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Show r I 0 Q-mi- ti Gtoaia uaonUD ianr Vol. 4 No. 'Vni (MttBP (tosm- 'itoci)snii - 1 Wednesday, January 4, 1984 Two Cities End RDA RON KNOWLTON Review Squabble cials on the project has apparently changed. Sant said neither city had ever wanted to hold up the develop- Staff Woods Cross and Bountiful city officials have apparently resolved their differences over a joint redevelopment project. The project is an office mall at 500 South ment. Sant said the joint meeting of both cities an opportunity to iron out their differences, something which had to be done, but was not done be- gave officials com-plexspo- 500 West. The joint redevelopment proj- ect had served as a point of contention between the two cities in the past. i Randy Sant, Bountiful Redevelopment Agency executive director, said officials from both cities were able to resolve many of their differences during a recent three hour meeting attended by the mayors and RDA executive directors from both cities. The property at 500 West 500 South was originally to be used for a 500 room motel and convention center. That project, however, was scrapped after it was determined to be financially unfeasible. A new developer entered the picture this fall with a proposal to develop the office complex sports mall facility on the prop- fore, Sant said. He said Bountiful officials are currently meeting with the developer of the project. Sky Properties, in an attempt to draw up a contract and have it finalized. Sant said the contract should be finalized in the next two . erty. A new agreement was drawn up, but has not yet been approved by both cities. While reviewing the agreement during a Dec. 6 Woods Cross RDA meeting, Mayor Lawrence Urry said the agreement appeared unfair to Woods Cross. The Woods Cross RDA board of directors voted against the It agreement. But following the joint meeting with Bountiful officials, the position of Woods Cross City offi weeks. Once the document is signed Sant said. Sant said Woods Cross officials basically had three major concerns about the project. One was that a 100 room hotel project was left out of the joint we have a project, project. The hotel will be built on property that is in Bountiful. Under the old agreement involving the 500 room motel, a room tax would have generated tax revenue for both cities. Sant, however, said no room tax will be assessed for the 100 room hotel, thus eliminating that source of revenue, and cutting down the amount of tax revenue collected from the facility. Also, Sant said Woods Cross officials wanted to supply water service to the office mall, rather than Bountiful supplying all services to the project, something which met with the approval of Bountiful City officials, Sant said. com-plexspo- Causes Salt Shortage ' , t'Sf", 1 s&' 'v Photo by Ron Knowlton and on a snowman touches ishing DEBBI SPACKMAN in K.J. put the front of their Bounti- -' ful apartment. Cold weather and hit the area in recent weeks. record snowfalls have .. Criminal Justice Record Snow Means Lots of Cleaning Council Formed CHERYL ARCHIBALD Review Correspondent j Not only has BOUNTIFUL this winters weather caused record breaking snowfall and high water levels for the Great Salt 'Lake, it is creating many firsts for Davis County cities in the removal of snow from streets. Bob Bruhn, fleet supervisor for Bountifuls street department, said the city is using salt first at intersections, on the steeper roads and on emergency entrances and exits. We usually use salt on all of the streets rather than sand and cinders because the sand mixture clogs the storm drains, he said. Bountiful is using three times Well only use sand in emergenmore salt this winter than it usu- cies. ally does and employee overtime Last winter salt was going for has jumped from a normal 30 it cost a but this $2.30 hours by the end of December to cities ton, a ton atyear American $5.40 over 100 hours. Woods Cross Salt. Since that company ran its snow for chains plows bought out, Bruhn said Bountiful is buyfor the first time ever. ing salt from Great Salt Lake Cities are rationing salt be- Minerals at $9.75 a ton. One uses 48 tons of salt cause of the salt shortage caused by lower evaporation and lower for an all night snow storm, he said. salinity of the lake. t i In North Salt Lake, residents The main complaints heard drive vehicles officials Bountiful by concerning owning snow removal have been that formed a carpool during the first garbage removal is too slow, major storm. driveways are being covered by ' snow from plows and the roads Mayor Robert Palmquist said that it was impossible to keep are too icy. Lacey Way open and residents Woods Crosfc found itself with living at the top had to be diover verted to an LDS Chapel at the equipment break-dowChristmas weekend. Mayor Lawbottom of the hill where rence Urry said that the citys Palmquist and others carpooled truck develtwo and a half-to- n resdidetns up the hill. oped hydraulic system problems and was repaired in six hours, Snow plows with chains could but the city was without the use only go a short distance up the of its one-to- n truck for a day road before being forced to return. Palmquist said if there is when the clutch