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Show The Ogden Valley news Your Community Newspaper June 15, 2019 USPS MARKETING MAIL POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 EDEN UT POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYON- 84401 HCR 843AO Photo by Kevin Mikkelsen. Monte Cristo Highway Opens for Season The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) advises motorists and outdoor recreation enthusiasts that state Road 39, the Monte Cristo Highway, will open to all traffic for the spring and summer season at midnight, Friday, June 7. SR-39 will open from milepost 37, the Ant Flat parking lot east of Huntsville, to milepost 56, near Woodruff in Rich County. Once the gates are opened, the roadway between these two points will remain open until late next fall. The remainder of this route is open year around. This route opened about two weeks later than usual this year due to the extremely deep snow fall this past winter. Off of the roadway, snow is still deep and most campgrounds are snowbound. Motorists and recreationalists are urged to use caution when leaving SR-39. This section of the Monte Cristo Highway is closed for the winter months between these points each season due to motorist safety concerns, and the prohibitive cost of keeping it open to winter traffic. The roadway is opened each spring once winter weather conditions have generally subsided. Motorists are advised, however, that winter storms may still occur at the highest elevations on this highway well into the summer months, so they should always be prepared for this when traveling this route. For information about Utah road conditions 24-hours per day, visit the UDOT Traffic Website at http://udottraffic.utah.gov, or download the free Utah Traffic App, available for download by most mobile devices. Summer in Ogden Valley. Two Different Shootings at Same Airbnb Leave Neighbors Rattled By Shanna Francis Shootings, at two different times within a 24-hour period, but at the same Eden property, last Sunday, June 2, put neighbors on high alert, and left others shaking their heads, and wondering what’s happening to this sleepy rural community where crimes in the past were mostly confined to, perhaps, a few minor speeding tickets. A party that began Saturday, June 1 at an advertised Airbnb, and attended primarily by between 60 and 100 out-of-area youth, accord- Reebok Ragnar Wasatch Back 2019Reebok Slated for June 14-15 Ragnar Wasatch days and one, making their way over Avon ing to a report by the Weber County Sheriff’s Back returns June 14-15. Please Office, ended when a black sedan arrived with note that approximately 5,000 an occupant carrying a gun who proceeded to runners will be making their send bullets flying after discharging the gun way through Ogden Valley— around 2:00 a.m.—early Sunday morning—as about 426 Ragnar teams during the party continued from the evening before. the race. Later that evening on the same Sunday, Runners begin the race in Logan at Utah and the party long over, the fugitive apparently returned, spraying the home again with bullets. State University. From there, teams run two Fortunately, this time, no one was at the small Eden home, located at 5482 E. 2300 N., situated on the highway between Carlos and Harleys SHOOTINGS cont. on page 12 Do you need a feel-good boost? Donate to the Ogden Valley Charity Garage Sale! Do you want to have a crazy, fun, you’ll-never-believe-it time? Shop at the Ogden Valley Charity Garage Sale! Mark July 26 and 27, 2019 on your calendars and in your phone for the most incredible garage sale you’ll ever go to. You’ve heard about it every 2. Crushing gravel mined on the premises summer for 21 years. Each year is bigger and bet3. Contractor equipment storage ter, and that will be true for our 21st year as well! 4. Accessory building incidental to the use of a The proceeds from the Charity Garage Sale main building; main building designed or used to go directly to charitable causes. Make-A-Wish accommodate the main use to which the premises Foundation of Utah is the primary recipient. are devoted—gravel excavation & crushing. For many years we have been able to sponsor Levanta LLC representative Robert Edwards is the wishes of two local children. McKay-Dee requesting the change as part of a proposed project Foundation Labor and Delivery Bereavement to mine rock, sand, and gravel out of the North Fork is also a recipient. The rest goes to help Ogden River, located behind the junior high school, for use Valley youth and their families with medical at a proposed ready mix concrete batch plant want- needs. Thirteen families with valley connecing to be built on site near the same local. The submitted project narrative supplied by HEARING cont. on page 13 Ogden Valley Charity Garage Sale’s 21st Year! County Schedules Public Hearing in Eden to Consider Petition for Zone Change behind Jr. High By Shanna Francis The Weber County Planning Commission will meet June 25, 2019 in Eden, as part of their regularly scheduled planning meeting. The meeting will be held at 5:00 p.m. at Snowcrest Jr. High to hear a request by Levanta LLC of Champlain, Minnesota to change the zoning of a 14.1-acre parcel of property located behind Snowcrest Jr. High and next to the North Fork river from the current Agricultural Valley (AV-3) zone to a Gravel zone (G), which would allow for: 1. Sand & gravel excavation, including gravel crushing Pass and back down into Liberty and on through Eden then Huntsville. Liberty Park will once again attract the thousands of racers as a major exchange point. They should be cleared from the park area by 8:30 p.m. The bulk of the runners are expected in the Valley Friday, June 14 