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Ivins council tables ordinance, opts to negotiate memorandum with Black Desert on LPGA/PGA grandstands
Summary
After residents raised concerns about grandstand height, noise and work hours for upcoming golf events, the council voted to table ordinance 2025-01 and directed staff to negotiate a memorandum of understanding with Black Desert to address timing, height and mitigation for temporary grandstands during the 2025 events.
Ivins — Council members voted to table an amendment to the city code (ordinance 2025-01) and instructed staff to negotiate a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Black Desert and contractors governing temporary grandstands for the LPGA and PGA events.
The ordinance under consideration would have amended Title 16 to clarify Class 1 use permit application steps and the maximum durations for temporary structures. Several council members and nearby residents urged a more targeted, immediate solution for the LPGA/PGA timetable: a contractually binding MOU that stipulates hours of construction, maximum temporary grandstand height and techniques to reduce noise and visual impacts.
Resident Tim Bridal said residents preferred longer workdays starting later in the morning so crews could condense construction time and reduce the number of days of disruptive noise. "I'd rather have it go till sunset and have that condensed in terms of the whole window of the number of days," Bridal said.
Black Desert representatives and contractors said they were open to changes in orientation, solid gates and screening and to arranging installation sequencing to limit total on‑site time. City staff and counsel said many of the operational conditions residents sought (hours of work, detailed screening, gate design) are enforceable through a CUP or a negotiated MOU, while the broader ordinance may be revised later after testing the 2025 arrangements.
The council moved to table ordinance 2025-01 and requested staff draft an MOU for council consideration at a future meeting. Council members said they expect the MOU to include specific metrics for hours, height limits and remedies if terms are not followed.
What's next: Staff was directed to prepare a draft MOU for council review ahead of the next meeting, with an eye toward applying negotiated terms to the 2025 events and using the experience to inform any later ordinance changes.
