Toll roads, taxes, public safety changes in Cox transition team reports
Toll roads, taxes, public safety changes in Cox transition team reports
and last updated 2020-12-23 19:46:16-05
SALT LAKE CITY â In a series of reports, Governor-elect Spencer Cox s transition team recommends some significant changes to state agencies.
The reports, made public on Tuesday night, are a part of a review he ordered after being elected to office. The governor-elect s transition team, made up of volunteers, reviewed each agency and made a number of staffing and policy recommendations. Some suggest consolidating state divisions and departments, as first reported by FOX 13 earlier this month, while others expand government.
The Pleasant Grove City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved multiple ordinances to amend the city code in order to meet low-impact development standards for stormwater flow that were recently implemented by the Utah Department of Environmental Quality.
Low-impact development principles are those that âutilize stormwater as a resource to retain precipitation onsite,â according to the DEQ.
âAs a community grows, vegetation is removed and the surface area is covered by parking lots, roads, and rooftops. Precipitation cannot soak through these hard (impervious) surfaces,â the state environmental quality agency wrote in a summary of low-impact development. âTraditional storm water conveyance systems carry precipitation offsite through a conventional âcollect-and-conveyâ system of pipes, ditches, and storm drains. The volume of storm water (runoff) that is discharged to and transported by municipal storm-drain systems is one of the main causes of wa