Ordinance 12-01-2025 - An Ordinance Adopting the Water Use and Preservation Element of the General Plan of Santaquin City, Providing for Codification, Correction of Scrivener's Errors, Severability, and an Effective Date for the Ordinance
Ordinance 12-01-2025 - An Ordinance Adopting the Water Use and Preservation Element of the General Plan of Santaquin City, Providing for Codification, Correction of Scrivener's Errors, Severability, and an Effective Date for the Ordinance
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Notice
Event Start Date & Time
December 3, 2025 05:00 PM
Description/Agenda
ORDINANCE NO.12-01-2025
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE WATER USE AND PRESREVATION ELEMENT OF THE GENERAL PLAN OF SANTAQUIN CITY, PROVIDINGFOR CODIFICATION, CORRECTION OF SCRIVENER'S ERRORS, SEVERABILITY, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE ORDINANCE.
WHEREAS, the City of Santaquin is a fourth0class city of the state of Utah; and
WHEREAS, the state legislature requires that a municipality shall prepare and adopt a comprehensive, long-range general plan for the present and future needs of the municipality and
1 the growth and development of all or any part of the land within the municipality; and
WHEREAS, the state legislature in the 2022 legislative session amended the Municipal Land Use, Development, and Management Act through Senate Bill 110 to require certain cities incorporate a Water Use and Preservation Element into the General Plan by December 31, 2025; and
WHEREAS, Santaquin City contracted with a consultant, Hansen, Allen, and Luce, to create a Water Use and Preservation Element to be compliant with Senate Bill 110; and
WHEREAS, the Water Use and Preservation Element includes information related to historical water usage, water conservation goals, existing and future water demands, methods for water conservation, modifications to city operations to eliminate wasteful practices, and recommendations on water conservation policy; and
WHEREAS, the Utah Division of Water Resources has reviewed the Water Use and Preservation Element and Santaquin City has addressed comments; and
WHEREAS, the Santaquin City Planning Commission held a public hearing on September 9, 2025, which hearing was preceded by the posting of public notice in at least three public places within the City limits of Santaquin City in accordance with Section 10-20-204 of the Utah State Code; and
WHEREAS, after the noted public hearing, the Santaquin City Planning Commission forwarded a recommendation to the City Council;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of Santaquin City, State of Utah, as follows:
Section I. Amendment of General Plan
The Water Use and Preservation Element of the General Plan is hereby adopted and included in the General Plan as attached.
Section II. Severability
If any part of this ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstances shall, for any reason, be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction ,to be unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment shall not affe9t, impair of invalidate the remainder of this ordinance or the application thereof to other persons and circumstances, but shall be confined to its operation to the section, subdivision, sentence or part of the section and the persons and circumstances directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of the City Council that this section would have been adopted if such invalid section, provisions, subdivision, sentence or part of a section or application had not been included.
Section III. Codification, Inclusion in the Code, and Scrivener's Errors
It is the intent of the City Council that the provisions of this ordinance be made part of the Santaquin City Code as adopted, that sections of this ordinance may be re-numbered or re-lettered, and that the word ordinance may be changed to section, chapter, or other such appropriate word or phrase in order to accomplish such intent regardless of whether such inclusion in a code is accomplished. Typographical errors which do not affect the intent of this ordinance may be authorized by the City without need of public hearing by its filing a corrected or re-codified copy of the same with the City Recorder.
Section IV. Posting and Effective Date
This ordinance shall become effective at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 3, 2025. Prior to that time, the City Recorder shall deposit a copy of this ordinance in the official records of the City and place a copy of this ordinance in three places within the City.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 2nd day of December 2025.
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