This morning's Standard-Examiner finally gets around to reporting what regular Weber County Forum readers already knew: The Powderville town incorporation petition and related business is on calender tomorrow morning for Weber County Commission approval (or rejection.) Here's the word from this morning's Brooke Nelson story:
OGDEN — Requests to approve a resolution granting a petition to incorporate Powder Mountain as a town and appoint its mayor and council are on Tuesday’s Weber County Commission meeting agenda.It's been nearly a month since the matter was last on the commission agenda for public hearing; and it now appears that the Commissioners believe they've received sufficient citizen input to make a decision in this important matter:
An overview of the ski resort’s latest proposal was presented then, and the full document has been available the past few weeks on the county Web site, www.co.weber.ut.us/commission.Although we're not privy to all the citizen input the Commission has received, some of it has been made publicly available; so we'll present the following online links for our readers' review:
Commissioner Jan Zogmaister said the commission has received some community feedback since the proposal was posted.
“Several people have organized their thoughts, but there are no new concerns that had not already been brought up at the public hearing,” she said, adding she’s received a variety of facts, statistics and maps from the public.
None of the e-mails she personally received about the posted plan was in support of the proposal, Zogmaister said. Powder Mountain officials will attend Tuesday’s meeting, said Powder Mountain spokeswoman Lisa Davis.
“Along this process, we’ve gotten a lot of good feedback from across the board,” she said. “We’re really impressed with the community involvement on this issue as a whole.”[Emphasis added].
• Powder Mountain Update: Open Letter to the Weber County Commission;It's in this connection that we urge those readers who haven't yet submitted their own input to do so now. And for the convenience of those who haven't yet chimed in on the subject we link the County Commissioners' contact information below.
• Comments on Powder Mountain Draft Development Agreement;
• May v. Town of Mountain Village U.S. Tenth Circuit Court Opinion;
• Steve Clarke analysis of Powderville's Development agreement Part I;
• Steve Clarke analysis of Powderville's Development agreement Part II.
• Ken A. Bischoff - Email - (801) 399-8406For our readers' further information, we've already submitted our own input, urging the Commission to reject the developer's petition outright. We believe this course of action is well within the Commission's legal discretion.
• Craig L. Dearden - Email - (801) 399-8406
• Jan M. Zogmaister - Email - (801) 399-8406
We urge our gentle readers to likewise join us in this.
Fearful of possible litigation, our state legislature took the cowards' way out during the last legislative session, refusing to fashion appropriate retroactive remedial legislation, thereby depriving prospective Powderville residents of fundamental voting rights, even as they otherwise prospectively cured the clearly faulty legislation which caused this problem in the first place. It's our hope that our County Commissioners will not follow suit; but that they they will instead "choose the right," conform to their oaths of office to uphold the Constitution, and send a message to the developer that they will not stand for the exploitation of their own constituents by means of a flawed legal loophole. Litigation is inevitable for the county in any event, in our opinion; and we therefore ask: Why should our County Commission find itself on the wrong side of it?
We've reached a most critical juncture, gentle readers. Speak up now... or forever hold your peace.
The floor is open for your ever-savvy reader comments.
