By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
A 300-cow dairy is planning to operate in Juab County
just south of Levan.
Kent Bateman, one of the partners in the venture,
attended Juab County Commission to answer questions and
obtain preliminary approval for the project.
"We hope to have 800 head in three to five years," said
Bateman. The enterprise will be known as Bateman Dairy and
will be located on property once belonging to Golden
Mangelson.
"We also bought a small, 140-acre piece, adjacent to the
Mangelson property we purchased," said Bateman. "We would
also like to obtain a triangle piece about 50-feet by
150-feet at the widest point and tapering to nothing at the
narrowest point which the county owns."
The narrow piece was part of a road cut but has no
current value to the county.
The approximately 600-acre farm will also be home for the
dairy manager and two other employees, said Bateman. "We
plan to build three home there."
A 60-foot right-of-way for a dedicated roadway should
also be left according to the language of the county master
plan. The roadway would follow the property line linking the
road with the highway.
Commissioner Robert Steele questioned the need for a
public road along the property line. "Isn't there some
provision for a private road?" he asked. "I think I would be
reluctant to accept a dead-end road on behalf of the county.
I would rather see the road stay private."
That way Bateman Dairy Farm operators would be
responsible not only to construct the road, as would be a
subdivision, but would be responsible for maintaining the
road and for providing snow removal in the winter.
"Has the plan been reviewed by the planning commission?"
asked Wm. Boyd Howarth, commission chair.
"It has been discussed," said Glenn Greenhalgh,
representing the county economic development board and,
also, the county planning commission. He said the master
plan had included the 60-foot right-of way requirement in
anticipation of future needs of the county.
"We are being squeezed in some areas," said Greenhalgh.
"In case there were ever more development of properties in
the area, a 60-foot right-of-way should be planned."
In addition, it would be nice if the road would include a
loop to attach with other county roads.
There was no way the Bateman Dairy Farm could take the
road through adjoining property, said Bateman. "We only own
the property part way in and so we couldn't make a loop. I
don't even know who owns the other part of the
property."
However, said Bateman, plans were to construct a road
which could, in the future, become a useful county road if
it is ever needed.
"We've anticipated a 60-foot road right-of-way and a
50-foot setback. I anticipate that the road surface will be
gravel and, at some future date, the road may be deeded over
to the county."
"We are just here to talk today," said Greenhalgh. "We
don't have any paperwork with us. If you would like, we will
have the Batemans prepare a deed. They will need to work
through someplace like Juab Title."
When the necessary documents are ready, then Batemans can
take their paperwork back to the commission.
"How do you and others, such as the assessor and the
recorder, and the planning commission members feel about
this proposal?" Howarth asked Greenhalgh.
"I think we all have the same opinion that we would
rather have the property on the tax rolls," said
Greenhalgh.
"Yes, I agree that it is to the best advantage of the
county taxpayers to have the property on the county tax
rolls," said Shirl Nichols, county assessor.
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