Blu Line Development

Blu Line recently presented new conceptual plans to the Planning Commission for an assisted living or congregate care facility. Here are the drawings from the night.

This first picture shows the exterior (and I apologize it's sideways - I cannot figure out how to rotate it in Blogger). The entire facility is three stories. The windows that appear to be a fourth story are decorative dormers and not living space. The height of the building to the ceiling of the third floor is 33 feet. I didn't get an exact height for the building to the top of the roof, but was told it was just under 50 feet.

This next drawing shows the setbacks from 4600, Cedar Hills Drive, and the homes to the south. The top of this picture is the north end of the building, which is the part facing Cedar Hills Drive. You can see the shape of this new concept plan is different from past presentations. I made a few notes on this drawing. You'll see a rectangle in the northeast corner, which is a separate building and there was talk of this possibly being office space, like the offices across from it. On the northwest corner is another building that would be commercial in nature, but there are no specifics on what kind of commercial would go here.

I rotated this picture to show the perspective from Cedar Hills Drive. It also provides a good view of what the landscaping would look like.

This last picture shows entrances and access areas. It also says "monuments" but I have no idea what is meant by that. On the east side of the building there are now two exits onto 4600, as requested by the fire department, as the entrance from Cedar Hills Drive will only be available to those heading east, but the fire trucks/paramedics would be coming from the east. There are four elevator areas in the building; two in front and two in back. The smaller dots on the building show access areas into the building.

Blu Line originally came back with this as an assisted living center as that is listed as an permitted use in our design guidelines. However, after talking to the Planning Commission and the site plan review committee, they are asking whether an assisted living center or congregate care facility (55+ housing) is preferred. The direction from the Planning Commission was that the congregate care facility was preferred as it was felt those residents would provide more of a benefit to the community with regards to volunteerism and tax dollars.

The total number of units is somewhere between 250-300 (they didn't have an exact number that night) and approximately 340 parking stalls.

I believe that Blu Line plans to present these conceptual plans to the City Council in December. I encourage residents to stay involved and give feedback, especially with regards to the assisted living versus congregate care.

November 5, 2014 Meeting

Work Session

Discussion of voting by mail was started by County Recorder Colleen Mulvey. Some cities are doing all voting by mail. It is saving cities money and increasing turnout from 14% to 35%. Colleen is interested because it’s very difficult to find poll workers at each election. We would send a ballot to every registered voter in the city. It can still be securely controlled. Ballots are mailed out with enough time to handle mail returns. Provisional ballots at city office would still be available. Talked to Lt Governor’s office and they would be willing to come talk with us and answer any questions. Even with the printing and mailing of those ballots, Colleen feels we would save money with not hiring as many poll workers and not needing duplicate supplies for both current voting locations. If approved, there would need to be a lot of communication with residents so they are aware this would be occurring. Colleen is also communicating with the County to see if they have any concerns or issues we should be aware of. She will also pull together some numbers on what kind of savings we could expect.

Discussion on sharing utilities with Pleasant Grove and American Fork. Presented by David Bunker. We currently have an agreement to share sewer and water services with American Fork. Sewer agreement goes back to 1985 when we connected to the AF sewer line. We pay AF an annual fee for this connection. TSSD has meters on these so they know what portion of the sewage belongs to us versus AF and can bill for that accordingly. On water, AF has had issues getting adequate pressure above the Murdock Canal. When Lone Peak was built, there was an agreement that Cedar Hills would supply water to the school though American Fork is the servicing entity. As part of this, AF and Cedar Hills agreed that we would get a connection to a portion of AF’s culinary water. We boost this into our water system. We pay for this water, but we also supply water to Lone Peak and the AF subdivision that includes Warinski funeral home, Highland Gardens, and about 9 residential homes so the amount we pay for is adjusted. We try to balance the amount of water we take from AF with how much we supply to those in their boundaries. Over time we upgraded our water system with wells and water tanks. We also supplied secondary water to AF for those same areas, so it’s been a give and take relationship.

Pleasant Grove wants to tap into our sewer line for a portion of their residents instead of adding a duplicate sewer line in the same road where we have a sewer line and there are both CH and PG residents on that street. There is no give and take with the agreement they propose like there is with AF. There were also some issues with PG when Manila Water Company dissolved, and these issues are still unresolved.

