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Show Val Verda annexation gets 'new life' - but not without angry protests By JUDY JENSEN " BOUNTIFUL Angry residents resi-dents once again voiced their opposition oppo-sition to annexation into Bountiful at the City Council meeting on Wednesday. . City Manager Tom Hardy asked the council to approve a resolution to hold a public hearing to accept a I petition for annexation for two ) small parcels of the unincorporated I Davis County area. The two areas ; which will be considered at the hearing on June 17 at 7:30 p.m., ! include the Val Verda area r Monarch Drive to 550 West, 3800 S. to 3400 S. and 2600 S. to 3100 S., r Orchard Drive to 625 W. "'The council's approval of the public hearing brought angry re- sponses from citizens attending the S council meeting. One asked," Why I are you breaking this up into little sections when there is no one here to oppose it?" Another asked, I "Why is this still coming up after it ; was eliminated at the last public ; hearing because there were not enough signatures." j Mr. Hardy explained that they had verified signatures on the peti-I peti-I tions for annexation in these two ! areas and they had received re- quests from over 60 percent of the property owners to accept their petition for annexation. One woman told Mr. Hardy that when she and her husband were approached to sign the petition they were told "We were not sign- H sr n so g- S ST Q ing for anything now, but in the future. I want to know if our names were removed from the thing, because be-cause we didn't think it was a petition peti-tion in the first place." Mr. Hardy assured her that the city had removed re-moved the names of anyone who had requested it be done. Another woman who had attended the last public hearing regarding re-garding the annexation stood to address the council and angrily restated res-tated her opposition. "I'm under state, federal and county law now, I'm opposed to this and I'll be darned if I'm going to be under another one." Mayor Dean Stable told her they would hear her complaints com-plaints when they held the public hearing. The woman stood to leave the meeting, but assured the council coun-cil she would be back. "I'm very angry," she shouted, "and I'm going to stick to my guns to the end." Later in the meeting as the council coun-cil discussed the citizen's reaction to the annexation question, Mayor Stahle stated that the city didn't really care if the people annexed into Bountiful, but that he felt the residents of the unincorporated area should, "start paying their fair share of taxes and stop being subsidized subsi-dized by Bountiful." |
