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Show 4 - REPORTING TIMES - JANUARY 15, 1997 MORE B&B SPLIT VOTE, from p.2 survey, I feel obligated to vote the way that survey came how much of this communities energy has gone into dealing with just that one business. out. Everyone in the community had a chance to answer that. For the ones that did answer, the majority was pretty Joan Sangree: I want to point out that when you’re much over-whelming that they didn’t want any more B&B’s employees. The traffic impacts caused by employees adds in Castle Valley. So I would support it, just on that basis. I understand the argument that both of you men have. another piece to it. On my road, when there were several businesses operating on it, there was a huge amount of traffic. My daughter commented that when we moved from San Francisco, we moved to two major roads, CV Drive and Jayne: I feel the survey has some question to it. In my consideration of the B&B issue I didn’t regard the one about the next door jobby because I felt that was very inflammatory... my bottom line is how do you deal with saturation? We can’t deal with saturation in a really effective way when you’re dealing with home and premise occupations. It’s very vague when it comes to determining when enough is enough. I am favorable to business activity in the valley, I’m very favorable to that. I don’t know how to deal with the saturation issue if we pushed this thing forward. I would like to vote this thing in place with the idea that we’re going to concentrate on the parameters around B&B’s so we do accurately deal with saturation and then we come back to the table and grant B&B’s with Dave’s stipulations to it, because I just don’t believe we’re ready at this point to deal with it. Charlie: The saturation issue is something that involves all home and premise occupations. By taking the B&B and prohibiting them is a discriminatory act. Dave: Saturation could not be an issue if we successfully restrict the size and volume of a B&B. Someone who could only let two rooms could at best only get a marginal living. With that restriction I don’t believe you’re going to get a stampede of folks in the valley wanting to do that... Charlie: It takes a special person to want to open their permiting a business, you’re talking about permitting more Carlsburg Lane. You can have more than one business on one lot. A lot of time was put into the survey and it’s confusing to me that the Town Council is basically telling people to why bother {to answer a survey}. Why bother answering because they’re not going to listen anyway. The point of the third survey on B&B’s was because there had been such low turnout on the second survey. I thought you did a good job of emphasizing how important it was to get the confusion between the surveys answered. And we worked really hard on that and you can delete one of the questions if you want, but you still get a real consistent response from that {B&B survey}. We got the highest turnout on the third survey partly because we said right at the beginning that it was important for people to answer because decisions would be made on the results of the survey. {To Dave} Think about what you are saying to your c0nstitutents...you got the response from the survey and now it’s your job to decide whether you’re going to honor it. Dave: It’s also my job, Joan, to interpret whether the response on that survey is reflective of this communities desires, and I have to side with Charlie when he makes the observation that because of the nature of the question, and the lack of understanding that people have concerning B&B’s, and also concerning my suggestion that we further Dave: Anyone who is willing to do that is earning their limit B&B’s that we have not necessarily achieved what might be construed as concensus. money. Joan: There’s no concensus in this valley. Charlie made a house to strangers for 50 or 80 bucks a night. Bill Gasaway: But they are also taking away my privacy, mistake earlier, because we did say {in the survey} that we if it’s next door to me. now allow four bedrooms. It confuses me how you can stand Dave: So is a family of ten moving in next door to you. on one position and then suddenly turn on another. Oh, well. Bill Gasaway: It seems to me that the final survey specific to B&B ’s indicated that the people who responded Comments from the public: Lois Oliver: Over the last year I’ve had four calls about my home alone from people who do rental properties wanting to know if I’d be willing to make that available. AndI haven’t even wanted to do this. I don’t think we’re ready for more B&B’s. Jayne’s comments about where we’re at in our zoning ordinance...we’re very vulnerable. I support Jayne’s proposal to put this ordinance in place today and then revisiting it, because we are not prepared. ..... The process isn’t clear, what a contract should say, how the enforcement should occur, who would they be reporting to. Even though this would be a profitable use of my property, I don’t want it. aren’t very interested in having neighbors that do a business with people coming and going which is a B&B type of arrangement with strangers going next door. It’s not hard to read the results of that survey, and come up with a fairly clear idea of where the valley wants to go. There are certainly dissenting people, not everybody answered the same way. I would like to see this vote go in the direction of the majority. We’re after peace and quiet. A B&B, whether 2 rooms, 4 rooms, or whatever still creates a lot of activity. —More B&B Split Vote, p. 7 CFI EAGLE FLOAT TRIP I don’t want it in my community, because it’s just one more step towards opening up to every one who comes through and we need to start locking our doors. All of this is a clear change when you start inviting the public in. Jack Campbell: When you look back over the past year, a really substantial part of the Town Council '5 energy has once again gone into dealing with the CV Inn B&B. When you go back through the files, it’s just phenomenal CFI, working with State and Federal Agencies, will again sponsor the eagle count on the Colorado River. This year’s full day raft trip will be held on March 1. Participants on last year’s trip spotted 14 golden eagles and 10 bald eagles as well as a wide variety of other bird species while floating the Lorna to Westwater stretch of the Colorado River. Local biologists will again be on hand to share their knowledge of these magnificent birds. Cost of the all day trip is $80 and includes lunch and snacks. Data collected on the trip will contribute to agency raptor counts. Anyone who is interested in participating should contact Canyonlands Field Institute at 1-800860-5262 or 259—7750. |