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Show THE Page 2 Wednesday, May 11, 1977 Editorial VOTE "YES" We've seen the statistics, we've read the letters, let-ters, we've been to the meetings and we've heard the comments. Now it's time to decide. Does Park City want to participate in the Snyderville Basin Sewer Improvement District? A sewer bond election may not be the most glamorous issue ever put before the voters but it certainly is the most important to be decided in Park City in recent memory. We know of no one who contests the fact that something must be done to upgrade the city's sewage treatment capabilities. Of course, yours doesn't stink and mine doesn't stink but somebody's does and it has to be treated before it heads downstreams. The battle ensues when the discussion turns to a regional plant versus an expanded city plant. Which course of action would be the most beneficial to Park City at this time? After digesting all the information put forth by supporters and opponents of the district, passage of the bond issue clearly makes the most dollars and cents sense. In regards to Park City's costs, the regional Dlant will be cheaper to construct, cheaper to operate and maintain and will require the lowest monthly service charges. To be sure, the monthly mon-thly fees will increase if the district is approved but they will jump even more dramatically if the city decides to go it alone. Despite the frantic allegations of "scare tactics," tac-tics," a building moratorium, lasting as long as two years, could be the aftermath of a bond election elec-tion defeat. There are letters from state and federal officials on file at City Hall attesting to this. Currently, Park City is in very sound financial shape. So sound, in fact, that the City Council is proposing a tax reduction of two mills. Why is the picture so bright? Certainly not because of a prosperous winter season. No, it is due to the building and impact fees which have been accruing to the city. Not only would a moratorium wipe out this hedge against the whims of Mother Nature and cause a total reworking of next year's budget but it would also destroy the credibility with lending institutions that Park City has worked so hard to restore. A moratorium would also mean a rise in the unemployment rate and a surge in housing costs. But there is still another effect of a moratorium which we have not heard articulated. ar-ticulated. Fear of strip development along Highway 224 been raised loudly and frequently as a reason to oppose the regional plant. The supposition sup-position is that the presence of the sewer line will encourage a proliferation of building in Snyderville and other outlying areas. But even D.A. Osguthorpe (who sounds suspiciously like Mary Lehmer) admits that county developers can utilize small package treatment plants as a less expensive alternative to the $750 connection fee imposed by the district. So, if the Park City land market is closed and the package plants are readily adaptable to construction con-struction in the outlying areas, where will the developers go? The only place they can go, outside out-side the city limits. I Defeat of the bond issue will not retard growth in the county, it will spur it. General obligation bonding has often been cited as a culprit in the rejection of last June's bond election. Apprehension over G.O. levy is negligible while the savings involved are quite tangible. Where were the screams when the fire district imposed its four mill levy? There wasn't even a whimper and that levy is fact while the sewer levy is, at best, speculation. There are many other reasons why the regional concept makes the most sense for the dry at this time, just as there are many reasons which could be presented favoring an expanded city plant. But when the advantages of both alternatives are weighed, the scale tips decisively toward the regional plant. If you have made up your mind to vote against the bond, there is little we can do. If you have decided to vote for the bond issue we think you have made the right choice. If you are undecided, un-decided, consider the facts carefully. We believe a thorough study of the situation will convince you to vote "yes" this Tuesday. Editor.. ..Steve Dering Business Manager ..Jan Wilking Office Manager. Janet Gilchrist Graphics .Mary Van Siclen Advertising Sales. Jan Peters Contributing Photographers. . Nick Nass, Pat McDowell, Scott Nelson, Craig Reece Publishers: Jan Wilking and ' Steve Dering Pictures, news and advertising may be submitted prior to Wednesday publication at our office, 419 Main Street, Park City, Utah B4060, by mail, Box 738, tj 1 or by calling 