Council adopts higher stormwater and sanitary sewer impact fees, postpones culinary water vote; approves annexation, telecom code change and exploratory police‑

The North Ogden City Council on March 25 held public hearings and took action on several planning, utility and regulatory items: it postponed consideration of a proposed culinary water impact fee, adopted a substantially higher stormwater impact fee and a higher sanitary sewer impact fee, accepted an annexation petition for 19.56 acres, approved a wireless telecommunications code amendment, and assigned council members to an exploratory committee with Pleasant View on police services.

Most important: fees and votes

- Stormwater impact fee (Resolution O5‑20‑25): After a public hearing the council approved a new stormwater impact fee table. City Manager John Call told the council the recommended fee increases substantially from the current schedule and is driven largely by construction of detention basins needed along the Monroe Boulevard alignment. Call described the recommended single‑family figure in the staff presentation as increasing from about $8.73 to a recommended figure he read in the meeting as “$21.86 49.” He also said commercial and multifamily charges would rise to about $0.7809 per square foot of impervious surface in the recommended schedule. The council approved the resolution by voice/roll call vote (recorded as three yes votes during roll call).

- Sanitary sewer impact fee (Resolution O6‑20‑25): The council heard staff explanation that the city has relined and upgraded portions of the sanitary collection system and that the buy‑in calculation reflects recent rehabilitation costs. John Call said the fee recommendation would increase from roughly…