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  • Eagle Mountain pushes bond initiative vote to November

    EAGLE MOUNTAIN (Deseret News) — An upcoming vote on a $7 million bond initiative to build an aquatic center was moved to Nov. 2 by the Eagle Mountain City Council on Tuesday.

    While City Council members were divided on several issues regarding the funding of the aquatic center, the majority agreed to reschedule the vote to a time when studies showed more residents would go to the polls.

    "There's a voter disparity from June to November," said Councilman Eric Cieslak.

  • LDS Church unveils plans for eco-friendly building in Eagle Mountain

    (Daily Herald) Earth Day was last week, but every day will be environmentally conscious at five church buildings that are part of a new pilot program recently launched by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. On Tuesday, church officials conducted a tour of the first of the new buildings to be completed, a stake center in Farmington.

  • Rural home loan program has almost run out of money

    EAGLE MOUNTAIN (Deseret News) — A popular federal home loan program that's allowed many Utahns to buy into the American dream in the state's exburbs and its other hinterlands is running out of money by month's end.

    The Rural Home Buyers Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, appears headed for temporary mothballing — at the peak of Utah's real estate selling season — until additional or new funding can be secured from Congress.

  • Eagle Mountain bond may end up on Nov. ballot

    EAGLE MOUNTAIN (Daily Herald) -- After hearing from more than two dozen residents at a meeting on Tuesday night and getting even more e-mail, the Eagle Mountain City Council decided to reconsider the date of a bond election to pay for a $7.2 million aquatics center.

    Council members approved a motion to rescind the decision to put the bond on the ballot in June and then approved another motion to have an item on the next City Council agenda to move the election to November.

  • Bond measure for Eagle Mountain aquatic center may move to November

    EAGLE MOUNTAIN (Deseret News) — Casey Jones doesn't want to see his tax dollars go toward a city-owned outdoor pool that would be open four months per year.

    "If we want a pool, we'll put one in our backyard and take care of it ourselves," Jones said.

    In a standing-room-only City Council meeting Tuesday night, 25 Eagle Mountain residents voiced opinions for and against the proposed $7 million bond initiative for an outdoor aquatic center.

  • Eagle Mountain residents will vote on rec center in June

    (Daily Herald) Eagle Mountain residents will get to vote June 22 on whether they want a $7 million municipal outdoor aquatics center in their city.

    Council members OK'd a bond election on Tuesday and started the process necessary to allow voters to decide on a 20-year bond to finance the project. The public hearing date for the outdoor pool is set for April 20.

    Councilman Nathan Ochsenhirt was adamant about the need for more facilities.

  • Eagle Mountain recreation center edges closer to bond vote

    (Daily Herald) Eagle Mountain has edged closer to getting a recreation center -- maybe.

    Council members voted this week to have city staff prepare a bond resolution for a $9.5 million recreational facility as proposed by the municipal parks and recreation board.

    The council likely will vote on the prepared resolution on April 6. If the resolution is passed at that time, voters will have a chance to voice their opinion about the indoor facility and an outdoor pool on June 22.

  • Eagle Mountain celebrates library's reopening

    EAGLE MOUNTAIN (Deseret News) — Before this week, Eagle Mountain children didn't have a place of their own for story time.

    "We've been having story time in the City Council chambers," said Eagle Mountain library director Michele Graves.

    On Monday, after three years of planning and more than three months of renovations, the Eagle Mountain Public Library reopened with double the space and $120,000 in savings.

  • Eagle Mountain launches bid to woo business

    (Daily Herald) On Tuesday, Eagle Mountain got serious about wooing business.

    In an hour-long presentation to about 200 residents, the city unveiled its $250,000 marketing campaign, complete with billboards, television commercials and hoopla. "Find yourself in Eagle Mountain" is the theme of the campaign. Amid cupcakes, T-shirts and banners of the city's new logo, officials promised customized incentive packages for businesses, and even financing.

  • Eagle Mountain opens library expansion

    EAGLE MOUNTAIN (Daily Herald)  -- What started in a very small room 10 years ago is now a 4,500-square-foot library for Eagle Mountain residents with nearly 70,000 items, books, DVDs, audiobooks and bilingual materials.

    A new expansion that more than doubles the space of its current City Hall location officially opened today at 10 a.m.

