This morning's Standard-Examiner provides a fairly decent report on yesterday's Weber County Commission session. It likewise explains the relative postures of the Powder Mountain developer, vis-a-vis the the County Commission, now that the commission has declined, for the second consecutive hearing, to act as the developer's docile rubber stamp, and to refuse appointing a mayor and council from the developer's hand-picked lackey list. Std-Ex reporter Di Lewis is new to the Ogden Valley beat; but her rendition of the facts is nevertheless accurate, we think, except for this minor historical error:
New owners of Powder Mountain Resort announced last year they wanted to expand Powder Mountain and filed to incorporate into a town in January after requests for rezoning were denied. [Emphasis added].As our regular readers will recall, the Powder Mountain sponsors filed their incorporation petition in mid-January of this year, thus depriving the County Commission of any opportunity to consider the developer's then-pending rezone request.
As to the current status of the Commission and Developer with respect to each other, we believe this paragraph from Ms. Lewis's morning story frames the current situation quite accurately:
Deputy County Attorney Dave Wilson told commissioners if they declined to act for a second time, the petitioners could meet with the commission and expand or explain the 11-person list they presented or take legal action.
For our readers' reference, the Standard-Examiner has also helpfully posted the most recent (and Commission rejected) Powderville candidate lists on its live website.
While we're back on the Powderville topic, we'll also provide links to the latest posts from our friends, the citizen activist stalwarts at Ogden Valley Forum:
Weber County Commission refuses to Act
(Includes 8/12/08 Commission meeting audio files)
The PERPS of Powderville Act III
(Excellent Kim Wheatley analysis and rant)
That's it for now, folks. It would appear that the current Commission/Developer stalement may provide us as at least a short interlude, during which we can all catch our breath, in anticipation of the next round in the Powderville slugfest.
Comments are invited, as always.
