The Joint Persigo Board of city council members and county commissioners met to change the 201 boundary to exclude a property at the request of the property owners.
Michael Ritter – Local Government Editor – 2 April 2021
At 2:30 p.m. this past Wednesday, the final day of March, the Grand Junction City Council & Mesa County Board of County Commissioners met for a Joint Persigo Board Meeting.
- In attendance from the City of Grand Junction were Mayor Duke Wortmann, City Councilmembers Phillip Pe’a, Anna Stout, Phyllis Norris, Kraig Andrews, Rick Taggart, and Chuck McDaniel. City staff members in attendance were; City Manager Greg Caton, City Attorney John Shaver, Utilities Director Randi Kim, and City Clerk Wanda Winkelmann. In attendance from Mesa County were Commissioners Scott McInnis, Rose Pugliese, and John Justman. Staff members in attendance were; County Administrator Pete Baier, County Attorney, J. Patrick Coleman, and Clerk to the Board, Kelly Bryant.
The groups met to hold a public hearing to consider a request by Raymond h. Riley and Vickie c. Riley to exclude 69.33 acres of property located at 373 granite falls way from the Persigo 201 sewer service area. The Persigo 201 sewer service area, often referred to as area 201, is the service area for the Persigo Water Treatment Plant; Area 201 services inside and outside of City Limits.
A procedural direction in Oct. 2020 directed the Persigo Board to align the 201 Service Area Boundary (201) with the Urban Development Boundary (UDB) as a part of the One Grand Junction Comprehensive Plan (OGJCP). The adoption of the OGJCP established the new UDB and, in doing so, set the new 201. The OGJCP also holds that any modification to the 201 requires approval of the Persigo Board, which was the procedural cause of the Board’s convening this past Wednesday.
The applicants of this change to the 201 boundaries, Raymond h. Riley and Vickie c. Riley, the owners of the property in question, was represented at the hearing by Mike Russell. Russell implored the Committee to remove this property from the 201 Persigo agreement based on topography limitations and the Colorado National Monument location restrictions.
The city & county’s case for the change of the 201 boundary was presented by Tamra Allen, Community Development Director, David Thornton, Principal Planner, both city staff members. Thornton supported the boundary change and exclusion of the 373 granite falls way property. Holding with the contingency that the property is rezoned to rsf-r (residential-single-family rural 1 unit per 5 Acres) because this better reflects the applicant’s intended use of the property.
Mayor pro tem Kraig Andrews moved to exclude 69.33 acres of property Located at 373 granite falls way from the Persigo 201 service area, contingent Upon rezoning to county rsf-r and add a second condition of the UDB, also being modified by the city to exclude that property (the exclusion will be Conditioned upon the rezoning of the parcel to rsf-r and future modification Of the UDB) councilmember Chuck McDaniel seconded. Motion passed by roll call vote of the grand junction city council 6 – 1. Councilmember Norris voted no. Motion passed unanimously by roll call vote of the mesa county commissioners 3 – 0.
Following the vote, Councilmember Norris requested a conversation be held at a future meeting to discuss a review of the Persigo agreement and the Urban Development Boundary (UBD). Councilmember Norris recommended assigning two Councilmembers and at least one Commissioner with the respective attorneys to work through the issues and then present to the Board to approve. Mayor Wortmann recommended Councilmember Andrews and Councilmember McDaniel to be representatives. Commissioner Scott McInnis stated he would recommend one Commissioner to partake in these discussions as well.
There was no other business to discuss, and there were no public comments given at this meeting. Mayor Duke Workmann adjourned the meeting at 3:04 p.m.
For more information about the Persigo 201 sewer service area, click here.
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