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Tooele City staff propose clarifications to payment-in-lieu water-rights policy; council requests more time

Tooele City Council · December 4, 2025
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Summary

City Engineer Paul Hansen proposed updates to Tooele City's payment-in-lieu water-rights policy: allow duplexes on existing parcels to acquire credits based on calculated demand, state the council-established $35,000 per credit in policy language, and add an explicit nontransferability/nonrefundable clause; council asked for more time and may consider a resolution at the next meeting.

City Engineer Paul Hansen presented three proposed changes to Tooele City's payment-in-lieu water-right conveyance policy (Title 7, Chapter 26) during the Dec. 3 work session.

Hansen said the policy (in place since 1998 and amended several times) previously allowed owners of existing single-family parcels of record to acquire water-right credits under a payment-in-lieu option. He…

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