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Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place To Live! Volume 116, No. 15 April 11, 2018 Single Copy Price $ 1 00 96 South Main Phone Office Hours Our Website Nephi, UT 84648 (435) 623-0525 M-F- 9:30 to Noon nephitimesnews.com Deadlines: Monday 12 noon 1:00 to 5 p.m. Chapel View Subdivision gets approval to move ahead; largest in the city to date By Myrna Trauntvein Times-News Correspondent A 70-home subdivision to be built in northeast Nephi will be one of the largest in the city to date. It will fill in the property north and west of the Nephi North LDS Stake Center and east of Shopko. The property is now an empty field. The homes will be built on one-fourth and one-third acre lots. “Pat Painter has been our contact for that development,” said Seth Atkinson, city ad- ministrator. “They named it Chapel View to give it a nice neighborhood name.” He said that there was noth- ing in the city code to forbid construction but the recom- mendation was that the devel- opers obtain a written letter from Shopko that corporate officers do not object to the de- sign of the road into the busi- ness. Because of the nature of the retail store, large delivery trucks need access. There was also a boundary that needed to be cleaned up. “There was another concern at the recorder’s office,” said Atkinson. “The property de- scription was off and there’s a little gap.” The council approved the development with the two re- quests—a letter from Shopko and the boundary adjusted— but with Kent Jones voting in the negative. Nathan Memmott, coun- cil member, said he had some concerns about the way those delivery trucks would have to back into the driveway to un- load at Shopko from 100 East. There will be a 40-foot en- trance to 100 East, said Atkin- son. “Presently, they come into the parking lot of Shopko to make deliveries,” said Kyle Marchant, Nephi City Public Works Director. He said that truckers don’t use the roadway from the side. Drivers would have to angle in a bit to use that approach. The city cannot require that the letter be provided, said At- kinson, but the city can recom- mend that the developers ob- tain a signed, written letter. As for 1250 North, the street is a bit narrow and will need to be widened. The developers are respon- sible for all the roads in their subdivision,” said Atkinson. “Both the Chapel View subdi- vision and the Red Cliffs sub- division were required to build the roads that are within their respective boundaries.” Atkinson said that there was a small section of 200 East that would connect where the Chapel View subdivision ends and where 200 East is current- ly built. “If we had been able to re- quire them to do a traffic study, it most likely would have shown that they needed that connection to serve so many Nephi City accepts idea of forming recreation task force to tackle goals and priorities for future recreation facilities By Myrna Trauntvein Times-News Correspondent By Tuesday, April 17, Ne- phi City Council members will have set some goals and priori- ties for developing recreation facilities on property in south Nephi and will be steps closer to appointing a task force. A task force will be put to- gether to help the council de- termine the best way to pro- ceed, but that will come after the council sets some goals and parameters for the task force. At council meeting on Tues- day, the council decided to ac- cept the idea of a task force but not adopt any persons to it un- til they had set goals and de- fined parameters and until the mayor could talk to the county commission. “The city owns around 60 acres on the south side of the city,” said Seth Atkinson, city administrator. “The electric utility purchased the land for city and utility purposes.” In the work session meeting on March 27, one of the council priorities set was to dedicate that land for a future recre- ation facility. “There were no votes taken (at the work session),” said Atkinson. “They simply identi- fied priorities for the upcoming fiscal year. Nothing that was said is binding, they just gave some direction to staff.” He said that work sessions are public meetings and that some members of the public attended that particular work session. “Once any kind of formal ac- tion related to the recreation center is proposed, that will be done in a regular meeting (e.g. approving a loan, approving contract services, approving a master plan, etc.),” he said. The formation of a task force would create a group to advise the council on what kind of fa- cility to construct. Nephi City’s Recreation Ad- visory Board has not been ac- tive for some time, said Atkin- son, and staff was suggesting that rather than reform that group the city council should, instead, form an advisory task force. “There is no one on the advi- sory board,” said Atkinson. “It is defunct.” He said that many volunteer boards are tough to maintain and, therefore, it is typically better to create a task force that focuses on certain issues. “Once those issues are re- solved, the task force can then be released without the need for ongoing meetings,” he said. Advisory boards can become so focused on personal prefer- ences that they can lose sight of the council’s goals. Atkinson said the city staff was recommending the forma- tion of a recreation task force instead of the advisory board. There also could be more than five members on a task force and the larger number may prove beneficial. However, though they ap- proved the idea of a task force rather than an advisory board, council members decided that there need to be some things decided before any type of group is appointed. “We need to be clear on what we expect and what our goals are,” said Nathan Memmott, council member, “and what the outcomes are.” He said that, for example, the city or the county can put a request for a PAR (Parks, Arts, Recreation) tax on the ballot. However, both entities cannot do so—it is one or the other. He said that needed to be discussed with the commission although a task force might help with that. For a city to put the initia- tive on the ballot, the county must first establish its intent not to impose the tax county- wide so that citizens are not taxed twice for the same thing. Glade Nielson, mayor, said that he would be out of town on business but could make a few phone calls before the next meeting and could find out what the county commis- sion might think about accept- ing the responsibility of a PAR tax or whether commissioners thought they should leave that to the cities. “I could take the tempera- ture and the pulse of the com- mission,” said Nielson. It would be a good idea, said Kasey Wright, city council at- torney, to have an elected of- ficial talk to the other elected officials. That would be better than having a task force do that. “We could agree to create a task force,” said Skip Wor- wood, council member, “and we could then work on setting our goals.” Worwood said that Atkinson and John Bradley, Nephi Rec- reation Director, had put to- gether a list of items that could See Subdivision on page 2 See Recreation on page 2 JUNIOR PROM ROYALTY • The JHS Class of 2019 will be holding their Junior Prom this Saturday, April 14, in the JHS gymnasium. The floor show, “All About Us”, will start at 8:00 pm. Cost is $7.00 single, $10.00 couple, $20.00 immediate family. The royalty for the prom is, front left, King Austin Johnson, Queen Addison Seely; 1st court, Aiton McFarland and Rose Oveson. Back left, 2nd court, Samuel Jones and Megan Wright; 3rd court, Brigham Perry and Demi Jackson. NEW SUBDIVISION COMING TO NEPHI • Chapel View Estates, a 70 home subdivision, located on land East of Painter Motor and Shopko has been greenlighted by Nephi City. The area is now an empty field. The layout for the homes is shown in the insert above.