Council Meeting

Public Comments

Sherry Loosli – Would like to pave the city-owned access road that exists between her house and her neighbor. They will pay for it at their own cost if the city will allow them to use it to access the backyard of their property.

City Reports

David Bunker – TSSD is in the process of updating their final budget for 2014 and 2015. Overall budget will increase. Met with Avanyu homeowners and final improvements for drainage has been installed. This project is now complete. Jr Jazz registration is currently open. Golf is winding down and had a fantastic October. December Vista Room rentals are high, we only have four open dates for the month left. February 23^rd will be Cedar Hills night with Utah Jazz and tickets can be purchased from the city offices. Working on a Cedar Hills night with BYU basketball.

CM Rees – Issued one press release regarding the refinancing of the 2006 Utility Bonds. State of the City is complete and is being mailed this week. YCC is hosting Cedar Hillbilly Day on November 15^th at Heritage Park and needs City Council at 3:30 for chili judging. I contacted the bookmobile program again to follow up from an original conversation I had with them in 2012. They have an opening available starting January every other Tuesday from 9:30-11:30 or so. It used to be that Utah County billed each city an annual fee when they signed up for this program but no longer do so, so this would be free for our residents and at no cost to the city. I would like to proceed with scheduling this unless there are concerns.

Mayor Gygi – Cedar Hills West Stake is having a Veterans Day program that all residents are invited to.

CM Augustus – Had first meeting with General Plan Committee to update the city general plan. Process should take about 8-12 months.

CM Crawley – Parks & Trails Committee is increasing Christmas lights at roundabout this year. Have been discussing Bayhill Park. Santa night is December 8^th for the city. This is a time for kids to visit with Santa, get treats and pictures, and is no cost.

CM Geddes – PC had discussion on accessory apartments and will continue to discuss.

Consent Agenda

The mayor shall make a recommendation to the city council on appointment of new regular or alternate members to the Board of Adjustment. Currently there is a vacancy on the Board of Adjustment. Also, a pending application to meet with the Board has been received, necessitating a meeting with the board during November. Mayor Gygi has received and reviewed the application of Charelle Hagen. The Mayor wishes to appoint the Mrs. Hagen as a regular member of the Board of Adjustment. This was approved.

Minutes from the October 22, 2014 City Council meeting were approved.

Review/Action on Agreement with New Hope Bible Church

For the last month New Hope Bible Church has been renting the basement rooms from the City for their church services on Sunday mornings for 2 ½ hours each week. They love the set up and the space so as a result Pastor Chris Dodson has approached staff about paying to continue with the same setup for two years and are wanting to pay the City $12,000 upfront. In addition they want to assist the City by adding some Community Events for anyone in the City every other month in the downstairs area. The ideas they have thrown out are movie night, first aid fair, financial seminar, Young Mother classes, etc. They will take care of all the advertising once the dates are verified through Natalie two weeks prior to the events and they will happen during the weekdays. They currently have approximately 25 members who attend weekly. During the summer month’s staff does not have to be here since golf staff is here and can open the doors for them, during the winter month’s staff will need to be here to open the doors and help them during the time they will be using the rooms. This was approved.

Discussion on Community Center Concessions

Recently members of an evaluation committee met to review the concessions contract for the

Recreation Center food services (Sammy’s). The current contract calls for a 60 day notice of termination if the contract is not renewed. The committee met to discuss the contract and services provided based on customer reviews, and recommended non-renewal. The Council discussed the process to secure an alternate occupant, considering internal operations, or temporarily discontinuing the food services program. We gave 60 day notice but Sammy’s is pulling out this week so our staff will operate on a very limited scale until the golf season ends and we decide on an alternative. Council suggested we go through the process of looking for another outside vendor. Staff will work on this.

Review/Action on Ordinance Regarding Impact Fees

The City of Cedar Hills adopted a new impact fee analysis in March of 2014. The analysis was done by Zions Bank Public Finance, and implemented a new fee structure for the various impact fees. The new analysis outlined a new way to compute impact fees that differed from years past. Cedar Hills City Code, Title 8, Chapter 2, Articles B-G detail each specific impact fee, and how to compute the fee. Staff is proposing that articles B-G be condensed to remove the repetitive code and create one article that references all impact fee studies. The computation method currently found in the City code will be removed, and replaced with a reference to the analysis of March 2014. This was approved.