  • Eagle Mtn. closes library to double its size

    (Daily Herald) Eagle Mountain has closed its library for two weeks, but when it reopens, it will have doubled in size.

    "We are busy moving shelves and books," said library director Michele Graves.

    In addition to doubling in size, the number of books and other media will double too. The $300,000 expansion includes $21,000 of newly purchased books and media, and many almost-new books and other media that have been donated by residents but the library did not have room for, until now.

  • Find yourself in Eagle Mountain, ad campaign urges

    Eagle Mountain (Salt Lake Tribune) » Some know this community for its political turmoil. Many don't know it at all.

    So the city has set out to boost its image and visibility with a marketing campaign that includes television commercials, billboards and a business incentive package. The goal is to entice companies and residents to make Eagle Mountain their home.

  • BYU propose plan for Eagle Mountain growth

    Eagle Mountain (Salt Lake Tribune) » Four Brigham Young University graduate students have proposed a four-point economic development plan to help the city of Eagle Mountain grow.

    The students are enrolled in BYU's master of public administration program and have studied Eagle Mountain for months. Their plan focuses on accessing professional networks, coordinated planning strategies, branding and incentives to businesses.

  • BYU grad students study Eagle Mountain's economic potential

    EAGLE MOUNTAIN (Deseret News) — Eagle Mountain is a diamond in the rough.

    That's according to four BYU master of public administration students who have studied the rapidly growing city and on Tuesday proposed to the City Council a four-part plan to bolster economic development.

    The plan focuses on accessing professional networks, coordinating planning strategies, branding the city and offering incentives to local businesses.

  • Eagle Mountain's growing library

    EAGLE MOUNTAIN (Deseret News) — On her first day of work in September 2000, Eagle Mountain librarian Michele Graves found out she was claustrophobic.

    The city's library consisted of four bookcases and two closets full of books in a 12-by-12-foot room in the back of the fire station.

    "They let us use the extra room," Graves said. "It was tiny."

    It was so tiny that patrons had to take turns looking at books. Only three or four people could fit in the room at a time.

  • Lehi mayor wants more regional roads after Eagle Mtn. annexation

    (Daily Herald) With the Pole Canyon annexation and plans for more than 9,000 homes approved in Eagle Mountain on Tuesday, one mayor has expressed some concern about transportation issues in cities that serve as gateways to Cedar Valley.

    In a Nov. 24 letter, Lehi Mayor Howard Johnson said he was specifically concerned about how to get those residents out to Eagle Mountain. One proposal that has been made to the Mountainland Association of Governments would extend Mountain View Corridor through Cedar Valley to south and west of Nephi.

  • Eagle Mountain council approves Pole Canyon annexation

    (Daily Herald) At a special meeting Wednesday night, Eagle Mountain City Council members voted unanimously to annex more than 3,000 acres for a development that will contain 9,659 home sites, commercial zones, industrial zones, a rodeo ground, parks, trails and a public safety building.

    The property is located north of Fairfield and west of Eagle Mountain. The annexation includes the White Hills subdivision, which had been unincorporated.

  • Eagle Mountain delays annexation of Pole Canyon, White Hills

    (Daily Herald) In Eagle Mountain on Tuesday, the big fish declined to swallow the little fish — at least for now.

    Council members said that even after months of study and public hearings, there are still too many questions surrounding a proposal to add nearly 3,000 acres and eventually 30,000 residents to Eagle Mountain by annexing the Pole Canyon area and White Hills subdivision. On Tuesday, they voted once again put off making any decision. It was unclear how soon the issue could return for a vote, but Tuesday was the city’s last scheduled council meeting in 2009.

  • It's not too late to comment on Eagle Mountain annexation

    (Daily Herald) Eagle Mountain is extending what could be the public's last opportunity to weigh in on a proposal to add 10,000 homes and nearly 3,000 acres to the city.

    Elected officials voted to continue a recent public hearing because details of the plan have not been finalized. The city did not want to cut off the public's ability to speak to whatever details the city may hammer out in a developer agreement. The formal public hearing will be resumed at a meeting on Dec. 1.

  • Eagle Mountain rehab center gets extension

    EAGLE MOUNTAIN (Daily Herald) -- Several residents opposed a rehabilitation center allowed in their Eagle Mountain neighborhood, and six months later a few of their concerns have been realized.

