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Show VOLUME 1982 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, NUMBER FIFTY-TW- FORTY-EIGH- T Downtown Needs Master Plan, County Layton Council Told Phone By DONETA GATHERUM - LAYTON Scott Parkinson, who was the senior planner for the downtown Ogden redevelopment project, attended an executive session of the Layton City Council held on Jan. 21 to discuss redevelopment with council members. ALTHOUGH no official action regarding redevelopment has been taken by the Layton City Council, the governing bo'dy is gathering information and studying the possibility of creating a redevelopment agency to assist in the downtown commercial districts of Layton and possibly other parts of the community that have a blighted appearance. Mr. Parkinson is a graduate of Weber State College. In 1972 he worked in Rock Springs, Wyo. on a redevelopment project financed by the federal housing authority. He became involved in the down-towOgden redevelopment project in 1974. n THE MOST important part is planning, Mr. Parkinson stated. Before any work can begin, a master plan must be developed. This plan should be divided into phases that can be conpleted seperately over a period of time. Ogdens redevelopment was e a project: 1. retail 2. hotel and entertainment, 3. housing in the central city of redevelopment three-phas- area. MR. PARKINSON went on to say financing can come from many sources including HUD grants, block grant funds and SBA 503 direct loans to distressed commercial areas. Brigham City was cited as one Utah community comparable to Layton in size that did a good job with a redevelopment program. ONE LAYTON council member asked, What can Layton do? Mr. Parkinson replied it would be foolish to try to develop a regional shopping center like the Layton Hills Mall in the downtown area. He suggested smaller scale projects such as neighborhood shopping centers, en- tertainment facilities, trans-cieservices like motels, hotels and cafes. in the The position of commercial section of Layton is considered a major problem to any redevelopment project. The width of Main Street is another obstacle. MR. PARKINSON concluded his presentation by stating, "No major project can develop without the support of dow'ntown businesses and property owners, the Chamber of Commerce, the governing body and the citizens in gen-- , eral. Before any redevelopment can begin, information will need to be gathered, plans will have to be carefully outlined and public hearings will be held, dmg By GARY R. BLODGETT Licenses Laws By DONETA GATHERUM - Clinton resiCLINTON dents will be receiving newsletters as often as there is enough information to fill one, the Clinton City Council has decided. THE FIRST newsletter is scheduled to be mailed the first of March. Joanne Hansen, a member of the city council will work with Zelda Goodrich to gather the information and print up the newsletter. Council members will study their current business license ordinance to see how it can be amended to make it workable and equitable. THE EFFECTIVENESS of the business license ordinance was questioned recently by District Judge Duffy Palmer. Clinton City went to court to require the Studio of the Arts, a local business, to purchase a business license. In hearing the case. Judge Palmer ruled the Studio of the Arts qualified as a professional establishment under Clintons law. This means the company should pay a fixed license fee and not a fee based on the number of students enrolled in the studio programs. JUDGE PALMER indicated there were some problems with Clintons business ordi- - DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL 197 B North Main St., Layton, Utah 84041 1 Phone PubSshed Weekly by CUPPER PUBLISHING CO. 451-295- JOHN STAHLE, JR. PUBUSHER Second Ctaa Poataoe Paid at Layton, Utan SUBSCRIPTION $4.50 per year Out Of State $5.50 per year Overseas Subscription $15.00 Payable In Advance nance. First, the definations of businesses weren't clear. Second, the ordinance was "The purpose of having business licenses is to off-sthe additional services the city has to provide for the business, one councilman stated. "It is not a money-makin- g proposition. MORE DISCUSSION on the ordinance will come in future council meetings. The final item of business on the Clinton City Council agenda was the widening of 3000 West. The proposal is to pipe an irrigation ditch and then to extend the surface of the road to a width of 24 feet. THE COST for piping the ditch would be nearly $40,000. Between $77,000 and $100,000 would be needed to resurface the road. The council tabled action on the matter until more information could be gathered. THE ROLE of the planning commission in city government was brought up when Nolan Muir and the council had a discussion on the possibility of installing storm sewer from the City Park to 1500 W. and 1800 N. This is the area of the Sun Ray Subdivision. Planning commission chairman, A1 Grasteit, recommended that the city council have Mr. Muir work out the details with the planning commission and then the planning commission would submit the final plans to the city council for approval or denial. MR. GRASTEIT has been a member of the planning