Mona staff present code updates including new 0.45 acre‑feet water requirement and gas-line rules; ordinance number confirmed as 2026-2

Alicia, a city staff member, presented a package of updates to Mona City code that had already passed through planning and zoning and a public hearing, telling the council the key technical changes and why they were proposed.

The most significant numeric change is to the culinary water allotment for new lots. "All lots and subdivisions shall be required to provide 0.45 acre feet of culinary water for indoor use," Alicia said, noting the requirement had previously been 0.5 and was adjusted based on staff and planner review. She described that change as a 0.05 acre‑feet reduction per lot.

The draft ordinance also tightens language on domestic animals and aligns gas infrastructure language with the nearby utility provider. On animals, Alicia explained the code now clarifies weight-based terms: "a pig is less than 120 pounds. A hog is a mature pig, which is a greater than a 120 pounds," and the code limits swine to two per property. On gas infrastructure, she said the city adopted depth standards recommended by the utility: a minimum 3-foot depth for gas mainlines and 24 inches for service lines, and added a safety provision that makes it unlawful to excavate with anything other than hand tools within 24 inches of a gas line. Noncompliance could result in disconnection under manager discretion, she said.

Planning and zoning conducted a public hearing on the package, and Alicia told the council the changes were intended to align local requirements with adjacent utility rules and to resolve inconsistent earlier language. Council members made a motion and seconded consideration of the ordinance; during the conversation a member clarified the ordinance number as "ordinance 2026-2." The transcript records the motion and the numbering clarification but does not include a recorded roll-call or vote tally for the ordinance in the audio text.

What happens next: staff told the council these changes came from planning and zoning and the public hearing process; the council was positioned to make a final decision. The transcript does record subsequent agenda items (personnel posting, business licensing and other regular business).

Quotation highlights: Alicia said of the water requirement, "All lots and subdivisions shall be required to provide 0.45 acre feet of culinary water for indoor use." On animals she noted, "So that's why I don't care if it's a hog, a pig, piglet, whatever it is. You can only have, 2." On gas depth requirements she reported the utility's recommendation that "all gas mainline should be a minimum of 3 feet in-depth" and that the service-line depth "is 24 inches."

Officials and documents: Alicia and planning and zoning are cited in the transcript as having shepherded the revisions; the ordinance is identified in the record as Ordinance 2026-2 (Mona City Code updates). The transcript contains an instance of the city name rendered as "Mono City code" in one line; the city and staff consistently refer to "Mona" elsewhere in the record, and article text uses the corrected municipal name.

Limitations: The transcript does not clearly record a final recorded vote or tally for Ordinance 2026-2; the article therefore reports the motion and ordinance number and notes the absence of a recorded final outcome in the provided meeting record.

Ending: The council moved on to other agenda items after clarifying the ordinance number; any final action on Ordinance 2026-2 will need confirmation in the official minutes or by subsequent meeting records.