Hooper City Council Meeting Minutes

Hooper City Council Meeting Minutes May 4, 2017 Present: Mayor Korry Green Councilman Scott Scoffield, District 1& 2 Councilman Brad Ostler, District 4 & 5 Councilwoman Lori Brinkerhoff, District 3 & 6 Councilman-at-Large Ryan Hill and Kyle Cooke Attorney Brandon Richards, City Engineer Tracy Allen, Lt Matt Jensen WORK MEETING The agenda was reviewed. COUNCIL MEETING 1. Mayor Green opened the meeting at 7:00 p.m. 2. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Jason Horspool and prayer was given by Councilwoman Brinkerhoff. APPROVAL OF MINUTES The minutes from the previous council meeting were reviewed by the Council. Councilman Scoffield had corrections. Motion: Councilwoman Brinkerhoff made a motion to approve the April 6, 2017 Council meeting minutes with corrections. Seconded: Councilman Cooke seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously passed by Council Members Cooke, Ostler, Hill, Brinkerhoff and Scoffield. CITY BUSINESS 1. The Hooper City expenditures for March and April were reviewed by the Council. Motion: Councilwoman Brinkerhoff made a motion to ratify the Hooper City expenditures for March and April. Seconded: Councilman Scoffield seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously passed by Council Members Cooke, Ostler, Hill, Brinkerhoff and Scoffield. 2. The release of easement for Jason Horspool at 4475 West 5700 South were reviewed by the Council. It is for the east and south easement on the property. Mr. Horspool would like to build a structure on the easement. The utility companies have sent letters stating they will allow the easement release. Motion: Councilman Hill made a motion to instruct Legal Counsel to draft an ordinance to allow the release of the easements on the south and east side of the property at 4475 West 5700 South. Seconded: Councilman Ostler seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously passed by Council Members Cooke, Ostler, Hill, Brinkerhoff and Scoffield. 3. Teresa Chugg from McEwen and Company presented the tentative budget to the Council. She said it will be a balanced budget. Councilman Scoffield said the Weber Animal Control item needed to be changed to show a full director’s salary for the year. Tracy Allen said the numbers he gave during the budget review for the 4700 West project will probably be less. He didn’t know how much less it will be at this time. Motion: Councilman Scoffield made a motion to adopt the 2017-2018 tentative budget. Seconded: Councilwoman Brinkerhoff seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously passed by Council Members Cooke, Ostler, Hill, Brinkerhoff and Scoffield. 4. Motion: Councilman Scoffield made a motion to set the public hearing for the approval of the 2017-2018 budget on June 1, 2017. Seconded: Councilman Hill seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously passed by Council Members Cooke, Ostler, Hill, Brinkerhoff and Scoffield. 5. Mayor Green presented the contract with Black and McDonald to take care of the city streetlights. In the past the City had an employee that was licensed to take care of the electrical for the streetlights but he has since retired. The Black and McDonald Company is highly recommended. They also do this service for Rocky Mountain Electric Company. They will take care of the lights for $4.00 each which is less money than the city workers can do it for. Councilman Hill asked if the contract covers installing streetlights? Mayor Green said they do have a fee schedule for construction and installation. Motion: Councilwoman Brinkerhoff made a motion to approve the agreement with Black and McDonald for maintaining and installation Hooper City’s streetlights. Seconded: Councilman Cooke seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously passed by Council Members Cooke, Ostler, Hill, Brinkerhoff and Scoffield. 6. Motion: Councilman Hill made a motion to move the rezone for the Soderby property to the end of the meeting so they can hear the comments about modifying the General Plan. Seconded: Councilwoman Brinkerhoff seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously passed by Council Members Cooke, Ostler, Hill, Brinkerhoff and Scoffield. 7. Tracy Allen presented the preliminary approval of the Skyview Estates Subdivision at 3800 South 5600 West for 37 lots. The zoning is for half acres which is R2. There will be egress on 5500 West and 3800 South. There will be a stub street for the property to the north. The Planning Commission recommended to the Council to approve this development. All of the will serve letters have been submitted. For final, approval letters from the utilities and Weber Fire District will have to be submitted. There is an access road for irrigation for the neighboring properties that will have to be maintained and letters from the users of the access road will have to be submitted and approved to the city. Dean Murray, the new owner of the Belnap property to the northwest, was concerned about not having an access his property off of 3800 South. Mr. Murray will have to work with Woodside Homes, the developer for Skyview Estates, if he wants an access. The developers have eliminated the access onto 4000 South because they have the two accesses they need and there is a safety issue entering onto the State highway. Councilman Hill asked if 5500 West is going to be improved to handle the added traffic. Tracy Allen said there hasn’t been a discussion with this developer about road improvements for 5500 West. Councilwoman Brinkerhoff said the discussion about the 5500 West road improvement should be noted. Open for public hearing. No comment. Close public comment. Motion: Councilman Scoffield made a motion to give preliminary approval to the Skyview Estates Subdivision as presented with the mediation of the ditch and land use fence taken care of. Seconded: Councilman Ostler seconded the motion. The motion was passed unanimously by Council Members Brinkerhoff, Cooke, Hill, Ostler and Scoffield. 