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Show The Ogden Valley News December 1, 2022 Your Community Newspaper USPS MARKETING MAIL POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 EDEN UT POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYON- 84401 HCR 843AO Why A Feasibility Study for Incorporation of Ogden Valley? Applicants Needed for the Ogden Valley Planning Commission The Weber County Commissioners are taking applications for a vacated seat on the Ogden Valley Planning Commission. The Ogden Valley Planning Commission meets on the 1st and 4th Tuesday of each month at 4:30 p.m. Special meetings may be scheduled throughout the year. Applications can be found at co.weber.ut.us/ mediawiki/images/7/75/Weber_County_Board_ Application.pdf. Please drop off your completed application at the Weber County Planning Division office, 2380 Washington Blvd., Suite 240, Ogden UT, 84401; or forward them to jnelson@webercountyutah.gov. Applications will be accepted until December 27, 2022. For more information, please call June at the Weber County Planning office at 801-399-8374. By Shanna Francis –Notice of Openings on– Ogden Valley Park District Board of Trustees Notice is hereby given that applications are being accepted by the Weber County Commission to fill four (4) vacant positions on the Ogden Valley Park District Board of Trustees. Applicants shall be residents and registered voters within the Park District boundaries. Applications can be requested by contacting the Weber County Commission Office, 2380 Washington Blvd., Suite 360, Ogden, UT 84401, 801-399-8403. Applications will be accepted at the Weber County Commission Office until December 22, 2022. Board appointments will be made subsequent to the deadline at a public meeting of the Eden resident Paul DeLong and his canine Taylor were recently honored for their service with Weber County Commission. Great Basin K9 Search and Rescue. Photo courtesy of Bruce Grandin of Eden. Why is it important for Ogden Valley residents to pursue a study to see if it’s feasible to incorporate? The effort, by petition, to investigate the feasibility of incorporating Ogden Valley is driven by local residents desiring to ensure that local leaders, elected by local residents, are dedicated to the mission, vision, and core values expressed in the 2016 Ogden Valley General Plan. To do this, local control is needed. COMMUNITY - Ogden Valley is a community where residents have more in common with one another than ever before. We can develop and further support this sense of community for future generations. Becoming a legally formed Ogden Valley community will help us do this. STEWARDSHIP - Ogden Valley offers a beautiful home for its residents and a recreational and healthy lifestyle community for both residents and visitors—a place to connect and enjoy the abundant natural beauty that is found here. As a community, we are responsible for ensuring these natural resources are utilized according to best practices standards, assuring their sustainability for current and future generations. Becoming a city will help us accomplish this. MISSION - A high-mountain valley located on the Wasatch Back, Ogden Valley is an inclusive community committed to maintaining harmony between rural and urban areas, and dedicated to protecting the unique quality of life it offers, which is shaped by its rural tradition and core values, including open space and agricultural lands, scenic vistas and view FEASIBILITY STUDY cont. on page 12 Eden Team Recognized for Their Years Wolf Creek Water and Sewer District of Service with GB K9 Search & Rescue Lifts Water Moratorium for Existing Lots Paul DeLong of Eden recently retired after ten years of dedicated volunteer service to Great Basin K9 Search and Rescue and the communities he worked in. During this time, Paul and his canine companion, search and rescue dog Taylor, passed 15 tests to be certified in areas such as avalanche search, open and shore- line water search, area wilderness search, and cadaver search. Taylor floated through eight homes before landing with Paul, the two became the perfect match for this very active and bright working Golden Retriever. Before joining K9 Search and Rescue, Paul already had a training background working with champion hunting dogs and knew just how to channel Taylor’s working drives, making Taylor a perfect fit for search and rescue work. Great Basin K9 Search and Rescue recently recognized Paul for his years of service, stating, “We are also grateful to Paul and Community Foundation of Ogden Valley (CFOV) for their fundraising efforts supporting Great Basin K9 Search and Rescue through generous matching fund donations. It was great to see Taylor, at just about 15 years old.” Taylor accompanied Paul when they were honored with the award, where Taylor, while 15 years old, was still bouncing around and enjoying the party. Kevin Mitchell Appointed General Manager at Powder Mountain By John Burrows Kevin Mitchell is a man dedicated to skiing at virtually every level from “liftie,” to teaching, to managing ski resorts. It was great to hear a new, informed assessment of what many of us have taken for granted. Kevin has a tangible love, even a passion, for ski sports. He has a love of the outdoors as a theater for adventure. The first thing Kevin noticed when arriving in Ogden Valley is the enthusiasm for skiing. He was “impressed by the love and loyalty that people have towards Powder Mountain.” “Utah is a real skiing state,“ and Kevin is a Snow Sports aficionado! Born and raised about one hour from Lake Tahoe, he began skiing in his teens. valid for one year. It expires if a building permit has not been applied for at Weber County in that time frame. The District does not expect a return to moratorium on these “standby” lots. The water development work achieved this year is a