Richmond
P&Z will send annexation to City Council
By Kate Richards
December 10, 2004 | RICHMOND -- The
Planning and Zoning Commission approved sending a proposed
annexation ordinance to the City Council at the Tuesday
night meeting.
The Utah Legislature asked all cities to have an annexation
plan by Dec. 31, 2001, but there was no penalty for
not complying, City Manager Marlowe Adkins said. Adkins
presented an annexation plan for the commission's review
and said the city will not actively pursue annexation,
it would have to be proposed by developers in the future.
He said Utah Code calls for the projection of the cost
of putting in an infrastructure for the next 20 years,
but that would be nothing more than a guess.
"The crystal ball just doesn't work," Adkins said.
The city manager said Lewiston had its first public
hearing on an annexation plan and that city's plan overlaps
Richmond's. Adkins said that wasn't a problem since
neither city is trying to annex right now. He said any
problems could be worked out in the future.
Commission member Rod Anderson asked if the city's
watershed would be protected in the event of annexation.
Adkins said the plan guarantees not to interfere with
any community's water source or infrastructure. Some
of Richmond's water sources are outside the city's boundaries,
he said, but are protected by the Source Protection
Act.
With the commission's approval, the plan will next
be presented to the City Council for review, then the
city's lawyer, and finally will be reviewed in a public
hearing.
In other business, the commission unanimously approved
putting an item on the February council agenda regarding
rezoning. Robert Borg owns one acre on the west side
of US 91 and wants it to be zoned as a highway commercial
area. Borg said he doesn't have a use in mind for the
land right now, but thought it would be a good idea
in case someone in the future had a use for it.
"It might help to speed things up," he said.
Adkins said the land in question is part of the city's
general plan to be a highway commercial zone in the
future.
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