between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. RAGNAR cont. on page 8 tions were assisted last year. You most likely know someone who has been helped over the years. The unsold items from the garage sale are donated to Deseret Industries, Ayuda en Mexico, Lantern House, Ogden Rescue Mission, Christmas Box House, and other organizations. Over the past 20 years, the garage sale has made almost $184,000, with over $24,500 coming in last year. The garage sale will be held Friday, July 26, and Saturday, July 27, at 9520 E. 400 S. in Huntsville, at the home of Mike and Cindy Hillstrom. It will run from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Friday, and from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. on Saturday. The garage sale is made possible by donations of items which can be delivered to the GARAGE SALE cont. on page 10 Layton Youth Group Provides to Valley Community Are you an OVer? Then Come Play with Us at By ShannaService Valley’s pathway system where they pulled Francis This Year’s 5th-annual CFOV Summer Scramble Show us you are a true OVer—a person who loves the Ogden Valley— by coming out to play with us August 10 at Northern Utah’s #1 resort—Wolf Creek Resort. The Community Foundation of Ogden Valley (CFOV) invites the entire community to get ready for the 5th-annual Summer Scramble Golf Tournament and Community Event being held at Wolf Creek Resort August 10. This exciting day will have something for everyone . . . a 9:00 a.m., “Shotgun Start” for “real” golfers, and still in the planning stages; an after- noon of family-friendly events; great food; and an opportunity to meet the friendly folks behind the nonprofits that serve Ogden Valley, while also learning about what they do. In addition, there will be opportunities to enjoy fun and games at each nonprofit booth. Proceeds from the Summer Scramble will be used to help fund the work of these participating nonprofits that serve Ogden Valley via CFOV’s OVerDRIVE fundraising campaign. SCRAMBLE cont. on page 7 Illegal Nightly Rentals Becoming Big Problem in Unincorporated OV units rented for less than 30 days at a time to the By Shanna Francis Under Weber County’s land use code, nightly rentals—often referred to as Airbnbs sleeping rooms, or short-term rentals—are illegal in most residential zones in Ogden Valley. Even so, they seem to be cropping up just about anywhere and everywhere, with property owners seeing them as a fast way to earn some extra cash, or a way of making the house payment on a second home that may have been purchased as an investment. And some realtors don’t seem interested in letting clients know that this practice may be an illegal use of the home, as many listings even suggest this option. A recent shooting at a possibly illegal Airbnb in Eden shed light on this problem, where some nightly rentals can have a reputation as “party homes.” A quick “Google” search of nightly or short-term rentals in Ogden Valley will pull up a number of residential homes being used for nightly rentals. Weber County’s land use code defines short-term/nightly rentals as homes or Thursday, June 6, about 150 volunteers arrived in Ogden Valley to help eradicate dyer’s woad—100 youth, ages 14 to 18, and their leaders. The large army of young people is part of the Layton, Utah Creekside Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Stake. They traveled to Ogden Valley to take part in a Youth Conference being held at North Fork Park. On their way, before heading up to Cutler Flats to set up their tents, they stopped at the Eden Park bowery to receive instruction from Weber County Road Department crew leader Jared Clontz, who instructed the youth on the best way to remove the weed so it wouldn’t grow back. The youth also collected garbage as part of the service they were rendering. The youth and their leaders spread out and went to work, primarily along county Highway 166 in Eden, and alongside roads and Ogden and dug out the weed, which is still in its flowering stage. Weber County Commissioner Gage Froerer worked with the group’s leader, Scott Weske to arrange the service project. A few local citizens passionate about eradicating dyer’s woad also showed up to help. The community would like to thank this group of Layton volunteers for their generous service, and would like to continue to ask Valley property owners to keep up the effort to remove the weed from their property and its boundary areas. If you are frustrated at your efforts at eradicating the weed, which may seem futile at times, be aware that while your efforts may seem ineffective, an understanding of the plant’s ability to reproduce itself season after season—for seven years from an initial seed YOUTH GROUP cont. on page 3 same tenant. According to the county’s land use code Sec. 108-7-25, “The rental of a sleeping room, apartment, dwelling unit, or dwelling for a time period of less than 30 days is considered a nightly rental. Nightly rentals are allowed only when listed as either a permitted or conditional use in a specific zone or when approved as part of a planned residential unit development (PRUD). (Ord. of 1956, § 23-25; Ord. No. 2009-14; Ord. No. 2014-18, Exh. A, 6-17-2014) What are the specific zones where nightly rentals may, if permitted through a formal process, be legal in unincorporated Ogden Valley? Forrest Residential Zone – 3 acres or more (FR-3) This zone allows for medium density residential uses of apartment clusters or condo-tels adjacent to and in conjunction with major recreational resorts, recreation areas, and facilities in mountainous areas of Weber County (Ogden Valley), the idea being About 100 Layton youth and their leaders traveled to Ogden Valley June 6 to help pull and dig RENTALS cont. on page 12 out dyer’s woad. |
