City Council - Regular Meeting

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Instagram. That's fine. Welcome. Welcome to our first city council meeting in our new council chambers at our new city hall. Um we have our architects from Galloway and our construction um team, some of them from Big D. Would you just stand up so people can see who actually put in the work? Thank you so much. Um, it's been funny as as people have moved into their new offices, those that were stuck in the

basement at the old city hall were really having problems with the lights and how bright it was, but we've never had such an amazing view. So, thank you. We're happy to be here tonight. We have Michael Cruz of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship to give us our invocation.

Thank you, Mayor. We bring you uh greetings from the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and thanks for your service to our community. Uh our faith, one of the things we do in our faith tradition is to have a responsive reading. So I I ask you when I raise my hands to please say we give thanks. This poem I wrote in uh 2020 and it's called our our horn of plenty. For all the plenty from that horn, for this place where we were born, we give thanks.

For electricity that powers all we do, for the Buddhist, Christian, unchurched, and Jew, we give thanks for clean water when we need to drink. For our freedom to say what we think, we give thanks for our clear minds and good health. For blessings of economic wealth, we give thanks. For singers and dancers and painters of art, for all the heroes that do their part, we give thanks for having a strong roof over our head. For that soft place we call our bed. We give thanks

for the fresh wholesome food that we eat. For having shoes to cover our feet, we give thanks for the rainbow butterfly, flower, and tree. For all who made and keep us free, we give thanks to be able to play on soft green sod. Thank you, mother earth, father god.

We're getting used to new bikes. Thank you. Danielle, you want to lead us in the pledge? Please rise and join me 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.

I have one proclamation to read tonight. Whereas Wreaths Across America is a nonprofit organization that began in 2006 as an extension of the Arlington National Cemetery Wreath Project. And whereas the project originally started in 1992 when Reese donated by the Wararchchester Wreath Company were placed on the headstones of our nation's fallen he heroes during the holidays. And whereas the Utah State Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, having partnered with Reese Wreaths Across America, in a mutual mission to remember the fallen, honor those who served and teach children the value of freedom. And whereas family members, friends, and citizens of all ages will volunteer their time to adore the grave sites with Christmas wreaths in a stirring tribute to the courage and sacrifice of those who guarded and preserved our nation's freedom throughout history. And whereas this year marks the 16th anniversary of this event taking place at Tonoquent Cemetery. And whereas today Reese Across America ceremonies will be held throughout the state at participating cemetery locations to gratefully remember and honor Utah veterans and to thank them once again for their service to our country during this holiday season. Now therefore, I, Michelle Randall, mayor, along with the city council of the city of St. George, do hereby proclaim Saturday, December 13, 2025 as Reese Across America Day. Bal, do you wanna do you have something you want to say before I present you this? I sure do. Got to put on my readers. So last year, 3 million wreaths were laid at 499 locations throughout the United States and abroad. And that was in comparison to 4224.

This year the number of participating locations is 5600. So a new record has been set. Last year 3 million and there were three million volunteers. So it looks like everyone got to lay at least one. In the state of Utah in 2024, there were um 16,872 veterans graves that recovered at 85 participating locations supported by 50 different sponsorship groups. proud to say that Color Country Chapter was ranked number two sponsorship group in the state of Utah by Reese across America thanks to our wonderful sponsors like the city of St. George. So we are celebrating our 16th uh se um celebration uh at Tonoquent Cemetery where the veteran cr continues to grow. When I first volunteered in 2013 to lay ree, we had just a little over 300 veterans buried there. There's now 1136. And you add that total to St. George Cemetery that was added in 2018, there's 1,29. So we're close to 2400 now. But I suspect with the addition of Tonoquent um cemetery uh recently, I think that Tonoquent is going to outgrow St. George Cemetery. Um, so we invite everyone to come out on December 13th uh at Tonoquent at 10:00

a.m. It does start very prompt at that time because it coordinates with all the locations throughout the United States starting with Arlington. And some of our special highlights this year is um we have returning Dr. Ken Brown, an Ewokima survivor. He turned 102 on November 5th, and he'll be accompanied by his wife who turned a hundred just a few weeks ago. We're uh in keeping in line with our America 250 theme, we are going to have George Washington and Betsy Ross uh being a part of the annual burial of our American flag Ashes from the retirement ceremony that's held across the street on Patriot Day. And I'm especially excited about two of my family members who are flying in from the east coast to um represent the United States Air Force and Navy as far as the ceremonial wreath lang honor of my husband who passed away uh this past May. And I'm putting the finishing touches on my keynote speech because I'd like to share my husband's story of why he picked Honoquent Cemetery to be his final resting place. And it was all because of Reese Across America. So um this year's theme, keep moving forward and we're doing exactly that. So thank you city of St. George for your wonderful support and once again this proclamation that we're receiving in this beautiful building. I'll come down and we'll get a picture

and the council will stand behind me up here. John, has there been any changes to the agenda?

Uh, one change. Item number three I will be removed this evening. Okay. All right. Our first item is comments from the public and I just have one sheet. If anybody's filled one of these out, um they need to be given to the city recorder, but I just have one and it's Steve her.

Thank you everybody. Good to see you. I'm Steve her. I've been a resident of uh St. George for uh for uh 16 years now and have enjoyed my semi-retirement here. And in every community that I've live in which I've lived, I've always uh uh shown great respect to uh law enforcement uh up and down the up and down the scale. But I do also respect uh expect that same respect in return. This little story is about not receiving that respect in return. My complaint to you today is about not getting that respect from Brittany. I don't know her last name at St. George Animal Shelter and her boss, Captain Burquist. I've had a good working relationship with uh Britney for the 10 years that I've owned my home and uh cleaned out a lot of irresponsible uh uh pet owners and enforced the rules and uh has made it a nice safe uh peaceful uh area where I live now in my HOA. So Britney and I have had a good working relationship. This is my first encounter with Captain Burquist and uh we have al uh subsequently have had a nice phone conversation. So we're friendly with each other. I respect them both and I like them both. But when it comes to my civil rights being violated, which I think that they have, then my rights take precedent over cordial relationships. On Saturday leading up to Thanksgiving, I went for a quick hike at Castle Rock just up the road from me. While limbering up, a woman came down the trail without a uh with with no leash on her dog. I pointed out the sign that says, "You must have a leash." At that point, the dog was taking a leak on the gravel where we were standing. She shoveled up the rocks in her two hands, threw them at me, and came at me,

pummeling me. nailed me good on the job. At that point, two of her male friends showed up at the gate. Well, I'll I'll tell you what I want. I want an Brittany on a subsequent phone. Does that mean two minutes there? That can't be two minutes. Okay. My my radio clock is rusty tonight then. So when I reported this, Britney said, "You have to go to Burkquist." Why? She said, "Because you're a sexist." I said, "You can't Why are you calling me that? You can't even define what that is. I believe from God we're all created equal. I'm not a racist. I'm not a misogynist. I'm not a sexist." She said she said Steve her equals racist. I mean sexist. So I'm I called Burquist. Burquist thou has punished me. So when I'm denied my civil rights then being punished illegal.

We have times up Mr. I want a call instead of having to go through dispatch to complain about dog crap and dog and I don't blame them. So I'm being cheated here and this is not the end of it unless you folks ask Britney to give me a niceology. I'm not a sexist and resto my equal rights.

