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Show The Newspaper Thursday, May 20, 1982 Page Af Silver Mountain Locals oppose parking solution The Planning Commission held Round 2 for the Silver Mountain project last week, and found a bloc of residents opposing its proposed parking park-ing base. The protests came from residents living near the switchback of Lowell and Empire Avenues, which has been proposed by developers as the site for a parking base and funicular railway station. sta-tion. The May 12th meeting was the second public hearing hear-ing on the project. Lamont Gunderson presented pre-sented an opposing petition with 75 signatures, and said, "The bottom line is, the impact will destroy one of our last remaining nice neighborhoods." Silver Mountain is proposed pro-posed as a PUD of potentially 470 units, situated between the Nastar and Payday runs in the hills to the west of Main Street. Developers say the funicular would be the primary access. Neighbors said a Lowell-Empire Lowell-Empire base would cause problems from customer traffic and construction vehicles. ve-hicles. One resident said, "The last time there was construction traffic on Lowell, Lo-well, I ended up with a lumber truck of shingles in my dining room." The commission asked for more data on Lowell-Empire and on alternate locations. Commissioner Rusty Davidson David-son said, "The convenience of the development would come second, for me, to the impact on the area." But frustrated planners for Silver Mountain said the city was not looking at their proposals with an open mind. Ironically, one of those complaining was Commissioner Commis-sioner Bill Mammen, a principal in the firm (A E Design Group) that is designing de-signing the base parking. Mammen said City Planner Plan-ner Bill Ligety is gearing the discussion to approve the staff's idea for a base on Swede Alley. "The format is rather negative," he said. Mammen formally left his commission seat during the discussion. Roy Reynolds, chief designer de-signer for Silver Mountain, said the developers would do everything they could to mitigate impacts in Old Town. Resident John Quinn said, "This will have more impact on us than if the project was here, and the parking was elsewhere." He said the 300-stall parking structure violates the area's HR-1 zoning. Ligety said if the base were placed far enough up the mountain, it would rest outside the HR-1 zone in Estate Zone. Mary Whitesides, at 812 Empire, said her view of the mountain would be spoiled by the parking base behind her, and she would be subjected to six years of construction activity while Silver Mountain is built. "I spent 14 years in New York, looking at cement. I know what, stress and noise can do," she said. Quinn said city transit would have to travel to the base to transport visitors. "Anyone who believes tourists tour-ists will walk down to Main Street, when they're accustomed accus-tomed to lower altitudes and warmer temperatures, should try it," he said. John Vrabel said pick-up truck traffic from contractors will be channeled up Lowell during construction. Project planner Van Martin Mar-tin said construction vehicles can use Park City Resort service roads. And after initial stages of construction, building vehicles can be accommodated inside the parking base without crowding crowd-ing the neighborhood. In addition, he said, traffic engineer Tom Stone has projected the peak traffic volume on Lowell would be Level B about one vehicle a minute which is quite inactive. inac-tive. The parking structure could be placed completely underground, he said, which would solve snow removal problems. "At any rate, it will be better looking than that tailings pile there," said Martin. When some resi dents replied they liked the tailings, as a reminder of old mining days, Martin shrugged, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess." Mammen told residents, "Your concerns are valid, but they are mitigated best at the Lowell-Empire location. loca-tion. If that spot's a problem, everything else is worse." Roy Reynolds said the impact problems also exist for the city staff's choice of Swede Alley. "We've worked with Park Citv for 2Vi years. We've seen the Aerie (development) (devel-opment) slide through the city; seen Deer Valley approved ap-proved with not enough circulation. We've been the good guys. We're trying to do it as sensitively as we know how." Greg Lawson said the commission was just looking for better suggestions than they had received. Lutheran pastor to be installed Pastor David Krueger will be installed as pastor of the Park City Lutheran Church at a special service on Sunday, May 23, 4 p.m., at St. Mary's Catholic Church, 121 Park Avenue. Following the service there will be a pot-luck dinner in St. Mary's Fellowship Hall. All members mem-bers of the Park City community are invited to attend. Presiding and preaching at the service will be Rev. Hal Nilsson of Zion Lutheran Church, Salt Lake City. The installing officer will be Ms. Ruth Myli, assistant to the Bishop of the Pacific Southwest South-west Synod, the Lutheran Church in America, Sacramento, Sac-ramento, CA. Other