Black Desert Resort Height Exception Update
Last night the Planning Commission recommended to approve a special height exception for the resort. Next, it goes to the City Council for their consideration. However, instead of a request…
Water: Culinary Plus Secondary Or Just Culinary?
Homes in Ivins use culinary water indoors as well as outdoors for irrigation. Years ago, Ivins started requiring new subdivision to equip homes for both culinary and secondary water. The…
Black Desert Resort Wants To Get High
Well, this is interesting. The Planning Commission on Tuesday August 3rd will consider recommending approval of a request by the resort to get a special exception to the City’s 35-foot…
Do We Have Enough Water?
Last year Ivins consumed 2,438 acre-feet of water. That works out to 220 gallons per person per day according to City estimates. Based on that, one acre-foot of water is…
Black Desert Resort Wants A PID?
There will be a City Council public hearing tomorrow, July 15th, about creating a Public Infrastructure District (PID) for Black Desert Resort. That’s so they can secure up to $106…
Wrestling With The State & Mother Nature
The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing and consider recommending changes to the City’s Subdivision Ordinance at its July 13th meeting. Sounds like an exciting topic, doesn’t it? Of…
Hidden Springs RV Resort
Hidden Spring RV Resort. There will be a public hearing at the Ivins Planning Commission on Tuesday July 13th starting at 5:30pm. This is early on the agenda. The Resort…
Permit Me To Tally Recent Development
We talk about all the new development going on in Ivins. So here are the actual numbers. Ivins issued 100 to 150 permits a year between 2015 and 2018. Permit…
I Moved To East Canyons. You Moved Too
I used to live in Ivins. Last Thursday I moved to “East Canyons.” Maybe you moved to East Canyons too. If not, then you either moved to “West Cliffs” or…
Water. Water! Water?
We built our Ivins home in 2003 and were required to have it plumbed for both culinary water for indoors and reuse water for outdoors. At least since 2003 all…