649-9592. Publication material must be Z i received by Monday afternoon for Wednesday. a publication. m ft 1" Barbara Gurski Don Hutchison Ron Whaley Yes Editor: As a Park City resident, subject to whatever fees result, and as a Summit County Planning Commission Com-mission member who will h have to deal with the growth in the unincorporated areas of Summit County, I feel compelled to comment on the unfortunate and unfounded un-founded allegations being made by political aspirants and vested-interest landowners lan-downers who are attempting to feather their nests by playing upon emotional issues in the guise of protecting protec-ting the old-time, fixed income in-come citizens. ,;f? Very simply, this area must treat the effluent of the population present and future, either as a series of little plants or in a large, more central plant. For Park City residents, you can elect to contribute $900 to the sewer bond via this issue; expect monthly fees of $5.00 and see this money allocated immediately to Park City sewer problems or if you do not favor this approach, you will be forced to pay, through Park City coffers, $1,500,000 and monthly fees far in excess of the $5.00 monthly fee with no upper limit! We must pay this issue through general or revenue bonds, no matter which avenue we elect to take. A no vote on the sewer bond election will not : 1. stop growth in this end of Summit County, 2. stop an increase in monthly mon-thly fees, 3. stop developers and developments in Park City ' or Summit County. All of the above are properly handled by the Planning Commissioners who are guided by their respective zoning ordinances. ordinan-ces. Give your avid and vocal support to these people, your appointed officials, of-ficials, and let them work to formulate the type of growth you want. I beg you please do not go to the poll Tuesday thinking that your are striking out against growth and against increased monthly fees. If you are on a fixed montyly income, I think your best bet to stop an uncontrolled increase in-crease is with a yes vote on this issue. To control rampant ram-pant growth in the unincorporated unincor-porated areas, vote for the regional concept and come to the meeting June 1 at Coalville to let your Commissioners Com-missioners know how you feel about zoning in Snyderville. Snyder-ville. Through this process, ' we can control growth and our effluent effectively. I will appreciate your contribution con-tribution to these most pressing problems. Respectfully, William McComb Summit County Planning Commission ' F1 1 fir r How About It ? Do you think the sewer bond will pass? Barbara Gurski -1 think it will pass because the town would be hurt so much if it doesn't. Bill McComb -1 think it's going to pass because it will cost everyone so much less if it does. If it doesn't pass and if a building moritorium is imposed im-posed on the needs of this past winter, it would severely cripple every segment of Park City's economy. Don Hutchison -1 certainly hope it's going to pass because we'll be in a real mess if it doesn't. Dolly Crooks -1 think it will pass because now we have our chance to get federal assistance so the user will only have to pay one quarter of the total cost of construction. Ron Whaley - It's going to pass because we need an immediate upgrading of the sewer system and the regional concept makes sense economically and environmentally. Priscilla Willard - Yes, I think it will pass because we've been harrassed by greedy and unconcerned developers, realtors and the Chamber of Commerce. Letters to tie Editor No Editor: WHEN WILL THIS IN- SANITY END? What happened to our elected officials' promises to help restore Main Street by not rezoning any more commercial com-mercial districts? Are they being threatened, bribed m blackmailed, or are they jusMi disinterested? We now have ; a Chamber of Commerce involved in politics, urging ' us all to vote for the sewer ' district. How does this help Park City? Annexation is rampant! Our schools are overfilled and understaffed. Crime is increasing; our police are undermanned. Our fire force is inadequate. Our growing pains are becoming be-coming very painful. We cannot handle what we already have. More homes, more shopping centers, more demands on our existing exist-ing services... more taxes are needed, but who is paying? A sewer line along the highway means more requests for annexation uncontrolled development, mobile home sites, 7-11's, Safeways Skaggs, Kentucky Frieds, MacDonalds, to name a few of the horrors we thought we'd left behind. Park City is heading for disaster unless we stop the greedy, unconcerned developers de-velopers from ruining our