members mem-bers of the clergy from Park City churches as well as those from Lutheran churches around the state of Utah will also be participating. participat-ing. The Park City Lutheran congregation meets regularly regular-ly at 10:30 a.m. on Sundays, at St. Luke's Episcopal Church on Park Avenue. Westview gets planning OK Deer Valley restaurants to reopen June 1 Two restaurants will open June 1 at Deer Valley serving brunches, lunches and dinners. The Huggery restaurant, located at Snow Park Lodge offers a buffet-style buffet-style luncheon featuring a natural salad buffet, grill, hot specialty station, deli-style deli-style sandwich counter, a roast carvery, and dessert selections. On Sundays, the Huggery transforms its food concepts into a bruncheon buffet. The Huggery will serve lunch Monday through Saturday, 11:30 a.m. -2:30 p.m., Sunday brunch 10:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.Credit cards are accepted. Call 649-1007. Deer Valley's well-known high elevation restaurant, Cafe Mariposa will reopen for dinner seven nights a week. The Mariposa is located at Silver Lake Lodge (8,200) accessible via Royal Street. Guests will choose from special appetizers and salads, seafood, beef, veal, lamb and fowl entrees. Selections of fresh baked desserts will complete the bill of fare. Reservations are suggested, credit cards accepted. ac-cepted. Call 649-1005. A state wine and spirits store is open at Snow Park Lodge Monday through Saturday Sat-urday and offers a selection of California wines. The Cafe Mariposa will have mini liquor bottles and a variety of California wines by splits available nightly. The Westview subdivision came back again to Planning Commission last week this time from City Council and planners disposed of it once and for all by a 3-2 approval. The approval at the May 12 meeting came despite challenges chal-lenges that Westview shouldn't even be on the agenda legally. The 35-lot PUD in Deer Valley had been rejected, 4-3 at the April 28 planners meeting. The developer appealed ap-pealed that decision to City Council, which remanded it back to the commission. City Attorney Tom Clyde told the planners a possible procedural proce-dural defect existed because their reasons for denial weren't clear,, f Commissioner Bill Mammen Mam-men said the City Council assumed Westview was denied de-nied because of protests from property owners Peter Cole and Bob Carson in the adjacent American Flag subdivision. On April 28, Cole and Carson argued that Westview plans would violate vio-late promises they had received from Deer Valley realtors about the privacy of their land. City Council members have said the planners had no right to vote on the basis of civil dispute. But Mammen said West-view's West-view's real problem was a road that cut too deeply into forested land. Commissioner Rusty Davidson concurred. "I've had problems with the road from the beginning," he said. "I feel badly 'cause I didn't express myself strongly strong-ly enough." Mammen said City Council's Coun-cil's action was premature. "They hadn't discussed it with us. And it has not been advertised for this agenda. Planning Director Bill Ligety said Westview met legal requirements since it was posted at least 24 hours before the meeting. Attorney Robert Felton who said he represented protesting American Flag owners, also protested. He said that the City Council, not the Planning Commission, Commis-sion, has the authority to act on an appeal. "This is apparently an attempt by the council to get you to make the decision instead. Clyde said the ordinance placed no restriction on what City Council can do to handle appeals. "Remanding is a common practice in city governments," he said. The commission took a formal vote to reconsider the project, with all except Bill Mammen voting "yes". Commissioner Burnis Watts changed his position to support Westview. He said it would be useless to re-deny if City Council did not recognize recog-nize their reasons. He was joined by Dean Berrett and Cal Cowher. Opposing votes came from Mammen and Davidson. Commissioner Carol Calder abstained, saying say-ing she had not been involved in the entire review process for the project. How the Planning Commission WOIDD MOTIONS C. COWHER d V R. DAVIDSON B. WATTS I D. BERRETT B. MAMMEN If J W. BISHOP C. CALDER Motion to reconsider West-view, West-view, 35-lot PUD in Deer Valley. Motion to approve Westview. Motion to table erosion control con-trol guidelines. Approval of Miners Hospital-Library site plan. Timeshare conversion for J 6-unit Skiers Lodge at 1235 Norfolk. A mend GC zone to allow restaurants with drive-up windows. yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no yes yes yes abstain yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no no yes no yes yes absent absent absent absent absent absent yes abstain yes yes yes yes Window Washing Carpet Steam Cleaning Shangri-La Enterprises Park City, Utah Commercial and Residential Call now for free estimates. Bob, 649-6887. Exterior Maintenance: Mow, trim, edge, haul. Fertilizing, gardening, minor landscaping. 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