City Council Recap! 9.29.2020
•The Youth City Council was sworn in. Advisors this year will be Hayley Alberts, Angie Petty and McKenna Winsor. We are very excited to get started!
•Coronavirus update: The cases are continuing to increase within Davis County. South Weber currently has 9 active cases and a total 55 cases. Currently there are 12 hospitalizations within the county and no new deaths this week. Utah is lowest in the country for mortality rate.
•The city gave recognition to Stacy Whitford who has been taking care of our flags within the city for the past 8 years. Stacy started this project to help her son with his Eagle project. She encouraged anyone who has a flag to download the colonial flag app and it will notify you of days your flags should be at half-staff as well as other observations. We thank her for this patriotic duty she does on behalf of our city!
•Soccer Complex Conditional Use Permit: The council discussed this permit at great length (read: 2.5 hours!). Most items included on the CUP were to help mitigate noise, nuisance parking and other barriers. In the end the final CUP was quite lengthy but included hours of operation for both indoor and outdoor fields, maximum parking of 100 vehicles and paving the temporary parking lot, signs posted on 475 E and South Weber Drive to direct La Roca traffic, no parking signs posted on SWD, Raymond Drive, Kingston Drive & 6650 as well as no soccer complex traffic on streets as well. Other items included a plan for citations in the event of violations, a masonry wall and others.
•Riverside Place Phase 5: Council had questions regarding emails sent in for public comment regarding the condition of Phase1 and 2. Trash on the lots as well as over flowing garbage containers have been addressed code enforcement. The builder explained why some houses have not yet been completed as well as some other issues. Phase 5 has outside builders willing to buy lots which will finish the project sooner. The motion passed unanimously.
•The Lofts at Deer Run: Council was presented with the latest renderings of the new plans for the Loft’s project. The developer is seeking to amend the original development agreement for less commercial and therefore less parking. The council was very firm that the amount of parking is not sufficient and because parking on 2700 E has been restricted this create a big problem. The council also requested the height of the buildings come down to 35’ vs. the 55’ the developer is allowed. Some suggestions made by the developer was to remove commercial all together or remove even more commercial than what the amended agreement was. The council expressed that in order to be able to do so would mean the parking would need to be addressed and suggested more parking stalls and less residential. There was quite a deal of discussion and questions asked. The developer will return after speaking with his staff. At this point in time the developer is looking into two options: 1) either move forward with the current development agreement signed in 2018 and the allowances within the code/agreement or 2) amend the current development agreement with adjustments to commercial space requirements, residential units and parking stalls. As this is a new version of site plans and he was seeking feedback from the council, no decision was made. If the developer chooses to amend the agreement it will need to be approved by the council. If not, he will return to the planning commission when he is ready with preliminary plans or possibly another presentation, depending on his preference.
•Cottonwood Waterline: The replacement of the waterline on Cottonwood Drive is being a shared cost between SWC, Uintah and Weber Basin. After a lot of work and time from staff, the total amount came in well below budget. South Weber City’s portion will be approximately $282,000. The amount budgeted was $350,000 in FY2019. This waterline is necessary to bring pressure up to state code for fire hydrants. The contract awarded was approved unanimously.
•Job Corp water re-pipe project: Contract was awarded for this project unanimously. Job Corp is out of compliance with the state and asked South Weber City to take over management of this project. Job Corp will be paying for this project with their funds and giving the city a managerial fee to compensate for time spent on it.
•City Council Schedule: The council discussed meeting 2 times a month vs. 3 times. There was discussion about adding a work meeting into the schedule to allow the council time to work on things that are happening within the many committees the council, planning commission and staff are a part of. Council will try it out and see how it goes, realizing extra meetings may still be added on busier months.
•Reports:
•Mayor Jo: Mayor reported increased crime has happened throughout the city and DCSO is advising everyone to make sure to lock up and keep valuables out of vehicles. Stan Cook, who was injured by a falling tree during the high wind storm is recuperating well and should be able to come home soon. Jo and Peifen from HAFB visited 14 residences for possible contaminated well water but found none of the residences were using those wells for culinary water or gardens.
•Councilman Winsor: reported a few trees were still down from the storm and questioned about the process of clean up.
•Councilwoman Petty: The YCC will be having their first meeting this week. They will be revisiting the charter and making any needed amendments and bringing it before council soon. The Parks & Rec committee will meet and discuss a number of items she will report back on.
•Councilman Soderquist: The Admin and Finance committee will be meeting later this week. There is also a meeting for Staker Parsons regarding the dust and studying where it is going, how far it is traveling and other concerns.
•Councilwoman Alberts: All of our equipment for live streaming has arrived! Yay! Installation will start happening this week and should be ready by our first council meeting in October. The PR committee also discussed addressing concerns with live streaming and creating a process to help viewers find the correct stream as well as report technical difficulties. The Country Fair Days committee met and had a recap of the events for South Weber Days.
•City Manager David Larsen: Liaison Lt. Boydston with the DSCO has been promoted to Captain and will be moving on. In the meantime, Sargent Pope will step in his place.
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