town environment and surrounding sur-rounding bucolic pastures. Plant a tree and vote NO to the sewer bond. Priscilla Willard Yes Dear Editor: With the Sewer Bond vote near at hand, it seems a shame that the county commissioners com-missioners are having dif- y ficulties coming to an agreement on controlled growth in the county, early enough to show people in Park City that it (the coun- j ty) is aware of the concerns of some Park City people. ; Most of the articles and info, printed about the bond issue j have been directed at what ; impact the regional plant j would have on Park City. But very little has been said ' about the impact the county would have in Park City. A ' city has benefits that it offers of-fers to people living in it. Some of these are water, sewer, fire protection, parks to name several. Now if the , county can offer part of the benefits, but not have to fur- v nish all of them, then they -can do the offering cheaper. If the county were to get many more nomes, at what point do they need fire protection and parks without drawing from, Park City? It doesn't seem right to make all of these issues dependent on a sewage treatment plant, because I believe that we both need the regional plant. It has been, pointed out many times that . in the long,fun,i jt wpuld,b,j the least expensive for Park City people, and a lot less expensive for the Snyderville Snyder-ville portion of the county., I would urge people to vote for the regional concept, but not be apathetic after it passes. It will take the City and County governments working together and the people of the whole area helping to solve the problems. Dale Nelson Yes Dear Editor: Before we moved here, I worked for the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, a sewage treatment treat-ment district that serviced about 10 million people. During that time many communities abandoned their locally supported treatment plants to join the Sanitary District for obvious reasons: economics. Now Park City is faced with a similar problem to expand the existing plant, which is a must today, or to establish a regional treatment plant. The long term economic advantages ad-vantages are the same in Park city as they are in Chicago. They favor a regional plant. John Demkowicz Professional Engineer Main Street Merchant No Editor: I worry about rapid strip-development strip-development blighting the road to Kimball Junction if a Regional Sewer Pipe were to be laid out there very soon. When the inevitable development does happen, the . smaller, modern technology sewage plants then available should encourage en-courage the more attractive clustering of residential and commercial buildings back from the main highway. , If, as we have been told, it really will cost three dollars more per family to improve our own city sewer plant now, then I'd gladly pay a dime a day to keep the schlock away. - Daniel Willard a? 5353 iii MV-1. il Bill McComb Dolly Crooks Priscilla Willard No Dear Editor: A news item in the Salt Lake Tribune of April 30, from Wellsville, Cache County, reported as follows: "Residents here say they are willing to have their water rationed, but they are not willing to do it at the expense ex-pense of Sherwood Hills, a nearby resort. "I see no reason to rob our citizens downtown to help Sherwood Hills in any way," said Mayor Charles Leatham at a public discussion of the city's water shortage. City officials and. .citizens .claim . the resort was watering its : golf coUDSfi.last;iweeke(i,n causing a shortage in the city, when several homes were without water as the 1 city's : reservoirs were drained dry." I think the people of Wellsville are displaying a very selfish and un-Christian attitude towards the new resort. All of us in the Snyderville sewer district should vote "yes" to the sewer bond so that we can have more development come in to draw down our limited water supply. Then, when we are without water, we will have a wonderful opportunity op-portunity to show the new people how Christian and noble we were in being willing to sacrifice for them. Just like two years ago when the Judge Mine shaft caved in and all the available water went down to Thaynes Canyon Sub-, Sub-, division by gravity flow. The townspeople in the upper section of Park City spent the weekend without water. Instead of being pleasant and hospitable to the new people in Thaynes Canyon who were comfortable that freezing winter weekendj the upper townspeople were mad. Can you imagine? Vote "yes" to the bond to prove that we will gladly do without to bring in strangers that we could selfishly vote "No" and keep out. Yours truly. Ed Tovey No Dear Editor: Bracken Lee once