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Hoytsville Residents Voting On Incorporation

Residents in the Hoytsville area will be voting on incorporating and creating their own town this Election Day. 

Residents will have the opportunity to vote on incorporation this Election Day.  Summit County Community Development Director Pat Putt says that if Hoytsville residents choose to incorporate they’d still be more than a year out before they had a functioning city government.

“The vote will take place for area residents on Tuesday. If the vote is to incorporate the next step for those residents is to have an election for a mayor and a city council. My understanding is that election would take place in November of 2019. Then the next step, or concurrent with that step is an establishment on the effective date of the annexation. I believe the earliest that might be available is January 1st of 2020. So I think that in the event there is a vote to incorporate there’s going to be this 12-14 month period before the incorporation goes into effect.”

Putt says that should Hoytsville residents choose to incorporate the county offices, including the planning office would function as normal in the interim.

“We’re just going to have to discuss what that means. My take is since it still would be considered to be unincorporated Summit County we would continue to move forward with our zoning and our processes. Not wanting to preclude anybody from exercising the right to move forward with some sort of land-use application, conditional use permit, or subdivision or what have you. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the residents of future Hoytsville city would want to engage in a dialogue with the county council on some sort of interim step. I don’t believe that state code requires a sort of a time out or a moratorium.”

KPCW reporter David Boyle covers all things in the Heber Valley as well as sports and breaking news.
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