Garden City Engineer Report On Elk's Ridge

Anita Weston, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

GARDEN CITY, Utah.  June 9, 2016.  Zan Murray, Garden City Engineer, noted that he had just received the anticipated  MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) on the water tank from Elk’s Ridge on his telephone.  He noted that the MOU looks good.  It will need to be put into a good format.  The main problem areas are covered in the MOU.

Garden City will be given the land where the water tank was placed.  The others involved in this transaction are TRC Construction, a few Elk’s Ridge land owners, Raspberry Patch Home Owners Association and Foothill Estates will need to be added.

The City will install water for Raspberry Patch and Foothill Estates that will boost their water pressure.  Because of some of the items left incomplete by the previous owner, Frank Smith; Elk’s Ridge Phase 1 will be approved, Phase 2 has some problems that will be resolved shortly, and Phase 3 is on the west of the area to be handled separately.

The previous agreements that have been made will need to be clarified.    The boundary between Foothill Estates and Phase 2 on Elk’s Ridge requires a narrow strip of land to be put in place to allow the installation of pipes for water to the various lots.

A list of responsibilities for each of the parties involved in this MOU is included. The tank will be given to the City and the City will accept Elk’s Ridge subdivision.  The subdivision will have both an entry and exit as required by the City.

For future development, 220 water connections are available to Elk’s Ridge.  One hundred twenty of these connections are dedicated to Elk’s Ridge—90 for Phase one and 30 for Jeff.  The other 100 connections require that any individual using them will be required to bring water shares to the City for their water usage.  The City will collect the impact fees.

Future development of the area will be allowed to use the tank for all fire protection.

There was a  discussion of the crash gate installation including items such as who is responsible, where it will be located, and so forth.

Garden City will contribute $10,000 to help with the roads on Elk’s Ridge.

The responsibilities of other parties require a dedication of the land where the tank is located.

The City Council Members approved the MOU with the changes that Zan feels need to be added and/or changed.

There really is motivation to approve this agreement since there are financial benefits to everybody.  There are really eight to ten different groups that are involved with this MOU.  Some groups will need to make some payments on the water tank.