Alpine votes to accept easement

(Daily Herald) Alpine's City Council voted to accept a 68 acre conservation easement which will help connect the trail system in Alpine to the new Three Falls subdivision at their meeting Tuesday. Jared Chappell purchased the Pack property this summer and is giving an easement to the city. The easement was rushed in the last council meeting of the year in order for Chappell to get tax benefits.

Councilman Thomas Whitchurch asked if this easement entitled the owner to breaks on future fees when the property might be annexed into the city.

"This will not affect that," city administrator Ted Stillman said. "The trails will be paths and not paved."

Planning commission chairman Jannicke Brewer affirmed that the trails exist and said the agreement should mention ATV's because they damage areas that should be kept natural.

"I would table this until the final draft but they want to get it done by the end of the year," councilman Jim Tracy said.

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