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Show Thursday, December M, 2p Page 2 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN love to cook VH57 JnL l 1 1 ii NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AND INVOLVED Saint Nick drops by tree lighting ceremony Barbara Christiansen NORTH COUNTY STAFF The jolly old elf made a visit to American Fork on Friday evening, arriving via fire truck. He greeted children in Robinson Rob-inson Park, witnessed Mayor Heber Thompson lighting a community Christmas tree and took a few requests. The Chamber of Commerce served hot chocolate and spiced cider at a pavilion in the park. Thompson also made a few requests of Santa, asking for increased sales tax revenue and other items to help the community. com-munity. Weather cooperated, providing provid-ing a crisp but clear evening. In years past, there has been snow or rain to mar the occasion. Lights were placed on a large tree and a smaller tree was planted. Previous holiday seasons sea-sons had brought about a cut tree on display, but this year the Chamber representatives decided to plant a new tree in the park, for the same amount of money. COMMUNITY NOTES Planning Commission chairman chair-man resigns James Hansen has resigned as chairman of the American Fork Planning and Zoning Commission to fulfill an ecclesiastical calling. Hansen had served on the commission for almost two full terms. "They have been 1 1 fun years," he said. The commission elected Ken Baldwin as its chairman and Rebecca Staten as vice chairwoman. chair-woman. The two will serve until the traditional February election is held. Parking ordinance revisions revi-sions recommended When a developer comes to the city with plans for a strip mall, ' certain parking requirements are placed on the development. develop-ment. Standard retail lots must include four and a half parking spaces for each thousand thou-sand square feet. In normal circumstances, the amount j s r j l J I ' W 1 I v - - - v- - ' V.T t V i BARBARA CHRISTIANSENNorth County Erik Dunadel shakes hands with Santa after the jolly gentleman arrived in American Fork by fire truck on Friday evening. is about right. When one or more sections of that strip mall become restaurants, there are problems. On Dec. 3, the Planning Plan-ning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend changes in the city's parking standards to the City Council, which will consider con-sider them at a later date. "Often they take on a pretty hefty use as restaurants," planner plan-ner Rod Despain said. "We have far too little parking in that environment." Despain explained the city had been using a national reference book for parking standards and said that did not always work. Both Despain and members of the Planning Commission said there needed to be a trigger trig-ger that would bring a new occupant oc-cupant back to the commission when taking over another's spot in a building. Commissioner Kevin Tea said that restaurants were becoming be-coming more common in such locations. "At least 95 percent of strip centers have a restaurant," he said. "I want us to have them. The majority of those never came to this body Planning Commission, yet they are in business." Tea said there was no way to judge the popularity of a restaurant restau-rant until it has been in business for a while. Commissioner Ken Baldwin made the motion to recommend the revised ordinance, with a stipulation that if there is a change in use for the building, a new business license cannot can-not be issued until it has been reviewed by the Planning Commission. Com-mission. Senior housing ordinance may be changed On Dec. 3, the Planning and Zoning Commission Com-mission made some changes to the city's senior housing laws. After considering an additional portion of a related ordinance, the commission will forward the changes to the City Council for official adoptioa The commission is reviewing the ordinance, and considering consider-ing making changes which would include a public agency senior housing project option. The Utah County Housing Authority Au-thority is looking at putting a project in American Fork next year. Planner Rod Despain said having a government agency manage the project gives him confidence it will be done correctly. In standard senior housing projects, there is a minimum project area, but there would be no exact requirement for public agency projects, Despain said. The proposed ordinance simply says it would need sufficient land to constitute a logical design de-sign unit. There would be a maximum of four units per building and each unit would have to be located lo-cated on the ground floor. The public senior housing would be able to have a maximum density densi-ty of 16, 11 or 8.5 units per acre, depending on the underlying zone. Most of those zones are in the center of the community, Despain said. The other section of the proposed pro-posed ordinance, which is yet to be reviewed by the Planning Commission, is related to the city's development code. There w6uld be new requirements put in place that would trigger the need for the developer to bring a property up to new requirements require-ments when improvements are made. One thing they are considering is how much of an expansion would necessitate installation of curb, gutter and sidewalk in areas when that has not already been constructed. n love recipes. I love cat egorizing them, l love typing them. I love sorting sort-ing and filing them. I especially love making thfm and tasting them. And most of all, I love watch ing the faces of family ana friends as they take a bite of something I have made for them. Most of the time it's well worth the effort to save the recipes for future reference. Most of the time those recipes reci-pes have names and other information to help me remember which was which. Of course, there are losers, too. Ones that have too much fat, too much molasses, too little chocolate. For some reason they just don't have what it takes to be added to our collection. col-lection. Sometimes that is because they didn't taste good enough. Other times they may taste too good, which would make them too hard to resist. So they have to be resisted at the early stage, before I ever make them. It's hard, but it could be worse. For much of the time the dis- Barb's Wire BARBARA CHRISTIANSEN bers what else. It was one of the successes Of course, since no one, not even me, remembers what else, it would be pretty hard i' a1 . a- j' i to duplicate inai aisa i u prob- ably never have exactly the in my iriage at any time to ad to the meat to make it come out the same. TM- - J ' 1- U 1 .. , 1 ne uisn wuwu maite it into our family hall of fame, but we u never be able to make it again. Hence, it is a no-name. no-name. I WAS rpnlk; v cited a couple of weeks ago when we decided to reinstate re-instate one of our utizen newspaper traditions. For many years we ing contest. We were never disap- I Ti uuuueu. ii was one ot the perks of the job to be a judge tor tnat contest. It hard to believe, but mere were actually ootn gooa pans ana Daa parts tn hpinir a iiino'f hi it nho m l ing to live with the couple of extra pounds and temporary overstuffed feeling for those i. 1 . . J 4.1 great lasits aiiu uie recipes we got to have tor the nature. Just last week we did the judging coverv is the best part of the process. It's great to find a per- for this year's contest. With 11V.l 1 IWI - uivviiu f sion, for a daughter's birthday or a son's basketball game. Sometimes there are recipes that don't have names. I admit that most of those are things I have just made up myself. I read magazines and see things which I think look promising. I read cookbooks like some people read novels. Then I get ready to go to the grocery store and can't remember where I saw that recipe for that cake that looked so good, or the great idea for leftover turkey or how to make two meals from one session at the stove. So I improvise. Just last week I took a piece of steak I had found marked down on one of my journeys. I wasn't sure how tender it would be, so I chose a day when I would be home a few hours sooner than my husband. I browned it, then simmered it very slowly with some onions, diced tomatoes, potato slices and who remem- tion or publicity, we didn't have as many entries as we have had in previous years, but it was still fun. And fattening I lar interest. We had nutmeg logs and thin mint brownies. i ve always Deen a ian ot mint brownies and these were ex quisite, but the nutmeg cookies were unusual and a great addition ad-dition to my recipe file. Naturally, Natu-rally, they contained nutmeg which added an interesting navor. dui xnev aiso nave rum flavoring. Just a touch of each of those made a good combina tioa I'm excited to aJd to my personal list. I hope each of you takes a minute to check out the prize winners and maybe consider making one or both of them. Good reading and eating. 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