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Planning commission urges hydraulic modeling, pressure limits for new subdivisions

Monroe City Council · March 24, 2026
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Summary

Monroe Planning Commission recommended the City require developer-paid hydraulic modeling for subdivisions of three or more lots, consider increasing ERC allotments for non-irrigated homes, and halt new subdivisions in the 'red zone' until infrastructure improvements are made; the Council asked for ordinance language and agreed to place the items on a future agenda.

The Monroe Planning Commission asked the City Council on March 24 to adopt ordinances to address chronic water-pressure concerns in the city’s red zone.

Chair Candice Barney told the council the commission learned during a land-use training that it can approve conditional use permits under state code without sending every permit to the council, but the commission also flagged growing pressure problems tied to new subdivisions without irrigation systems. With input from Parker Vercimak of Jones & DeMille Engineering, the…

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