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Show i i seeIKlM . jilfM 1 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, VOLUME 1982 Despite Heated Opposition SUNSET -- The Sunset City Council has agreed to rezone a small portion of 800 North for multiple dwellings, despite written and verbal opposition to the plan by more than 80 local residents. DEVELOPER RANDY Brown, 186 West 800 North, petitioned the zoning change from l (single-famil- y residential) to (multiple dwellings) late last year in an effort to gain approval for a fourplex on his property. At that time the city council denied Mr. Browns request, saying they needed a specific development plan for the proposed complex. R-- director, said Weber Basin Water District representatives have been working with the city to install another water line. The line is expected to increase water flow in key areas of the community. Mr. Brown told council members. The rental fee, per unit, will be approximately $270. The apartments are relatively large at 900 square feet and residents will have the ability to keep 2.5 cars per unit. Plans call for the installation of a fence to the rear of the complex which Mr. Brown said will be used to protect surrounding homeowners' privacy. ABOUT 25 local residents crowded into the city council chambers to view the plans Thursday night. Some voiced opposition to the zoning change, while others claimed it is the only way to generate additional revenue in the city. Don Kinsey, 85 West 870 North, said he has had severe problems with water pressure in the area and asked Mr. Brown to explain how he expects to operate an expensive sprinkler system at the complex. By MARK D. MICKELSEN R-- 3 before the council, Mr. Brown Thursday presented city officials with a blueprint of the fourplex. He said the building was designed in a way that it would be most acceptable to neighboring landowners. The building is two stores high, will be landscaped and contain a sprinkler system, IN HIS second appearance WATER PRESSURE has been a problem in Sunset for several years. Mayor Norm Sant said. He said new lines "should help some, but "we don't know how much. Lilian Hansen, 830 North 100 West, said, I don't think there is anyone who would object to a fourplex being built there (800 North), but told council members she is concerned over what types of structures will be built in the future under new zoning conditions. I DONT know how many more people can support in that little area. Carl Clayton, 829 North 200 West, concerned over the types of developments planned for the area, asked the city council whether or not they will have any say so over apartment plans. I THINK we could challenge anything that is put in there, Mayor Sant said. w'e COUNCILMAN Clayton Peterson said during peak flow periods w ater pressure is low on the south and east ends of town. "We can't get enough water in here, he told Mr. Kinsey. Jerry Ellsworth, Sunset's public works FIFTY-TW- HUMBER FORTY-EIGH- T Councilman Peterson said specific provisions for the complexes should be identified before a building permit is ever issued. AS LONG as the building "is uniform. said City Attorney Steven Bailey. "You don't have a problem." Mayor Sant told audience members that the city council has the right to deny plans for any building if their denial can be backed up by city ordinance. ONE RESIDENT questioned the rezonw ould be considered "spot" zoning. Mayor Sant explained that planning bodies - such as the Sunset Planning Commission traditionally try to avoid spot zoning. But. he said, "it is not a fast and hard ing proposal, say ing it - rule." THERE WERE several supporters of the rezoning plan, including Karen Kunz. 62 West 800 North. She said problems will Continued on page 2 Layton Asks For County Library Equity By DONETA GATHERUM - LAYTON The Layton City Council, Mayor Library Board instigated action last Thursday evening, Feb. 4, that will help determine whether Layton will return to the Davis County Library System until August of this year. These facts, Layton and-Layto- n city officials, believe should mean that Layton residents who currently hold library cards have enough equity in the county system to entitle them to free use of the county library system. LAYTON LIBRARY Board President, Oma Wilcox, said a precedent was set in Logan when the Logan Library joined the county system and received equity for their contribution to the county system. If the city attorney finds the county can legally charge Layton residents fees to use the county libraries, Councilman Robert Stevenson suggests Layton might take some for of the mill levy libraries the city will soon be receiving and use it to pay for library privilege for those Layton people who now hold library cards. SECONDLY, the Layton City Council directed the Layton Library Board to prepare a package of conces sions they feel the county must make to Layton if Layton is to rejoin the county library system. Priority items worn be l. guarantee Layton a library, 2. improve the county system. If the county will go no further towards guaranteeing the requests in this package then the library board will begin earnestly preparing a plan e and a to carry