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Show Vies for mayor Jerry Jensen has announced his candidacy for mayor of Center-ville. Center-ville. MR. JENSEN was elected to the Centerville City Council in 1984 and presently serves on both the Council and the Planning and Zoning Zon-ing Commission. During his past two years in city government Mr. Jensen feels he has developed a first hand knowledge and understanding under-standing of the critical issues facing the city both now and in the future. Growth and development are the overriding issues in Mr. Jensen's candidacy. Acknowledging that the development of the remaining open lands within the city is imminent, immi-nent, he feels the questions of how and what should be developed is the real issue. MR. JENSEN is strongly opposed to allowing additional higher density residential zones within the city. He notes the studies stu-dies concerning the economic impact im-pact of higher density are overwhelmingly over-whelmingly negative. As density rises the costs of providing basic city services to the individual household increase dramatically. He feels more emphasis needs to be placed on the development of the city's commercial and industrial indust-rial zones. Mr. Jensen supports a more active role on the part of the city in developing these areas. Without the tax base such properties prop-erties generate the city's residents will carry an even greater tax burden bur-den in the future. FISCAL policies with Federal Revenue Sharing and other outside sources of revenue rapidly disappearing dis-appearing pressures on local tax sources will continue to increase. Mr. Jensen feels that if new innovative innova-tive approaches to basic service delivery are not explored and im-plimented, im-plimented, then citizens will continue con-tinue to see a rapidly increasing tax burden at the local level. Communication. In order to address these and other critical issues Mr. Jensen wants city government gov-ernment to play a greater role in the communication process. Traditional Tradi-tional communication methods such as "legal notice" and "posting "post-ing notice of public meetings at three public places" are simply inadequate. in-adequate. MR. JENSEN, with his wife and five children, have resided in Centerville Cen-terville for the past seven years. He received his B.S. degree from BYU in 1971, and recently completed com-pleted graduate work at USU. He is presently employed with Union Pacific Railroad at their Salt Lake City Office. He has consulted with numerous major corporations throughout the U.S. in establishing loss preven- tion programs in the transportation industry. He has published several articles, co-authored one book, and is considered an authority in the field of transportation security. |