commission for eleven months. He is anxious to get this group organized and running effi- ciently. The city council agreed to turn the matter over to the planning commission. Action on the storm sewer project was tabled until the planning commission makes a recommendation. dmg able in Davis County on a v holesale basis. These include call forwarding, call waiting, three-wacalling and speed What will the additional cost be? Beginning next Sunday, Davis County residents will be able to call from county border to border without a longdistance charge. MOUNTAIN BELL Telephone officials said Kaysville-Laytoarea residents will also be able to call north into Ogden and south to include the Salt Lake City area without a toll. Utilization of the second phase of the Extended Area Service (EAS) will begin at 12:01 a.m. Sunday and will coincide with the delivery of the new Ogden telephone directories. n WITH PHASE Two in operation Sunday . those customers served by switching offices in Clearfield, Kaysville, Bountiful and Farmington will be affected by the cutover. cusAlso, Kaysville-Laytotomers with 544 and 546 pree fixes will have calling to Ogden on the north and through the Salt Lake City Exchange on the south. n toll-fre- THUS, CUSTOMERS who now have 376 prefixes will be changed to 544, and 766 prefix numbers will be 546. These new prefix numbers will Clinton Council To Study Toll-Fre- e appear in the new Ogden directories which will be delivered simultaneously with the effective cutover" date. Mountain Bell Telephone Co. officials explained. BASED ON todays tariffs, Davis Countys increased monthly rates will vary for y calling. EAS from 30 cents for Farmington customers to as much as $3.08 for Kaysville-Layto- n customers with private lines. Basic charges will be based on the number of rate group changes. For example, Kaysville- area residents rate of in- -Layton will pay the highest crease because these customers will be using extended service from six to nine rate groups. CLEARFIELD area customers will be able to call into Ogden and as far south as CALL FORW ARDING will allow incoming calls to be switched to any other phone. This will provide security as well as convenience because unanswered phone calls will never again inform the caller that no one is at home or that a business is temporarily unattended. Call waiting lets the customer know, while you are still on the line, that another caller is w aiting to complete a call. This service will allow you to put one caller on "hold while you answer the second incoming G Salt Lake City Zone call. Bountiful without a toll charge. Bountiful customers will be able to call south into Murray (as they have in the past) and as far north as Clearfield. n Kaysville-Laytocustomers who have been the most restrictive of all Davis County e customers in calling to date will be able to call north into Ogden and south into Salt toll-fre- Lake City without a long- distance charge. HOWEVER, Bountiful-Farmingto- n customers will not be able to call Ogden with a toll charge, it was explained. Effective with the new date will be new cutover services, not previously avail THREE-WA- 965 calling lets 967 sation (or conference call) and may be used with any com- bination of local or i Kearns 966 the customer add a third customer to the telephone conver- 969 long- distance parties. Speed calling is a special service which lets the custom- Cottonwood Murray 264 266 262 261 er reach frequently called numbers by dialing just one or two digits. The other numbers are in the telephone memory. This service is available in packages of 8, 30 or 38 local or numbers of your choice. 263 268 Midvale long-distan- SERVICE CHARGES will depend on services rendered to each customer. Property T ax Arguments Challenged By MARK D. MICKELSEN CLEARFIELD For the first time in several months, Freeport Center officials are challenging reports that the industrial complex is being taxed at a rate lower than the rest of the community. IN A FULLY documented, re- port to the Clearfield City Council, Freeport Center general manager James Hannan Tuesday outlined the centers positive contributions to the city and said companies within the complex more than pay their own way in terms of fees and taxes. Former Mayor Donal Townley had charged the Freeport Center with paying less than their share of the citys property tax after finding through a private that the minimum appraised appraisal value of the center was $100 million, not $26 million as claimed by center trators. THE MAYOR appealed to the county and state tax commission officials, and By TOM BUSSELBERG FARMINGTON The pa- ramedics referendum has gained another vote of support through the Davis County eventually to Gov. Scott Matheson. The appeal went down to defeat in however, when the governor wrote back and said the state had decided to uphold existing evaluations. Mr. Hannan pointed out that Clearfield city currently receives $277,973 in revenues from the Freeport Center each fiscal year. medics was given by the states director of emergency medical services, Dr. Richard Center-s- HE POINTED out that new water and sewer rates adopted by the city council last fall place a much higher rate on industrial users than on