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Show 1 i I Dg wmieir neighbor, Jim Morgan, had made the complaint and that the complaint was actually in regard to dirt that Crowder had put in the ditch near the property. He said he subsequently removed the dirt and Morgan said he was satisfied. Crowder said he has talked to both the city planning commission and board of adjustments. He said City Attorney Bruce Barton had said his problem was not under the jurisdiction of the board of adjustments because that board can approve only changes in technical issues, such as setbacks, and cannot approve a change in use allowed within a zone. Barton told the council that only the City Council can make changes in the ordinance. Crowder said he had asked for a second opinion from higher counsel, on that issue, because he said the state statute could be interpreted to mean that boards of ad Lane, until Layton Building Inspector Ladd Scoffield visited his home and told him there had been complaints about his dogs. Crowders home is in an RS zone, adjacent to agricultural property on the east and a shopping center on the west. He said he had asked what needed to be done to get permission to continue with the dog breeding operation and Scoffield had told him get rid of the dogs, or move out of Layton. I like it I dont want to move y here, and I like raising my Kennels and veterinary hospitals will not be allowed in residential or agricultural zones in Layton, despite one mans protest against city zoning ordinances which make his dog breeding operation illegal. Amendments to the city zoning laws which would have allowed kennels and veterinary hospitals as conditional uses in agricultural zones and kennels as a conditional use in residential suburban (RS) zones were defeated by the City Council Thursday. The council did approve a change in the zoning ordinance which will make some other uses conditional in those zones, but deleted kennels and veterinary hospitals from the amendment. Those operations are a commercial allowed only in LAYTON 1 Loses Battle Over Layton Ordinance show-qualit- beagle dogs," Crowder said. I dont want to cause trouble; I just want to raise my dogs unmolested. He said the original complaint stated he had been throwing dog waste over the fence, but he said city reports indicated inspectors had found that to be no problem. He said he had discovered that a C-- 3, zone. L.C. Crowder told the council he had not known that it was against city ordinances to keep more than two dogs at his home, 241 S. Fort justment do have the power to allow variance in use within a zone. Crowder said he had never asked for a blanket change in the ordinance. He said the planning commission had made that proposal. Mayor Lewis G. Shields told the council the planning commission had recommended that the amendments be passed, with the exception of allowing kennels in the RS zone. The planners had indicated that it would be too difficult for the city to control the keeping of a large number of dogs by individuals in residential zones. Crowder said he had talked to each of his neighbors individually and that none of them had any complaints about his dogs. He said he maintains a clean operation, with septic tanks for each kennel. He said he has considered fighting the ordinance in court on the grounds that it is discriminatory for the city to allow some conditional uses and not others in zones where those uses are not ordinarily allowed, and on the grounds that the board of adjustments has the power to grant a variance in his case. There is a difference between whats right and who you know in this city, and thats what makes me angry, he said. You have sheep, horses, guineas and other animals in the immediate area, but I cant cedar keep my dogs within a fence on my property. Vern Sandall, a neighbor of cant see 1 how a person can break an ordinance the city Crowders statements should give him a court summons and he should have to pay a fine or whatever the law states, Sandall said. If I brought half a dozen pigs on my property, I would have a summons immediately." Sandall said Crowder had thrown trash over his fence onto the neighbors property and has allowed drainage from the Kennels septic tanks to flow onto neighboring fields. He said the issue came to a head when Crowder plugged the drain ditch with dirt and dog bothered by the dogs. You can hear those dogs yapping at every hour of the day, Sandall said. The feelings of a lot of his neighbors are to let it go to court because we have plenty of evidence that it is causing problems for the neighbors." Councilman Golden Sill said he was not in favor of changing the I think present ordinance at all. kennels should only be allowed in commercial zones where they are now allowed, Sill said. The council agreed and voting was unanimous to allow the dog operations only in C3 zones. ot Crowder, told the council that many of are just untrue. He said many of the residents of the area are manure. Index Business 78-3- 8 Church Classified Cntrvill, Vol. 1 Claortiald. Clinton, Farmington, Fruit Hight, Hill AFI, Koyivillr Loyton, Roy, South Wtbar, Sunsot, Syracuse, Wtt Point Serving 3 1,500 Families From Roy Through Qenferville No. 52 WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12, 1981 6A 7C Economy Review Home Living Obituaries 1C-3-C Sports 4B-6- B 78 7C One Year Old Birth Place Has Birthday By MAGGI HOLMES Staff Writer TREE IN KAYSVILLE didn't hold up too well under the pounding of Sunday's strong winds. Strong Winds Sweep County; Damage Minor Layton Drops Mill Levy, Hears Praise Tree branches were broken, LAYTON The Layton City leaves blew, garbage drifted and Council dropped the mill levy for gardens were flattened by strong Layton residents to 15 mills from winds in Davis County Sunday the present 15.35 mills Thursday, evening, but the winds, reported to prompting congratulations from have been 70 mph in parts of the two residents of disincorporated county, apparently caused no seriEast Layton City. ous damage. Sam Chelmes and Glenn Raven-berLaw enforcement offices said the councils action was throughout the county reported ongreat. Prior to disincorporation ly minor wind damage. and annexation to Layton, East The heavy winds, blowing trash assessed its residents, inand other debris, created a driving Layton cluding Chelmes and Ravenberg, hazard, the Utah Highway Patrol 16 mills. said. That office issued a warning I think Layton deserves conin several counties, including gratulations on the way the streets Davis, which was still in force earhave been fixed up, Chelmes said. ly Monday morning. The warning suggested that all small, light vehicles and extra large ones stay off the highways. r LAYTON A accident There were no reports to the patd rol of mishaps, how- on west Gentile injured a Layton ever. man about 11 a.m. Sunday Several towns in the area reportmorning. ed blackouts and downed power Thell E. Day, 1333 W. Gentile, lines, including