The Lehi City Council held a regular meeting on March 18, 2025, starting with a pre-council session at 5:30 PM and the regular session at 7:00 PM. The meeting covered a wide range of topics including a station area plan, business license revisions, a road closure and traffic signal project, grant updates, park staffing, multiple zone changes, development code amendments, and a community reinvestment area for the Morning Vista project. The council took numerous votes, with several items passing, some tabled for further work, and one denied.
Yeah, maybe I just needed to warm up or something. That hasn't doing. I think we're doing here. We're already late for a meeting. Waiting for you. All right. I'd like to welcome everybody to the March 18th, 2025 Lehigh City Council meeting. This is the pre-council version. We will start the regular session at 7 p.m. or thereabouts. But we'll try to hit that mark. As a matter of roll call, we do have all our council members here tonight with the exception of Paul Hancock, and he had asked to be excused earlier, and so he is excused from this meeting tonight. And I ask Paige if she would give that to us today. Hi, Father and Heaven. We're grateful that we together here this evening to oversee the business of the city. And we're thankful for the moisture that we're currently receiving. We ask for a blessing of safety upon all those who are currently on the roads that they might be watched over and protected, particularly our first responders and those who are helping the drivers that are out there. We're thankful for the opportunity to live in this great city, Heavenly Father, and we are hopeful for the guidance of thy spirit as we make decisions that pertain to the citizens here. Please help us be mindful of the needs of others, and we might do things that are to the benefit of everyone. And again, Father, we're thankful for the opportunity to live here, and we ask for thy spirit to be with us, and we say these things in the name of Jesus Christ amen. Thank you, Paige. All right. We have uh five presentations today, so uh hope we can get through everything in this meeting because we have a very long agenda today. It's probably making up for our shortest agenda in the last meeting. So somebody I guess it's gonna throw the world back into balance for us somehow. So first presentation is item 2.1. That this is the North Station Area Plan presentation. Okay, maybe while Christine is plugging in her computer to get that she's got a presentation. I'll just and by the way, Christine Richman with GSBS architects has been our consultant that's done a lot on this plan. And we've been so over a year. It's almost um about a year and a half, actually, yeah. Yeah. So one thing I just wanted to mention up front, this has gone to planning commission. In fact, it was just the last regular meeting, I think last week. And we did a similar thing. We had the presentation kind of more in just an informal setting, and then we took it to a public hearing during the public hearing. Then they did recommend approval, but there was some uh I guess concern from one of the landowners, the pr one of the largest landowners in the station area. Uh there was some confusion about whether this was an area plan under Lehigh Cities Code or and we had to we tried to explain that this is a stationary plan that the state has mandated, which is a much different document, a whole different purpose, uh more of a high-level plan. So I think we've resolved that, but when the planning commission made the recommendation, they they actually added to their motion some language that they wanted to make it explicitly clear that this was not a Lehigh City area plan like Travers Mountain or Holbert Farms type area plan that is very regulatory and uh it entitles the property, all that kind of stuff. That that was their concern. So, anyways, just wanted to air that out first, and I'll let Christine present. Right. Well, thank you for um the time today. Um I plan to just uh give you a high-level review of the process we went through and what the purpose and the uh preferred option that is embodied in the plan, and then what the next steps are and then leave plenty of time for questions for you. So um tonight's discussion is going to focus on kind of where we ended up, but the but the overall document has a lot of detail about how we got there. So, first of all, um as Kim mentioned, this is a stationary plan completed under the requirements of the state code. And for all jurisdiction and jurisdictions that have either an existing or a planned station, you're required to have a stationary plan that identifies a shared vision for the future of that area, identifies opportunities and constraints within the station area, whether those are physical, environmental, or social constraints, identifies opportunities for affordable housing, identifies and describes the preferred vision and how to get there. So it will include the plan itself includes strategic recommendations that address both actions by Lehigh City, but also by UTA and UDOT because they're partners in implementing a lot of these station area plans. As Kim mentioned, this is a plan that focuses on the vision and the goals for this particular area. It is not a regulatory plan.