After the Pleasant Grove City Council approved a budget amendment Jan. 17 that moved approximately $600,000 from the city’s roads fund into its general fund, eight residents banded together to create a referendum to place the budget amendment on the ballot this November. The eight sponsors of the referendum included Cassie Zonts, John Mouritson, Neal […]
The Pleasant Grove City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved multiple ordinances to amend the city code in order to meet low-impact development standards for stormwater flow that were recently implemented by the Utah Department of Environmental Quality.
Low-impact development principles are those that âutilize stormwater as a resource to retain precipitation onsite,â according to the DEQ.
âAs a community grows, vegetation is removed and the surface area is covered by parking lots, roads, and rooftops. Precipitation cannot soak through these hard (impervious) surfaces,â the state environmental quality agency wrote in a summary of low-impact development. âTraditional storm water conveyance systems carry precipitation offsite through a conventional âcollect-and-conveyâ system of pipes, ditches, and storm drains. The volume of storm water (runoff) that is discharged to and transported by municipal storm-drain systems is one of the main causes of wa