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Residents press city on contaminated-soil cleanup as planners recommend Crescent commercial MDA amendment to council
Summary
Planning commissioners unanimously recommended approval of an amendment to the Crescent commercial master development agreement while residents raised repeated concerns about contaminated soils, cleanup oversight, and liability; staff said environmental oversight and sampling requirements are codified and would be enforced.
Herriman City Planning Commissioners voted unanimously to recommend the city council approve an amendment to the Crescent commercial master development agreement (MDA) after staff described development and soil‑cleanup controls; residents testified about long-standing contamination concerns and asked the commission to require explicit cleanup conditions in the MDA.
Julie Smith, representing the applicant, said the amendment would allow a locally owned retail business to relocate to the 15½‑acre site by adding warehouse, wholesale, light‑manufacturing and shipping uses to the MDA; the applicant also asked the commission to permit an alternative landscape buffer (a berm and planting) in place of the code’s typical masonry wall between commercial and adjacent preexisting residential lots.
Multiple residents spoke during public comment. Sonny Mortensen and Andrew Lawrence said the property contains imported soils with elevated lead and…
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