Remarks by Heather Newall
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“Our dear Heavenly Father, we're grateful to be here together as a council and with our staff to be able to discuss the things pertaining to Lehigh and be able to make decisions that would best impact our city and our residents. We ask the Heavenly Father that to be with all of our staff members and those who work through the city, that they may be safe and protected. We ask you to have thy spirit to be with us, that we can make good decisions, that we can show empathy, and that we can listen. Again, Heavenly Father, we're so grateful for the opportunity to serve, and we say these things in…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So are there, when you were taking into account the cases and the revenue, I think it was one of those first slides, are there cases that come to us now that would not come to us if we were part of the county, that they would not be tied specifically to Lehigh? Is that additional revenue factored in of like revenue that we would also lose because we're not, they're handled by, you know, other county areas, but typically, but they're coming to Lehigh right now because it's part of I-15 or NRS area.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, and I'm thinking maybe somebody gets pulled over on I-15 within Lehigh. If we have our own court, it may come to us. But if not, it may just be assigned to somebody else. Is that the case?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And what if we're with the county, but it's not our officers who pulled them over? Then it's still because we're doing the prosecution.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. And then the other question I have is that if we were considering this with the county, because it would be such a large increase for the county, which you're showing, is there any, and there's other cities as well that are now with the county, is there any appetite from the county about having a north district court where Lehigh, maybe there could be more of a partnership, so it could be something where It's still Lehigh, but we're growing it. But there could be more there.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“This could be an even bigger win for Lehigh, that if we are going to build another Justice Corps stand-alone, that there could be opportunities there for Some cities that are in the same position we are, where they have to travel far distances to get to Provo.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“We'll give them the land, right? I know.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I think that's a big thing. Also, I think transition zoning with residential. too i know there are some plans that have come through that are awesome where you have it's integrated really well and it's planned well to be able to have this life cycle housing but there's other ones where maybe it doesn't make us yeah and where it's hard like we're going from half acre lots to to high density right next to it i think there needs to be more transition so i i think if if we're looking if you're using the gis to go and say like we need to have Here's maybe some rules that there could be a…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Have we also applied for a grant for Safe Routes?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“You are talking tying it into I-15, right, is an exit. Yeah. But you could only go to Traverse. You couldn't go west. Yeah.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Do we have an estimate then on the North Interchange Road? What do you see in that cost?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, I think that's an important piece to talk about.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Is this where Saratoga extends over Pioneer Crossing?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So I can see on this, on 2700 North and 4200 West, that there's not a ton of residents, but they are, and it would feel really close. to that road so I can understand the concern of something where it's pretty quiet right there to then have a road. But I don't know if there's something, I really like going back to what James said originally, like how can we show the buffering and, you know, it's almost like I just want to cut diagonally through the EVO range, you know, and it just kind of like cut right around them. But something where, I don't know if it's frontage roads or some other kind…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“They're not okay with this coming in with so many feet and just being able to curve it and give us some buffering to the property.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So it will be no longer coming into that corner one way or another. Right. Roads are coming. To the corner, correct. To the corner of that area. If this area is now going to be more developed than just a range, then there's going to be more coming here no matter what. Correct.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Just one with the library. Mayor, you're already aware, because I know Christy's spoken with you, but right now on the library board, it allows for six to be on the board. which means that to be able to vote and take any action, there needs to be four there. So we're discussing about making that board seven just to be able to give. Hopefully then we can be able to have meetings and have a full quorum there. Just to put that out there, that's something that would require code change to have happen.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So I move that we go into a closed session for the purposes of, I believe,”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“There are a couple of DRC comments on it, if you'd include those, too. Oh, yeah.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I move that we approve Resolution 2026-49, approving a charitable grant agreement between Lehigh City and Mill Pond Water LLC for the Mill Pond property, located at approximately 1300 East, 700 South, with the change on number four in the contract naming rights to have the name be Peck Mill Pond.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“It went to a development agreement instead. Oh, it did. The zone change was tabled. So that's the next one.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“i do have a question um with the current application i feel far more comfortable that this fits into commercial zoning with an exception rather than we go heavy commercial and eliminate so many things it's more of a commercial product but that's not the application is that something that if There was more appetite to go that way for a piece of it to be commercial that we could say that's the zoning rather than say we're trying to do a development agreement to change it to heavy commercial and then eliminate almost all heavy commercial uses.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“If we were to say it was commercial, yeah.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“In the developer agreement, we changed it to say that it was going to be zone commercial. My concern would be that if it's heavy commercial and that's the zone that's seen on the map, even though there's a developer agreement tied to it, that other things in the future would look at that and say this is heavy commercial. It's allowed other uses that we aren't. intending to allow. It fits more appropriately with the commercial zoning.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026