Wasatch County Council

Items at Wasatch County Council’s meeting Wednesday include discussions regarding farmland in the county. Wasatch County Council meets remotely via video conferencing Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 in addition to updates on the Wasatch County Health Directive the council will attend to more normal functions. Among those include considering amending code related to Farm Preservation Regulations and consider creating a Rural Preservation Subdivision ordinance. The ordinance is meant to accommodate a specific development that…

Wasatch County leadership is working on the next phase in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. During an update to the Wasatch County Council, Health Department Director Randall Probst compared the county response to COVID-19 to a light bulb being dimmed down. Now he says they’re preparing to make gradual adjustments to brighten the metaphorical bulb. “We started working with some of our businesses to start to identify what it’s going to look like as we start turning up that switch,” Probst explained. “It’s not going…

Wasatch County Council is considering a new program to provide affordable housing for essential county employees. The effort may help sheriff’s deputies, public works employees and others obtain housing in the increasingly expensive Heber Valley. The council heard about the Shared Appreciation Mortgage or SAM program at the county council meeting on February 5th. Wasatch County Assistant County Manager Dustin Grabau explains what the new program would do. “We’re talking about a shared appreciation mortgage programs for…