BOUNTIFUL -- Councilman Fred Moss admits a new city master plan has a few things he wouldn't do, but he and other city leaders appear poised to adopt it in the near future.
"This isn't everything I would do, but it's been a good process," Moss said of the two-year effort by city leaders to revise the plan and update it on four specific topics: transportation, recreation and trails, downtown, and land use.
A public hearing on the plan was held Tuesday and now city leaders are expected to consider finalizing the new guidelines at the council's Dec. 8 meeting.
Councilwoman Beth Holbrook called the revised plan a good start with key guidelines that will aid the city in the future.
"This is viable," Holbrook said of the new master plan.
Moss noted because Bountiful is mostly built out, the plan deals more with redevelopment than it does with development.
Beginning in 2008, committees were set up for each of the four topics with members of the city council and planning commission on each committee. All four committees then submitted plans that were reviewed before they were outlined to the public at an open house in September.
During the open house, the big issues raised by a group of approximately 30 residents centered around the gun range and off-road traffic around the "B" in the northeastern portion of the city. A group of residents who live along 3100 South in the Val Verda area raised issues about an urban agricultural area in the neighborhood.
Since the open house, a new draft on domestic farm animals has been outlined that does not allow pigs and cattle but has allowances for horses, sheep, goats, llamas and chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons, rabbits and similar small animals.
At the public hearing Tuesday, only one resident chose to talk about the proposal.
Joseph Rust raised concerns the plan is too vague and general in regards to transfer development rights and also the zones along the mountainside on the city's east side.
"I'm concerned about something we don't have a real handle on. We need something more concrete, more definitive," Rust told the council.
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