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Show Add-ons get easier for homeowners By TOM HARALDSEN CENTER VILLETh e city council coun-cil has approved an ordinance which will make it easier for homeowners to add on to their residences, even if their property is non-conforming to previous city requirements. re-quirements. Acting on a recommendation from the Planning Commission, the council approved allowance of additions ad-ditions to the front or rear side of homes if those sides meet city standards, stan-dards, even if other portions of the property do not. For example, the city requires a 25-foot setback when commercial zoned properties abut residential properties. Under the changed ordinances, or-dinances, a homeowner who might have a home not conforming with the rear setback could still add onto the front or side of his home. Previously, such additions would not have been allowed. tn a related item, the council also SEE CENTER VILLE PG. A-2 Centerville CONT. FROM PG. A-l amended Centerville's Basic District Regulations for front, side and rear yards, but did not change the 25-foot requirement between commercial and residential buffer zones. The end result of these actions ac-tions is to make homeowner additions addi-tions easier and to clarify regulations regula-tions governing additions to homes in non-conforming situations created prior to the regulations. The city center will also be getting get-ting a long-needed overhaul of its telephone system. A bid of $13,590 was approved from Rocky Mountain Moun-tain Telephone Exchange for a new NEC telephone system for the city. The system will allow for better handling of the increased number of calls Centerville has been receiving. The system was a budgeted item this fiscal year. "Couhe if also "approved purchase of a 1 new dump truck and miscellaneous equipment for a cost of $55,094.14 from Rick Warner Ford, Fruehauf and Majestic. The new truck, sander and snowplow will allow the city a total of four dependable vehicles, and will replace an old and unreliable truck and plow which was used last : winter. ; The governing board also voted ; to explore sites for a new culinary water well in the south part of Centerville. City staff will bring ; back recommendations for the new f well, probably with three to five-: possible sites. Council will finalize a site this fall. This is one of the : projects funded by the city's mas-. sive culinary water replacement and . ; update program now underway. Along those lines as well, several water and street construction bids were approved by the council, as;; budgeted for this year (see separate z story on the city's construction pro-,-jects). 0 The council also approved, on a , split 3-2 vote, to amend the contract it has for Community Development .; Block Grant funds for placement of,-; utilities along 400 West from 300 " South to Parrish Lane (undeveloped ; corridor). This property forms Centerville 's ;; redevelopment project which the,- city hopes can be developed commercially com-mercially in the near future. ;J In one other business item, adop- :; tion of a charter forming a Center- v ville City Youth Council was tabled L. until certain corrections are made in.? the charter. Approval of the revised v charter could happen by next Coun- cil meeting on Aug. 21. |