Okay, John. Okay, next item on the agenda is the consent calendar item number three. There's seven items on tonight's agenda. Um, as I mentioned before, item number seven I will be removed. Uh, staff has reviewed these items and recommend approval. If the council would like to move into these for specific consideration, we can accommodate that. Otherwise, we recommend approval. Anything you want pulled off the consent calendar? Mayor, I just need to I can make the motion, but I'll pull off item A and then the council could vote on item A without me because uh I don't know yet, but I could possibly benefit from item A. So, I just want to make sure that I'm not voting on that one. Okay.

So, motion to approve the consent calendar as presented. Uh item I was removed and I will remove item A. Second motion by Danielle, seconded by Jimmy. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? And does somebody we want to go ahead and make a motion on item A? I move to approve item A of this consent calendar. Second. Motion by Michelle, seconded by Steve. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries with Daniel abstaining.

Item number four, public hearing concerning conversation increases for executive municipal officers as determined by the city's annual conversation study. And Robert will present this item.

Good evening, mayor and council. This will actually be our second uh year to hold this public hearing. In 2024, the state legislature adopted SB91, which requires the city to hold a public hearing anytime that we would include a increase in the budget for uh compensation for our executive municipal employees. Every year, as part of the budget process, one of the key items that we focus on uh for the city council and for city staff is competitive pay and benefits for all of our city employees. Maintaining competitive pay and benefits is critical uh for us to attract and retain a highly qualified and skilled workforce so that we can continue to provide a high level of service to our community. And like any business, the city competes with other municipal entities within the Utah market to make sure that we maintain that top talent so that we can provide uh that high level of service to our community. And again, crit uh uh competitive pay is one of those critical elements in maintaining and retaining that staff. Every year, the city conducts a compensation study uh as part of our annual process. Uh the study's in policy as far as the rules of how this the way the study's uh uh conducted. Um the study actually has two elements to it. So the first element is the market element. Uh each uh year our HR department uh essentially reaches out and looks at the survey data from all of the municipalities within Utah and we focus on the cities that have populations of 25,000 and up in population size. And in that study as part of the market component, we compare our benchmark to the to all of those cities that fit within that category. and based on the movement that we've seen in the benchmark determines what the annual market adjustment is. The

second component of the compensation study is the merit piece. The merit component is meant to reward uh good performance. And so that portion of the compensation study is based on the employees performance and also where they are within the current pay range for that employee. As part of tonight's agenda item, I've included an attachment that identifies the 29 municipal executive employees and the proposed market and merit adjustment for each of those positions based on this year's compensation study. Um, uh, tonight's item is a public hearing and requires no action from the city council. And that completes my presentation. I'd be happy to answer any questions the council may have.

Any questions for Robert? Robert, because I've had some questions about this from the public the last week or so, can you maybe you did touch on it some of the market versus merit, but are you able to go into a little more detail about the market based adjustment and why maybe that varied a little bit more this year?

Yeah, absolutely. So, from a process standpoint, our human resources department actually conducts that study. They have access to a software that's called TechNet where all of the municipal entities report their average uh pay for all of their positions. And what we do is each of our positions has a benchmark that is in that system. And that benchmark is based on the title of the position and the functions of that position. So for instance, a police officer, we look to see if there's a police officer benchmark across the other municipal entities within Utah. And so then they pull the averages based on all the responses. And then we compare ourselves to entities with 25,000 and up in population. And this year we did see a pretty large movement across all of our employee uh population based on uh that study and based on that analysis. Does that does that answer your question, Councilwoman Tanner?

Yeah. And how did that differ from previous years that made this be more of a significant increase?

So, so this year when we did the study, we had an adjustment from the standpoint that uh we had a correction in the data. So in prior years we were using some older data for the analysis uh on accident and this year we we made that correction to make sure we were using the most current data from that study as of October uh when we pulled that information. So that was a a part of why the adjustment was so dramatic this year. If the council recall, last year the adjustment actually was lower than we had anticipated in the budget. And so I feel like this is kind of a catch-up correction to some of the analysis that we did last year. So essentially, just so I make sure I'm understanding and explaining it to others correctly, some of the data put in there by other municipalities was older data that wasn't the most upto-date. And so we're basing the averages off of that. Whereas this year there was more updated data from those other entities that we're comparing to.

That's correct. Every piece of data we used was act as updated as of October of this year. Uh which gave us more up-to-date and current information for the analysis and for the study. Awesome. Thanks for clarifying. Sure. Any other questions for Robert? If not, this is a public hearing. So, I'll open the public hearing for anyone who has come to comment on item number four. Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing. And there's no action on this item. Robert, number five.

Number five is a public hearing in consideration of resolution number 2025-027R to review and approve amendments to the fiscal year 2025-26 budget.

Well, good evening again, Mayor Council. So this item has two amendments tonight. The first amendment is related to the executive municipal uh compensation adjustment public hearing we just held. So staff is requesting to reallocate $275,11 within the general fund to fund uh those compensation adjustments as outlined in the tonight's public hearing. The second item is a request from our golf course. Uh our golf team uh to repair to replace the peers at the Woodbridge at the Sunbrook Golf Course. Uh these peers are 30 plus years old. They are basically deteriorated beyond their life and so we need to replace those. And so staff is requesting to use uh donated funds in the amount of 18,000 sorry $16,000 for those replacements. And those are the two amendments for your consideration and I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

I have a question, Robert. Is it correct that the the funds that were donated were from a retired golf course employee who had made a donation to be used for golf course improvements from that point forward? Yeah, that's correct, Councilman uh Kemp. We actually received a very sizable donation from that retired employee of $100,000 uh to be used at our golf courses for programming and for different improvements that are needed uh for that service. And so tonight we'll be just using a small portion of that and I know our golf team is making plans to utilize the rest in a in a fashion that improves that service. Thank you.

Any other questions for Robert? I don't have a question, but I'll make a motion because I love when funds are voluntarily public hearing though. Oh, okay. Let me open the public hearing first. Y'all talk first. Um, so I will open the public hearing for anyone who has come to comment on item number five and state your name for the record. Greg Aldrid, precinct 2, St. George, Utah. Hi everybody. I'm just curious, does it the donor have to name remain anonymous? That's was my only question. He wanted to remain anonymous.

Well, because I'd really like to put his name on the bridge. That's all I wanted to say. Thank you. Any other comments? I'll close the public hearing, come back to you, council, for a motion. I move that we approve resolution number 2025-027R to review and approve amendments to the fiscal year 2526 budget. Second motion by Michelle, seconded by Danielle. This is a resolution calling for a roll call vote. All in favor starting with Jimmy. Jimmy Hughes I. Danielle Larkin I. Michelle Tanner I. Steve Camp I.

Motion carries unanimously. And I forgot to excuse Councilwoman um Larson earlier, so I need to excuse her. Item number six, public hearing and consideration of ordinance number 2025-1000 vacating a municipal utility easement located at the rear of lot 161 17, 18, 19, and 20 of the Bandit Ridge subdivision.

