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Show AUlLT-UKjl- b41U1 NHM F Cl TNCAG789 gfw200SSSll06AT,ON CITY UT 84101-127- Exp. 112005 7 I..I..I..I...IIUlilll.)t,1,l1jitij j j j ( j Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place To Live! Volume 97, No 48 Single Copy Price Wednesday, December 1, 1999 www.nephitimesnews.com According to Envision Utah, Nephi con expect continued growth Plans go forward for New Years Eve Community Celebration By Myraa Trauntvein Times-New- s This New Years Eve, a community celebration will be held in the 7th8th Grade Center in Nephi. The theme will be Ringing in the New Millennium New York City Style. It will be a family event with fun for all ages. The evening will feature an historical picture gallery, program, booths, trivia, refreshments, party favors, floor show, and dance. Live music will be pro- Correspondent Nephi is the south end of the commuter corridor for the Wasatch Front and, as such, can expect continued growth. Taylor Oldroyd, representing Envision Utah, said the draft of the report prepared by the organization after the public forum meetings were held statewide should be a benefit to those in e planning. "We hope this will be a resource to you, said Oldroyd. "As a organization, our whole nature is that we want people to have discussions and dialog, said Oldroyd. We wont take a position." Maintaining neutrality, while promotwas essential to the ing public it organization being able to ask some tough questions. We started as a grass-root- s effort, he said. Robert Steele, county commissioner, said one important issue facing Juab County, at present, was the delivery of the promised CUP water to the county. We still intend to get the water, said Steele. That is still of a critical and crud cial importance to us. We are of many counties in planning for future growth but we want cooperation in getting the water promised our county for county-wid- non-prof- it in-pu- t, non-prof- well-ahea- a long-tim- e. LAST GAME OF THE YEAR - MILLENNIUM Some take golfing seriously and Duane Robinson of Nephi is one of those. With the warm weather he and his golfing partner got in mOne More Game 9 before the cold weather arrives today. You never know, said Robinson as he hit the ball toward the green. vided by The Moonlighters who are back by popular demand after their appearance at the Juab Centennial Ball in 1996. Everything will be done New York City Style," including the countdown of the evening. Clocks will be set to Eastern Standard Time. The New Year will be ringing in at 10:00 p.m. local time. The evening will run from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. MST. Attendees will be able to celebrate the remainder of the evening as they choose. A photographer will be available, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m., to take souvenir portraits of families, groups or couples. All proceeds from the evening will be donated to the renovation of the Juab Centennial Playhouse. The Playhouse has come to a standstill because of lack of funds. We hope to have it completed in 2000. Miter public bearing, Mona Council There are a lot of battles ahead, said Oldroyd. This planning will help. There were many difficult issues addressed in the report resulting from the Envision Utah public process, said Oldroyd. He said, through the hearing By Myraa TraunOcin process, public awareness concerning the difficult but important issues had s Correspondent been heightened. A Mona annexation hearing held by We will work to educate citizens and town council Monday at 7 p.m. was the leaders alike, said Oldroyd. attended by 84 people but only eight residents and two council members took the opportunity to enter comments. The hearing was held prior to the council decision to allow the annexation of property owned by Pat Painter. In addition to all council members being present, Attorney Phil Lowery, By Myraa Trannlveia Howard, Lewis and Petersen, Provo, was on hand to represent the council, s correspondent approves annexation for new subdivision ment, he said. I have a forum once a month, at council meeting, to express my opinions. I thought this was a place to hear the comments made by community members. However, he thought it was wise to comment that the council has had a planner, at no cost to the community, working to update the town subdivision and annexation ordinance. Schnurr said he had also contacted several cities and obtained copies of their annexation ordinances. He had talked with Glenn Greenhalgh, county economic developer, and had learned and Attorney Jens Fugal, Pleasant that it was wisest to annex the Painter Grove, was there to represent Painter. property. Doran Kay (D. Kay), council member, Basically, I learned it would be like hold-ouwas the lone t among the coun- having a gorilla on the doorstep with cil. All the others, including Mayor no fees and no revenue to assist with Bryce Lynn, voted to accept the annex- infrastructure All those addressing the council were ation petition and to approve the ordinance allowing the annexation and the given three minutes to explain their recording of the plat map with the coun- stand on the issue. D. Kay asked for, and was granted, extra time 25 minty recorder. "As elected officials, we are entrust- utes to express