long-term solution for culinary supply for current customers and the District believes it is sufficient to bring the district back into compliance with the Division of Drinking Water (DDW) supply standards (Second Source and Peak Day Demand). The services to be covered under the CWS for home construction are both culinary and secondary water supply and sewer connection. In recognition of the continuing drought, which MORATORIUM cont. on page 11 Weber County Commission Work Session Scheduled for Nov. 28 Agenda --- Notice of Meeting of The Board of --1.Discussion and/or action for approval of minCommissioners of Weber County utes for the Commission Work Sessions held November 28, Noon November 14, 2022 & November 21, 2022 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Weber County, Utah will hold a meeting in person at the Commission Conference Room #365, 2380 Washington Blvd, Ste. #360, Ogden, Utah from 12:00 to 3:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. This is a public meeting, not a public hearing. No public comments will be taken. This meeting will no longer be available through zoom. “I wanted to be a patroller, but I did not ski good enough.” So, he took matters into his own hands, watching instructors and working with them in the morning before the lifts opened. Soon he was an instructor at Boreal Ridge, in Soda Springs, California, a small, middling-size ski area that, like Powder Mountain, was also open at night. And so began his love affair with skiing. “I have always believed that passion and attitude will go a long way in helping us achieve our goals.” Kevin’s personality and makeup exemplifies what it takes to succeed. In the ensuing 14 years, Kevin directed ski schools, at Alpine Meadows and Sierra at Tahoe, but what impressed me Community members from across the Valley most was his selection as a member of the PSIA (Professional Ski Instructors of America) dem- gathered at the library in Huntsville November 16 to hear a presentation regarding the current GENERAL MANAGER cont. on page 12 status of STRs in Ogden Valley. The presentation was offered by Jan Fullmer of Eden, with Lee Schussman, also of Eden, assisting. A brief update on the status of the OV incorporation effort was also given by Nick Dahlkamp. A short-term rental (STR) is any room, apart- 2. Discussion regarding JDC Ranch subdivision development agreement 3.Discussion regarding Nordic Valley Development Agree & Rezone 4. Discussion regarding Wolf Creek ARPA Grant 5. Discussion regarding 2023 Budget Hearing 6.Discussion regarding Short Term Rental Third-Party Enforcement Agency 7. Sheriff’s Office Update - Sheriff Ryan Arbon Community Gathers for Presentation on STRs in OV & Fractional Ownership Brian Moench: Utah lawmakers may yet emerge from their environmental comas By Brian Moench Utah has made headlines in the national and international press lately that haven’t exactly glorified “the Utah Way.” Typical was a NY Times headline, “As the Great Salt Lake dries up, Utah Faces an ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb.’” In little more than a week I’ve been contacted by four reporters from national news outlets—CBS, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Bloomberg, and Reuters—each pursuing stories on different environmental scourges in Utah. No surprise that I received an e-mail from yet another out-of-state family considering relocating to Utah. They wrote, “We’ve heard horrible things about the air quality in SLC due to many causes: inversion, wildfires, the Great Salt Lake drying up and releasing arsenic and mercury into the atmosphere, etc. We are most concerned about the health of our daughter since she is considered sensitive because of her age. If this were your child would SLC be somewhere you avoid completely or are there ways to still live there Wolf Creek Water and Sewer Improvement District (WCWSID) board representatives state they are pleased to announce the lifting of the July 2021 moratorium on issue of Can and Will Serve (CWS) letters for existing recorded building lots in the Wolf Creek area. “The district recognizes that this has been a difficult year, while lot owners have had to wait for the process of developing an additional water supply to be completed to replace and supplement sources that we lost. We appreciate their patience.” CWS letters will now be issued on request to lot owners seeking to build a home. The CWS letter is specific to a lot owner and address, and is ment, condo, townhouse, or home that is rented out for less than thirty days. Currently, STRs, in unincorporated Weber County, are only legally allowed in the following land-use zones when accompanied by a conditional use permit (CUP): • DRR-1 | Ogden Valley (OV) Destination Recreation Resort area STRs cont. on page 10 and have a good quality of life despite these issues?” Our physicians group fields other questions that should send a chill up the spine of every Utah legislator, such as: “Given air pollution’s harm to fetal development and long-term health, can you recommend the best time to conceive a child?” “Is it safe to conceive children in Utah at all with this air pollution?” I’ll never forget phone calls a few years ago from the wife of one of the most high-profile sports celebrities Utah has ever had, who was moving to Utah from the East Coast. She asked for advice on where she could purchase a home where their children could breathe clean air because she heard our air quality was terrible. After two lectures I gave last week on environmental neurotoxins, among the first questions asked were about air pollution from Utah’s inland port, even though I hadn’t mentioned the port in either case. The self-congratulatory assumption of ENVIRONMENTAL cont. on page 13 A well-attended short-term rental meeting was held at Ogden Valley Library in Huntsville on November 16. |