Anita
Weston, Reporter
Rich
Civic Times
GARDEN
CITY, Utah. August 9, 2018, Mike
Leonhardt, Garden City Mayor, reported that he had spent the day with UDOT
employees. He said Garden City had asked
for three cross walks. UDOT said the
City could have two—One across Logan Road to the Post Office, the other by
LaBeau’s Drive-in. He asked that the
speed limit in Garden City limits be lowered.
UDOT said they would consider this request.
He
reported that there will be a traffic light placed at the four-way intersection
of Logan Road and Bear Lake Blvd. There
will also be flashing signs to let cars know when people are in crosswalks at
this location.
It
was noted that it would be nice to have another crosswalk at 50 South crossing
Bear Lake Blvd. at Cody’s. That will be
something to hope for in the future.
There is also a possibility that there could be another traffic light at
the intersection of Logan Road and Third West.
The
priorities in using the $8.3 million given to Garden City to assist with
problem areas are as follows: Most of
the money will be spent on a new entrance to the Marina. The second item will be the light at the
Logan/Bear Lake Blvd. intersection. The
third item will be a turning lane to Third West by the KOA.
Mayor
Leonhardt then said that Heritage Park will be given a lot of attention in the
next 45 days. Hopefully the sprinklers
will be installed, and sod laid down.
The pickleball courts should be complete this fall. The City’s boardwalk fence located just south
of Legacy needs to be completed. The
City is planning Third West going south and tying into Hodges Canyon Road. There will need to be a good culvert over the
Canal at Hodges Canyon Road.
Third
West is done, and the striping will be done on this coming Monday. There needs to be more parking available at
Heritage Park, so all the children’s play equipment will be moved deeper into
the park and away from Third West. The
field owned by the City a bit North of Heritage Park will be used for extra
parking. The Legislature will be doing
an impact study on the marina and have set aside $1 million to complete this
study.
Council
member Howard Pope noted that Mitch Poulsen, Bear Lake Regional Commission, and
he will be working on the trails this fall.
Work needs to be done on this project.
Pope also noted that he felt Raspberry Days was very successful.
Darrin
Pugmire said he would like to see a survey done in Garden City asking all the
businesses what their experiences were during Raspberry Days.
Darrin
noted that road issues have been small.
A building permit has been requested to build a home below Lana Hodges home. Access to that lot is going to be difficult
because of the power line that has just been installed, so the City can’t sign
off on that request.
Darrin
asked that the City call a meeting to talk with the Cheramoya HOA. These people need to know what the plans are
for the subdivisions that will be built to the west of them. They are concerned about the ingress/egress
for these new subdivisions. The 300 West
road must not stop at Cheramoya but must tie into Hodges Lane.
Council
member Ken Hansen noted that he had met with Norm Mecham about getting water to
the proposed subdivisions adjacent to Hodges Canyon Road. They have looked over the area. There is a lot of sage brush. There is a deep ravine in one place, but if
it is filled in a bit, the water line could be taken across a little
above. There will need to be more roads
made into that area as these projects begin.
Putting in a line will serve that area better and cut down on the amount
of pressure needed at Paradise Road and Cheramoya. The suggested area will avoid a lot of
rock. The City has good equipment to
open that area up. It will also make the
survey easier and give contractors better access to that area.
Currently
there is a problem with water that goes into Idaho near the Utah/Idaho
border. The water line normally has a
100 PSI pressure. The pressure, however,
fluctuates in one small area from 115 PSI down to 40-50 PSI. Hansen asked that this area be checked.
Two
beavers were removed from the area between Snowmeadows and Dorothy Stringham’s
home. They were making a dam along the
small drainage ditch there that moves excess water into the lake.
Pat
Argyle reported that Raspberry Days is over for this year. Next year will be the 35th year for
this celebration. She would like to make some changes for next year and make
things a bit different. She would like
the booths to go back to hand-made items so that it would really be a craft
show. She would like to have quite a few
activities where people could sign up and compete—shooting guns, arrows, a
dunking pool, a fish catching game, and so forth.
She
asked that they City get a trencher or a digger to put in the sprinkling system
at Heritage Park. There are a lot of
things where the City could use this type of equipment in the future and would
probably save money in the long-run.
Attacks on the press, refusing to allow reporters who bring out unpopular (to the politicians) facts, to attend meetings and calling all reporters "enemies of the people" is one of the first tactics of governments who want to subvert our constitutional rights.
