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Show 4 - ACTIVE TIMES - OCTOBER 15, 1995 SALES TAX ALLOTMENT $10,000 The Town just received its first monthly State Sales tax disbursement of $847. This will yield over $10,000 a year. Last May the Town passed a sales tax ordinance so that we could receive. our share of the state sales tax disbursement. While CV now has a 1% sales tax, this is exactly the same tax COUNTRY STORE ON LOT #440? The possibility of a convenience store being built on lot 440 generated much discussion at the Annual POA meeting. Lot 440 has one corner (just over an acre) on the other side of the Loop Road, outside of the Town boundaries. This property had the old Strout Reale Estate shed on it for many NO sales tax increase for Castle Valley years (on the Loop Road, just above the tum-off to the CV mailboxes). Joe Sorenson called me and said he has wanted to build a “country store” on residents or businesses. this property for years. He envisions an Local Sales and Use Tax: old fashion country store where people can eat as well as purchase groceries, hardware items, and maybe some arts that the county was previously collecting. This means there will be Utah State Code allows either change is being sold.) [While the CVRR Covenants do apply to this land, unfortunately, the Covenants contain a huge loophole allowing all types of commercial development] Having a store like this in the Valley could have many different impacts. Some would be positive: this community has lacked a place where people could come together and talk and visit. Meetings don’t cut it for this important human need. There’s no regular place where people from different circles get to meet each other without the controversy of the public meetings. Eventually, we hope that the Community Lot can fulfill some of this, but that won’t be very soon. There are also some strong negative counties or municipalities (towns) to collect a 1% local sales and use tax. The tax money goes to the counties and crafts consignment goods. This land is still owned by DMA and Joe Kingsley. Joe Sorenson said he impacts. A store like this would unless the municipalities pass an will be sensitive to community sentiment about whether or not to do this project. Since this parcel of land is outside Road, over Pace Hill, and into Castle ordinance designating the tax for themselves. The 1% tax is collected by the State Tax Commission, so there will be no additional work for the Town or for local businesses. Once collected by the State, the taxes go into a general pool which is then divided up by the following formula. Half of the pool is divided amongst the counties and municipalities on the basis of population, and half is divided on the . basis of the amount of sales tax generated in each county or municipality. The population division is used because, in the case of communities like Castle Valley where there are very the boundaries of the Town, Castle Valley zoning does not apply. It is currently zoned G-l (grazing) by Grand obviously draw tourists off the River Valley. More people seeing the beauty of Castle Valley causes more people to buy land, which causes property values - to go up, which causes taxes to go up even more. Commercial development County. To build a store there, a encourages more commercial developer would have to request a zone development. The original Castle Valley survey showed that people did change from Grand County. The developer would need one of the commercial zones (C-1, C-3, 03). [No zone change has been requested at this time] To change the zoning on a parcel of land can bring suprising consequences. Whenever a new zone is applied, ALL of the uses permitted in that zone are automatically permitted. If the mildest commercial zone (C— not want commercial development here. As Castle Valley continues to grow, some kind of facility like this will undoubtable occur. Castle Valley drive is now paved. The Town had simply reached a growth level where the dust from the unpaved road was actually becoming a health problem as well as a nuisance. Looking ahead and trying to solve few businesses, the residents have to go 1, neighborhood commercial) were problems before they occur is not to other places to make their purchases. applied to this 1+ acre parcel, it could This way they get some return on the sales taxes they help to generate. The way the law is written, Grand County does not get credit for the then be divided into about 5 more lots and sold to other businesses. [The popular. This community may want to begin to consider where and how some of the inevitable long term commercial current G-l zoning has a 5 acre lot development might occur...so that it minimum, while C-l zoning allows does a minimal amount to damage to population of Castle Valley. “The population of a county for purposes of 9,000 sq. ft. lots, which is just under 5 the things we value most about Castle lots per acre] Another problem with zone changes is that the original project may be abandoned for many reasons. The Valley. Any zone change request would have to go before both the Grand developer might die or have to sell the land for any number of other valid reasons. The next owner might not be as sensitive to the Valley or its residents as the first owner. And yet the Grand County Council, so you will have the chance to express your next owner is allowed to do anything permitted by the zone. Another problem with a zone change, is that one person oftens buys commercial development on lot 440. This is somewhat amusing reading. But land, gets the zoning changed, and then sells the land to another developer for a first Mayor, Marguerite Sweeney, had to deal with. Jack Campbell this section shall be determined solely from the unincorporated area of the cormty.” Sounds like for the population allocation, Castle Valley wins, without Grand County loosing. Presently, virtually all of our allocation comes from the population portion of the fund. We have very few businesses in CV that are required to pay sales taxes. Jack Campbell lot more money. (In a sense the zoning County Planning Commission and the preferrences. On the facing page is a real proposal (from 1988) about another it was a real proposal to the County Commissioners that Castle Valley’s |