Kaysvillc and Roy. was hurt when a car he was driving Layton police reported that that went out of control, careened off a city was without street signal lights mail box at 1933 W. Gentile and down Main Street Monday. then hit a large tree. He suffered a g And now lowering the mill levy is just great. East Layton was disincorporated after a vote of its residents last November and was annexed into Layton in January. An increase in the assessed valuation of the city will mean no decrease in property tax revenues to the city, even considering the lower mill levy. Residents property tax bills will likely be higher, too, because of a higher valuation, despite the mill levy decrease. Layton has maintained a constant mill levy for about the past decade. Man Mishap Hurts Laytonshattered one-ca- wind-cause- right leg, several broken facial bones, cuts and abrasions over his face and legs, according to his wife, Karen Day. He was transported to Davis North Medical Center where he underwent surgery on his leg. He remained hospitalized Monday and was reported to be improving. severely KAYSVILLE The Birth Place in Kaysville celebrated its first anniversary July 26 and officials called the year an exciting and rewarding one. One hundred and fifty-on- e babies were delivered by Domiciliary Midwives of Utah (DMU) associated with the Birth Place since its opening a year ago. About 33 were actually delivered at the center, the others were delivered at homes. The midwives have been active in Utah for just over three years and to date have delivered 419 infants with no infant or maternal morbidity, said midwife Linda Jellings. Before the opening of the Birth Place, assistance was given out of the home of Ronna Hand. Ms. Hand organized the midwife association and owns the Birth Place. The first infant bom in the center, Anna Elizabeth Stewart, is about a year old now. Anna is the fifth child born to Mary and Scott Stewart of 1935 N. Celia Circle in Layton. Anna is the first child they had outside of a hospital. Mrs. Stewart said that the experience had been so much more beautiful at the Birth Place. She said that the experience had been nicer because it allowed closer involvement of other family members. Scott rubbed my back the whole time, she said. Mrs. Stewart returned to her home three hours after Annas birth. She said that her doctor recommended the center. Her doctor remained with her throughout Birth Place, which is in a remodeled home, has been the center of some controversy because professional medical personnel doubt that there is a need for this type of service and also doubt that it is a safe method of natal care. Mrs. Jellings said there was an increasing number of women choosing to have birth. She cited two reasons for the increase, one was the cost and the other was the impersonal treatment received at hospitals. The cost of the care program at the center is equal to the cost of an obstetrician during the birth and care, Mrs. Jellings said. pre-bir- th But when the cost of hospital care is added it just about triples the cost of childbirth, she said. Midwives at the center have more time to discuss childbirth and child care than medical personnel, Mrs. Jellings said. Doctors just cant sit down and talk because they are too busy, she said. Mrs. Jellings also expressed concern about midwifery in the state. There are no regulations on the service in Utah, nor are there regulations on the federal level. Several other states have licensed lay midwifery. Certified midwives here are allowed to work only in hospitals. This leaves the lay midwife, who is often untrained and unsupervised to deal with home births. Anybody can say they are a midwife and they can practice, she said. People want to know that there The Davis expressed support for a mandatory immunization program for all school children that was proposed by the Davis County Board of Health Thursday. The board had voted early in the week to start working toward getting an ordinance passed by the commission requiring the immunizations with expulsion from school the punishment for non-- , " compliance. In a meeting with board members the county commission asked Dr. Enrico Leopardi to draw up the ordinance for consideration. Commissioner Harry B. Gerlach said he was in favor of the idea but that he was not going to rubber stamp the ordinance when it came through. Dr. Leopardi told the commis sion that mandatory immunization that percent of unimmunized stuwas necessary because 25 percent dents. of students either have inadequate The students that are unimimmunizations or have no record of munized are numerous enough to immunizations. This factor was allow the development of an discovered through a unique sur- epidemic, Leopardi said. There vey conducted through the nurses are over 6,000 youngsters that ... throughout the county. Dolleen present potential serious risk, he Jewett, a nurse working for the said. county, reported that of some 73 he brought up was Another percent of high school students sur- that If wepoint maintain immunidont veyed with medical records, 82 per- zations in school-ag- e children we cent had adequate immunization. run the risk of seeing it pop up in Out of 80 percent of junior high adults, he said. school students with medical rePresently there is not a state law cords, 90 percent had adequate imthat requires maintenance immunization. munization. Laws do require that Dr. Leopardi said that the health students just starting school and department could either sit back those transferring between schools and congratulate itself on the high be adequately immunized. Howevpercentage of immunization or it er, other students may not keep up could try to do something about immunizations. Leopardi said. people out there practicing unsafely. Jellings said the DMU was work ing with several state senators, including J. Bangerter from Bountiful, to get legislation to require licensing of midwives. She said that they had found it impossible to even register midwives with any government agency. She said that midwifery had been in the state as long as Utah has been a state, The pioneers brought it. Its just not going to go away; its been here too long, she said. The center cares for 15 to 20 women and infants a month. They offer services such as free pre gnancy testing, pte-nat- al care birth center deliveries, home deliveries, natural childbirth classes and breast feeding counseling. ANNA STEWART plays on her mother's lap in their Layton home. Anna was the first child born in The Birth Place more than a year ago. Her parents are Scott and Mary Stewart. rtrrT?? ir-si'- 1 Immunization of Students FARMINGTON she because there are a lot of said, IL Counity Supports Mandatory County commission is some kind of regulation, THE BIRTH PLACE, the center of midwifery in northern Utah, has a pleasant home-lik- e atmos- phere. Its existence has created a controversy f.w, J which not only involves doctors and midwives but legislators olso. |