out the plan so Layton can build an independent library. time-tabl- THE FEELING of the library board and most of the city council members at this time seems to be that Layton can build a better, more complete facility within five years that will be better than what the county can construct. An information sheet prepared by Library Board Member Lynn Wood explains how Layton could accumulate over one million dollars for library construction and supplies in a five-yeperiod. QUOTING from the info- rmation compiled by Mr. Wood, This year the city will receive $141 ,205.31 based on the levy of 1 .97 mills. Bookmobile cost is around $14,000 that will leave $117,205.31. We should be able to get at least 15 percent interest on that money that would amount to $17,580.80. That brings us to $134,786. 1 by the end of the 1 second year. If we then change our mill levy to 3 mills in the second year that would bring in with our anticipated increase $217,787.49. Subtract from that again the $14,000 for bookmobile and add what we already had and that would bring us to $338,573.60. If we continue this through the fifth year, we would have $1,359,866.61. This does not include the money we already have in the library fund which would be enough to pay for two years of bookmobile service. MR. WOOD went on to explain a one mill levy increase county-wid- e would raise $393,000 per year. If Layton raised the mill levy, there is a good chance the increase tax could be eliminated after the library was constructed. Mr. Wood said he had never seen the county decrease a mill levy once it was set. The money would simply be absorbed into the county system. MAYOR SHIELDS stated, We need to have a plan whether we stay out or go back in. Whatever we do, our interest is to provide library service to the people of Layton City. If the people see we have a good program, they will be willing to sacrifice. Phone Service Explained By NORMA PREECE KAYSVILLE P.S. Selander, superintendent from Mountain Bell Company met with the Kaysville City Council members Feb. 2 to discuss the new basic exchange rate for extended area service. The system went into affect Sunday. Those with a prefex of 376 was changed to 544, and those with prefex 766 was changed to 546. All homes have been contacted with regard to the new features available and the citizens had the option of obtaining them or rejecting them. Residents have no need for Metro-Pac- k any longer. DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL 197 B North Main St., Layton, Utah 84041 1 Phone PuMshed Weekly by 451-295- CLIPPER PUBLISHING CO. JOHN STAHLE, JR. PUBLISHER Second Class Postage Paid at Layton, Utah SUBSCRIPTION $4.50 per year Out Of State $5.50 per year Overseas Subscription $15.00 Payable In Advance THE LOCAL monthly rate of your bill will be determined by the number of main telephone numbers that can be called without a long distance charge. Business rates have increased, but residential rates have decreased by a margin. He was questioned about boundaries. He stated, There will always be confusion over city and county boundaries as they never quite agree, however, Fort Lane Central office will serve Kaysville and Fruit Heights, and a tine portion of Fruit Heights will be served from the Farmington central office. COUNCILMAN Nelson asked if Kaysville was listed in both the Salt Lake and Ogden directories and Mr. Selander said they conducted a study and found it not feasible to list Kaysville in both directories. Lyle Larkins, police chief, Kaysville city. He was in- formed the fee would be approximately $25,000. The mill is presently in a stage of installing new equipment and updating the facility. The present equipment has been there since 1924 and the new equipment will double the capacity of the operation of the flour mill. The city ordinance provides some conditions for a waiver and asked the council for consideration. The council was undecided as to whether a waiver would be justified and told Mr. Cannon they would table the matter at this time until they had the opportunity to discuss it with Walt Meacham, city electrician. They advised Mr. Cannon to attend their next council meeting in two weeks. asked Mr. Selander if the Kaysville Police Dept, number was listed in the front of the Ogden directory this time and he was assured it was. Mr. Selander said the residents phone bills will increase approximately $3 a month. WELLS CANNON, representing the LDS Church with regard to the Deseret Mills in -- WINTER LINGERS ON County Phone Rates Too High ? By TOM BUSSELBERG Kaysville, met with the council to request a waiver on the development fee charged by JOHN THACKER, city administrator, gave a complete review of the draft of the master water plan for the city and told of the necessity of up dating the comprehensive plan for the city. Many recommendations were given and he stated a meeting should be scheduled with the city engineer to review the plan, np Just like the groundhog predicted: theres going to be six weeks more of winter weather - at least it appears that way. Four to six inches of soft, fluffy snow fell early this week and more is predicted later this week. Meanwhile, North Davis Weather Bureau predicts