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Show City Council Approves Minimum Square Footage for New Homes by Marissa Moncayo City council was called to order at 6 p.m. on March 5, 2013. During this meeting Director Di-rector Young, of the Communication Commu-nication Development Department, Depart-ment, presented the Business Development Extra Mile Award to Jared Osmond who made improvements worthy of recognition. recog-nition. His work involved redeveloping re-developing the old Smith Marketplace, Mar-ketplace, currently , known as Cocolitos, in downtown Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove. A surprised Jared stated, "I sincerely did not expect this. I'm humbled and grateful. grate-ful. I desire to continue in historic his-toric downtown and do more. There's something about that street that's very enchanting. Thank you." Another point of discussion discus-sion was the possibility to amend code to allow floors above ground to count towards the minimum floor area requirement. require-ment. Henry Walker Homes, currently building in the New Orchards Grove subdivision, approximately 400 South 300 East, have found the problem that their main floors don't meet the city's minimum floor area requirement. Henry Walker Homes believes be-lieves that changing the requirement require-ment will allow more flexibility flexibil-ity in utilizing current, popular floor plans in building homes on smaller sized lots. The council agreed to continue the issue in their meeting on March 19, 2013. Last, but not least, the city owns approximately 50-60 lights scattered around town. Currently, Rocky Mountain does not do maintenance or pay for maintenance on the lights owned by the city, but they do on every other light owned by them. The city is looking to transfer their lights over to Rocky Mountain because of this issue. On March 19, 2013 they amended code to allow houses in the Rl-8 zone, including Henry Walker Homes, to fit the needed criteria. The code now allows the minimum of 700 square foot main floor and 1600 square feet for above ground total. . They then discussed approval ap-proval for a Resolution amending amend-ing "Benefits" Subsection 1 on "Workers compensation." A major ma-jor difference from the old policy pol-icy will be that instead of being able to seek medical attention at workers choice, it will have to be a listed provider of the workman compensation plan. A subdivision located at approximately 700 west and 2490 North asked for consideration of approval to Baylie's Bend Plat to be amended . an 8-lot subdivision. subdivi-sion. It was originally purchased pur-chased and said to be a 12-lot 12-lot subdivision. The council decided to have them take this to the Board of Adjustments Adjust-ments where they can grant variance over multiple plots projects. Last they discussed with Zane Morris, developer of Tn'orheberry1 residential 'cdrri-munity, 'cdrri-munity, regarding expansion of the development. They would like to build 2 buildings build-ings with 48 units a piece. The council members Lee Jensen, Cyd LeMone, and Cindy Boyd liked the idea of one building, but believed the other land should be left open for commercial use. |