    City officials had OK'd the center, adding 27 conditions in the approval intent on protecting the center's nearby homeowners.

  • Lehi project to ease Main Street congestion

    LEHI (Deseret News) — There's no such thing as a mad dash out of Lehi, Saratoga Springs or Eagle Mountain.

    When people in those areas want to escape to I-15, there's only one way out: Lehi Main Street, a one-lane road in each direction that promises stop-and-go traffic at any time of the day, except maybe 3 a.m.

  • UDOT revises plans, adds eastbound lane to SR-73

    (Deseret News) After six months of construction on state Route 73, the Utah Department of Transportation is adding another eastbound lane from 800 West in Saratoga Springs to Redwood Road, thanks partially to complaints from Eagle Mountain residents.

    "(Residents) asked us to examine if there was the possibility of putting in an eastbound lane," said UDOT spokesman Scott Thompson. "And we decided we had enough road to make that happen."

  • Eagle Mountain library to expand

    EAGLE MOUNTAIN (Deseret News) — Residents broke ground on an expansion project that will more than double the city library's current size.

    The additional 2,500-square feet will give room to new computer workstations, a children's collection and a story time area.

    The library will buy new materials with a $95,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the primary source of federal support for 123,000 libraries nationwide, and a $1,000 grant from Target.

  • Eagle Mountain says no to rec center

    EAGLE MOUNTAIN (Daily Herald)  -- In a sign of the times, milk trumped a lazy river in Eagle Mountain on Tuesday.

    Council members unanimously declined to place an aquatics center bond on the November ballot. The bond would have allowed the public to vote on increasing property taxes to fund an $8 million outdoor leisure pool and lap pool.

    However, they ordered staff to schedule the topic for fall or next spring so the council could debate whether to reconsider and hold a special June election.

  • Eagle Mountain takes over The Ranches Golf Club

    EAGLE MOUNTAIN (Deseret News) — Eagle Mountain is the proud owner of a golf course, but city officials hope it doesn't last forever.

    Last week, the City Council voted 3-2 to accept the donation of The Ranches Golf Club free and clear from a private company. The deal includes the 220-acre golf course, $650,000 cash, equipment and a cell phone tower lease.

    Eagle Mountain city administrator John Hendrickson, however, said the city's goal is not to be the long-term owner.

  • Eagle Mountain discusses 2,700-acre development

    The owners of 2,700 acres near Eagle Mountain are discussing with the city council and the planning commission the possibility of annexing and developing the property.
     
    Eagle Mountain Planning Director Steve Mumford said the property owners, Jared Westhoff and Todd McFarlane, are working with Nate Shipp of DAI on plans for the property, which includes a 500- to 600-acre business park, 9,800 residential units and space for commercial and mixed-use development.
  • LDS church, multi-family development approved

    The construction of a Latter-day Saint meeting house and a multi-family development has been approved by the Eagle Mountain Planning Commission. The church will be built on 4.205 acres near 4160 E. Inverness Lane near 9490 North. The multi-family development will be built on 1.122 acres adjacent to the church. A retention pond will also be part of the development.  Scott Kirkland of Sage Communities is the developer. Construction has not yet started on the project.

  • Relief for Eagle Mountain, Saratoga Springs commuters on the way

    DESERET NEWS -- Driving out to Saratoga Springs or Eagle Mountain is a bit laborious, but motorists from those two communities are getting a little relief.

    Two separate projects in north Utah County will make the road to Saratoga Springs and beyond into Eagle Mountain much easier by next fall.

  • Eagle Mountain temporarily changes sign ordinance

    Homebuilders, homeowners and residential developers will be permitted to place temporary signs for model homes, real estate open houses and subdivision projects in Eagle Mountain for a period of four months.  

  • Developer spars with Eagle Mountain over land value

    EAGLE MOUNTAIN — A developer is suing Eagle Mountain, accusing the city of trying to steal his land to build utility lines.

    Brent Johnson says he and Eagle Mountain officials disagree on the value of a 7-acre swath of land he purchased in 2007 for $52,000 at a tax sale. He says the city should compensate him $366,000 for the property it built power lines on, not the $3,000 the city has recently offered.

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