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Show Commission recommends subdivision approval at owners own risk By SCOTT SUMMERILL FARMINGTON - The Davis County Commission gave plans for a six lot, 16 acre subdivision on 1525 West in Farmington between Glovers Lane and the Clark pumping pump-ing station a unanimous vote of approval ap-proval for reconsideration by the Davis County Planning Commission Commis-sion at Monday's meeting. The plans had been turned down by the Planning Commission because of lack of access for emergency vehicles to two of the lots furthest from the public roadway, road-way, according to County Commissioner Commis-sioner William Peters, who also serves on the Planning Commission. Commis-sion. The developer, Thaes Web Jr., plans to run a gravel roadway from the bulk of the subdivision, 800 feet to two lots. "The Planning Commission was concerned about a private road and road maintenance,' Peters said. ' 'In five years is it just going to be a cow trail down there," he asked engineer en-gineer Von Hill of Hill Jamison Associates. As-sociates. "We're willing to ensure that there would be a gravel road and turnaround area," Hill said. "And, it would be maintained during all weather conditions. ' Peters also expressed concern over water to the units, which project pro-ject representatives indicated would be provided with well water. "That's not the best water out there," Peters said. "We'd have a hard time time defending ourselves if in five years you sold the property and the road wasn't kept up and we couldn't protect pro-tect the people," said County Commissioner Gayle Stevenson. "Sometimes we have to protect people from themselves. You won't want to wash your face with the water." Davis County Assistant Attorney Jerry Hess told the commission that responsibility for maintaining the road would lie with the land owners. Therefore, if officials are unable to respond to the area in an emergency due to road conditions, the county would not be liable. "We'd be sending a message that it's not our responsibility," said Hess. County Commissioner William Lawrence said the planners had taken every step they could to satisfy satis-fy building codes and the planning commission. Based on that, he suggested sug-gested the project proposal be sent back to the planning commission for approval with the addition of four conditions to be met by the developer. de-veloper. The commission added one condition con-dition to Lawrence's four and agreed to approve recommendation of the plans with the conditions that a 20-foot wide gravel roadway be installed and maintained by the owner, a 70-foot radius turnaround for emergency vehicles be developed de-veloped at the end of the roadway, no structure can be built with a basement too near the water table, all construction is to be built with a 50- foot easement along the roadway road-way for future development and the owners must bond for construction of a permanent roadway in the event more development occurs in the future. As the group petitioning for approval ap-proval left the commission chambers, Stevenson jovially told them, "If you have any problems later, don't come back to us." In other business, the commission commis-sion approved the $658,994 South Davis Fire District (SDFD) 1991 budget request The county will have to pay the SDFD $80,204 per year for fire and rescue services under the budget. The increase is due to a reassessment of county property. According to Davis County Auditor Ruth Kennington, the personal per-sonal property was not included in the formula in the past. The oversight over-sight occurred several years ago and was never corrected until now, she said. The commission approved the budget request unanimously with the understanding that the amount above this year's $40,000 bill to the county from the SDFD be rectified in the 1991 budget. |