This website is intended to provide you with information about myself, Wayne Pennington, a member of the Ivins City Council, and to provide you with insight about matters before the Council. In the pages linked above, you will first find a “highlights” section briefly describing my views on some subjects and background. You will also find an “About Wayne” section, which provides more insight into my personal history and general thoughts for the City of Ivins. Additional “posts” are often added on a number of subjects of interest to Ivins residents. These include Water, Growth, Financial, and other matters.
This site is not intended to be flashy, but informative. My views on subjects are explained thoroughly, but short summaries are also provided for most items. I hope you read them and compare them with views expressed by other candidates.
Feel free to use the contact form below to let me know of your interest (or email me at wayne4ivins (at) gmail.com).
There are several errors in the calculations relied on by the Ivins City tax opponents. Without presenting my opinion on the tax hike here (it is available elsewhere), I am correcting those errors in detail in this essay. I used the spreadsheet provided by that group, stated to be the basis for their claims. In…
How to improve Ivins’ Zoning and Land Use Most people want to see young families move into Ivins, but it is often too expensive for them to do so. As a result, Ivins is rapidly becoming a place where only retirees can live. The high cost of housing here is partly due to the high…
With the interest in Ivins City’s tax increase on the table, it is worth our collective time to ensure that we all understand the facts of property taxes in the State of Utah. So here are a few items that often cause confusion. Warning: it gets more complicated as you go on; I hope you…
I have a deep history regarding water issues for Ivins City; most of this involved the proposal for a reuse water reservoir in Dry Wash, containing partially processed wastewater (not fresh water or fully purified water), at a location equivalent to roughly 800 W. The design called for a reservoir that occupied 66 acres when…
Zoning should be governed by the Land-Use Plan, which needs to be updated to reflect contemporary issues. New “affordable” housing should be planned in conjunction with small commercial districts such that it is near local grocery and other stores, public transportation, and parks, requiring more coordination among the City and developers (and SITLA/UTLA) than currently takes place. That planning must take place with considerable input from residents, fully informed of tradeoffs between amenities and cost.
First, a summary: Ivins has not had a tax increase in dollar amount since 2010 or earlier. Its taxing rate (the percentage value of a residence) has indeed gone down in that time, as housing values have risen. (See Note 1.) In the meantime, inflation has devalued the buying power of that dollar amount by…
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