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Council approves LGI Homes development agreement to finish Lakeside utilities
Summary
The council approved Resolution 2025-11 with LGI Homes, a development agreement addressing density, design authority under state code, timelines for pressurized irrigation and sewer upgrades, and reimbursement and credit mechanisms tied to impact fees.
The Springville City Council on Tuesday approved Resolution 2025-11, authorizing a development agreement with LGI Homes for roughly 15 acres added to the Lakeside Landing overlay district. City staff said the agreement binds LGI to build required on-site utilities and establishes reimbursement and credit mechanisms tied to impact fees and future utility capacity upgrades.
City staff said the agreement was needed because the parcel was added to Lakeside after the original development agreement and because recent state law allows design regulation for single-family residences only when higher density or a development agreement is part of the exchange. "This provision in the state code allows us to do that only where it's an exchange for a zone that gives more density and or by a development agreement," a city presenter said, explaining the legal basis for the design controls in the agreement.
The development agreement requires completion of pressurized irrigation (PI) service to the site before any certificate of occupancy is issued for homes there; it also covers construction of interim, on-site stormwater basins with an obligation to abandon and disconnect those basins once the city's regional stormwater basins are constructed, and it establishes a reimbursement sequence for LGI’s utility work (first applied as credits against impact fees, with remaining balances paid from impact-fee funds as available).
Staff said LGI has already started work on PI infrastructure ahead of formal adoption of the agreement and that the agreement memorializes reimbursement mechanisms and timing. Staff described certain upsizing requirements—LGI will install infrastructure sized to meet master-plan standards and the city will reimburse the developer for upsize costs via impact-fee credits.
The council voted by roll call: Mike — yes; Jake — yes; Craig — yes; Logan — yes; Mindy — yes. The resolution passed.
Staff said the development agreement is the remaining step required for LGI’s subdivision approval in Lakeside and will allow the city to withhold certificates of occupancy until PI is delivered according to the agreement. The agreement also references planned upgrades to sewer lift stations that the city will lead and for which LGI’s reimbursable work will be credited against impact fees.
