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The Highland City Council on Sept. 15 adopted two ordinances: one allowing small-animal veterinary clinics in the Commercial Retail zone and another updating rules for e-bikes and motor vehicles on city parks, trails and sidewalks.
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Alpine Mayor Carla Merrill has proclaimed Sept. 17–23 as Constitution Week in partnership with the Daughters of the American Revolution, encouraging residents to reflect on constitutional rights and responsibilities.
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Lehi City is accepting applications through Oct. 9 for a full-time justice court judge to replace Judge Morgan Cummings, who plans to resign in October, with the position paying up to $190,139 per year.
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Alpine City's final 2026 Water Education Open House on Sept. 16 features a BYU professor speaking on Great Salt Lake health, one day after a University of Utah report estimated the lake's dust causes $115.79 million in annual health costs statewide.
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The U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit challenging Utah's 2002 law granting in-state tuition to undocumented high school graduates, a policy that directly affects students from Alpine School District high schools including Lone Peak, Lehi and Skyridge.
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Lehi's City Council addressed five action items at its Sept. 8 meeting, including a proposed increase to the residential solar energy cap, a charitable grant for a Mill Pond property, inaugural appointments to the Small Business Advisory Council, updated PARC tax grant guidelines and a new data privacy policy.
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The Lehi City Council discussed updating its Master Transportation Plan at a Tuesday, Sept. 8 working session and considered several action items including a telecom franchise for Zayo, though vote outcomes have not yet been confirmed.
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The Lehi Planning Commission will hold public hearings on five items Thursday, Sept. 10, including AT&T's bid to place a cell antenna atop Primary Children's Hospital, architectural exceptions for a storage building at the Outlets at Traverse Mountain, and a proposed rewrite of the city's development agreement rules.
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Alpine's Planning Commission will hold a public hearing Tuesday, Sept. 15, on a Healey Boulevard developer's offer to fund public works in exchange for a private-lane exception, a state-mandated wildfire map and proposed fence-rule changes.
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The U.S. Department of Education warned all K-12 schools, including Alpine School District, that withholding student records from parents could cost them federal funding, putting more than $107 million in local dollars at stake.
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Alpine's Water Citizen Advisory Committee reported a 10.65% drop in water use this summer compared with 2025 and is pushing the City Council to approve a conservation-based irrigation fee schedule by January 2027.
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The Lehi Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on five development items Sept. 10, including AT&T's request to place a cell antenna atop Primary Children's Hospital and architectural exceptions for the Outlets at Traverse Mountain storage building.
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