Latest News...July 17, 2008 10:34 Click Here to read about our South Mountain Neighborhood Watch Initiative! July 14, 2008 15:27 Click Here to learn about all of the activities at DRAPER DAYS, July 14-19. May 15, 2008 09:17 Thanks to everyone who participated at our annual Homeowners Meeting! You can see the pictures by clicking here. May 14, 2008 14:27 South Mountain Golf Course for Sale? Click here for the story in the Deseret News. March 12, 2008 14:26 A New Park in Draper? The Salt Lake County Council voted on March 11th to make an offer of $5 million for 64 acres of land at 300 east and 13800 south for a new park. Click here for the story in the Salt Lake Tribune. April 29, 2008 09:16 Wondering when that new Harmon's opens? It opens April 29th! April 29, 2008 09:24 Upgrade to the Flight Park The 5 acre flight park is getting some upgrades by the county. They're adding a pavilion, a picnic shelter, and more take-off/landing pads. There's actually 40 acres there, and the rest of the land is being held for future soccer and fields and opens space. The upgrades should be done by fall. January 24, 2008 14:08 Encroachment in Draper Click here for a copy of a letter sent by the South Mountain Homeowners Association Board to the Draper City Council concerning the encroachment issue. This may be one of the hottest topics in Draper. Some see it as an opportunity to punish people who grabbed public lands from Draper and the public at large. Others see it as a community-minded endeavor to beautify and protect areas that are not otherwise maintained. And like most hot issues, the truth is all over the ballpark. Your South Mountain Homeowners Association has never condoned encroachment on public or private lands. We have gone on record multiple times with city government, legal entities, and the public in this regard. What we have also done is to urge careful consideration of all the circumstances surrounding each encroachment incident. When South Mountain was in the early stages of development, builder bankruptcies, apathy, and lack of funding left many areas trashed, incompletely landscaped, and eroding from extreme slopes and the absence of water flow planning. City Management at that time, lacked the resources to solve the many problems and therefore encouraged the citizens to step forward and partner in the mitigation efforts. The South Mountain Development Plan of 1994 even states that homeowners were encouraged to visually expand the smaller lots. It is true that since that time, some homeowners constructed permanent structures that encroached to varying degrees. Many of these residents are now long gone to other parts of the state and country. Those who purchased these properties are now stunned to find that their property boundaries are not what they believed. And then there are those homeowners who fenced off large amounts of public land for their personal use, who constructed large structures totally on Draper open land, and even some whose landscaping passions just got ahead of themselves. Knowing the history of development in this area, our association decided to become involved to urge common sense and individual consideration by city council in handling these situations. We have:
Our hope is that no one, including the city or the public, will conclude this activity without fair restitution.
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