Garden City Engineer's Report

Anita Weston, reporter

Rich Civic Times

GARDEN CITY, Utah.  September 8, 2016.  Zan Murray, the City Engineer, reported on the progress being made on Elk’s Ridge.  The agreement is moving forward.  One individual owner lives in North Carolina.  This individual’s signature is needed and will take a bit of time to obtain.  Most of the others involved have already signed.  Dale Brower has been most helpful in moving this agreement forward.  It is hoped that all signatures will be in place within the next couple of weeks.

Water rights will be on the final plat.  Hickman Title Company has started work on getting the documents ready.  USDA funding won’t be available until around December of this year.  Hopefully, all of the documents will be ready by then so that the City can apply for a grant to assist in getting this subdivision underway.  Most of the required reports will be written between now and December.  

Swan Creek Village had called a water meeting   Garden City will be meeting with this subdivision to discuss water rights. 

The City needs to get the water project completed next summer along 300 West.  Currently, the road on 300 West is on the schedule to be paved the following spring.  The City needs to work through the standards and specifications and submit the information to the state and the engineers.  Then, the City can do the work and inform the state when it is completed.

Water’s Edge has water rights.  They need to convert the rights into shares and/or acre feet.  Phase 1 and 5 were discussed at Planning and Zoning last night.  The P&Z members requested that Water’s Edge workers review Zan’s list of items and take care of them before permission could be given for Water’s Edge to move forward.

One of the items that may be difficult for Water’s Edge to overcome will be the traffic study.  The entrance at 50 South might have to become a one-way street since it is so close to the Logan/Bear Lake Blvd. intersection.  Traffic often backs up there.  The other intersections at 150 South, 250 South, and North of Logan Road are also problem areas.

There is a brick pillar on the south end of Legacy Resort.  This pillar will need to be removed.  There is some grant money that can be used to do that.  The wet lands on the north of the walkway might need a bridge span of 100 feet or so.  That would cost up to $115,000.  If the span can be smaller, (70 feet), it would only cost about $90,000.  Danny White suggested that perhaps a board walk could be permitted.

It was suggested that trail rock be used on the shoulders of the bike path.