Okay. As the city manager indicated, you can see on this map right here, the pink line represents actually the rear property line right now of those lots. They're just showing what the proposal is for a future extension of those lots. But anyways, that's the utility easement that would be vacated along lots 16 through 20. And this would be conditioned on approval of item eight. Item eight would need to be approved for this to take effect. Do we want to hear item eight? John, if the council would like to, Wes, I'm easy.

Okay, go ahead with item number eight and then we'll just do two separate motions.

Okay, let me find this thing. Okay. Item eight is a request to consider approval of a hillside develop permit for a modication a modification to the approved location of the Rockfall hazard line. Um and so basically this is so this was what was submitted to Hillside in 2018 when they developed the Banded Ridge subdivision. And so the hatched blue area is what represents the Rockfall hazard area. You can see that dash line that follows my mouse right there. That was the north end. That was like the runout of the rockfall area. That became the rear property line of these lots from where you see B to the uh to the to the west. Yeah, to the west. That became the rear property line. Recently, they've come in and they've uh asked that that line be amended. They went back to AC who did the original rockfall study. They went through and did did a more detailed study beyond what they did. And that study after that study it allowed the rockfall line to be moved. Let me see if I can find it right here. Right there. So basically that line became this new line right here which represents kind of what the proposal showed on that other plat that the Rockfall hazard line would be moved to here and then tie back into the what it was originally. So that's the approval the request for approval is to push that line further to the south

based on the updated rockfall hazard study. Can I ask a question mayor Wes? It's confusing though because in their section analysis, it just says it can be modified to coincide with the north top edge of the channel for lots 16, 17, and 18. And then it doesn't even mention 19 and 20.

So it it so if you look right here, let me go back to here. So basically 16, 17, 18, and it does impact 19. It shifts that line further to the south. And then once it hits that point, it leaves what was their rear property lines for 20 n part of 19 uh 20 and 21. And so those lots were never their rear property line was not associated with that rockfall line because the line was further to the south. And so really the impact or the benefit was given to those lots 16 through 19 20 and 21 it didn't really give them any benefit.

Okay. So am I understanding that they built this um drainage ditch catchment bm after after this rock fall hazard study was done the first time by AGC. Right. Correct. They built it. it sits back and so that the new line will be be almost to the north boundary line of that of that ditch that's out there right now. City went out recently and cleaned it out, made it more um what's it more defined, should I say. And so it it won't impact that ditch. It'll still be that ditch will still be on city property. So if we recommend this, who's going to keep that clean? Do we have It would still be the city because all

Okay. Yeah, because all that property was after they went through and uh did this development and a few others, then they donated all that property to the city and so now the city owns all of that property, you know, to the south of there. So, the city would be responsible because it's taking up all the drainage of the city property. Got it. Okay. Thank you. Other questions for Wes on either item number seven or eight? If not, I ready for a motion on item number seven. I mean six. Sorry. We do need a public hearing. That is a public hearing.

Okay. Wes, I will open the public hearing for anyone who has come to comment on item number six. Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing. Council, come back to you for a motion. Mayor, I'll make a motion that we approve ordinance number 2025-0 or-100 vacating a municipal utility easement located at the rear of lots 16,1 17, 18, 19, and 20 of the Banded Ridge subdivision. Second motion by Danielle, seconded by Michelle. This is an ordinance calling for a roll call vote. All in favor, starting with Steve. Steve Kemp, I. Michelle Tanner, I. Danielle Lurin I

Jimmy Hughes I motion carries unanimously. Now item number eight. Motion for that. I can make that motion too. Uh motion to approve the hillside development per permit for a modification to the approved location of the Rockfall Hazard Line on approximately 23 acres located on the open space south of the existing Banded Ridge subdivision. Second motion by Danielle, seconded by Jimmy. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously.

Item number seven, consider approval of resolution number 2025-028R authorizing a gas supply contract with the public energy authority of Kentucky to participate in a prepaid natural gas program with BP Energy Company and acknowledging peaks related bond issuance. Good evening all. Um what we're doing here is we're entering into a what's a prepaid contract with our gas and a third party. We did something similar with our solar about a year ago with some other utilities including Uamps. And essentially what this will do is gives us a discount off our prepaid price already we have with gas which will save us um uh however much they can save off the market with the prepaid and we get a percentage of that discount usually 3 to 4 cents and we're paying about 327 per mmtu right now. So and that adds up over the days. Is there any questions I can help you with any of this or

I just had one question about the uh if they were for like if they had a problem with fulfilling the contract do you have any concerns about it sounded like peak will attempt to resell our gas but if they don't sell it at the same price and we could lose money on that.

So the that's that's our risk is we for some reason lost all of our Mil Creek generators and couldn't use the gas. They'll make an effort to market that and if that comes back less than we would have paid, we'd make up the difference. But we don't find that necessary. Even just running one generator, we could burn all of our prepaid gas, which amounts to about 4% of our electric load through the year on our prepaid. So, it's a very low risk as far as financial on this one. Okay.

Other questions for Brian? If none, I'm ready for a motion. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion that we approve item number seven, resolution number 2025-028R, authorizing a gas supply contract with Public Energy Authority of Kentucky. Second motion by Steve, seconded by Michelle. All in favor, starting with Jimmy. Jimmy Hughes, I Danielle Lin, I. Michelle Tanner, I. Steve Kemp, I. Motion carries unanimously.

Item number nine, consider approval of resolution of sorry of ordinance number 2025-010 amending the city's general plan by adding a water use and preservation element to the general plan. It's a really slowm moving mouse. It's very difficult to click on your presentation. Okay. Good evening, uh, mayor and council members. Um, tonight we're going to present, uh, the general plan element of, um, the water element, water use and preservation. This element is a requirement um from the state of Utah uh that all municipalities add in an element that addresses the water concerns that most of the states uh most of the state is uh realizing and um addressing at this time. Um as you know, we've been hard at work. Um the city has already um addressing quite a few water concerns and so we're we feel like we're already on the path, but this is a requirement. So, we're here to present um this document tonight. Um on the screen just shows the state requirements. Um this document does address all of these requirements. I've asked Scott Taylor um to help me with this one. Um we've worked together to create this document and I will say that um Scott has done most of it um on his own since he is the expert in water of water here in the city. So um kudos to him for uh helping us get this amendment to the general plan presented to you tonight. So, I'll have him come up and and explain the rest of the document.

Sounds like more like a blame than anything. Mayor, is there any way to make this microphone fade in and out a little bit so we can feel more like at home? I don't think so. Okay.

