The Lehi City Council held a combined pre-council (5:30 PM) and regular session (7:00 PM) on January 28, 2025, preceded by a closed‑door RDA meeting and a closed session for litigation and property discussions. Key actions included revoking the business license of City Corner Shop for repeated code violations, approving a contract for a pressurized irrigation rate study, approving two zone changes (one deferred), approving a 14‑lot preliminary subdivision, and updating barbed‑wire fencing regulations. Public comments focused on the train depot museum, sidewalk needs, and contractor concerns.
Paperwork here in order. I'd like to welcome everybody to the uh January 28th, 2025 city council meeting. Uh it right now at 5:30, 534. It is our pre-council meeting. As a matter of roll call, our city council members are all in attendance here today. So thank you very much. A couple changes to the agenda just for uh council, so you know we do have to go into an RDA meeting. Uh we'd probably do that between item six and item seven if there's time uh before the uh closed door session that's scheduled. That being said, we uh generally like to start our uh meeting with an opening prayer, and I've asked Paige if she would do that. Excuse me, yeah, it was Paul. You were Pledge of Allegiance. I'm sorry, I had it written down. Our dear Heavenly Father grateful for this uh day that was given us. We're grateful for the moisture that we've been receiving over the last uh week or so, and for the beautiful city that we live in and for the freedoms that we enjoy in this great country of ours, we're grateful for the opportunity we have to serve uh in the capacity that we have and for the opportunity that we have to listen to the items that are before us today, and pray that that will uh bless us that we'll be able to uh do that which would be pleasing in thy sight and uh would be best for the for Lehigh moving forward. We're grateful for our first responders and for our military and pray that that will watch over and protect them. And we say these things things in the name of thy son Jesus Christ, amen. Amen. Thank you, Paul. Yeah, Paige, you're not getting away from it. You're doing the pledge in the next meeting. I may call Paul to do it, but I do mean you. Let the record reflect I was willing. You were, I could see that. All right. Item number two is a hearing to consider whether to revoke the business license uh for corner shop. Ryan, you're going to lead that discussion. Yeah, so Craig and the police department are gonna make the presentation, but just a little, I guess, to bring you up to date where we're at. So we I got an email from the business owner's attorney last Tuesday that basically notified us that they would be voluntarily surrendering their business license, that they wouldn't be opposing this. We're gonna have kind of an abbreviated version of what we were planning on doing. Um just because the code doesn't really necessarily provide for a mechanism for it to be voluntarily surrendered. So Craig's gonna go through the kind of some of the elements and then um the police department's got you know some supporting documentation for that. So we'd like you to make just brief findings, including that we received that email from the business owner's attorney, and and then you know, um, if that's the way you decide to go making a resolution or approving a resolution, actually revoking the business license. There's just things like they have appeal rights and things like that. So we wanted to make at least a brief record, have you take that specific action just so we're you know we're crossing all the T's and and dotting all the I's going forward. So with that, we'll I'll let Craig make the presentation and then he'll turn some time over to the police department and then happy to answer any questions or have a discussion on anything further that you that you want to any other information that you need. So I think Paul said it best that he's been on the council for 10 years and have has never had to deal with one of these. Um I've been in a attorney for 15 years, and this is the first time I've ever had a hearing like this. I've had some that got close, but not to this point. Um I did want to just point out this is the building we're dealing with. Um I don't know if you guys can see it on the screen in front of you. It's the little I think it was a used to be a barber shop east right next to Osman Design. Uh the mayor is familiar with this building. He can see it from his window at work, and here's kind of a 500-foot view over here is where hearts are on the run is, and that building is right in there. Not on the corner. So the reason why we're here tonight is under our code. Um for a suspension or rev revocation of a business license. Um, one of those five uh things need to be met, and then there's a procedure that needs to be followed by the city. Um part of that is having a ruling uh by the city council as a whole uh to determine whether to revoke, suspend, um, or uh there are other options as well. Um in this case, we're asking that there be a revocation. Um, as you can see, in A, um, because the license shouldn't have been issued, because the license failure refusal to permit or cooperate with an audit or inspection, if the continued operation of the license activity would constitute a nuisance or present danger to the health safety and welfare of the community, or because of a violation of this title or any other app applicable uh provision of law.