Landowners at the north end of Heber Valley seek more control with incorporation into River View, they told the Heber City Council this week. That could complicate things for the city.“There’s two main reasons,” said Mark Wilson, the main sponsor. “Number one is we want to have a seat at the table. There’s impacts coming to us — the bypass road, the storm drain water, several issues — and we want to be at the table so we can be treated fairly. The other reason is we want to protect our infrastructure so the boundaries of the town include all of our ditches, our diversions and everything.”He and other property owners in the North Fields area sponsored a feasibility study request with the Lieutenant Governor’s Office that was publicly posted about two weeks ago.At the time, several co-sponsors of the proposed town said they joined in the effort not to influence the Utah Department of Transporation’s Heber Valley Bypass route or try to keep it from cutting through the North Fields — something they said they don’t think they’ll be able to have much of a say in — but to maintain control of the water and infrastructure in the area.“Everybody wants a piece of the North Field,” co-sponsor Ed Clyde said. “We may as well make a town out of it and control our own destiny.” The incorporation push came as other property owners in the North Fields and developers are pushing for annexation into Heber City in pursuit of the Harvest Village project, which would include 140 town homes, 62 condos and 205 apartments with income restrictions.Because the land within the annexation requests is also inside the boundaries of a possible River View incorporation, Heber City Attorney Jeremy Cook said the situation could become complicated for the city.“We will notify the county clerk,” he said, “just to make sure they’re aware of the annexation.”Due to the location of the possible annexation, Cook said state statute preventing annexations that could make incorporations noncontiguous could potentially create a road block for the property owners attempting to incorporate.“The state statute says that if there’s a pending annexation and it would make it so that the incorporation is not contiguous, that it shouldn’t be certified,” Cook said. “That’s up to the clerk, obviously, and the Lieutenant Governor’s Office, but it looks like there’s a question about whether or not our annexation would result in that.”The incorporation process could take two to three years, and River View is near the beginning.Wilson said the potential township’s feasibility study request is in the hands of Wasatch County to verify the data petitioners submitted to the Lieutenant Governor’s Office. He predicted that in future phases of the incorporation, people will likely disagree with the move.“We acknowledge that, and we want to be fair,” he said.He also said land owners and water users in the North Fields are also concerned with the impact UDOT’s bypass would have in the area.“My plan is we will come up with this plan and the route through the North Fields that has the smallest impact to us,” he said. “We will take that plan to them, they will modify it, OK it, whatever. We want to be fair, and we want everything on top of the table.”  The post Incorporation would give River View more control over future, sponsors say appeared first on Park Record.