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Volume 118, No. 5 January 29, 2020 Single Copy Price

FOGGY, FOGGY DAYS •With all this rain and warm January days, the fog has been creeping in. Above, the Levan Church can just be seen thru the fog last Wednesday mooring. We didn’t have it as bad as Utah County, but going south on the ridge you could see the layer of fog over Levan and lower parts of the Juab Valley.

CHEERLEADING CHAMPS • The JHS Cheer and Stunt team are state champions! They took the title at the Utah State Cheer Competition held Saturday, January 25 at Salt Lake Community College. North Sanpete took 2nd and Summit Academy took 3rd in the 3A Co-ed Show Cheer division.

JHS Cheer and Stunt team back on top as state champions

By Rebecca Dopp

TN Correspondent

They came, they fought hard and they conquered. The JHS Cheer and Stunt team overcame some setbacks they suffered at the region competition last weekend and brought their a-game to the Utah State Cheer Competition on January 25 at Salt Lake Community College. They per-formed a solid routine and are the 2020 state champions in the 3A Co-ed Show Cheer divi-sion. They competed against two other teams. North Sanpete won the Central Region com-petition on January 11 and Summit Academy won the Northern Region competition on January 18. Juab took 2nd

at that competition. The team was back to full strength (after some injuries sidelined some team members at region) and fought hard to stick their tumbling passes and stunts. They cheered loud and proud to a big crowd who was there to cheer them on. The team was the first to go in the category and they set the bar high. They were ecstatic as stunts that had fallen at region did not fall when it mattered the most. Each team member left it all on the mat and made our Wasp fans proud. North Sanpete and Sum-mit Academy performed well, but they each had some falls. North Sanpete took 2nd and

See Cheer on page 2

City council approves changes to land use and subdivision regulations

By Myrna Trauntvein

TN Correspondent

The city staff and the city planning commission have reviewed and recommended some changes to the city’s land use and subdivision reg-ulations and the city council agreed to approve those chang-es. “The changes can be sum-marized into three categories: sign code; zero lot line; and subdivision regulations,” said Seth Atkinson, city adminis-trator. The first of the changes are to the city’s sign code. There are a number of non-profit agencies that hold community events and advertise those events through the use of signs. The changes to the sign code would allow for these signs on private property as long as they had property owner per-mission and would also regu-late the size and time limit for when these signs can be placed. “The changes also become applicable to political candi-date signs,” said Atkinson. “A section prohibiting political signs in public rights-of-way and public property is also removed since it is addressed in the new section governing signs for political candidates.” When it comes to signs, the code also sets standards as to how long before an event the sign can go up and how long after the event it must come down. “Would it be better,” asked Nathan Memmott, council member, “to address signs on public property before we adopt the ordinance?” Signs are often placed on the corner of the city building lot. “If they got permission,” said Lisa Brough, city record-

er/finance director, “it should be fine.” “The code doesn’t address signs on public property,” said Kasey Wright, city attorney. Memmott said he had been thinking that the city council, as they set the upcoming bud-get, might consider adding an electronic sign to the city prop-erty on the corner of 100 North and Main Street. That way, all events could be advertised there. “If we don’t adopt the ordi-nance,” said Brough, “we will have to have another public hearing. The planning com-mission held a public hearing on the ordinance you have be-fore you.” Atkinson said that Glenn Greenhalgh, Planning and Zoning Administrator, was go-ing through some of the land use codes and was recom-mending changes in order for

the code to follow what was ac-tually taking place in the city. The staff holds a weekly meeting with Greenhalgh. “There will be other changes in the next few months,” said Atkinson. It was up to the council, said Atkinson, whether to use the next couple of weeks until the next meeting to inform the public or whether the council thought the public had been informed. “You are creating a code to match your practice,” said At-kinson. “Sings have been post-ed in the past and now they will be legal.” Brough said that there was no cost to get a sign permit. Memmott wondered if the city should give the sign mak-ers in the city a set of regula-tions so they would know what to counsel their customers. “I think we could just give

the regulations out when peo-ple came to apply for a sign permit,” said Larry Ostler. “They would know how big the sign could be before they went to a sign maker.” Skip Worwood, council member, said that, knowing there would be future chang-es to many regulations and knowing that a public hear-ing had been proposed on the new ordinance, he thought the city council should adopt the changes. Memmott and Justin Seely, council member, made the mo-tion and the second to adopt the ordinance and all voted in favor. “New standards for zero lot line developments are also be-ing recommended by the plan-ning commission,” he said. “Some math was required to come up with the standards as to size.”

The current code provides little incentive for zero lot line developments with spacing and frontage requirements the same for both the residences and the twin-home. “If the requirements are the same, developers have opted to construct single family resi-dential homes,” he said. “De-mand for zero lot line devel-opment has increased both in communities north of Nephi as well as locally due to rises in home values.” The new zero lot line stan-dards would allow minimum lot sizes and frontage require-ments to be 120 percent of the requirements for the zone dis-trict for which the zero lot line development is located. “Yard regulations would re-

See Ordinance on page 5