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Show The Ogden Valley News October 15, 2023 Your Community Newspaper USPS MARKETING MAIL POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 EDEN UT POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYON- 84401 HCR 843AO Photo courtesy of Tyler Holbrook. CERT Training Offered, SelfReliance Fair Now an Annual Success Unbelievable fall colors that our valley experienced this year. Photo of Middle Fork by Bill Carnahan of Huntsville. An opportunity to obtain Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training is coming up. The in-class training is for four Thursday nights, beginning October 19. Prior to class, the online portion needs to be completed. This is excellent training and well worth the $35 fee, which provides participants with supplies. If you are already CERT qualified, there is no cost for this training. It is a great refresher course. The fee for the training will be going up prior to the next training session. To register for the online training, visit onlinecert.org or use the accompanying QR code. Thank you for your efforts to become better prepared and trained for emergency situations, and other challenging events. CERT training is a great benefit to you, your family, and our community. If you have any questions, please contact Bruce Ahlstrom at 801-791-8473. For more information about CERT, visit community.fema.gov/PreparednessCommunity/s/ about-cert?language=en_US Self-Reliance Fair - On Saturday, October 14, at the Weber County Fairgrounds, the Weber County Sheriff’s Department sponsored a SelfReliance Emergency Preparedness and Safety Fair. The Sheriff’s Department started hosting this event last year, as it provides a lot of excellent information on preparedness including gardening, food storage, first aid, fire safety, and much additional helpful information. There was also a blood drive, health checks, food concessions, and child identification kits, etc. Does New Town Eden Currently Have Eden Sewer Service Area (ESSA) Wolf Creek Resort Holdings LLC, and Watts Board of Trustees, Enterprises, Inc. to provide sewer to the Wolf Creek Water & Sewer a Legal Street-Regulating Plan? “ESSA,” which currently encompasses 200 Improvement District By Shanna Francis With a petition on the table from developers to approve an amendment to New Town Eden’s streetregulating plan, the question arose: “Does New Town even have a legal street-regulating plan?” A few years ago, the Weber County planning office decided that implementing a new zoning system in Ogden Valley, within what the Valley’s general plan calls village nodes, would be a great idea. Thus, an urban planning system called “form-based zoning,” along with accompanying street-regulating plans, was adopted for both the Nordic Valley and Old Town Eden village nodes. When a street-regulating plan is adopted, streets in a development are color coded, according to what type of development will be allowed on properties that abut the newly adopted color-coded streets. As with all good planning, the highest concentration of development is allowed within the city’s center, with streets webbing away from the center designated as different colors in the plan that represent the allowance for less, and less high-density development until the fringe streets and properties allow for only single-family dwellings. For instance, Nordic Valley’s street-regulating plan allows for the heaviest development around the base of the resort, with development becoming less dense and commercialized as roads move away from the resort center back into single family neighborhoods. Months and months of review and discussion by the Ogden Valley Planning Commission, public hearings, and, finally, a formal recommendation were undertaken and made to the County Commission to adopt the street-regulating plans for both Nordic Valley and Old Town Eden. Also, for Old Town and New Town Eden, much time was spent hammering out how the form-based commercial centers would look, i.e., what type of architectural standards would be adopted, what the streets would look like, including wide enough sidewalks that allowed for street-side tables and displays in the commercial center, landscaping plans, road widths, cross walks, etc. And while street-regulating plans for Nordic and Old Town were reviewed and voted on with a recommendation to the County Commission to adopt them, it is held by some that the Ogden Valley Planning Commission never reviewed and decided upon on a specific street-regulating STREET PLAN cont. on page 7 We would like to inform you of some of the complex issues that we are dealing with currently. In trying to find the best way through the issues, you, our customers and community, are our primary responsibility and concern in every decision we make. There has been much talk of sewer lines being put into the Eden area. On September 26, 2023, Ogden Valley Planning Commission approved Conditional Use Permits for two sewage lift stations: One at Osprey Ranch subdivision, and a second in the area east of Valley Market’s four-way stop. The pumping stations are being built by developers who will move sewage from Osprey Ranch to our Willowbrook Lane sewage treatment plant. We will take ownership of the lines and lift stations only when they are finished, inspected/tested, and commissioned. These facilities were part of a June 2022 District contract with Osprey Ranch LLC, Cobabe Ranch LLC, Eden Crossing LLC, units distributed over Cobabe Ranch, Osprey Ranch, and Eden Crossing. We are preparing to annex these areas into our sewer service District. The 200 units have been deferred from the Wolf Creek build-out numbers. We are not providing water for any of these developments. The ESSA contract also brought multiple other benefits to WCWSID and its customers, including donation of land in the Bridges for a reuse water storage