Weber County General Election November 5, 1996 MAR01 Harriot/Slat-Harriot Town Marriott Township Registered Voters 213 Ballots Cast 202 94.84% Harriott Township For Harriott Creation (178) 175 89.29% Against Harriott Creation (179) 21 10.71% For Planning and Zoning Board Vote for 3 Gerald Bischoff (181) 83 15.31% Barbara 3rown (132) 61 11.25% Judith Elmer (183) 46 8.49% Delbert Hodson (184) 111 20.48% Bill Morris (135) 118 21.77% Eric Olsen (186) 54 9.96% Randy Phipps (187) 69 12.73% Slaterville Township Registered Voters 515 Ballots Cast 378 73.40% Slatervillie Township For Slaterville Creation (216) 322 96.70% Against Slaterville Creation (217) 11 3.30% For Planning and Zoning Board Vote for 3 Von Allred (218) 79 7.48% William Barton (219) 41 3.88% Alan Brown (220) 42 3.93% Keith Butler (221) 211 19.98% Vern 3utler (222) 34 3.22% Carolyn Deru (223) 6A 6.06% Orvil Holley (224) 199 18.84% Ren Meyerhoffer (225) 109 10.32% Kim Slater (226) 162 15.34% Rob Smout (227) 115 10.89% Township plans on hold Before development, planning and zoning boards must be set up By GREG KRATZ Standard-Examiner staff Any developer who was hoping to set up a subdivision or request a zoning change in one of Weber County's six new townships will have to wait awhile. Craig Barker, county planner, said no new or continuing proposals within the township areas that require planning commission approval will be considered until county commissioners set up rules for township planning and zoning boards. "The ordinance that the county adopted on election procedure specified that once the election is completed, townships are effective immediately," Barker said Tuesday. "We had items on our agenda for today's (county planning commission) meeting that we have since told those proponents we cannot handle at this time, because they're in a township." Township boards to select final members By Monday night, all of Weber County's six townships should have their new planning and zoning boards ready to roll. Five of the six township boards will meet Monday to pick their seventh members, after three were elected in November and three were appointed by Weber County commissioners last month. The five boards will hold their public meetings in commission chambers of the Weber Center, 2380 Washington Blvd., Monday evening. The Reese board will meet at 6 p.m., followed by Warren at 6:15 p.m., Hooper at 6:30 p.m., Slaterville at 6:45 p.m. and Marriott at 7 p.m. The East Huntsville board held its first meeting Thursday and selected Jim Schmittling as its seventh member. Weber County's townships were voted into existence in November based on a law passed by the 1996 Legislature. That law said citizens in an area could elect to form townships, which can avoid annexation and get their own seven-member planning and zoning boards. November 1996 People in East Huntsville, Hooper, Marriott, Reese, Slaterville and Warren overwhelmingly voted in favor of their areas becoming townships during last week's election. A law passed by the 1996 Legislature allows areas to form townships, which can avoid annexation into other cities and get their own seven-member planning boards. Three of those members were elected for each area last week. Three more will be appointed by county commissioners, and those six will then meet to appoint the final member. Barker said it may be early January 1997 before commissioners make their appointments and the boards meet. The state townships law also leaves it up to counties to decide how those boards will operate. Barker said a draft proposal that includes rules and regulations for the local boards may come before the county commission within the next couple weeks. "In that, it talks about where the meetings will be, what kind of support they will have, what kind of rules they will follow and what powers they will have," Barker said. "Different counties have treated the townships within their boundaries in different fashions." Until everything is sorted out, he said, developers will have to wait. "We just kind of give the developers the bad news that we're not going to, at the county level, hear the applications, and we give them our best guess as to when the townships will be ready to address them," Barker said. December 30, 1996 59