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Show i I Lindon mulls block ! development grant By KALYN SECRETAN 2 Lindon City Council m et Nov. 5 Si with City Consultant Cole Durham jp reviewing the CBDG grant. A sil resolution was passed to assure the 4 provision of low moderate income j. jobs as a requirement of the grant. In order to meet requirements, at a .least six jobs must be created. The H whole theory of opening up the area IC . with the sewer going in will create Kt new jobs. In a joint session the UDAG grant Us was reviewed. An amendment was K requested for additional time. It t! was also decided the Mayor, the jj; City Administrator and the jU Chairman of the Redevelopment Agency are all authorized to sign t? the legally binding agreements, jt; At present the legally binding committments have reached 850,000. Some original developers ire undecided, substitute investments in-vestments will be sought with additional ad-ditional time, to bring committments com-mittments up to $1,135,000. In reviewing the effect date of Ordinance 146 concerning the ) Storehouse Market, Storehouse has t,; not made a decision on the site. Hey have not ruled out Lindon so P the effective date . has been ex-', ex-', Wed until Dec. 5. ' The letter of intent to Orem City hs discussed expressing Lindon's 9jj interest in annexing Geneva if it "pecomes available, continuing 600 South directly through the f Mat harbor to 1600 North in Orem. They must want Orem to know of their intentions, it has been in the city master plan, they h ave no intention of going south, it is an effort to straighten their boundaries. boun-daries. Lindon would not expect Orem to go to the north. Kent Taylor met with the council . with a presentation to lease the city property on State Street' where the ' vacant clinic is situated. He would like to build a restaurant restaur-ant managed by he and his wife. The couple leased and operated the present Rose Ann's Cafe 15-18 years ago and had a good business. He would like the whole strip of property and requests to go ahead as soon as possible. He stated there is quite a demand for a family cafe and feels it would be an asset to the city. The city will discuss the issue and have an appraisal made. The City talked previously of keeping the land for a new city hall. Ray Walker met with the council in an effort to receive sub-division approval. The Board of Adjustments Ad-justments approved his selling lots by description because he donated 25 feet of property to open a street. If the city does not approve substandard sub-standard lots, the lot lines will, be shifted and roadway property canjnot be donated. Ordinance 149 was adopted to comply with Federal Flood Insurance. In-surance. Builders will be required to have proper elevation. |