But maybe give it 45 years and it will. So, this uh new legislation feels like a a one-sizefits-all legislation that all municipalities are required to to do this general plan um update because really it's something that we've been doing all along. So basically the the uh the general plan update is just really more than anything referencing documents that we've already created in our in our planning for the future for for water development. So there's uh there's five documents. Um recently um we've adopted the 2025 joint agency regional water conservation plan. We've in the past we've we've uh we've approved or we've adopted the conservancy district's 20-year plan to supply uh water for the next 20 years. We've got a culinary water master plan and a secondary irrigation water master plan that has been recently updated and then the uh regional water master plan. So all these documents already exist. We've already done a lot of planning for the future. So again, in order to to meet the requirements of this new legislation, we're really just referencing documents that we already have in place. So really, there's there's four requirements of this plan. Number one, the effect of permitted development on the water demand and water infrastructure. That's outlined in detail in our water master plan, culinary water master plan, and our secondary irrigation master plan. Number two, the methods of reducing water demand on existing development. That is uh spelled out pretty pretty

clearly in our joint agency regional water conservation plan. Reducing water demand for future development. Again, that's in our water master plan. as well as in 2022, if you recall, there were several ordinances passed on landscape um landscape efficient standards and uh um really all water efficiency standards. And then number four, what can we do to reduce our own water use? A lot of that is uh outlined in the the joint agency regional water conservation plan as well as other ideas and other um programs that the city itself has has in place. We've talked about the water system uh in quite a few work meetings, but most of our water comes from the conservy district through Quail Creek and Sand Hollow. About 60% of the water we purchase from them. 40% or roughly uh come from our own sources of water which we've got several different sources of water from mountain springs to groundwater. We've got over 50 million gallons of storage and then we maintain about over 900 miles of pipeline in our water uh on our culinary water distribution system and about 200 miles in our irrigation system. our sources are are spread out throughout the the area. Really, if you go 15 miles in in north northwest or east, that's the extent of our our water sources. Um, similar is our secondary irrigation sources of water all the way from Gunlock Reservoir to the Washington fields diversion. Again about 60% of our water is purchased through the district. The

other 40% we we produce on our own. Then this graph shows the total water use over the last 10 years. And it fluctuates somewhat throughout from year to year. Most of that fluctuation is uh related to temperatures to climate, but overall it's been fairly steady over the last 10 years. Our water use, we break it into different, you know, who uses the water. 63% of the water is used by our residents. Um 25% by institutional. So institutional uses, those are our parks, our cemeteries, our our golf courses as well as hospitals and churches. And then commercial 11% and industrial 1%.

Does that also include the water the school district, right? They're institutional.

Yes. Okay. Thanks. So this graph really shows over the last five years the amount of water that we deliver each year in those different categories. And you can see over the last five years it's fairly constant uh delivery of water. But the red line shows the number of connections in the system. So, we've added over uh over 6,000 almost 6,500 connections over the last five years, but our use has stayed fairly consistent. So, that shows the the effort that our citizens are making on water conservation as well as the biggest impact is the new development that's coming in is a lot more water efficient than than the existing developments. This shows the the growth over the last uh four decades. And then if we look into the future shows the amount of water that we're going to have to deliver in the future. So right now we're about 41,000 acre feet or 44,000 acre feet. We're going to have to come up with another um you know 25,000 acre feet for uh the buildout which we anticipate the buildout if you look at all the the area that is available for development. We think we're going to run out of room will be fully developed in roughly 203. our new water supplies, most of our water, our our uh future water supplies are tied to the regional reuse system. So almost a little over half of of our new water supplies will be from uh from

reuse. And then another big portion is conservation. You'll recall in 2022 there were several ordinances adopted related to um to water efficiency especially for for landscaping. We limited the the amount of turf grass that was that was allowed in not only residential but also commercial non-residential developments. Of course our our tiered water rate also plays a big part in water conservation. We've had a tiered water rate for at least the last 25 years that I'm aware of. And then the uh the Washington County Water Conservancy District enacted the uh the excess water search charge that they collect on a monthly basis. That's a dollar per thousand gallons over 36,000 a month for all development that that uh that occurred prior to 2022. Development since 2022, there's an excess search charge of $10 per thousand gallons. And it's based on a on a seasonal threshold. So during the winter months, that threshold is 8,000 gallons. During the summer months, it's 20,000 gallons. And then uh this graph shows the the water losses in our water system. There's no system out there that is 100% leak proof. So over the last 10 years, our system we've we've averaged about a little less than 10% losses each year, which according to the American Waterworks Association, that's really a pretty tight system. That's a very acceptable water loss number except for

when you look at the quantity of water you know 10% doesn't seem that that much but when you look at the quantity of water we lose through throughout our system we lose about the same amount of water that Santa Clara or Ivans uses in a year. So, it's quite a bit of water that that is lost that we are making great efforts to try to tighten up our system, identify leaks, and repair those leaks before so we don't lose as much water. So, we're a little less than 10%. Our goal would be to get down to an 8% water loss. So, some of the goals and objectives of the uh of the the water plan would be to reduce continue to re reduce our indoor water use. Um reduce our outdoor water use again through the ordinances that we already have enacted. Um we want to make an effort to uh identify city facilities that we can um take off of our culinary system, add to our secondary irrigation system, and then we'd also like like the idea of implementing kind of a net zero um landscaping program. So for for instance, a new park comes in and there's going to be an acre or two acres of of turf grass. We would like to identify city facilities throughout the city that have nonfunctional grass that we could remove in exchange for uh for a new new park uh turf area. So a net zero overall turf quantity. And then we will continue to support the district's conservation programs. their uh um turf buyback turf buyback program has been phenomenally received throughout the community. They they've saved a lot of of of water with

that with that program. So, we'll continue to support their efforts. And then we really want to focus again on what we can do as a city in our own facilities and our own infrastructure to reduce the the losses. With that, are there any any questions that I could answer? Maybe it's more of a statement than a question. It feels like we're ahead of the curve on this and this was some make work for you guys and Carol because we're already doing all these things that the legislature has come out and wants all the cities in Utah to do primarily because it's really important to us because we live in the desert.

Is that a fair statement? we really are ahead of the curve. So, when this legislation first came out, I thought, "Oh, this is going to be terrible." But, we're already doing it. So, we're just really documenting what we're already doing. I I feel bad for the other communities that aren't and they're starting from ground zero. It's been a heavy lift on their part, but on their part, but yeah, it's just stuff that we've already been doing.

One other question about water loss. Are you able to track of that 9.85%? Is there any way of arguing any estimation of well this much was through leaks in residential or or private use and and this much was from breaks or this much was from is there any way to do that or is it

No, not not really. Um it's either going to be leaking infrastructure or um faulty metering, inaccurate metering. One thing that we are doing, um, we're we're gonna [clears throat] we're teaming up with the city of Santa Clara to do a kind of a a pilot project where a company comes in. They use um satellite imagery and satellite sensors to identify areas where where leaking is um likely occurring. They can they can determine um basically wet spots. And so they'll right now we're going to focus on about a 300 mile um pipeline mile area of the city. Have them do their analysis on it. They'll be able to identify areas where they believe leaks are occurring. They claim about an 80% accuracy. So if they identify, you know, a hundred leaks, probably 80 of them are actual leaks. And then they'll spend some time on the boots on the ground with us training our employees with uh with the technology that we have to actually go out and pinpoint the leaks and then we'll excavate and hopefully find leaks that they identify. But if that if it really does uh you know I if there's 80% accuracy on that technology I would suggest we do the citywide every two or three years and just identify those less. We've got a lot of areas throughout the community where the soils are such that when a leak happens, it doesn't come to the surface. It goes down into the gypson. And those are really difficult to identify. But with this technology, if they could identify those areas, I think we could easily hit our 8% goal.

Uh where are we on the AMI meters? Are we close to full Yeah, we've got a little over I think we're right around 28,000 installed so far out of the 36,000. Thank you. We our our goal is to be completely implemented by July of this this next year. Anything else for Scott?

