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Show mandatory and the responsibility respons-ibility of the building inspector inspec-tor rather than the property owner. Finally, Mayor Jack Green was prompted to make a speech in which he maintained main-tained the City was doing the best job possible under the circumstances. His speech went on to outline some of the progress the city has made under his administration. administra-tion. He cited the new water system, a new million gallon reservoir, new roads, a municipal bus system, new park land, and the City's rennovation of the Memorial Building as the high points of his administration. "We've just tried to do something for the people," he concluded. iinuiliiillMW 1 s, "v mm . s , x " " I.-.-", ' :- ,rv-:V::-V ' -V. .V' ' --.-..-Vv,;- & lifer ) : . r Local Residents Air Complaints Citizens concerned about the ramifications of Park City's recent building explosion explo-sion occupied much of the City Council's time during their regular session last Thursday. They confronted Councilmen on subjects ranging ran-ging from building inspection inspec-tion policies, annexation procedures, subdivision improvements, im-provements, to the controversial contro-versial house on Lot 19 in Holiday Ranch, and the problems of operating without with-out a City Planner. The residents had been obviously "provoked into action ac-tion at the meeting by a recent session attended by 250 concerned citizens July 31. At that meeting, residents resi-dents raised concerns about conditions in Park City and vowed to make those concerns con-cerns known to - the City Council through the formation forma-tion of a Citizen's Action Committee. After being critized at the July 31 session for being unresponsive to citizens attending at-tending meetings, the City Council last Thursday sat patiently through the complaints com-plaints and in most cases offered solutions which satisfied satis-fied the residents. A deligation of Prospector Park homeowners presented an extensive list of grievances griev-ances charging essentially that the developer had not implemented the improvements improve-ments promised two years ago. Specifically, the highway high-way buffer strip has not beenput in nor has a five acre park j The residents also complained that the area has ' not yet received street lights or street signs, r City Manaeer Wayne Mat-- Vv ;-.":..' thews told the residents that a bond posted by the developers for the completion comple-tion of the improvements was siill valid and that the City, if need be, would move in and fnish the work itself by the end of the summer. Other Prospector Park residents complained of severe sev-ere structural defeciencies discovered in their new homes after moving in. They maintained that if the projects pro-jects were properly inspected during construction, the problems pro-blems would have been detected and corrected. Park City Builder Rolf Sandberg said he thought building should be slowed down to a ppint where the two building inspectors could properly inspect all new construction. "I take pride in my work and I want to be inspected," he said. "I resent being lumped into this group of builders who are not doing quality work and feel that only by proper inspection inspec-tion can we keep this from happening." Mr. Sandberg concurred with most of those in attendance that the inspection problems were largely due to the lack of man power. Mayor Jack Green promised promis-ed the residents that the City Council is taking every step to "tighten up this inspection inspec-tion business", and Wayne Matthews added that he was looking for a third inspector. Planning Commissioner Rusty Davidson told the Council that he was concerned concern-ed about the huge agenda facing the Commission; a situation greatly complicated by the present lack of a full time City Planner. Resident Bill Bertagnole said, given the absence of enough inspectors and a City Planner, he couldn't see how the City could continue to approve new developments at the present rate. Other residents attending the meeting agreed with Mr. Bertagnole. Again, City Manager Wayne Matthews placated the citizens by promising that until a new City Planner can be hired, Planning Commission agendas would be limited in order to give Commissioners enough time to properly review each project. Then the residents addressed ad-dressed the subject of the house on Lot 19 in Holiday Ranch. Although the house contains five separate kitchens, kit-chens, City Attorney Mike McCoy and Building Inspector Inspec-tor Bob Skanter have determined deter-mined that the house is actually only a single family residence. (Rusty Davidson said he felt if the ordinance permits a house to have five kitchens in a single family zone, there were "real problems with the ordinance." Wayne Matthews admitted admitt-ed that, had the floor plans of the house originally shown the five kitchens, it would have never passed inspection. inspec-tion. He also admitted that the house was never finally inspected because it is apparently the owner's responsibility re-sponsibility to call for the final inspection and the inspection was never requested. re-quested. Matthews said the city is in the process of changing that procedure making final inspections |