the council and community know what we're building the general fill, but also give us the flexibility to adjust to the market where we build a floor plan that doesn't work and you go, "Oh, we don't have to stick to this forever. We can change the bedroom count, change the bathroom count, make the adjustments to hit the market need as the project continues." So, that's what we're hoping for on this as well. So if this moves forward like what's the what is your expected completion date or range

mark market determines all of that but my the expectation is we will be submitting our plans to finish the homes in the phase two begin horizontal development and infrastructure for phase three. So, they'll start the homes on the that early next year and then next summer we would submit plans to put in the infrastructure for this and start building homes about two years out from there. Um, I believe the apartments, we don't own the apartment portion that is New Town Development. I think they've submitted permits. I know I've been working with their group for some dirt removal and stuff. So, it sounds like their apartments are pretty close to getting started. and the condos. We we're still working through some plans and different things. They're not sure what's going to happen there yet for timing.

Okay. Well, I'm sure I speak on behalf of many of us in the city who are happy that there was a reduction of some of those homes in in in this change, but thanks for yielding to the questions. I appreciate it. Thank you. Any other questions, council? Okay, I'll open it up for public comment on item number C. Seeing that there's none, I'll go ahead and bring it back to the council. I'll need you to close our public hearing and then we'll need to take action on each item individually.

I move we close the public hearing. Okay. Then I make a motion on the reszone request for Overlook Case Creek. And that is ordinance 26-02. Okay. Do I have a second? What? No. You had to approve it. I'm sorry. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That would help. Do I have a second on approval of the ordinance 26-2? I'll second that. Okay, it's been moved and second. Being that this is a public hearing, we need to take a roll call vote on this.

I'll start down here with Council Member Thomas. I'll get this one right. I

Okay, Council Member Smith Edmonson. Um, I am because this is going to move to uh another couple of opportunities. Um, I'm just a little concerned about that scarp line in the middle. Um, understanding that the information will be listed on the, you know, on the title. Um, I also know we've had some issues in the past where these move to different owners and maybe they know about it, maybe they don't know about it. Um, so I'm still a little iffy about that. So at this time I'm going to have to say no.

Okay. Council member Kendranis. Hi. Okay. Council member Morse. I'm in the same situation as council member Smith Edmonson and it's just that's a large scarp. Um I'd like to see more information about that. Um so I'm tonight I'm going to vote no.

Okay. This will be a first here tonight. Um, we have two against, two in favor. Council member Bloxom is not in attendance. So, that falls to the mayor to uh weigh in on the vote, which I have to say this is this is a tough one. Um, because I understand the need for single family homes. I also understand the importance of safety, the safety concern here um especially when it comes to faults lines and um sensitive lands. However, I know that we will be having another look at this and we'll be able to um see the placement of the homes and how that will uh come into play regarding those lines. So I am going to vote in favor of. So yes. So that makes it um that item number A does pass. We'll go on to item number B. So council, I'll bring it back for a motion there. Who wants to make a motion regarding the annexation and reszone request for the Lo's Valley View property? Madame Mayor, I move that we approve the reszone request the Los Loves Valley View ordinance 26-04 and 26-05.

Okay. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Council Member Thomas. Okay. Once again, we got to do a a roll call vote. Uh, Council Member Morris. I I, Council Member Clenderis, I, Council Member Smith Edmonson. I, and Council Member Thomas, I.

There you have it. Passes. We'll now go on to item number C, the development agreement for the Trailside West PRUD. I need someone to make a motion on that. Madame Mayor, um I move that we accept Trailside PD resolution 2614 amendment agreement development development agreement amendment. Okay, thank you. Is there a second? I'll second that. Okay, it's been moved and second. So, I'll uh take a roll call vote on that. I'll start with Council Member Clendranis.

I. Council member Morris, I just uh before I vote, want to uh commend the staff and the developer on working together and figuring this out uh keeping keeping it mostly intact, but and I remember this from when we approved the development agreement. It was to the inch.

Yes. and um and the staff did a great job and with the intent of at at the time it it makes sense now to be more flexible for the market. Everything remains the same for the most part and so um I'm just I'm pleased with the working together and with that I I vote I Okay, thank you. Um where am I at? I've got to go to this side now. I'm going to start down here with Council Member Thomas. I Okay, thank you. Council member Smith Edmonson. Hi.

Okay, there you have it. It passes. So, with that, that uh concludes our public hearing portion of our meeting. It also is the end of our regular scheduled meeting. So, council, if you have no unfinished business, I'll look for a motion to adjurnn. I make a motion we adjourn. Okay. Second. Second. Okay. Thank you everyone. I'll acknowledge that. And I especially want to give a shout out to the young scouts there. They were very good. They were quiet. I know it's a long meeting but uh educational. So if you haven't got your merit badge, you certainly earned one tonight. Thank you.