If not, I'm ready for a motion. I'll go ahead, mayor, if you're ready. Um, to approve ordinance number 2025-101, amending the city's general plan by adding a water use and preservation element to the general plan. Second motion by Jimmy, seconded by Danielle. All in favor, starting with Steve. Steve Kemp, I. Michelle Tanner, I. Danielle Lurin, I Jimmy Hughes, I.

Motion carries unanimously. Item number 10, consider approval of ordinance number 2025-0102 amending the Akenville interchange zone plan PC zone on approximately 0.81 acres located on the southwest corner of Pioneer Road and Blue Grass Way. And Brian will present this item. Really am going to have to get used to that mouse. Um, so as John said, Utah First Credit Union plan development amendment. This is located in the Sun River Commons area. Generally lo generally located at the corner of Bluegrass Way and Pioneer Road. Current land uses plan development. This is part of the mixeduse area in the Sun River Commons area plan. Zoning plan PDC. This is the Atkinville interchange zone plan. Proposed site plan. They're proposing a 3,420 square foot uh financial institution. Utah First Credit Union meets uh all appears to meet all setbacks. It meets and exceeds parking. They're required 14 parking spaces and they are proposing 19 proposed landscape plan. This is something that uh during the site plan review that staff will go through with a fine tooth comb. Uh they're required to have 25% landscaping. They're providing about 37%. One thing that you will notice is that they are missing street trees on the along Bluegrass Way and along Pioneer Road. So that is something that we will check for at site plan and make sure that they have phototric plan again we check for at site plan but it appears to meet code elevations. They're proposing a 22 feet 8 and a half inch building. The Atkinville interchange zone plan will allow them to go up to 35 ft maximum height with architectural features going up to 45. The uh top elevation that you see here is the view that you would have from Pioneer Road. This one on the bottom is what the view that you would have from

Bluegrass Way. More elevations here. This one on the bottom is if you were in Smith's parking lot looking at the structure. 3D rendering. You can see that some of their materials, they have some of that limestone paneling as well as some of the ACM paneling. Again, this is a view from Pioneer Road. Here's their materials board. One thing that I do want to point out on the materials board is these items that are labeled number seven. They're these three form back backlit pan back lit paneling. If you've seen the locations over in Washington or over on Maul Drive, you know that those orange backlit paneling can be pretty bright. As part of your narrative, if you look if you look at the letter from FFKR, it says that um to address that concern that staff had brought up, the owners have agreed to incorporate a dimmer control system that reduces the lumen output feature from 10 p.m. to um sunrise. So, they have addressed those concerns from staff. As part of this application, they are also looking to amend the Sun River uh Commons master sign plan. You saw this one back in March for an amendment. Just a reminder that there are specific locations that are certain signs are allowed as well as certain design features on this site. It's uh kind of the north portion of this block. You can see that as of right now there is just that one 5- foot um development uh monument sign that's going to be located on that corner with no other signs at that location. They are proposing to add two more of those 6'5 in monument signs. One on the northwest corner of that property and one on the southeast corner of that property. So again, on this map here, it would be generally about here on that northwest corner and then about here on that southeast corner. And it is these 6 foot 5 in monument signs that they're looking to add. Um here's what the approved signage is.

So again, 6'5 in tall, about 10 ft wide. They do have that specific design element, the proposed sign, they are meeting that design element with that orange. They also have that orange um paneling. And then you'll also be able to see what it would look like. It looked like at night. So that orange paneling would not be back lit. It is just that mountain logo surrounding the state of Utah. And then the Utah First Credit Union um name. Uh very similar signs designed to the ones over on M Drive. So again, none of that orange is back lit. Planning Commission held a public hearing on November 18th. They recommended approval with a six to zero vote. No uh public comment. and they do have those two conditions. Just the site plan needs to be approved prior to construction and that the the Sun River Commons master plan is amended as proposed. With that, I can answer any questions and then I don't know if I saw Rob.

Okay, we have Representative here as well. Questions for Brian? I have a question. So, clarification, they're not looking at replacing the two signs. They're wanting to add an additional sign to this. The Dominion sign that is identifying what the area.

So this the Yeah. So the do the domain sign is the one that's Yeah. That's for the Sun River Commons. That's the whole development. Just the announce the development. They want to put two more of these 6'5 in monument signs as part of increase to 16 of those 6'5 inch monument signs going from 14 to 16. Does that make sense? Yes. But what will I mean is you got this black area on the domain at Sun River sign. Is that going to be like a reader board of some kind or what is that intended to be?

We haven't seen the sign come through the sign plan or through a permitting process yet. Um, from what I understand that it's not going to be an EMS or anything like that. It's just going to be a and I don't even know if it's going to be a multi-tenant sign. Actually, I I just don't know exactly what they're looking for on that one. It won't be built as part of this project. No. Okay. Other questions? Brian, my only question was in the planning commission's recommendations, it didn't talk about them putting the dimmer switch in. Do we need to add that or has that been addressed already? Is that something we feel like if the applicants already agreed to do it? I don't think it needs to be part of the emotion.

If there's no other questions, I'm ready for a motion. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion that we approve item number 10, uh, ordinance number 2025-102, amending the Akenville interchange zone plan PDC on approximately 0.1 or excuse me, 081 acres located southwest corner Per Road, Bluegrass Way. Second. Do you want to add the planning commission's recommendations to your motion? There were two of them. including the planning commission's recommendations. Second.

Motion by Steve, seconded by Jimmy. All in favor, starting with Jimmy. Jimmy Hughes, I Danielle Lurin, I. Michelle Tanner, I. Steve Kemp, I. Motion carries unanimously. Item number 11, consider approval of ordinance number 2025-103 amending the city's zoning map by changing the zone from C3 R37.5 R3 to PDC on approximately 1 acre located at southeast of 1050 north and 1020 west.

All right. Kind of used to yelling in these mics. Sorry. Um, yeah, this is a request for a reszone uh to a PDC. This is an init an initial PDC. So, it's not the it's not the full-blown uh PDC request, but it's uh just to establish the the zone and the uses that would be allowed on the on the uh on the property. Uh this is property uh outlined in red on your screen. Uh you see 1050 north here and uh 1100 west here, Sunset Boulevard down to the south. This does not have access directly onto Sunset Boulevard. So it would have access as it currently is comes via uh 1100 West and 1050 uh north. Um land use currently general plan says uh commercial and the zoning map it actually has several different designations on it. It's uh designated RE375 um and R3 and uh also C3. Now initially the applicant had made a request their their initial request was to just go straight to C3. There's already C3 there. they thought that would be probably be the easiest uh avenue. Um they got through planning commission. There was some concern uh there and I I'll I'll go into the um the public hearing as well here in a second. But um after that they came back, they made a change to the request. They said, you know, I'd rather go to the PDC. we can eliminate a lot of the more undesirable uh uses on the on the uh property and really kind of hone in on what we want to do. And so um they went back to the planning commission, held another public hearing. At that public hearing, there were several people who came. Uh we had three people that spoke uh against the

reszone. Um there were several others there in the audience that didn't get up and speak. Um, you also have a in your packet a letter from um it was on the last page. Sorry. It's from um for um the Dixie Writing Club uh that utilizes the the old Posi grounds right right here. Um so this is just kind of a little history going back on some older zoning maps that I could find back to 1979. You see in that area circled in red, it's been the same zoning for for a for a long time. You see the C3 uh there might have even been some C2, but there's the uh it was R RA I can't even read that 15 and then R3. So there's always been this kind of mix of zoning on the property. Um, this is what the applicant is proposing as far as the PDC goes. These are the uses. Construction trade services, plumbing shop, electrical shop, etc. And then personal instruction services. He runs a construction business. He'd like to for now utilize just some of the buildings that are on the site on the on the property and then uh at some point he would come back. you'd have to do a PD amendment if if this is approved um and um and show us show you exactly what's you know how the site will lay out etc etc um so that is the request the uh planning commission held a public hearing they recommended approval of the application with the um condition that those two um uses that I just showed you were the two uses that would be allowed in that zone on that property. Um, with that, if you have any other questions, I can help answer

those. I believe the applicant is here as well. Um, if you have any other questions for me, I have a question in uh driving over there. There was some complaints in the some of the emails sent in opposition about the roadway infrastructure in that area. I think it's is it 1050 north that does kind of the the bend in the road.

