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Show 2 - RAINBOWTIMES - AUGUST 1994 Interview with a New PC Member While planning commission seats in the past have been vied for, the most recent seat was filled without much ado. The commission’s newest member is Chris Swanson. Despite the lack of applicants from our small population pool, Castle Valley is once again fortunate to have among its community volunteers a woman with experience in the issues that we face as a community. I thought our readers would like to know her better. Chris is living at the old donkey ranch on Shafer while on the verge of moving into her new home on upper Bailey Lane.The construction has taken a little longer than planned, so she is told me that she wanted to do something for the community. She sees herself as being here for a long time to come and would like to leave footprints, tracks of her presence. Chris hopes to bring another voice, another perspective to the PC. An important question she asks is “When does one have to give up some personal freedom for the sake of one’s family, one’s community?” The challenge for this her well in her new home and position. This is a hard working committee with the difficult and often controversial task of helping to shape the valley’s you know it the whole beast is in. She finds it difficult to argue against allowing extended family nearby, but three times a week to Moab, where she eat together. Thus, limiting the number is the psychologist for the Special of kitchens per lot may be a feasible guideline. Chris added that perhaps we her partners decided to sell she agreed, and began to look around for a lot. It need to look at how many out buildings should be allowed. Is it all right to POA/Town Notes sheds, and work studios yet deny you posted on the bulletin board at the one house with a guest cottage? She feels we should consider making these front gate prior to the next regular POA Board/Town Council decisions case by case. However, impartiality by the RC. would then be crucial. meeting. Secretary Andrea Wheeling is still looking for someone to act as Chris has had to wrestle with backup for minute taking at official town meetings. If you are interested in this paid job, please contact Andrea at 4575. —Cris Coffey friends close by—or as she says, the tion density and no commercial use were both major issues, they found that the basic guideline in their covenants was that each resident (20-acre parcels) had the right to “air, light, and space.” to join the Planning Commission, she ideas are needed and welcome. ———Jil Kulander allow your neighbor several barns, similar issues before. She bought into a 350-acre homestead in Garfield County with a group of friends. Though it was a very difficult task, they wrote a set of covenants for the land. While popula- When I asked her why she decided future by drinking ahead now. Remember that PC. meetings are open to all and that in fact your presence and your Due to summer overkill, there will be no Notes this month. Watch for a copy of the official minutes was then that she found her secluded spot up on Bailey. She loves living here in the valley. She likes the sense of community here and the fact that you can have your privacy and yet have people here are ‘friendly but not intrusive.’ who live here. We all seem to be fairly agreeable about what we want here in CV, not only now but in the future. The difficult part is agreeing on the means to maintain our present quality of life. Let us welcome Chris and wish life despite the growth we are facing. As for the issue of multiple dwellings, Chris fears it may be putting the camel’s nose in the tent, and before During the school year she commutes Education Program in Moab’s public schools. It is a great job and a remarkable program. She loves it and feels that it is what has kept her here. Like many others, she had visited this area for years before relocating. When she first moved to Grand County she invested in a 120-acre ranch in La Sal where she lived and worked. When only because of its physical beauty but because of the many special people community is to maintain our quality of feels that we need to define our limits. For example, perhaps our extended families could be defined as those who keeping busy practicing patience. It was seen as essential that a neighbor not impinge on these rights. Castle Valley is a unique place, not Beat the Heat. Plant Shade Trees. NOW—10' Sycamore, Cottonless Cottonwood, & Ash, $45 (MENTION THIS AD, 340) Call 259—8274 275 Williams Way, Moab CASTLE CANYON NURSERY FREE Castle Valley DELIVERY “O |