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Show The Enterprise Review, September 1, 1976 Page 8b Chamber Selects We the peopleo.. Accounting Firm & Co. has Touche-Ros- s been selected to conduct the analysis of local government for members of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce. Touche-Ros- s will con- duct a productivity analysis of government services, explained Peter Cooke, coordinator of the Chamber study. The goal of the research is to gather and analyze data about city and We want county services. to know if the local governments can cut back on costs or streamline services, he said. Cooke said the fee to be is around paid Touche-Ros- s $20,000." Members organizing the study have received grants totalling $20,000 from the city and county governments. In addition to the Survey, committees are organizing a public opinion survey, asking citizens what they think of government services they receive. Touche-Ros- s Commission Revises Area Zone Salt Lake County Commis- sioners have revised a zoning ordinance which now forbids triplexes and fourplexes as a permitted use in R-- 4 and R-zones. According to Ken Jones of the County Planning Commission, the affected zones are scattered throughout the county, usually as buffers M between residential and commercial districts. Oinrm Match Support U.S. SENATE ra, PUT UTAHS MAN IN WASHINGTON WORKING, FIGHTING, WINNING FOR UTAH Paid for by Hatch for Senate Committee, Dr. Alex Oblad The Planning Commission initiated the ordinance change, Jones said, because they have observed that the most inefficient development is a subdivision of By allowing fourplexes. these kinds of buildings in this zone, we have ended up with subdivisions that are all building and parking lot. There has been too much transient occupancy, the developments have been underlandscaped, and there has not been enough supervision of occupants, Jones said. The higher-densit- y would still be allowed in the R-- 4 and R-zones, Jones explained, if dwellings M the developer obtained prior planning commission approval. |