his viewpoint ed with the responsibility to protect the Robert Steele, county commissioner, public interests. It is of great concern said that towns and cities in Juab Counto me that the public interests are not ty had, in their master plans and in the being protected in the action proposed county master plan, indicated a potenby Mr. (Pat) Painter to annex property tial growth area. Those who come to the county cominto the town of Mona for the purpose of developing 90 to 100 residential units mission seeking annexation had to, if as noted in the minutes of the town they were located in the growth area of board meeting held Feb. 9, 1999, said a town, abide first by the city's rulings and specifications. Those outside the Kay. A new storage tank for the water sys- growth area had to meet county specitem has been projected to cost, for con- fications. struction and engineering, $180,000 "If you refuse to annex, the county can with another $70,000 to be spent for still approve a subdivision in the counvalves, chlorinator, instrumentation ty," said Steele. I for one, if you delayed and materials to plumb the new tank annexation while you were working on to the existing tank. a policy but, at some point, planned to The town of Mona has recently spent annex, would not vote to approve a sub$180,000 in drilling a culinary water division until your policy was in place well," said D. Kay. The process is not and you voted to reject or approve the yet complete. It is projected that this Fainter subdivision At the last council meeting, council point of diversion can yield enough source to supply water for 605 connec- members were handed a petition signed tions." by 235 townspeople and 17 nearby counRick Schnurr, council member, said he ty residents. The signers requested an also wanted time to address the people annexation policy be instituted before the annexation be allowed. attending the hearing. "I have not prepared a formal state One of those who passed the petition Times-New- Building sewer is concern for Mona Residents Times-New- One concern Mona Town Council members and community residents have had is that the community may be forced to build a sewer system in the near future. Rick Schnurr, council member, contacted Bruce T. Hall, Central Utah Public Health Department Environmental Health Scientist, and asked him for a letter addressing the concern. Contrary to what some Mona residents may have been told, the need to convert to a public waste water treatment system is not something that is forced upon a community that is experiencing growth," said HalL Mayor Bryce Lynn said he had also spoken to Hall and learned that it would be a long wait even if the town were on a waiting list. It would be 20 years, thats if you were ready and on the list today, said Lynn. Once you are on the list it takes time to move up the list and he said he did not foresee any need for Mona to even be on a list or to be worried about it for many, many years." Darlene Fowkes, council member, said only so many sewer systems were funded each year. That was a limited number, she said. "Only when a community encounters serious waste water problems resulting from conditions such as a high ground water table or poor soO conditioas would See Sewer on page 2 POOR COPY was Clive Buchanan. He had since had a change of mind and was one of those who addressed the gathering on Monday evening. Buchanan said he had learned some mitigating information. It is the subdivision ordinance that really has to be tight. Some towns in the state have refused annexation through a series of legal steps, however, they had not stopped growth but had failed to benefit from it. Developers find ways to go through the county and still create subdivisions which became their own towns, he said. Cedar Fort was an example of this type of growth. The community still had to provide the basic infrastructure the new areas lacked. They traveled on Cedar Fort roads and Cedar Fort had to provide fire service and so, the town ended up with nothing no tax dollars for maintenance." "If we annex, we have the control and that is the only way we will have that control," said Buchanan. When property is annexed, the city gets the money from water and gas utilities but when the county prorides gas for a subdivision, the county gets the money from the gas utility. They provide natural gas at the same cost Mona does, he said. Rick Kay (R. Kay) told the council he had concerns, mostly with the water supply. Painter, he said, was proposing to exchange irrigation water for culinary water use. That represented a change in flow. We can end up in a big lawsuit, he said. Lets have a growth policy," said Kathy Kay (K. Kay). She said she thought the town should have a policy to fill up the town (empty lots inside the existing boundaries) before annexing property. Several years ago, said K. Kay, she had been on the city committee to propose a master plan. Interior growth first had been a priority of the committee. Quentin Kay (Q. Kay) said he was the one who presented the council with the citizen petition requesting, among oth- See Hearing on page 2 PUBLIC HLKR1NG Mona Mayor Bryce Lynn addresses the public hearing on annexation of new area into Mona. The Coined approied the annexation 4 to I after the hearing. 1 - - |