Regular Meeting

Wednesday, June 8, 2011, 6:00 pm.

City Council Chambers, 111 South Main Street

LaVerkin, Utah 84745

Present: Chair Anna Andregg; Commissioners:   Allen Bice, Richard Hirschi, Michael Hinckley; Staff:  Kevin Bennett, Derek Imlay, Troylinn Benson; Public:  Justin Bice

I.              Call To Order: Chair Anna Andregg opened the meeting at 6:00 pm.  Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance was given by Michael Hinckley.

II.           Approval of Minutes:

III.         Approval of Agenda

IV.        Reports:

A. Beautification Committee - nothing to report from the last meeting

B. Economic Development Committee - no one to report

C. Trails Committee - no one to report

1.      Filter Project - The wall and the wrought iron fence is done.  The fence is moved up and still need to grade the road.  The Amniod Filter representative came and trained.  It will take an hour to change the filters.  No changes to the roof or crane system.

2.      Road Project - The asphalt will be finished in the cemetery on Monday.  It gives an extension of 7 years on that road.  January 2012 will start phase 3 on 100 East to State Street and Main Street, 200 N to 300 South.  Phase 4 will be the little roads that are not in failure.  Getting the road repair scheduled out.

3.      Commissioner Bice questioned Derek concerning new builds in old subdivisions.  There is a new home going in Zion View and Color Country will be putting more into Riverwood Phase 2.

4.      The spec homes in Riverwood are all Color Country.  The Riverwood sign has some missing letters.  He will talk to the homeowners.  Derek will look at it.

5.      The old feed store has a for lease sign. Olsen no longer owns it or Shady Ridge mobile home park.  John will check out Shady Ridge as there are weeds in that trailer park.  John will also talk to the new owner about the feed store.

6.      Commissioner Hinckley discussed the weed control in Zion View and other lots in town.  Derek informed the Commission that many homeowners and lot owners were sent letters to notify them of the weed problem.  Wadman Homes will be taking care of the weeds in Zion View.  Hinckley's neighbors were thankful that the city is taking care of the problem.

V.           Business:

Kevin Bennett explained the Public Facilities Zone (PFZ) prohibits an animal shelter unless it is expressly permitted.  The City will be taking over animal control in July and the shelter could be problematic.  The Hurricane Animal Control decided that we use them all or nothing.  We need an amendment of the PF Zone to allow shelter facilities.

Kevin explained collection of deceased animals in the proposed zone amendment.  He also explained temporary shelters.

He would propose to schedule another Planning Commission meeting on the 4^th Wednesday of June for a public hearing before July's City Council meeting.

There was a discussion concerning La Verkin's plan for their animal shelter.  The City is terminating the Animal Control contract with Hurricane as of July 1^st.   The police department is currently taking applications for an animal control officer until June 17^th.  The funding will come from what the city is paying Hurricane now.

There was a discussion of where the temporary and permanent shelter may go.  Derek explained the type of cages will be made for the animals.

La Verkin City code does not provide a definition of a kennel.  This will fix the kennel code to be more than 3 animals and identify residential versus commercial kennels.  This will make the code more consistent.

Commissioner Andregg explained that in the proposed hillside ordinance the yellow highlighted portions are for them to look at and the green highlighted areas are for Kevin Bennett to review.

Commissioner Bice expressed what he would like to see changed; to define "noncontiguous" and to change "the city" to "the City Engineer" on page 23 #3.

Kevin Bennett will be working on the bond and easement criteria.  Derek will remind Kevin to work on that (page 19-G).  He explained to the Commissioners that the bond will be able to use the bond & easements to make any repairs and finish infrastructure.

Commissioner Andregg recommends taking out 10-6I-4 and 10-6I-5.

These changes will be available for the July meeting.  Derek will bring a map which will show the areas to be designated Hillside.

There was a discussion about landscaping and keeping it natural.

VI.        Commissioner Concerns

Next meeting will be June 22, 2011 for the animal shelter.

VII.      Adjourn:

Minutes taken on behalf of the City Recorder by Katie Wilson