8. Tracy Allen explained the request to modify the general plan to allow moderate density for a portion of the Roger Rawson property now owned by True Blue LLC at approximately at 3200 West 5100 South. It was stated the developer would have to put in a lift station to accommodate their development and it would be easier to pay for it with the extra lots. There was discussion if and when the general plan can be opened. Attorney Richards said you can open the general plan when the Council feels the need to open it. If you open the general plan just for one request, you need to have a very specific reason why you are opening the general plan for that one parcel. The Planning Commission voted 3 to 2 to recommend to the Council to look at opening the general plan for this request. Councilwoman Brinkerhoff stated she would be in favor of the land use designation for this request. Open for public comment. No comment. Close public comment. Motion: Councilwoman Brinkerhoff made a motion to instruct the Planning Commission to consider revising the general plan from low density to medium density for the property at 3200 South 5100 West. Seconded: Councilman Cooke seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously passed by Council Members Cooke, Ostler, Hill, Brinkerhoff and Scoffield. 9. Tracy Allen presented the rezone for the Soderby property at approximately 5500 South 5500 West, just east of the Sinclair Station. The request is to rezone approximate 17 acres from R1 to R3. There is a section of property to the south which is about 9 acres to be reserved for future commercial property. The property north of the Muskrat ditch is currently R2 and was rezoned in 2014. At that time the 17 acres south of the Muskrat ditch was denied the rezone request for R3. In 2016 the Council denied the request to rezone the property south of the Muskrat ditch which included the commercial area on the previous request to R3. The current request has the commercial area, which is along 5500 South, back on the plat for future consideration for commercial. Councilman Hill wanted to clarify about the general plan map approval in 2014. He stated there were some miss statements to the Council from the Commissioner that represented the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission denied the R3 zoning at that time. Open for public comment. Dave Rosenkrance asked the Council to deny this request because of the miss information and the “Planning Commission approval was arbitrary and capricious”. He said he pointed out there need to be more information on the effects of transportation. Sandy Meyer asked what is this going to do to the traffic along 5500 South. The traffic is already bad and wants it to be denied. Scott Nye stated the residents do not want smaller lots. He wants it to stay rural. What about the capacity for the sewer system. What about the increase in funds for the Sheriff Department. If there is more density there will be more crime. The general plan map is a guideline and the Council doesn’t need to go along with the plan. Jim Burt is the developer of the property. The reason there are taxes and impact fees on homes is to pay for infrastructure. The economical path for development is you put high density next to commercial. He said he met with Wal-Mart and they said no because there isn’t enough homes to support the business. The difference between R 2 and R3 is seven homes. Duane Johnson said he has owned this property for quite a while. The city would be getting taxes from six more homes. Shauna Lyon said she has a concern about adding more homes where there is an industrial area. It could make the industrial area go away which is a needed revenue for the City. Close public comment. Councilwoman Brinkerhoff asked Tracy Allen how many extra lots the R3 zone would be. Tracy said he thought about 10 or 11 if you just figure out by the amount of land. Jim Burt stated there would only be about 6 to 7 homes because there isn’t enough frontage for more lots. Councilman Scoffield said even if the Planning Commission was miss represented the Planning Commission can only recommend. Everyone wants to stay rural. Hooper City isn’t going to be rural. Councilwoman Brinkerhoff stated there needs to be consideration on the impact on roads, schools and the demand on waste water sheds. Councilman Ostler said he didn’t think seven lots would have a lot of effect on the infrastructure. Mayor Green said the City is losing the commercial areas. To reserve the commercial areas is a bonus. Motion: Councilman Scoffield made a motion to approve the rezone request for the Soderby property to R3. Seconded: Councilman Ostler seconded the motion. The motion was passed with three yes votes by Council Members Cooke, Ostler, and Scoffield and two no votes from Council Members Hill and Brinkerhoff. CITIZENS COMMENTS Councilman Scoffield made a motion to adjourn. Councilman Ostler seconded the motion. The meeting was adjourned at 8:25 p.m.