Let me lay down a little ground work before I voice my opinion and discuss a topic that I think the city should address. Firstly, lets talk about the Dark Skies Ordinance. Eagle Mountain city has a Dark Skies Ordinance that was approved by the City Council in 2014. The city website states this about…
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Easy Ways to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle to Make Your Home More Eco-Friendly
Eagle Mountain does give its residents several ways to be Eco-Friendly. They offer a recycle program, a trash clean-up day, Christmas Tree recycling, and leaf collection in the fall. Ace Disposal offers Eagle Mountain residents a curbside recycling program. The recycling can is full-sized and is billed at the rate of $5 monthly, compared to…
Read more2019 Eagle Mountain Road Studies
The roads department of Eagle Mountain City preforms several road studies during the year to evaluate city needs as well as to find/verify problem traffic areas. In 2019 the Eagle Mountain roads department demoed a radar system that is used for road studies. The system could be setup in an area that will collect car…
Read moreSurvey Shows EM Residents Don’t Want Urbanization – No to Multi-Family and High Density
There is a lot of discussion about what the difference is between Rural, Suburban, and Urban. There are several websites that discuss this, so I will just briefly identify the three types and what they include. Rural: of or relating to the country, country people or life, or agriculture. Suburban: an outlying part of a…
Read more2019 Fire and Medical Call Statistics
Each year I ask United Fire Authority (UFA) for statistics on the number of calls they go to each year. These calls include Medical and Fire calls. According to UFA, “Medical Calls include incidents that are dispatched as medical in nature.The total number includes traffic accidents, welfare checks, and those incidents that are “mutual aid”…
Read moreJanuary Newsletter Eagle Mountain Chamber of Commerce
UPCOMING CHAMBER EVENTS Connect 4 Lunch Networking Connect 4 Lunch is a great networking event! Held every third Thursday of the month at different lunch locations! Come connect with other business professionals. Bring your business cards and if you want to raffle a prize, bring that too! January location will be at State…
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