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Show DAVIS Page FEBRUARY 19, 1986 REFLEX-JOURNA- Davis Reflex-Journ- 2 al Published weekly by Clipper Publishing Co. Inc. 96 South Main, Bountiful, Utah 64010 Weekly newspaper published at Laytoa Utah every Wednesday in the interest of Davis County and colonies formed by former residents. Address all correspondence to 197 North Mam, Laytoa Utah 84041 Subscription rate 25' per copy, $6 50 per year, mailed in county $7 50 per year outside. John Stahle, Jr. PresVManager Lucile S. Stahle Vice President Advertising Manager NewsEditor SportsReporter Production Manager Noel C. Stahle Tom Haraldsen Keith Duncan Martin Lee 544 - 9133 IFwonimD the community might be informed about the of daily life, we present the Forum, in hope aiding a more intelligent decision. That behind-the-scene- s of WHICH BUILDING IS the Ventura County (Calif.) County Jail? Neither looks like a jail, but more like an office building on the outskirts of a large city. Davis Countys proposed Criminal Justice Complex or jail - will also appear unlike a jail with no visable bars, fence which will include a 200-be- d is the which jail. towers that brand" some jail or prison facilities. See Page 2 for answer to Mobile home park denied Continued from - Smedley company could conform to the usual sewer, water, utility system, and road requirements imposed on any development. page one time, for some unknown reason, the city council tabled action on the mobile home park preliminary plan. It was returned to the city council for action on Feb. 7, 1985. Between 1979 and 1985 many things had changed including the city master plan which currently states a mobile home park in this location would not be appropriate. Because the park was proposed before the master plan was adopted, it could have been constructed under a grandfather clause. The council was powerless to stop the development if the At site near Farmington IN 1985 the council gave the Smedley Corporation one year to put together a corrected final plan, if the company was unable to do this, the property would revert back to the zone the master plan says is appropriate for this area which is very close to Hill AFB and subject to some Greenbelt conBy GARY R. BLODGETT siderations. The council action to deny the After three FARMINGTON final approval kills the project and there will be no mobile home park years of study, and following a precise schedule of planning, Davis in this area. County Commission will make a decision soon regarding a proposed Criminal Justice Complex. Jail decision ready soon few years, Davis County will be facing a crisis jail situation. The sheriff explained that the classification of prisoners is difficult if the jail is more than 75 percent of capacity because of needed beds for inmates who might be violent, female prisoners, those who are physically, mentally or sexually ill, and those who are short-ter(work release) inmates compared to long-terprisoners. - Cemetery to be cleaned Kaysville City Cemeterys Sexton, Vance Garfield, would like to inform those who still have Christmas decorations in the cemetery that crews will be picking up and discarding them on Monday, March 3 at 7 a.m. -- ANYONE who needs assistance in retrieving their deocrations, or anyone having other concerns, please call Mr. Garfield at City 5 Hall, during business through Friday. hours, Monday 546-123- Letters TO EDITOR Attention Clipper and readers: We are anxious to publish Letters To The Editor in this newspaper, but all letters submitted to the editor for publication must be signed. If, however, there is a justifiable reason for having the name withheld, this may be done. But the letter must still be signed and the author's name will be used unless otherwise specified. It will be the discretion of the Clipper and management to withhold publication of any letter. Reflex-Journ- Reflex-Journ- m BUT BEFORE a decision can be reached, the commission will conduct a public information meeting scheduled for Tuesday, March 11, at Farmington Elementary School. The meeting, open to interested m persons throughout the county, will begin at 7 p.m. in the school's room. multi-purpo- -- se Referred to as a Criminal Justice Complex, the project will cost an estimated $20 million to $30 million depending on the size and whether or not the entire project is completed in one Or two stages, explained County Sheriff Brant( Johnson. THE COMPLEX could include not only a 200 to 400-be- d jail, but could also feature facilities for county, precinct and district courts; county attorney; Utah Highway Patrol; and Parole and Probation offices. d detention We need a facility (jail) now and with the projected growth of propulation and d facility will be crime, a needed by the year 2000, said Sheriff Johnson. 