The Hideout planning commission voted Thursday, March 21 to approve a conditional use permit for firefighters to set up camp in the town’s Shoreline neighborhood, on Recreation Drive.
The Wasatch Fire District plans to construct a temporary fire station to use until a more permanent structure can be built. Fire Chief Eric Hales said it will be in place around three years while the fire district collects revenue from a new EMS sales tax voters approved in November.
“The goal is that we won’t have to go out for another bond, or we don’t have to go out for [a] tax increase to pay for the station,” he said. “So over the next three years, we feel we will generate enough revenue to pay for this fire station in Hideout, as well as others that we need throughout the county.”