Kendall Crittenden has secured a win for Wasatch County Council Seat D, succeeding both Tori Broughton and Jami Hewlett.
Preliminary election results released Tuesday night showed Kendall Crittenden ahead of Broughton and Hewlett in their race for Wasatch County Council Seat D.
Final results show that Crittenden ultimately secured 54% of the vote with 1,262 ballots counted for the incumbent councilor.
Broughton decided to run for County Council after unsuccessfully running for a seat on Heber City Council just last year. She’s only lived in the community for a few years, but her role as store manager at the Trek Bicycle Heber City shop as well as her regular attendance of city and county council meetings helped her quickly get acquainted with ongoing government considerations, issues and plans.
She chose to run under the United Utah Party, as she “didn’t feel at home” in the Democratic or Republican camps.
Crittenden, a Republican and retired schoolteacher from Wasatch County School District and incumbent councilor of 20 years, ran to his seat and cited his years of experience and knowledge about the county as reasons for doing so.
Broughton hoped to disrupt what she considered “groupthink” among long-standing councilors. She’s raised concerns that county spending to preserve open space has largely gone to private land rather than public areas, a need for more amenities such as public parks, willingness to support Heber City’s downtown redevelopment efforts and concerns that the Utah Department of Transportation has shown inconsistency or discrepancies when discussing the Heber Valley Corridor project — a bypass route plan to alleviate local traffic that has faced several delays and complications — with different governments throughout the county.
Crittenden has sought for more clarification on what projects Heber City would like to focus on before putting his support behind their redevelopment program, and he sees the county’s rapid growth as “a real concern” as Heber City is currently considering plans that could lead to several annexations, one of which could add up to 4,000 home units to the community.
He also expressed his hopes to expand the county’s parks and recreation programs. If elected, he hopes he can be a beneficial part of the bypass process with UDOT and that there would be a definite route in place by the end of his next term.
Hewlett ran as a Libertarian and has been less vocal about her specific platforms than either of her competitors. She has emphasized the importance she places on the community’s quality of life and responsible growth.