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Toquerville council: approvals for Firelight adjustments, development addendum, committees and change orders; employee manual tabled
Summary
At the Sept. 17 Toquerville City Council meeting, members approved several Firelight site-plan corrections and a development addendum, created a reservoir recreation committee, approved two Tocco Parkway change orders and updated a sign-permit fee schedule; the employee policy manual was tabled for further revision.
The Toquerville City Council on Sept. 17 took a series of administrative and land-use actions: approving corrections and modifications tied to the Firelight MPDO, adopting an addendum to the Firelight development agreement, creating a Chief Toquerville Reservoir Recreation Committee, approving two Tocco Parkway contract change orders and updating the city’s sign-permit fees. Council tabled the proposed employee policy and procedures manual for additional edits.
Key approvals and votes at a glance
- Firelight: Final site plan corrections for Residential Planning Area 11 (Item E-2) — approved. Staff said an error in open-space bonus calculations had been corrected; the updated plan increases bonus open space available to the developer (the correction changed the bonus open-space tally from 0.6 to 7.71 acres as presented by staff).
- Firelight: MPDO modification for Residential Planning Area 1 (Item E-3) — approved. Staff confirmed the submitted site plan met applicable open-space and development-area requirements and aligned with the development agreement standards for active-adult areas.
- Firelight: Addendum to the Firelight Development Agreement allowing conditional approvals (Item E-4) — approved. The addendum clarifies lapse periods and recordation language to match other ordinances and permits certain conditional approvals within specified lapse periods.
- Recreation committee: Creation of a Chief Toquerville Reservoir Recreation Committee (Item E-5) — approved. The council approved a seven-member committee composition: one representative from Ash Creek Special Service District, one from Washington County Water Conservancy District, three Toquerville registered-voter community members, the mayor and a city staff member (city staff is a voting member). The committee will meet quarterly.
- Employee manual (Item E-6) — tabled for two weeks. Staff requested time to incorporate additional council feedback and proposed edits; council voted to postpone final adoption to allow further review.
- Regional water conservation plan (Item E-7) — discussion only. Staff and councilors discussed the Washington County Water Conservancy District’s regional conservation plan and the trade-offs between adopting a regional plan and maintaining Toquerville’s locally adopted plan. Staff noted Toquerville’s five-year conservation target is a 14% per-capita reduction and that the regional plan proposes a different target (staff identified a 7.7% regional target for pre-2023 development in the Conservancy District’s draft). No formal action was taken.
- Tocco Parkway change order #20, JP Excavation — $111,188.64 (Item E‑8/Ea) — approved. Council authorized payment for shouldering and temporary pavement tabs under the change order; members asked that outstanding punch-list items and workmanship be verified by the city’s project representative.
- Tocco Parkway change order #24, JP Excavation — $9,150 (structural riprap) (Item E‑9) — approved. Council approved the contractor’s change order to complete riprap work the city’s project manager determined was required.
- Ordinance amendment (Item E-10) — Toquerville City Code Title 10 Chapter 5 (land-use penalties) — approved. The council clarified the enforcement penalty to a Class B misdemeanor to give the prosecutor clearer authority in current litigation.
- Fee schedule: Sign permit application fees (Item E‑11) — approved. Council adopted a revised fee structure: $150 flat for up to five signs per application, plus $50 per additional sign thereafter; the motion included standard caveat language that additional professional or legal fees may be assessed separately if required.
- Sign-code enforcement delegation (Item E‑12) — denied. Council considered a resolution to move sign-code enforcement authority from planning commission to staff and instead voted to leave enforcement authority in its current form while work continues on an updated sign ordinance.
Why it matters: The meeting advanced several approvals that affect the Firelight project’s near-term site plan and administration and clarified the city’s fee and enforcement posture for signs. The committee creation and accepted change orders move forward city-managed recreation and infrastructure work; tabling of the employee manual means personnel-policy changes will return for reconsideration.
Speakers and presenters: City planner Emily presented most planning items; the Firelight landowner/representative and engineer participated in discussion of site-plan corrections; Paul Morris (chair, Grapevine Wash Local District) spoke on related property and access. Contractors and the city’s project representative participated in Tocco Parkway change-order discussions.
Provenance and next steps: Several actions requested follow-up: staff to process the MPDO applications and updated plans (Firelight), the planning department to coordinate sign-code revisions, the mayor and staff to convene the reservoir recreation committee, and the public works/project manager to verify completion of punch-list items on Tocco Parkway prior to final closeout.
