Guest Post by Shanna
Francis
The Weber county Commission
will consider action on a rezone request at Powder Mountain on Tuesday,
November 13 at 10:00 a.m. in the Commission Chambers located in the Weber
Center, 2380 Washington Blvd. in Ogden.
The rezone petition is being
requested by Steven H. Nielsen II (Pronaia Capital) representing Western
America Holding, LLC, which is requesting a rezone to approximately 4,297 acres
located at Powder Mountain Resort from Forest Residential-3 (FR-3), Forest
Valley-3 (FV-3), Commercial Valley Resort Recreation-1 (CVR-1), and Forest-40
(F-40) to FV-3, CVR-1, and F-40. In
addition, they will consider a Zoning Development Agreement between Weber
County and Western America Holding, LLC as part of Zoning Petition 2006-18
A staff report on the Weber County
web site, found at https://miradi.co.weber.ut.us/projects/view/511_Powder provides a brief background to the petition and
states the following:
“On June 1, 2010, a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Weber County and Western America
Holding, LLC was approved as a precursor to a formal Zoning Development
Agreement between the parties regarding development at Powder Mountain
Resort. The MOU promoted the creation of
a Development Agreement that would establish the basic development parameters
for Powder Mountain and cause the withdrawal of the Powder Mountain Town
Incorporation Petition and litigation associated therewith. Negotiations on the Development Agreement
began soon after the MOU was approved and have continued until the parties
recently reached an agreement. The
agreement has been patterned after the County’s development agreement with
Snowbasin Resort.
“One of the main reasons that
the Development Agreement has taken so long to finalize is that Western America
Holding, LLC Began negotiating the sale of Powder Mountain Resort during the
Development negotiations. The potential
buyers needed additional time to review the agreement and the negotiation
process slowed down to accommodate this.
The Planning Division, County legal counsel, and Western America
Holding, LLC have now agreed in principle to the October 29 draft of the
Development Agreement.
“Each section of the MOU is
addressed in the development agreement as are many of the principles that make
up the Ogden Valley Planning Commission’s 19 conditions recommended in
2007. The County worked hard to
incorporate these principles into the Development Agreement and the only conditions
not addressed in some form are the number of limitations on hotel and
commercial development, and the commencement of development with a
multi-family/commercial village. . . a public hearing is not required to take
action on this Development Agreement.
“If the Agreement is signed
by both parties, all pending litigation will be dismissed, and Western America
Holding, LLC shall immediately withdraw the Powder Mountain Town Incorporation
Petition that had been stalled. The
county will then rezone the property as described in the application request
(visit Weber County’s web site to read a copy).
This Agreement will then supersede the MOU. If any amendments are sought by either party,
they must go before the Planning Commission for a public hearing.”
The approval of a request to
rezone the resort to a Destination and Recreation Resort Zone (DDR-1) would
require the approval of a new Development Agreement where the developer would
need to show that the resort can meet the rezone application requirements.
The Weber County Planning
Commission is recommending approval of the Zoning Development Agreement. The Agreement is based on the provisions of
the MOU and takes into account most of the Ogden Valley Planning Commission’s
earlier mandated 19 conditions.
2 comments:
There are so many places to start. I decided not to write to the commissioners because I feel it is a waste of time, this is a done deal. Are they rushing it because Deardon, the Commissioner in the meetings, is leaving at the end of the year? The OVPC recommends 1218 units and the agreement gives them 2800. OVPC recommends dollar contributions to the county when x number of dwellings are built now the agreement states 'The county may consider applying the value of the land and improvements made by the developers in public benefits in lieu of the monetary donations'.
Just plain ridiculous.
Ron, don't waste any more of your valuable time on this. It is in the bag thanks to our worthless County Commissioners. Most of the Valley residents that never help out on issues like this deserve just what they get. When money is involved for Weber County, they never consider the people in Ogden Valley and the people of Weber County keep reelecting them.
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