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Show City Council Has Regular Business Session Tuesday The city council meeting began at 6 p.m. on Tuesday evening to provide time for the council and city engineer to present information concerning con-cerning the creation of special improvement districts. Mayor W. Cornell Haynie explained ex-plained the proceedure in creating special improvement districts and Lee Wimmer, city consulting engineer, discussed costs for the improvements. im-provements. There were sixteen present to listen to the presentation and ask questions relevant to their particular property. The decision of the council was to go ahead and begin the proceedure for creating the special improvement districts and to determine at the time of the protest meeting those areas which might be deleted because of possible strong opposition. The city engineer discussed various matters of business. A bill for payment for installation in-stallation of water and sewer lines at the industrial park was reviewed and approved by the council. It was noted that the next phase of improvement im-provement at the industrial park will be the installation of the curb and gutter and asphalting of the roads. Concerning the relocation of the flag pole from the old junior high property to the swimming pool park, by the American Legion, Councilman Coun-cilman Grant At wood was requested to contact the street department crews about assisting in this project. Cleanup Successful Mayor Haynie discussed the work performed by the city crews and officials the last two Saturdays as part of the city cleanup campaign. He expressed appreciation to all those who assisted in this work, and especially the city employees, who donated their time. The campaign was quite successful, the mayor said. A letter from Wayne Patterson Pat-terson was read which expressed ex-pressed concern over the city ordinance which requires a general contractor doing work in the city, be licensed by the city. The council reviewed this matter and felt that Mr. - Patterson should conform to the city code. (Continued on Page 5) City Council News from Tuesday Nights Regular Meeting Shows Much Activity planning commission that the frontage requirement be changed to require 85 or 90 foot frontages in thesez6hes. The council voted to proceed with this proposal and to advertise ad-vertise a public hearing for this possible zone change. review. They were asked to look over this proposed ordinance or-dinance and be prepared to discuss it in detail at the next meeting. The present city policy which requires a fence, installed along the front of a lot, to be one or two feet in back of the sidewalk, was discussed. The building department had suggested that the council consider changing this policy to provide that a fence may be constructed abutting the sidewalk. The council agreed to review this proposed change. Councilman Ford West reported on his meeting with the water committee and the city engineer where the proposal to install a pump on the culinary water line on 1020 East street to serve the proposed Autumn Hills Subdivision Sub-division was discussed. He indicated that the committee had voted against allowing the pump to be used. Councilman Coun-cilman West discussed the fees charged by the city for water connections and the present rate structure and indicated that he would have specific recommendations at a subsequent meeting. Subdivision Plan Councilman E. Mark Bez-zant Bez-zant presented a vicinity map of the area between Highway 91 and Locust Avenue to the council for review. He noted that a subdivision plan will be presented to the planning commission at their next meeting which will effect a large amount of this property. proper-ty. He noted that he is attempting at-tempting to contact the surrounding property owners to obtain their views of the plan. Since the subdivision borders bor-ders on the Pleasant Grove-Lindon Grove-Lindon boundary it was proposed that the city consider con-sider annexation of one lot deep on the south side of the proposed 1000 South Street. Councilman Bezzant also reported that the planning commission had recommended recommen-ded that multiple dwelling lots provide adequate playground area and facilities for the expected number of children who will reside in the apartments. Lot Size Zone Changes The city ordinance which requires seventy-five feet of street frontage in the A-l-SD and R-l-SD zones was reviewed. It was noted that in this area there is a requirement that the homes built in these zones have 1,200 square feet on the main living floor area and that a lot with only 75 feet of frontage fron-tage makes it very difficult to place this size of home on. It was suggested by the (Continued from page 1) The new city policy which requires that all door to door salesmen make application to the city council for a business license, was discussed. It was reported that an application from Eagle Marketing Company Com-pany to sell dehydrators from door to door had been received and action was needed on the request for a business license. The council reviewed this request and allowed issuing the license. In similar action, the council voted to approve a business license to Ferg's for sale of beer and groceries. Councilman Atwood reported repor-ted that Chris Williamson had been hired to work in the street department as equipment equip-ment operator. Councilman Atwood also reported that he had heard from residents in the Chrisville area that the property owned by the city on 100 West had been considered con-sidered for use as a motor-:ycle motor-:ycle park. Councilman Huntsman Hun-tsman reported that he had been contacted about using the property for this purpose but that this would not be allowed. The problem of the railroad crossing on Sam White's Lane was discussed. It was felt that this area was in great need of improvement ot great need of improvement to provide easier crossing of the tracks. It was agreed to contact con-tact the state department of transportation and the railroad company about this problem. The problem of utility lateral trenches not being asphalted within the required length of time after excavation ex-cavation was discussed. It was agreed that the asphalting requirement be enforced en-forced and that trenches not being patched accordingly be reported to the building department for necessary followup. The complaints received by the city about the four-can limit on garbage was discussed. It was felt that the pickup service be contacted to discuss means of solving this complaint. The audit report of the golf course was discussed and the recommendations of the auditors to improve the financial position of the golf course were reviewed. The need to complete cretain improvements im-provements at the golf course were reviewed, and the cooperation of the three cities in helping to complete the improvements was requested. The city council agreed to work with the golf course committee in having the city crews assist in making these improvements as the time becomes available by the city workers. Mayor Haynie invited the council members to attend the program at the high school this Saturday night where the Phyllis Lamhut Dance Co. will perform for residents of the community. Copies of a proposed fence ordinance were distributed to the council members for |