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Pleasant Grove council adopts resolution updating public works standards
Summary
The Pleasant Grove City Council on Aug. 5 approved Resolution 2025-031 to remove an outdated dead-end turnaround standard, adopt a temporary hammerhead turnaround design, and update the secondary water meter-box specification. The measure passed by roll call vote.
Pleasant Grove City Council on Aug. 5 approved Resolution 2025-031, revising the Public Works Standard Specifications and Drawings manual to delete an outdated dead-end turnaround drawing, adopt a temporary hammerhead turnaround detail, and update the secondary water meter-box specification. Councilmember Anderson moved to approve the resolution; Councilmember Janssen seconded. The roll call vote was unanimous in favor.
The change removes a prior standard that allowed a concrete pad on a private property to serve as a temporary turnaround for service and emergency vehicles when an adjacent lot had not yet developed. Sierra Winterton, the city’s public works director, told the council the manual is “a large 250 or 300 page book that guides contractors on how to build within the city of Pleasant Grove,” and that the deleted drawing described a dead-end street without an asphalt turnaround.
Winterton said the concrete-pad approach had created enforcement problems because some property owners used the pad as an RV or vehicle parking pad, blocking city service vehicles. “We find that most of the residents who have what would be considered a temporary turnaround on their property have a convenient RV pad,” Winterton said, adding that the city has increasingly required an asphalt hammerhead turnaround delineated by curb.
The resolution also updates the specification for secondary water meter boxes to match current installation practices the city has been requiring of contractors. Winterton said contractors already have been installing the updated meter-box detail and the change formalizes that practice in the standards manual.
Council discussion emphasized that the change is primarily a technical update to an existing manual rather than a new regulatory policy. Winterton told the council that when a temporary turnaround is already in place, property owners likely will not be required to retrofit it immediately; if a property seeks a permit or the street is completed in the future, the city’s current specifications will apply.
Votes at a glance: Resolution 2025-031 — Approved (motion by Councilmember Anderson; second by Councilmember Janssen). Roll call: Anderson — yes; Jansen — yes; Lamont — yes; Rogers — yes; Williams — yes. Outcome: approved.
The updated standards take effect citywide for future permits and street work governed by the Public Works manual. Staff said additional specification changes are expected in coming months as stormwater and other audit-driven updates are incorporated into the manual.