pond, and a commitment from Wolf Creek Resort Holdings LLC to install a new efficient irrigation system on the golf course. Reuse water will be applied to the golf course, freeing up secondary water for our current lot owners (standby). At the same time in 2022, Weber County Commissioners asked the District to help support the future sewer system in the north arm of Ogden Valley, to reduce the increases of nitrate (a nitrogen compound contributed by septic systems, fertilizers, and livestock) in EDEN SEWER cont. on page 12 Ogden Valley Blood Drive Slated for October 14 The Community information, please visit redcrossblood.org or Foundation of Ogden Valley, contact community blood drive coordinator Janet CFOV, has teamed up with Wampler at 305-796-7778 or janet.wampler@ the Red Cross to bring regu- gmail.com. Drop-in donors are also welcome. larly scheduled blood drives to You may start the donation process by comOgden Valley. The first of these Community pleting an online pre-donation health history Blood Drives is scheduled for Saturday, questionnaire on the day of your appointment 14 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the by logging in to redcrossblood.org/RapidPass. What does it mean to use water sustainably October Eden Park community room at the bowery. Your gift could save a life. and incorporate water conservation? We believe To schedule an appointment, or for more that water conservation is the efficient use of and reduced demands on our finite water supplies. Managing our water resources in a manner that meets current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs is sustainable water use. With a responsibility of making water deliveries for all the above-mentioned uses and planning for future generations, the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District is constantly evaluating opportunities to assist our communities in becoming increasingly sustainable in their water use and finding opportunities to incorporate water conservation practices. As part of the federal Weber Basin Project, Weber Basin Water Conservancy District Offers OV Canal Project Update The Weber Basin Water Conservancy District has received many inquiries regarding the status of its Ogden Valley Canal. Recognizing the importance of keeping our communities apprised of our progress, the District would like to provide the following update. Utah, known for its stunning natural beauty and arid climate, faces the perennial challenge of efficiently and sustainably managing its finite water resources. Whether water is being delivered to a municipality for drinking water, industry for manufacturing, residents for their landscaping, a stream for fish flows, or an agricultural user for growing crops, water conservation and sustainable water use practices are critical. Huntsville Town Groundbreaking Ceremony for New Town Hall WEBER BASIN WATER cont. on page 11 Ogden Valley Watershed Plan Update and 319 Grant Application By Catherine James, Board Member, Weber River Partnership As previously reported in this paper, in 2022 the Weber River Partnership (WRP) received a grant from the Division of Water Quality to write a watershed plan. A watershed plan is a pre-requisite to obtaining federal “319” funding to implement specific measures for reducing or eliminating non-point source pollution. Following a bidding process in the summer of 2022, WRP hired Redfish Environmental, LLC, to write the Watershed Plan. As anticipated, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Water Quality Division, is now accepting applications through October 31 for Federal 319 grants with funding anticipated to be available on August 1, 2024. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants the state of Utah just over $1 million annually in 319 Funds to reduce nonpoint sources of water pollution. The WRP is planning to submit a 319 grant that will assist in fulfilling the require- ment that its Watershed Plan include a community education and outreach component. A 319 grant can take many forms, and in this case, the WRP is targeting “information and education” or “I&E” projects that address concerns mentioned in the February 2022 meeting it held to gather input from Ogden Valley residents on non-point pollution in the Valley. Drawing from those concerns, WRP intends to propose projects that generate information/ education on the topics of septic improvement, construction permitting, and storm water infrastructure, and pollution in/around Pineview. The WRP expects to post a draft version of its 319 proposal next week, on its website at WeberRiverPartnership.org, and hopes to have in place a way for members of the public to make comments or suggestions on the proposal. Look for instructions on the website. A summary of the Ogden Valley Watershed Plan should also be posted on the website at that time. A community meeting to present the Plan and its findings is still anticipated, but it has been pushed back to November. Shown above are Huntsville Town Planning Commissioner Jeff Larsen; Huntsville Planning Commission Chair Allen Endicott; Huntsville Town Councilman Kevin Anderson; Utah State Representative Jason Kyle; Construction Manager Rex Harris; Huntsville Councilman Bruce Ahlstrom; Huntsville Water Board Chair Ron Gault; Operations Manager for Maddox Construction Kaden Maddox; Huntsville Town Mayor Richard Sorensen; Huntsville Town Clerk Shannon Smith; Huntsville Town Maintenance Gary Probasco; Huntsville Town Maintenance Mack DeVries; Huntsville Town Clerk Nikki Wolthuis; and Building Committee member Rich Wilder. The group participated in a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday, October 9 for the new town hall that is being built across the street from the north side of Huntsville Park. The town hall will be located where the previous Valley Elementary and Junior High School once stood, from 1958 to 2009. |