spring at least by May. BOUNTIFUL - Although Davis County residents can e at now call more areas toll-fre- higher rates, theyre being discriminated against in the rate structure that makes those charges higher than levied against other areas, State Senator Haven Barlow, says. except when calling to call anywhere in their county area without such charges, the two claim. That goes for Salt Lake Cpunty except for Alta. A petition has been filed with the State Public Service Commission to review the procedure in June hearings. n WEBER AND Salt Lake counties have had virtually e service for decades within their counties with no extended area service (bringing the 27 cent increment charges from each telephone office) until June of 1978. They indicated no other state served by Mountain Bell outside of the Denver area, where 10 cent rates are levied, is charged through that system. The problem of discrimination occurred when they implemented EAS. toll-fre- HES JOINED in that concern by Joseph L. Ingles, administrative secretary for the State Committee of Con- sumer Services. They say Davis County residents should be charged based on services provided to Weber County--wit- h only 1,000 more the four Salt Lake City telephone offices. The pair agrees residents should pay for extended area service beyond Davis County, such as into Salt Lake for those in Kaysville south or into Ogden for those in Kaysville north. But they shouldnt have to pay a 27 cent increment for each area within the county outside their own telephone office or exchange. FOR A Bountiful resident calling Clearfield, that means 27 cents to Farmington, another 27 to Kaysville and an additional 27 to Clearfield. But Weber County residents-- - INSTEAD of putting just one EAS for Davis County like Weber and Salt Lake, they decided to restructure Ogden to four zones, Mr. Ingles said. Salt Lake was restructured to 13 zones. They change the whole state if they ha ve a problem in Davis County. He said they had "an expert evaluate the situation and indicate the structure may lead to measured service, where residents could opt for a set limit of ca!ls--sa- y 50 a e they would be charged a certain amount for calls over that. month--wher- SEN. BARLOW said thered be no problem as far as paying more if we can call more-- we expect to pay more. Well pay 30 cents. If we were treated uniformly we would pay 90 cents less than we are. Kaysville would pay 30 to Ogden and 30 to Salt Lake. All of Davis County customers are being charged 90 cents more than they should be as of Sunday, Dr. Ingles said. THE ONLY cheaper alternatives, he said, would be to opt for measured one party (private) or two-part- y cy of service," he continued. Responding to the questions of discriminatory rates was Sue Nelson, assistant staff manager of public relations at Mountain Bell. The rate structure was already in place when the (PSC) commission ruled on this (calling ability change). Rates are based on rate group-th- at two factors-t- he is the major part of the increase. RATE GROUPS are based on the number of telephones accessible to an area. Kaysville jumped from a Rate 6, with access to about 30,000 telephones, to a Rate 9, with access to about 200,000 she mea- sured rate service. One positive aspect that should appear in the near future, Dr. Ingles said, could come with eventual divestiture of American Telephone and Telegraphs affiliates, including Mountain Bell. MOUNTAIN BELL pays a license fee to AT&T. In that area expenses will go down. They will also have to stop paying shareholder dividends to AT&T. With the competition such as MCI (private tele- phone company), long dis- tance rates will probably remain competitive. There's a much better chance of efficien Speaking of the increment rate structure imposed on county residents from exchange to exchange Ms. NelThose exson continued, changes have been in exist- ence (for many years). It would have to be the commission (deciding a change). This is the way the exchanges have nothing unialways been-i- ts to Davis County. The que same structure exists statewide. IN SALT Lake County, an incremental charge is levied to each area such as calling from downtown Salt Lake to Kearns or Cottonwood sta- tions. Salt Lake County has seven such increments, Davis County four and Utah County the same. Wed have to change the entire tarrif structure and make it different than existing exchange boundaries, she said. REITERATING the rate changes, she noted that for a private line residence, customers in will pay $9.58. That means a 24 cent raise for Farmington, $3.02 for Kaysville. In Clearfield, the rate went to $8.64, up 80 cents. n Ogden customers saw an increase of $1.29, up to $8.10, with much of that based on a change in rate groups, Ms. Nelson explained. Bountiful went to $li.40the highest in the state with access to the most telephones but rose by only 25 cents. Salt Lake customers saw a two cent decrease based on a spread of rate system that was enacted Wednesday and indicated it brought true equity with Salt Lake already in the top rate group at $11.13. SHE INDICATED other areas also are charged on an extended area service increment but was unable to provide specific examples. x 1 |