By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Mona City is considering a new impact fee and exaction
schedule and Cory Squire, the council member assigned to the
re-write, said the new ordinance should be ready for a
public hearing.
"Phil Lowery (city attorney) has completed the draft
and wants each of you to look at it and consider the changes
which have been made," said Squire.
Squire said Lowery directed him to post the notice in
the newspaper and in three other public places. In addition,
he was to give a copy to the city's zoning administrator,
which, he said, was council member, Rory Nielson.
"We should be ready to approve it to be noticed up at
the next meeting," said Squire.
"He tried to put in all of your concerns," said
Squire. "If any of you make changes, then we could give the
draft back to him and he would re write it, otherwise, if
the changes are minor, we just can note that and go on."
Squire said he had informed Lowery that they were
bound by the study price for water but was told that was not
the case. "He said we do not have to follow along with what
we paid."
Since Lowery is a noted water attorney, said Nielson,
he could be trusted to know which scenario was correct.
The homeowner's association question, which Pat
Painter, as a developer, had been concerned about was
included in the language of the ordinance, said Squire.
The proposed ordinance calls for impact fees with the
water exaction of 1 and one-half acre-feet as $734 for a
storage fee and $809 fee for source capacity fee for a total
of $1,543 per ERC.
For impact fees with the water exaction of 1
acre-foot, the fee is $734 for storage, $809 for source
capacity, and $1,001.50 per water right for a total of
$2,544.50 per ERC.
Squire said the water shares, if they come from a duly
organized Utah irrigation company, shall have affixed and
permanently bear a restriction indicating the water will
always belong the that property.
"Either individual owner(s) or an entity of which
individual owner(s) is (are) member(s) (such as a duly
organized homeowners' association) may effect the dedication
or conveyance described in this subsection," read Squire
from the ordinance.
"Therefore, (ii) under "C" recognizes a homeowner's
association, such as Pat Painter's."
Painter asked if the intent was that shares being
conveyed to the property and the homeowner's association for
the whole first phase of his subdivision could be recorded
at the same time.
"Phil Lowery talked to your attorney," said Squire.
"He said your attorney would be happy with this
ordinance."
The previous ordinance, the one now in use, does not
provide a contingency for those, like Painter, who want a
homeowner's association for the subdivision to effect the
dedication or conveyance of secondary water.
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