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Show Wednesday, September 11, THE 1974 PARK CITY ITS THE LAW, OR IS IT? Why have laws if we do not enforce them? Why have a Planning Commission if we will not listen to it? The Park City Council recently informed Pressure Vessel Products, Inc., that it had sixty days in which to implement specified plant improvements. Pressure Vessel seems to be striving for compliance and indeed has stated it will have completed all required work within the time period stipulated. Then all is well, right? Wrong! Pressure Vessel has a history of conveniently ignoring city ordinances and of failing to respond to requests for explanations. Leniency finally had to be abandoned as the time for punitive action arrived, However, acting under a set of false assumptions, the City Council failed to enforce the pertinent laws and again, Pressure Vessel was given another chance. In defense of the council, they did make the decision they thought to be right given the circumstances presented them. To the discredit of the council, when made aware of their error, they refused to act accordingly. In September of 1972, the Park City Planning Commission established conditions which were to be met by Pressure Vessel before that company could receive a conditional use permit. On July 3, 1974, the Planning Commission mailed a registered letter to Pressure Vessel requesting their presence at the July 17th commission meeting to discuss their failure to comply with these conditions. July 17th arrived but Pressure Vessel did not. At the time, the Planning Commission assumed that Pressure Vessel was in possession of a conditional use permit and a business license. That body agreed to recommend the revocation of both the permit and the license. It directed its chairman to compose a letter stating the commissions wishes and sent it to the City . CONDOMINIUMS LAND and HOMES I (MM Council. Unfortunately, the letter which was sent did not It excorrectly reflect the attitude of the commission. Vessel to pressed a preference for allowing Pressure comply with the conditions originally set forth rather than the actual desire for termination of operation. Given misdirection by the letter and pleased by the materialization of a Pressure Vessel representative, the City Council granted the firm sixty days to meet the specified conditions. The Planning Commission sent another letter to the City Council on August 19th of this year. It was a letter of dual intent. It corrected the misrepresentation of the commissions declaration and it informed the council that recent investigative work had revealed that Pressure Vessel had never been granted a conditional use permit or a business license. Therefore, Pressure Vessel has operated, and continues to operate, outside of city ordinances. The letter went on to request a meeting with the council to discuss the issue and it recommended that Pressure Vessels should not be granted a conditional use permit or a business license. In possession of this new information the City Council again reviewed the Pressure Vessel issue at its September 5th meeting. Knowing that the company is operating illegally, knowing that the Planning Commission advocated the termination of business, and knowing that it does not have the power to grant a conditional use permit, what action did the City Council take. None! No wonder the Planning has been characterized as being frustrated. Its function has been perverted by an enforcement arm which refuses to move. The moral of this travesty seems to be: If you are unable to obtain city approval for a desired project, proceed anyway. You can always come sniveling to our elected officials at some future date and be given a second, third, or fourth chance to redeem yourself. Once you have spent your money, it would be so unkind to make you obey the law. I I - Commission Page 2 Sewer District Meeting A meeting of the Snyderville Basin Sewer District Board was held on Tuesday, September 3rd. Agreements between Park City and the sewer district were discussed. It has been decided that the city will handle billing for the district and that it will maintain and operate the sewer system. Investigation revealed that Park City cannot transfer title to its existing sewer system until the outstanding bonds are paid. Also discussed was the contract between the district and Park West Village. Park West Village is currently utilizing an interim system. The Jeremy Ranch project will be offering a proposal in the near future. The developers are eager to start construction and a sewer contract is needed before any work can be done. SAVINGS BONDS SALES Sales of Series E and H Savings Bonds in July for Summit County totaled $6,091, according to District volunteer Bonds Chairman Clark L. Wilson, Manager, The Anaconda Company, Salt Lake City. This brings the January-Jul- y total to $38,837. State-wid- e sales for July came to $2,492,431, making the total of $16,574,340. In making this announcement, Utah State Chairman Wendell E. Gile said this brings the state to 57.7 percent of the 1974 quota of $28,700,000. Nationally, sales came to $541 million, which is 11 percent above the July 1973 total, which represents the largest amount of sales for any July since H Bond sales began in 1952. A record sales of Series E Bonds 29-ye- ar NIELSEN REALTY ' 649-974- 5 or ' 752-044- 3' alone at $516 million were higher than in any July since 1945. Total cash sales of Savings Bonds for the first seven months of 1974 amounted to $4,224 million, 5.3 percent above a year earlier. Holdings of Savings Bonds including Freedom Shares were more than $62 billion as of July 31st, 1974. As of July, the following coun- ties have equalled or surpassed the 50 percent mark in attainment of their sales quota of Bonds: Box Elder, Cache, Morgan, Rich, Weber, Davis, Salt Lake, Summit, Tooele, Daggett, Duchesne, Uintah, Utah, Wasatch, Millard, Washington, Carbon, Emery, and Grand, making a total of 19 counties out of 29. Grand County (Robert A. Dalton, Chairman) led the counties with 96.5 percent of quota. ABOUT THE COYER Miner QB Pat Pirraglio sneaks across the goal line for a P.C. score. Unfortunately, this was the Miners only score. See page 15 for story. |