The Lehi City Council held a pre-council session at 5:30 PM and a regular session at 7:00 PM on April 8, 2025, in the Lehi City Council Chambers. The pre-council included presentations on the Hospital/2100 North Station Area Plan, the city finance report, a proposed Waste Management contract extension, a green waste facility proposal, and employee policy revisions. The regular session covered numerous land use, budget, and administrative items. Key outcomes included the approval of a tentative FY 2026 budget, a development agreement with ProSteel Customs, a resolution of intent to annex two properties, approval of the North Lehi Station Area Plan with a non-binding caveat, and a public hearing on a proposed green waste facility that received significant public opposition, leading the council to indicate the location was not suitable.
Let's get us uh started. I'd like to welcome everybody to Lehigh City Council meeting. It is April 8th, 2025. This is the pre-council session. Uh the regular session will start at 7 p.m. As a matter of roll call. All our council members are here for this uh pre-council session today. Uh we do have a number of uh have uh presentations and reports to be given, so I'll ask everybody we need to move through these somehow as quickly as we can because uh this one day we do have a lot on our agenda. Uh but we always like to start off with an opening prayer, and I ask Chris if he will do that. Dear gracious heavenly father, we come before thee this beautiful evening to thank you for our many blessings and to thank thee, Father, for this great city that we have to live in. We thank you for the moisture that has blessed us with throughout this uh beginning of spring and throughout the the winter, and we're grateful, Father, for this opportunity to serve and to work with uh staff and residents and business owners here in the city uh to help it to progress and to become all that it can be. We are thankful for all those who serve on our behalf, Father, um all of our city employees, our first responders, our military, um, and their families. We pray for each of them, and we pray that thou may bless them and watch over them, and we pray that thou may watch over each of our families as we are away from them this evening, that they may be safe and no harm accident come upon them as well. We thank thee and ask I spirit to be with us, and and uh this we do so in the name of my son Jesus Christ. Okay, thank you very much, Chris. Yeah. Uh our first presentation is item 2.1. This is a presentation and discussion of the hospital, a 2100 North Stationary Plan, uh and this is going to be done by the planning department. Yeah, we actually have our consultants here from our case. So I'm gonna let them take the reins here. Okay. And anybody who's presenting, make sure you come up and give us your name and everything. So it's part of the process. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna start while they work around me. Um my name's Ray Witchurch. I'm the studio lead for uh uh a company called Arcadis. And we're a planning firm amongst other things. And we have been working on the station area plan for 2100 north and for uh the triumph station uh over the last year and a half. You need me to speak into the mic? Uh yep. Uh over the last year and a half. Um we're coming coming to the conclusion of that project, and we've discovered some opportunities that we think are available to you. At the same time, we want to um thank the staff for working with us through this process. They've been great to work with. And we've learned a lot from each other. So we'll look forward to that. With me today is Jordan Swain. He's the project manager on this project and the um the lead as we develop these uh concepts and ideas with your staff. And so I will turn the time over to him. If you have any questions through this, feel free to answer or ask them, and we'll hopefully be able to answer all of them. All right, we're all plugged in. Thank you so much, council, for having us back. Um if you recall, we were here a few months ago, about six months ago, I think, um, just talking through uh this plan at a preliminary stage. Um at a at a um finalized state, you know, a preferred alternative that has been properly described, and and we're very excited to go through it with you today. Um so to start out, uh I'm sure you've heard a lot about stationary planning, but we just wanted to kind of set the tone of our presentation by going over some of the essentials of stationary planning, right? Um because I think they're they'll become important um later as we're talking through the concept. But a stationary plan typically looks at land uses um within uh a third to a half a mile from a station, depending on what kind of infrastructure is supporting what what kind of infrastructure and services are supporting that station. In this case, the we've been working with the hospital station, also known as the South Triumph Station, which will be a fixed guide rail station. It's anticipated to be a light rail station.