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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Preliminary Plat Change and Bike Trail

Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH, Utah.  February 6, 2013.  Mitch Poulsen, Bear Lake Regional Commission, suggested that the County commission change the procedure of approving preliminary plats.  Commissioner Bill Cox said that a rezone hearing needs a preliminary plat drawn up to let the people impacted in the neighborhood know what they are getting in the rezone.  Poulsen recommended that the commission could have the rezone and preliminary plat hearing at the same time to save developers time.   Currently, developers come in with a preliminary plat, then come in for rezone.   The commissioners voted to make the change.
 

Poulsen also suggested that he could get a 50/50 match for $200,000 to continue the bike path north.  The commissioners said that it was really too little funding to do anything significant.  But they felt that something does need to be something to address the needs of all of the tri athlete races  using the road and bike path.  The commissioners suggested that the stretch between Gus Rich point and Rendezvous beach would be really necessary but that the hillside on the west side of the road was difficult to put a path through.  Poulsen said that one  possibility would be to use the existing Sweetwater Trailer Park roads. 
 

Commissioner Norm  Weston said the commission should explore the options for the route of the bike trail and other options and look for more funding sources.

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