Planning commission recommends dropping secondary-water requirement for new subdivisions

The Ivins City Planning Commission voted to recommend that the city council amend the city’s subdivision ordinance to remove the requirement that developers install secondary water systems on new subdivisions.

The recommendation, made during a public hearing on the ordinance change, follows a change in the Conservancy District’s water-management strategy and staff estimates that building the delivery infrastructure to support secondary systems would cost the city “tens of millions of dollars,” Mr. Haycock said.

The commission opened the public hearing to hear from residents. Resident Wayne Pennington told the commission he has studied secondary and recycled water systems and said he supports the change "I fully support this move that you're planning. I think that secondary water systems require far more…