OGDEN — Mount Ogden residents anxious to have a community plan adopted for their neighborhood will have to wait a little longer.Ace reporter Schwebke reports some of the general characteristics of the plan:
Following a lengthy public hearing Wednesday evening, the planning commission delayed approval of the plan to further fine-tune the document.
The commission will revisit it during an April 25 work session. Final approval of the plan will rest with the city council.
The plan, based on input from several citizen committees, lists characteristics important to the Mount Ogden area, including community identity, land use, parks, open space, public infrastructure and services.As to the issue of open space, this morning's article provides some specifics which wouldn't appear to bode well for the elephant in the room:
... a citizen committee assigned to study park issues recommends Mount OgdenMr. Schwebke's article also addresses the issue of moving the golf course clubhouse, a plan detail which some of our readers suspected to have originated not with citizen committee members, but with planning staff:
Park, including the golf course and undeveloped adjoining land, be preserved as
public open space.
Another recommendation attributed to the committee says the city should consider relocating Mount Ogden Golf Course’s clubhouse to the top of 36th Street, if it enhances the course.Does that clear the latter issue up? We honestly don't know that it did.
However, Deb Badger, a Mount Ogden resident who volunteered to help draft the community plan, said during Wednesday night’s planning commission public hearing, the clubhouse recommendation apparently came from the city’s planning staff and not the committee.
Jeff Sanders, a planner for the city, said the recommendation regarding the clubhouse was discussed by the committee, but it was not strongly endorsed or discouraged.
What is clear is that the Mt. Ogden Community Plan seems to be moving forward in a manner generally consistent with the wishes of the majority of the citizens who labored in committee meetings over the summer.
What's equally clear is that the current posture of the Mt. Ogden Community Plan doesn't sit well with the Emerald City Gondolist Cult, who are now desperately hoping to derail it, before the plan can be submitted to a commission vote.
In that connection we link a copy of an email sent to us by several of our gentle readers. The Blind Faith Faction now cries foul. "Those SmartGrowth meanies messed up our lawn sign campaign," claims the ever-more-manic Lift Ogden Chairman. Little Bobby is pulling out all the stops -- in multiple colors and fonts.
The Std-Ex website's article email function is currently down again. Thus we are unable to provide a link to today's Scott Schwebke story.
We'll update this page as soon as we can furnish a proper link.
In the meantime, don't hesitate to chime in with your comments.