went out on another severe storm the residents of Lacey Way will have to Monday, a legal holiday. He said the city contracts out carpool again. There s no way and parking that we can physically keep that all of its road open. lot work. four-whe- el ns cul-de-s- ac FARMINGTON - With re- presentatives from all local branches of law enforcement and the public, the new Davis County Criminal Justice Council will function in an advisory and information role for its 19 members. h Commissioner Harry B. announced the forming of the county council last week which will meet for the first time on Jan. 19. He said the council is not a legitimate county committee but an advisory one which needed to be formed. The council will meet quarterly in the county commission chambers in the courthouse in Farmington. Police chiefs on the council Ger-lac- are Larry Higgins of Bountiful, Lamar Chard of Layton and Niles Stahle of Woods Cross. Judges are J. Duffy Palmer of Farmington, Cornell M. Jenson of Clearfield, L. Kent Bachman Robert Mathie-se- n of Woods Cross and alter- nate Gus Anderson of Farmington. County officials include Sheriff Brant Johnson, county attorney Rod Page, jail commander Jim Stewart, Dr. Russell Williams, Davis County Mental Health and Craig Howe, Ger-lac- Davis County h. Computer Systems. Corrections officials are Dick Youngberg of adult probation and Deloy Archibald of juvenile probation. RDA Makes Plans For Downtown Revitalization Project RON KNOWLTON i Review Staff BOUNTIFUL By early summer. Bountiful residents may see the first changes take place in the citys downtown. Randy Sant, Bountiful Redevelopment executive director, said that is when Bountiful officials hope to begin construction on several major improvements that are part of a downtown revitalization project. One of the main improvements will be a plastic canopy which will be installed along Main Street from Second South to First North. The canopy will also link both sides of the street, covering crosswalks across Main Street at Center Street and First South. Curb and gutter and sidewalk i may also be made at that time, Sant said. The entire downtown improvement project may take between three to five years to complete, Sant said, depending on response from downtown mer- improvements chants. Currently, the RDA is preparing a prospectus to send out to potential developers. The prospectus will include detailed information about the city and its downtown and will be used in an effort to obtain two junior department stores for the downtown area. The downtown prospectus will be sent everywhere we can where we think there may be a developer interested in Bountiful, Sant said. It will mainly be sent to major have businesses in a six block area where most of the major department stores who are familiar with the Utah business cliimprovements will be made. Those results will be presented mate to give them an idea of whats going on in Bountiful, during an RDA meeting in early Sant said. January, Sant said, and will give Three architects, who helped the RDA an idea of the attitudes of merchants in the area. draw up plans for the revitalizaIn January, the agency will extion project, are in the, process of preparing a cost estimate for the pand the survey. A random surproject, also, Sant said. vey of between 300 and 500 A major step for the RDA will families in the south Davis area be to obtain financing for the will be taken. Sant said he hopes the majoriproject. The three architects have ty of responses to the survey will come from Bountiful residents. agreed to serve the city as an adItll give us some idea of how visory committee at no cost as feel about downfor consumers the are projplans developed town, Sant said. ect, Sant said. The survey will be different The RDA is currently awaiting results of a downtown survey. from an earlier survey (done by Kenster and Co.). The survey was taken of merchants and property owners who The earlier survey (done when . provement district which would take six to seven months to set of businesses residents would up, Sant said. If costs for the project prove like to see in the downtown, too high, the project could be Sant said. The current RDA survey will downscaled, he added. If the RDA is successful in its determine if residents shop in Bountiful, why they shop in attempt to lure two major deBountiful and the major prob- partment stores downtown, that lems ihey see in the downtown. would also help the projects fiSant said there are two major nancing along, Sant said. The RDA currently has keyed obstacles to overcome at present for the revitalization project to on three areas in putting the rethe city was considering a downtown mall) dealt with what kind be a success. One is to obtain financing and the other is for property owners to show a willingness to become part of the project. Sant said the response from merchants for the most part has been positive thus far. Some of the financing could be provided through a special im vitalization project together, Sant said. The first is to make physical improvements to the sidewalks and landscaping in the area. The second is to build improvements for existing businesses in the area. And the third is to solicit new developments for the area. a |