So, is that city owned? Is that roadway improvements that we as a city would need to look at improving? Is there concerns? I mean, it looks like now that he's the applicant has narrowed down the uses that it won't be as as concerning with those uses, but that was just my question with the roadway there.

Yeah, my understanding is that it is city-owned. Um the city does own that that property that that um that roadway. Um and that's something that as development happens there, if this is approved and they come in for for that PD and want to do some more formal um improvements on the site that we'd have to work through that and figure out curb gutter sidewalk and drain it, how it's going to drain and all those kinds of things.

Is there anything else you wanted to add, Wes? Dan, I met with the applicant and did quite a bit of research on why we had three different zones on this piece of property. Um, it looks like the part that was zon that is currently zone C2 or excuse me, C3 was at some point part of the drive-in movie theater or adjacent to the drive-in movie theater that uh that was accessed from Sunset Boulevard.

Um, that was, you know, and then and then how you ended up with R3 up along the the back side of that. I I think that was a function of when J&J building uh had their block plant out here and there was a big hill where now you have Sunset Corner, right?

Um that was behind the hill and they figured that would be a place for apartments. And then of course the 375 was created uh to allow the the residents that owned all those lots to have horses on their property with not really large lots, smaller lots. um in meeting with him they basically was like well we we have somebody ba base co is the name of the company that's coming in that wants to use it for this specific purpose which I saw was similar to what they were using it for now which is just storage of uh farm equipment and and other things like that um maybe with a small office. Um I I see that this is a good compromise um to where we are not opening it up to all C3 uses which are which is our most diverse commercial zone in the entire city. you can do just about anything uh to where the the current buyer can use for his business uh without disrupting um the use by the Dixie Riding Club any more than uh necessary. If we were to go another direction with this and and not allow that C3 or some kind of commercial use to stay there, I think we would run into um problems with a taking effectively of the of a of a use that or of a zoning that they already had. So, I think it's a good compromise. Again, like uh Councilwoman Tanner said, I do want to mention and have it on the record that there is a barn that sits right on and straddles the property on the north end uh along with the property owned by Samberg family.

I think that in the future with there are developments that come in, we're going to want to take a look at how we deal with a barn that straddles two separate properties owned by two separate owners.

Any other questions for Dan? If not, I'm ready for motion. Mayor, I will make the motion that we approve ordinance number 2025-103 amending the city's zoning map by changing the zone from C3, RE37.5 and R3 to PDC on approximately 1 acre located at southeast southeast of 1050 [clears throat] north and 1020 west including uh the use the uses construction services, plumbing and electrical shop and and personal instruction services.

Second motion by Danielle, seconded by Steve. All in favor, starting with Jimmy. Jimmy Hughes, I Danielle Larkin, I. Michelle Tanner, I. Steve Camp I. Motion carries unanimously. Item 12, consider approval of ordinance number 2025-104 amending the city's zoning map by changing the zone from C3 to PDC on approximately 1.86 86 acres located at 559 East St. George Boulevard.

Okay, this is the location like John said at 525 East and actually also 559 East St. George Boulevard. The land use is downtown connected corridor and the that actually was faster than I thought it would be. The zoning is C, the current zoning is C3. Here's the site plan. The hotel will have 109 hotel rooms. The parking calculation is one space per room as well as two spaces for management rate. So, this site will require 111 spaces. They are providing 113 spaces. They appear to meet the required setbacks. We will uh look at that closely during the site plan review. A phototric plan was supplied during the application process and it appeared to me code. We'll check that at site plan review time as well. Here's the location of the solid waste. That's a bit delayed. and we'll look at the details for the solid waste with the site plan review to make sure that that meets the code. This is the conceptual landscape plan. Here are the elevations. The building is 60 ft to the top of the parapit. Here on the side that faces the boulevard, it is 41 feet to the step back. So here where it's on the east, well the south side that is on the

boulevard that steps back a little bit on after the fourth level and it's at 41 ft there. These are the renderings. So you can see up here where that step back is on the fourth level towards the boulevard. They'll have their pool out here on that side as well towards the boulevard. This is the materials board. It is also in front of the lect turn if you'd like to see it closer. The planning commission held a public hearing on October 28th. No public comments were made. They forward a positive recommendation with as well as the height increased to allow the additional height as requested by the applicant with the following conditions. The applicant must combine the lots before the site can be approved. A 15oot landscape strip must be provided along the rideway on 600 East and the use list to be changed only to include bar establishment, restaurant, hotel, and motel. So the applicant had uh longer use list with commercial uses and the planning commission felt like the site was a little small to include all those uses. They were in the staff report. I I don't know if you guys saw them, but I can also show you what the uses were if you want to see what the other uses were.

I saw the other uses and I was curious why we didn't leave retail shop in. I'm not sure. The applicant was fine with the uses that they um forwarded. Okay.

But and they just felt like that site was very small and so but I'm sure the applicant is also here if okay if you'd like to speak with them other questions for Brenda if not I'm ready for a motion mayor can we ask the applicant if they want retail shop it makes sense to me that they should have the option to have retail shops in the bottom of a hotel. He He did say yes. Yeah. Okay.

I'll make the motion then if I can get my computer to Everything's moving slow. Um motion to approve ordinance number 2025-104 amending the city zoning map by changing the zone from C3 to PDC on approximately 1.8 86 acres located at 559 East St. George Boulevard. Um, and amending the use list as shown and then also adding retail shops as recommended by staff. Oh, I think okay, sorry, I couldn't find it. Bar establishment, restaurant, hotel, motel, and retail shops. Second motion by Danielle, seconded by Michelle. All in favor, starting with Steve.

