Farmington

FARMINGTON -- The city council has voted to add Mark Morris of VODA Landscape and Planning to the city’s site plan architectural review committee.

In action taken recently, Morris was named to the committee to replace Soren Simonsen.

The SPARC consists of at least three members, one of which is required to be an outside planning or urban design consultant.

FARMINGTON -- City leaders recently voted to fund the purchase of a second key water tender truck, used to combat hillside fires.

Acting at the behest of Chief Guido Smith, the city council voted to fund the $30,000 purchase price of the truck. Funding for the truck is expected to come from city reserve funds, since the truck’s purchase was not part of the 2012-2013 fiscal year budget, adopted earlier this year.

FARMINGTON - The city council has approved a plan to install a walking bridge over Shepard Creek in Ranches Park, at the behest of George Chipman of the city’s trails committee and Gemmie Benson of the Farmington Ranches Homeowners Association.

The council voted unanimously to move ahead with installation of the bridge at a recent meeting. The new span is expected to cost approximately $3,000 and tie into the Farmington Ranches Trail.

FARMINGTON — Work is about to begin on a four-story, 84-room Hampton Inn hotel.

“It is basically set to go. The building permit has been stamped. All we’re waiting for is the pre-construction meeting,” Farmington City Planner Dave Petersen said of the project to be built on nearly two acres of undeveloped property at the corner of Park Lane and Lagoon Drive.

FARMINGTON — City officials have given the green light conceptually to a new seven-lot subdivision on the city’s south side.

The city council recently voted unanimously to approve a schematic plan for Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Legacy Estates Subdivision, south of Glover Lane at 487 West.

FARMINGTON -- A break in a 2-inch gas line closed a few downtown Farmington businesses and the Memorial Davis County Courthouse for 90 minutes Wednesday after employees were forced to evacuate.

FARMINGTON -- A well house project on Main Street will be completed before the end of the year, City Engineer Paul Hirst says.

City officials have put plans to build the well house, on Main Street adjacent to the Community Center, out to bid, and Hirst said he hopes construction of the local project can begin after the city's Festival Days in July. He expects the work to be completed before the end of the year.