Council advances public-works ordinance updates; direction given on parking, sight-distance and irrigation hookup rules

The Kaysville City Council on Nov. 6 directed staff to refine and return with ordinances that would tighten commercial parking rules, adopt AASHTO sight-distance standards for higher-speed streets, align excavation-permit language, and strengthen requirements for connecting new development to the city's pressurized-irrigation system.

Public Works Director Josh Belknap said the parking proposal would allow property owners in commercial or mixed-use areas to request painted red curbs and would give police a clearer basis to educate and, when necessary, enforce parking restrictions near driveways and entrances. He noted staff's intent to target application rather than paint all curbs citywide because paint maintenance and staffing make blanket painting impractical.

On sight distances, Belknap recommended formally adopting AASHTO standards for arterials and collector streets in place of a single, 30-foot clearview triangle limit. He said some remodeled intersections meet AASHTO but not the city's older clearview standard and that a modern standard better reflects traffic operations on busier streets.

Staff also proposed aligning city code with an earlier administrative change that reduced the moratorium on cutting into new asphalt (previously changed from four to three in an earlier permit adjustment). Finally, council discussed restoring stronger language so residential development east of U.S. Highway 89 will be required to connect to the pressure-irrigation system unless the city engineer determines a connection is infeasible. Several councilmembers encouraged staff to change the draft language from an opt-out to a "shall" requirement that places the burden on developers to demonstrate infeasibility to staff.

Council voted to move work item 7a forward with the recommended changes and asked staff to return with revised ordinance text.