Blasting halted at Herriman's Panorama development after a neighbor's complaints

HERRIMAN — Blasting at Panorama, a new neighborhood under construction beside Joeanne Bolnick's home, has been halted temporarily after she said rock and debris from the explosions crossed onto her property 1.

KSL reported on Oct. 29 that the city of Herriman said blasting as part of a development is typically outside its jurisdiction, that resident concerns had reached Fieldstone, the company behind Panorama, and that Fieldstone had stopped the blasts while it considers next steps 1. The company had not responded to KSL's request for comment 1.

Bolnick told KSL that the city and the blasting company give notice of blasts but do not narrow down a time, so residents are "often surprised by a very large explosion" 1. She said she saw debris and rock coming toward her window, that rocks were found in her backyard and in a neighbor's, and that rocks had been thrown clear over her house onto the roof 1. KSL reported that the blasting was breaking up a large rocky mound on the site, and that a video Bolnick shared shows explosions within a few hundred feet of her home 1.

**The agreement behind the site**

The Panorama master development agreement on file with Herriman City describes a property of approximately 319 acres and caps development there at 1,716 residential dwelling units, with Panorama Developers, LLC as master developer and its permitted assignees or transferees 2. An OpenUtah record of the city's development files shows the City Council voted 5-0 on Jan. 29, 2026 to let a new developer, Toll Southwest, LLC, take over the Panorama master development from Riverside Development, LLC 3.

The agreement does not use the word blasting 2. It does require anyone extracting or processing rock, sand or gravel on the property to obtain a land disturbance permit from the city first, and requires that permit to carry a plan for controlling fugitive dust as the state requires 2.

**Where blasting came up in the city's own record**

Herriman's statement that blasting in a development is outside its jurisdiction sits beside a planning record in which residents asked the Planning Commission about exactly that, and the applicant answered with a promise to follow the geotechnical report and the city's ordinances.

At the commission's Aug. 19, 2026 meeting, at the public hearing on the 68-lot Laguna Pointe subdivision at approximately 14860 S. Juniper Crest Road, David Gray said he lives on Bartlett Drive — a street that the testimony describes as one of the project's two access points — and asked whether the site's rock would be "ripped, hydraulically hammered, or blasted," and what horizontal and vertical ground movement was predicted for existing homes 4.

The applicant's authorized agent, Matt Christensen, told the commission the project has a geotechnical report and it would "follow all of the findings in that as far as blasting and any technical recommendations," with the geotechnical consultant on site to monitor and "keep the existing homes safe" 4. He said dust mitigation "is part of the city's pre-construction checklist," and that at final plat the same would apply to blasting: "We will follow the city's ordinances for that" 4. Andrea Bradford, who presided, then raised the blasting and dust mitigation that had come up in public comment 4.

The commission renewed Laguna Pointe's preliminary plat 6-0 that evening 4. Another resident told the commission that crews had blasted "on the back side over there on the other subdivision that's going in" and "shook everything" 4.

**What happens next**

No notice about blasting at Panorama appears in the Planning Commission listings reviewed for this story 5. KSL reported the halt is temporary while Fieldstone weighs its next steps 1.