Planning commission recommends approval of LGI Homes development agreement for Lakeside Landing

The Springville Planning Commission voted to recommend that the City Council approve a development agreement between Springville City and LGI Homes for a 15-acre subdivision in the Lakeside Landing Special District.

Planning department staff told the commission the agreement requires LGI Homes to comply with the Lakeside Landing overlay design regulations and to construct several off-site utility improvements before certificates of occupancy will be issued. "We wouldn't be issuing any certificates of occupancy until there was actual water in the pipe," the planning department staff said, describing the requirement tied to the pressurized irrigation trunk line.

Why it matters: The developer will install a pressurized irrigation trunk line that runs along its frontage and east toward Merit Academy and under a freeway and rail corridor — work the city said it previously could not fund or provide on the same schedule. The agreement also allocates responsibility for upgrades at the Westfields Lift Station and establishes how the city…