Steve Campai. Michelle Tanner. I Danielle Lurin I Jimmy Hughes I motion carries unanimously. Item number 13 consider approval of ordinance number 2025-105 amending the city zoning map by changing the zone from C4 to PDMU on approximately 3.76 acres located at the north west and northeast corners of Sangers Boulevard to 100 West Street. Okay,

here's the location of the property. The land use is lively in the downtown area plan and the current zoning is C4 central business district. This is the site plan. You can see here where it says parcel A. Uh this is phase one with building 101 the condo build and 102 which is like what they call a step down building that's attached to the condo. It's retail building 103 the food hall building 104 the office building 105 is the parking structure and then 106 is the 100 ft observation tower back here building 2011 is phase two which is the condominiums and then over here is phase three with the hotel and the step down building that they call the restaurant and the parking for the hotel. So, [clears throat] sorry. City code 10-19-6 PDMU parking was applied to the bulk of the project to for the parking calculations and the condo tail and condominium flats were calculated at half space per bedroom and one space per five units for guest parking. The food hall, restaurant, office and retail were car park were calculated at one space per 500 square feet. The hotel was calculated at the hotel was calculated per city code 10-9-5

non-residential area requirements at the regular hotel parking calculations. So, one space per room and the two spaces for manager and employee. Just so you have the parking calculations because this project has quite a bit of parking. So I wanted to explain how it was all calculated. So the the west portion of the project is required to have 168 spaces. They are providing 211 spaces. The condominium building has parking underneath and then they have the parking garage there. And the east portion of the project is required to have 159 spaces. They're providing 170. So you'll you'll see when in the other slides they do have surface parking here and then there is parking underneath here and they are also allowed to count the on street parking of 100 west. So the overall project requires 327 spaces. They are providing 381 spaces. So they are exceeding the parking requirements. The setbacks appear to meet the code requirements that will be verified during site plan review. The solid waste locations are shown and we'll make sure that the details meet the code during site plan review as well. This is the conceptual landscape plan. It it is good to note that they do have um pedestrian access to Ancestor Square here. Also pedestrian access to the boulevard in several places and to 100 west to connect the project. This is the condo condell elevation. It

is 80 ft to the top of the roof roof line. The condo includes that retail building. And this is the food hall. The food hall is 56 feet high to the top of the clock tower. In the narrative portion of your staff report, the applicant stated the structure is 39 ft to the roof line. So that architectural feature is the highest point of that building. The office building is 54 feet to the top of the architectural feature. Here's the parking structure which sits behind the office building. So, it's nestled in behind there and it sits 72 feet to the top of the structure. In the narrative portion of the of your staff report, the na the applicant says that the building is 54 feet to roof line, the main roof line of this parking structure. Here is the 100 foot observation tower. And this is the condo tail or condo building, I'm sorry, the condo flats. This is 66 ft to the top of the architectural feature. And this is the one that does have parking in the lower level. And finally, this is the hotel that is 70 ft to the top of the architectural features. This is the materials board and it's down there, but it did not make the move. Well, so I do have a bag of materials back there as well with it. Then this is a rendering of the project.

And this is if you were coming down the boulevard and going east, this is what you would see. You can see that the buildings have many different varying levels, varying colors, and the project has lots of different stepbacks and step downs so that it really meets the intent of the PDMU code. And this is if you were traveling the boulevard going west. And you can see that again here. and the features. The interior of the project also has green space on that western portion. It's a little bit hard to see in the renderings, but you could see that on the landscape plan. The planning commission held a public hearing on October 28th. There was one public comment regarding the overflowing part of parking on public streets from Ancestor Square. They forward a positive recommendation with the increased heights requested by the applicant with a six to zero unanimous vote and I can answer any questions you might have. The applicant is also here as well. This is a project that's been going on for a very long time. Yes. And it's going to be a major asset on the boulevard. Questions for Brenda? Do we want to talk there's a I think [clears throat] there there has to be uh we're talking about changing some requirements for residential on the main level of the condo hotel. Um primarily because it's in the middle of the block as opposed to being out in front. Is that correct

or we don't need that? I know that's No, it because it does have an office space on the end in front of it. Uhhuh. On the end that faces 200 west. So So other buildings where we have mixed use, we have the requirement that they have commercial on the entire main level only if they face the street. And since this is in the middle of the block, but on the end of that building, they do have an office space. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So it's good. Great. Thanks. Other questions?

I'll go ahead and make a motion if you're ready. And prior to that, just say this this has been really fun. I feel like I'm kind of like like part of the architect of this place. It's been so fun to meet and we've given a lot of input and we've made a lot of requests as the city and um I think from where we started to where we are and Steve could probably agree with this being and and the mayor being on being able to meet and express concerns and come up with a project like this that my heart's kind of pounding because I'm like, "Oh, I hope this really comes out like it looks in the picture, right?" So, I'm I'm super excited and um all the all the um planning that's gone into this and and the back and forth. It's going to be very exciting. So, I'll go ahead and make a motion. Do you want to say something, Steve? Sorry. um to approve ordinance number 2025-105 amending the city zoning map by changing the zone from C4 central business district to PDM MU on approximately 3.76 acres located at the northwest and northeast corners of St. George Boulevard and 100 West Street.

I'll second. Motion by Jimmy, seconded by Steve. All in favor starting with Jimmy. Jimmy Hughes. I Danielle Larkin I Michelle Tanner I Steve Kemp I motion carries unanimously. Item 14. Consider approval of ordinance number 2025-106 amending the city zoning map by changing the zone from C4 to PDMU on approximately 1.28 acres located at the at 311 West St. George Boulevard.

Okay. This is the location of the project. The general plan is downtown connected corridor in the downtown area plan. The current zoning is actually C4 central business district. The map does read PDMU, but that zoning expired. It was obtained September 1st, 2022. and PDS expire within 18 months of the final PL if the final plat or site plan hasn't been approved and this didn't have that. So that zoning is no longer um correct. Here's the site plan. This project will consist of one five-story building with um commercial lease space in on the first level facing St. George Boulevard and 300 West. There is a lobby and a community center for the apartments that are above this um in the interior portion of the building which is allowed per the PDMU code. All the parking provided is s surface parking. The required barking um bike spaces are shown here as well as the future EV charging station. The parking was calculated per the city code 10-19-6 PDMU parking. Again, the half is space per bedroom and one space per five units guest parking. And then the commercial space at the one per 500 square ft. And this project is required to have 56 spaces. They've provided 72. So they're exceeding the parking as well. here. Oh, parking calculations. I guess I could have shown you that while I

talked about it. This is the conceptual landscape plan. It appears to meet code. We'll verify that during the site plan review. They do show an amenity area here. And that meets plan the um code as well. Here is the proposed use list. And the planning commission seemed to think the these were all fine in this project. They have quite a bit of leasing space in this building. Um they are all uses found in the commercial use list. So they're they are okay to choose those. This is the elevation of the building. The building is 68 and feet and 3 in at the top of the architectural feature. 57 feet and 4 in to the top of the parapit. This is the east and north elevations. And then here are the west and south elevations. And it has varying heights. So that's why you see the different heights on there. Here is the materials board. It is also in front of the left turn. Here is a rendering looking as if you were driving down or looking like across the boulevard towards the west. Notice how they step the building back up on the first level. That's 20 feet stepped back at the first level. And they do activate that space on there. So, it's activated with the boulevard. And then this is looking east toward the D.

Here are just showing other buildings in the area that are above the 55 foot um building height that is allowed per code. Um and I'm sure you know what these buildings are. Jewel Plaza, the Avenir and City View, Washington County building, Washington County parking lot. um Main Street building tabernacle. The mouse moves kind of slow. Sorry. And then the planning commission held a public hearing on November 18th. There were no public comments. They forward a positive recommendation with the height increased as requested by the applicant with a five to zero unanimous vote. I can answer any questions and the applicant is here. Should you have any questions for them?