residential, small commercial or retail outlets. The rate for the first 10,000 gallons per month for residential or retail users is six dollars, or 60 cents per 1,000 gallons. AT THE same time, he said the city pro- vides only $97,700 in services to the Freeport Center, including police and fire protection and building inspection services. Our analysis indicates, said Mr. Hannan, that the industrial companies at the Freeport Center contributed at least $180,273 more in Clearfield city in the way of taxes, fees and licenses than it received in allocated services. HE CONTRASTED that to the industrial users, who are charged one of two rates depending on the size of the building. For buildings under 40,000 square feet, the rate for the first 10,000 gallons is $23, or $2.30 per 1,000 gallons. This rate is 380 percent higher than the residential rate. Mr. Hannan said for buildings over 40,000 square feet, which make up a majority of the facilities at the Freeport Center, the rate for the first 10,000 gallons is $46, or ALTHOUGH he said he did not include utility payments in the overall breakdown, Mr. Hannan said We feel that because of the rate structure charged industry that the revenue collected by the L. Warburton, wo has watched the program grow since its inception in 1977. The state has been pleased with this program. We feel it was set up properly initially. Board of Health. THAT BODY unanimously approved continuation of the. program through a yes vote in the March 2 referendum where voters will be asked to approve a separate tax mill levy for the program operated by the sheriff's office. Along with county officials, praise for the countys para- city in these accounts from Freeport hould be mentioned. Revenues provided to the city from fire protection, sewer and water fees paid by the center totalled $95,912, according to Mr. Hannan. AND REFERRING to a King County, Seattle Wash., study he said Davis County is operating its for about the same price as King County does for one Further giving the countys program credit he stressed the importance of quick response by paramedics to minimize death or serious injury. In King County, nearly a half hour is listed for average cost-reven- response time compared to seven minutes or less in Davis County according to Sheriff Brant Johnson. LN THE health department resolution, it indicated support because the paramedic program has provided a service that has saved many lives since 1977; it has been statistically proven that out of every 100 cardiac arrest victims, ten more lives can be saved by prehospital paramedic intervention than would be saved by basic EMT amulance care. It also noted that, it is sta- tistically expected that 116 Davis County residents will go into full cardiac arrest during the next year with paramedic intervention, 20 of those people will survive to be discharged from the hospital. Without paramedic intervention, only eight will survive. wont IT SEEMS to us, he said, "that Clearfield city is balancing their need for water and sewer revenues on the backs of industrial users at Freeport Center. Certainly, an industrial rate percent higher cannot be justified by the cost of service to industrial users." In summary, Mr. Hannan told council members, I strongly believe that over the past two years Freeport Center and the companies located here have been raked over the coals on issues that had no basis in fact. 400-50- 0 Continued on page 2 law enforcement work. vote fail. be necessary if the change is approved. In fact, its estimated only $5.60 in taxes already levied will be needed from the bill for the owner of a $70,000 home. If the program were discon-inuethat amount could be saved in taxes, he said, d, although the commissioner hesitated to consider the prog THIS, he said, is a staggering 766 percent higher than the residential rate. We still have not been able to figure out why the size of the building makes any difference in the city's rates. Mr. Hannan also said that for water amounts in excess of 10,000 gallons, the Freeport Center companies pay a rate 20 percent higher than residential users." rams termination, should the COUNTY Com. Chairman Ernest Eberhard reiterated that a tax increase $4.60 per 1,000 gallons. IT DEPENDS on growth in the county. Chances are very good it would be hurt (if the vote failed)," he said. Were within 1 'h mills of the top level of funding (possible for county government). We couldn't meet it with our general fund. Its (separate mill levy) hot just to stablize the program were getting too close thats not enough leeway (on upper tax limit)." Sheriff Johnson said about 100 calls a month are received by the two Davis County paramedic units with 5 percent of paramedics time spent in 80-8- NOTING RELIANCE of people on the paramedics he added, the people expect it they are very reliant. We havent received any opposition (to the proposal). I feel very positive about this election. In other health department business, the board approved a $6 fee for birth registrations that would be laminated; a $1 increase from the present fee. That would conpare to Salt, Lake City County Health d partment fees, Health Directo Dr. Enrico 1K Leopfi Pr8' HR I They already h&Y ram in place. |