By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Mona will soon have a subdivision ordinance and can,
after it is adopted, remove the moratorium on subdivisions
put in place by the council.
The council has been reviewing a plan adopted by
Alpine City as their subdivision ordinance.
Cory Squire, council member, went through the Alpine
version of the subdivision ordinance with other council
members to see what they want done, if they want to make
changes and where they would like those changes made.
"For example, we need to keep our ordinance road
widths at 66-feet," said Squire.
The Alpine document states that: "Construction
standards, including drawings, tables, charts, references
and other regulations adopted by the City Council by
resolution, shall constitute subdivision regulations
supplementing this Ordinance. "
The Alpine Subdivision Ordinance has the following
subtitles: Scope of Ordinance, Variances and Exemptions;
Intent and Purpose; Definitions; Procedure For Submission
and Approval of Subdivisions; Minor Subdivisions; Major
Subdivisions; Design Standards; Construction and Improvement
Requirements; Adequate Public Facilities; Financial
Responsibility; Permits and Fees; Constitutional Taking
Issues; Site Plan to Comply; Street Extension -
Reimbursement; Construction of Temporary Turn-arounds; Cut
and Fill Standards; Legal Remedies; Severability; Emergency
and Adoption.
Standards are also set for Infrastructure Protection
Bonds. Subtitles under this heading are: Applicability of
Ordinance; Type and Amount of Guarantee; Final Disposition
and Release; Partial Release Not Permitted; Duration of
Guarantee; Default.
"Cul de sac turns should be large enough to allow
garbage trucks and snow plows to maneuver the turn," said
Rory Nielson, council member.
"We also want the infrastructure to be 100 percent
complete before any building permits are issued in any
subdivision," said Squire.
Alpine also requires improvements be constructed at
the expense of the subdivider, in accordance with the
subdivision regulations of their ordinance.
Those improvements include road grading and
surfacing; curbs, gutters and sidewalks; facilities for
water supplies, waste water management, and storm water
control, irrigation facilities; street signs, street
lighting, and street planting; monuments; segments of
proposed arterial or collector streets; trails and trail
signs; revegetation, erosion control; open Space and parks;
pressure Irrigation lines; and any other improvements
required.
Alpine requires installation of curb and gutter in new
subdivisions, said Nielson. Mona does not. They are going to
require a "ribbon" of concrete at the edge of the properties
and that gravel be placed between all properties and the
edges of streets.
"So we will need to change that," he said.
One thing the council did like was the requirement for
120 percent bond for those seeking to do subdivisions.
"I like that," said Nielson.
One other wording which will stay is that all costs of
providing land for streets, pedestrian-ways, easements, and
other rights-of-way and for the improvements needed to serve
new developments are borne by the
subdividers/developers.
One helpful item included in the Alpine ordinance is
that site improvement or grading of a proposed subdivision
site prior to Final Plat approval by the Planning Commission
is prohibited.
"The water lines need to be renewed by an engineer
before they can be approved," said Squire.
Squire said the ordinance proposal will also be
reviewed by the planning commission at their next
meeting.
There is also a public notice requirement of 14-days
before the ordinance can be reviewed at a public hearing.
The public hearing must be held before final adoption of the
ordinance.
Once those requirements are met, the ordinance can be
adopted. After adoption, the moratorium on subdivisions can
be lifted.
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