Questions for Brenda. Then I'm ready for a motion. I have a quick question for Brenda. Um maybe it's maybe it's a legal question.

Do we having that I was concerned about this project back in the plan when I was on the planning commission that it wraps in a U-shape around a different zoned property. Is is there any problems with that based on our current code or is it is it is it okay to have a I mean I know that when we're talking about annexations or some of these other things we try and avoid islands or we try and avoid spot zoning where we have peninsulas like this. Do we have any challenges with that? I like the project. I just wonder if that's something we need to think about.

Our land use attorney is going like this. Yeah, there's there's there's there's no issues. Only only time you see some uh potential issues with codes is when you're really adjacent to a residential zone. In this scenario where you're next to a commercial, it meets the general plan um designation as as you know outlined. There's no Okay, great. Thanks.

I'll make a motion, Mayor. I think this project looks amazing. I'm excited to see it happen. So, I'll make a motion that we approve ordinance number 2025-106 amending the city zoning map by changing the zone from C4 to PDMU on approximately 1.28 acres located at 311 West St. George Boulevard. I'll second motion by Danielle, seconded by Steve. All in favor, starting with Jimmy. Jimmy Hughes. I Danielle Lin. Michelle Tanner. I Steve Campai. Motion passes unanimously. It would be really nice to get rid of some of the blight on the boulevard.

Item number 15, consider approval of ordinance number 2025-107 amending portions of title 10 of city code and modifying the TNZ design manual as it pertains to setbacks along alleyways and frontages on open space. Thank you. Um, as John just said, this is a zoning regulation amendment. Um, mostly to do with title 10, but um, also the TNZ manual. Um, we don't we don't have a lot of TNZ in the city, but when we do, we want to make sure that's consistent as well. So, um, what the request is, and by the way, this was a request that was made by SUBA. Um, got Stacy back there, uh, representing them. Um, this is a request to, uh, the alley setbacks be, uh, reduced from 25 to 5t um, and to allow a lot a lot to front open space, paleo, common green, etc. Um, section 10193. Uh this is this would change this uh language in section six to garage access by 20 foot wide paved rear alley shall have a minimum of tw of five feet. So that's the reduction of the alleyway and then it would also allow uh some new language see a common green sale or similar open space. Uh so it would it would allow um a lot to front open space or something similar as long as there is pedestrian access to a public or a private street. Um, number four, uh, adds language lots in which the homes are fronting a designated common green or similar open space that provides pedestrian access. That again supports that idea that there could be, um, in some cases a access uh, or frontage onto

a poor or a or a green or something similar. Um proposed changes to title 10 2019 uha is uh striking the language an alley is permitted only if it provides a secondary vehicular access to a dwelling unit. And then finally um this is the TNZ manual. Uh this is striking that requirement for a 25- foot setback in that design manual to um to a five- foot setback along the alleys to u to go along with the code change as well. Uh planning commission held public hearing on this and they recommended approval. Um there were no public comments at the at the hearing. Um again the applicant is here if you have questions or comments for him. uh and I can help answer those any other questions as well.

Is there anywhere in the city that we where we would have homes face onto public or we do now have homes facing onto onto open space? We have some in desert color. That's that's um the only thing I can think of. I don't know, John, if you can think of any. Yeah, there's one uh downtown called Temple Terrace. Nice little project right down the street. Um open space. or to it. Yes, there's also I think uh Red Hawk I think have a few units that are uh on open space. So there's a few So where's the open space by Temple Terrace? It's in the center.

It's in the center. And so when you're looking It's not part of the project. It's part of the project. So, uh, there's a there's there's kind of a PO where there's a open space between there's about 40 feet in between and the units front um on that open space with the little gates. It's a cute little project. It was probably done I don't know 40 50 years ago. 50 years old. Yeah. Um, thank you. Other questions for Dan or the applicants?

Not. I'm ready for a motion. I will make a motion to approve ordinance number 2025-107 amending portions of title 10 of city code and modifying the TNZ design manual as it pertains to setbacks along alleyways and frontage on open space. Second motion by Michelle seconded by Danielle. All in favor starting with Steve. Steve Camp I. Michelle Tanner I. Danielle Larkin I. Jimmy Hughes I motion carries unanimously.

Item number 16 consider approval of ordinance number 2025-108 amending city code title 1 chapter 13 uh disposal of cityowned real property to add a paragraph titled 1-13-6 uh disposal of police department owned firearms. Captain Minnik has this.

I do. Thank you. I actually feel honored I get to close out the first meeting in here. So, let's hope we get on the positive. Uh, I'll give you a little bit of history. For for probably over two decades, when an officer has completed at least 20 years with the city, we had gifted them their firemen. I know many of you have been to retirements and have seen that we engrave it and give it to them. But you've also put us in a unique position with taking care of us that we are getting a lot of laterals. And so we have been looking at a way to uh reward or to recognize laterals that come over who maybe spent you know 5 10 years in another agency. And so working through legal we uh decided it was probably best that we codify this. And so the one little change in in uh chapter 13 of title one is just allows the police department to adopt a policy which we have. And so what we're asking is that this be approved and then the policy will uh 20 years or more with St. George city it's gifted and 10 or more years the officer will have the choice to uh reimburse the city for the cost of the firearm be but be gifted to them. Uh and that's kind of the the structure we've set up. That's it.

Easy peasy. Easy peasy. Yeah. Okay. Ready for motion? Mayor motion to approve ordinance 2025-108 amending city code title one chapter 13 disposal of city-owned real property to add a paragraph titled 1-13-6 disposal of police department owned firearms second motion by Danielle seconded by Jimmy all in favor starting with Jimmy Jimmy Hughes I Danielle Larkin I Michelle Tanner I Steve Kemp I

motion carries unanimously I do have um some appointments um to to the arts commission and I talked to you about this already, right? We did talk about it. [laughter] [gasps] I'm not overstepping Jimmy's upcoming ter term because the art commission is the one that recommends these people. So, yes, you did. Sorry.

Okay. Sarah Reynolds as president-elect effective January 1st, 2026. Reappoint Ginger Nelson, Karen Edwards, Tara Griffith, Robert Schmidt, Jane Anderson, and Steve Bruff for three-year terms effective January 1st, 2026. Do I have a motion to approve those? I have a motion to approve those. Second motion by Steve, seconded by Danielle. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. And then to reappoint Scott Mesel for a four-year term to the historic preservation. So moved. Second.

Motion by Jimmy, seconded by Steve. All in favor say I. I. Motion carries unanimously. Um reports. Jimmy. Uh no reports. Danielle. Yeah. Tomorrow night, uh the art museum has their annual light the night. It's from 5 to 8. They do music and luminaries and cocoa and donuts and you get to see the new art display. So come by if you have time. Michelle, no reports. Steve, no reports.

Um on Friday night, the St. George Firefighter Association is having their Christmas toy drive from 6:00 to 9:00 at the new fire station. If you haven't been, you could go check out the fire station and see the the museum there. That's awesome. bring a toy, have a treat, and contribute to the season. And that's all I have. So, we do not have need for a close session. So, I will have a motion to adjurnn. So, moved. Second. Motion by Steve, seconded by Jimmy. All in favor say I. I. I.

Any opposed? We'rejourned. Thank you. Okay.