said we have government for the majority by organized minorities. The minority the moneyed developers who want to invade us and destroy our clean air, clean streams and rural atmosphereare at-mosphereare backing a new fight to overcome the vote of the majority that was so overwhelmingly reflected at the bond election of last year. - ; " The chief weapon used to force passage of the bond :' issue this time is to pose a threat to your pocketbook. The proponents represent that one sewer plant is the only "cost effective" method open to usjunk the Park A If! C;?. y2 m fublic SEWER ELECTION The Snyderville Basin Sewer Improvement District bond election will be held in the Memorial Building on Tuesday, May 17. Members Mem-bers of the districts's board of trustees will also be elected at that time. SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEETING Park City School Community Council will be meeting Wednesday, May 18, 7:30 p.m. in the high school library. We urge all interested parents to attend. YMCA NIGHT Everyone is welcome to come to an all night party at the YMCA in Salt Lake May 21st. For $3.00 you'll have complete use of all their facilities including: swimming pool, weightroom, raquetball, handball, basketball, trampoline and a steamroon. We'll be leaving P.C. at 7:00 a.m. Come into the Memorial Building and sign up. LADIES SOFTBALL Come on ladies! You've got to show up next Saturday at 10:00 in the ball park so that we can form teams and get the league going! Remember Remem-ber to bring mits. SUMMER DAY CAMP Come into the Memorial Building now to pick up day camp info, and applications. Camp will be held in four two-week sessions: 1st June 13-June 24; 2nd. July ll-July 22; 3rd July 25-Aug. 5; 4th Aug. 8-Aug. 19. Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 COVER LOADS City ordinance requires that all loads carried by truck to the city dump must be covered. Due to refuse falling onto city streets, the Park City Police Department has announced it will begin enforcing this ordinance. VARIANCE REQUESTED The Board of Adjustment has been asked to meet concerning a variance from the Ordinance for property located at the corner of 10th Street and Park Avenue (for proposed dwelling) as described as follows: Lot 1, Block 4, Snyders Ad- dition ,., .,. ,. ... Theii circumstances involved in this request relate to granting tiuildirig,:pe,rmit,ifoi'"a new dwelling structure which, due to the lot size, is unable to meet the requirement set forth in the Park City Land Management Code, Chapter V, Section 9-Clear View of Intersecting Streets. The building if allowed as proposed will project approximately 10 feet into that area which should be maintained with unobstructed vision to automobile drivers. This proposal comes under the authority of the Board listed as 10-9-12 of the Utah Code Annotated 1953. A meeting is scheduled for review of this proposal by the Board of Adjustment and the interested in-terested public on the 26th of May 1977, at 7:30 p.m. at the City Hall of Park City, Utah. COUNTY ZONING The Summit County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing June 1, 1977, at the Summit County Courthouse in Coalville, at 7:30 p.m., to consider the adoption of its Master Land Use Plan. Also at their meeting the proposed zoning plan will be presented to the Board of Commissioners, Com-missioners, who in turn will consider adopting it after a second public hearing, the date of which will be announced later. HISTORICAL SOCIETY LECTURE The Park City Historical Society is sponsoring a lecture by Dr. Richard sadler on "The Case of the Holy City that Became a Regional Mining Center: A Trick Played by Nature." This talk on the historical impact of mining in the area will be presented at the Kimball Art Center at 8 p.m. on May 12. CLEANUP Due to the early fish opener, Park City's Cleanup Week will be held May 16-21. City workers will pick up almost anything placed by the curb during Cleanup Week. ALUMNI BANQUET The annual Park City High School Alumni banquet will be held Saturday, May 28, at Park City High School. Dinner, dance, dues: $7.50 per person. For reservations and information contact con-tact Sherrie Pouquette, 649-8719. PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA Persons to be placed on the Planning Commission's Com-mission's work session agenda must submit completed forms and necessary information to the city planner nine days prior to the meeting date. The work sessions are held the second Wednesday of each month. The work sessions will be limited to two hours in length and items will be placed on the agenda in the order in which they are received. JtotiCHS U ii J |