- Mona City adopts land use ordinance
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By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
No one made public comment at the public hearing called at the beginning of the regularly scheduled council meeting.
The purpose for the hearing was to allow the city council to adopt the Mona City Land Use Ordinance. The public hearing was held at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
There were a few people in the audience at the council meeting but none of them there wanted to speak about the topic.
"We basically had to have a hearing because, by law, if a city makes changes to ordinances, they have to, by law, hold a public hearing," said Greg Newton, mayor.
All interested persons at the meeting were given an opportunity to be heard.
"We are going through all our city ordinances," said Ingram. "We are getting them ready for them to be sent to Sterling Codifiers and the land use ordinances happened to be the end one."
The city council has been reviewing the city codes for several months and have gone through each group of ordinances to make certain they were in order.
Lyla Spencer, city recorder, will now send the completed ordinances to the codifiers.
The company will give the city ordinances a content review of legislation for provision that are conflicting, duplicated, inconsistent, obsolete or contain vague language.
They will also check statute references for current regulations and will publish the codes and supplements of the city in a uniform and professional manner.
They will provide hard copy services, said Spencer. Copies can go to individual council members, and they may also go to individual city departments.
Online Code Hosting is also part of the package. A full code search is available and the results are synchronized to the table of contents.
Simultaneous updates are performed and the code will be updated by the time the city receives the hard copy of their supplement.
"We have been working to bring our ordinances up-to-date," said Newton. "We went from a town to a city."
The ordinances needed to be brought into that new mode so they would reflect the requirements of a city rather than a small town.
When Newton called for comment, no one spoke. Newton gave the audience three chances to speak and then called for that part of the hearing to be concluded.
"This is a silent group," said Newton.
The council then determined to adopt the land use ordinance by unanimous vote.
The notice concerning the public hearing was posted at the Mona City Office, United States Post Office Mona Branch, and Gaydene's Sweet Art, and was published on the Utah State Website and in the Nephi Times News. |