200-be- 400-be- Thanks for shoveling There are many parents and children who are grateful for those kind people who use their snow blowers and shovels on the sidewalks in the area of Burton Elementary School so that the children and adults can walk safely on the walks. Some people clean all around a block or more early in the morning or other times when there are snow storms. Thank you very much for your hard work. I WOULD also urge students of all ages to use the cleared sidewalks wherever they are, rather than walking on the roads. Students walking on the roads, especially spread out like they often are, make a dangerous situation for the walker and driver. MEMBERS OF the Davis County Jail Advisory Council includes laymen as well as professional law enforcement personnel - recently toured jail complexes in California and Colorado and came back with some very interesting concepts, said Sheriff Johnson. The concepts varied greatly THE PRESENT jail is operating at 90 to 95 percent capacity of its 108 beds, and although the jail is not yet overcrowded, there are problems dealing with classification of prisoners. Within the next , from a soft-cor- e approach to inmate housing at a jail in Contra Costa (Calif.) to a hardened approach at the county facility in Ventura (Calif.). The jail in Larimer County (Colo.) was a compromise of the other two. SHERIFF JOHNSON said his personal feelings about jails is that jail facilities are for punishment of prisoners who have broken the law and jails should not be deluxe with the appearance of a college dormitory. Jails should provide humane treatment and a safe atmosphere with a cot for sleeping and adequate food. Thats all that is really necessary. But the concept of jails has changed drastically in the past decade ortwo, the sheriff related. In many instances they have become too plush with large, color television and furnished recreation FARMINGTON - Theres a logical reason for building the proposed Davis County Jail - hereafter referred to the Criminal Justice Complex Farmington, or at least closeby. YOU SEE, it all started back in 1852 more than 130 years ago - when an act of the Territorial Legislature of Utah proclaimed the area between Salt Lake City and Ogden as Davis County and the City of Farmington to be known thereafter as the county seat. Therefore, since Farmington is the county seat of Davis County, the County Courthouse, along with the County Jail, shall be built in the county seat. -- in - -- After three years Layton history completed - After nearly three of years preparation and several days, the Layton History Book entitled Layton: Historic Viewpoints is off the press and ready for distribution. Copies can be picked up at the Layton Heritage Museum during regular hours Wednesday through Sunday from LAYTON -5 -- p.m. THOSE WHO paid in advance will need to pay an additional 84 cents (for multiple orders costing $14.50 each) or 86 cents (for single orders costing $14.95 each). There are plenty of copies available at $2 1 says Sheriff Johnson. The interior will be nice, but not plush, and the exterior will appear as any office building with no visible bars, no fence or search lights around the outside, and no other distinguishable appearance of a jail. (See photo front page). If constructed in two phases, the jail building will have a large central administrative center -- - which will accommodate communications, recreation, kitchen, recreation, etc. - with pods of jail cells around it, the sheriff explained. -- THE FIRST phase would include cells for 200 inmates and these could be added with pods of cells for an additional 200 at a later time. The Criminal Justice Complex of attorney offices, county, precinct and district courts, drivers license bureau, Highway Patrol, etc., would probably be built in the second phase. COST COULD vary from about $20 million as a low range mate up to $30 million as a range esti- high estimate, the sheriff noted. Thats why we want public input - as well as committee suggestions - before a decision is reached. The County Commission will have the final approval, he said. -- -- recomTHERE ARE five mended sites being studied one on the outskirts of Farmington and the other four in the unincorporated area of the county between Farmington and Kaysville. A brief description of the five - proposed locations is as follows, and not necessarily in preferrence order: LOCATION A On Burke Lane between U.S. Highway 89 and Interstate Highway 15, total of 57 acres. - Location - B South of Clark Lane and west of 650 West, total of 92 acres. - LOCATION C South of Clark Lane and west of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Tracks, 95 acres. Location D - North of Glovers -- Lane and west of the D&RG tracks, 47 acres. - One-haLOCATION E mile south of Glovers Lane on 650 West just east of Interstate Highway 15, total of 67 acres. Sheriff Johnson said this list of proposed sites may be reduced to only two or three by the public information meeting on March 11. lf HE NOTED that if adequate property is available, the County Fairgrounds may be developed adjacent to the jail complex. Financing of the project could be done in one of several ways, the sheriff explained. A special services district whereby everyone in the county would pay an equal share is one method. Another method would be repayment through general obligation bonds. In both cases, it would require public approval by a countywide elec- tion. CAPT. JIMMY Stewart of the Davis County Sheriffs Department is Project Director. Capt. Bob Peters has replaced him as jail commander. Theres logical reason for jail site -- Pearl Michelsen THE PROPOSED Davis County Jail will probably be a compromise of the jails visited on the tour, PROBATE Judge Joseph Holbrook is credited with doing the legal work to set up Davis County as a separate county of Utah and designated Farmington as the county seat. Meanwhile the original Courthouse was constructed at a cost of $6,000 - a lot of money in those days - on the same site of the present structure. -- -- A TINY one-roojail barely large enough for six inmates, but rarely filled to capacity - was constructed under a large tree just a few feet east (into the parking lot of the m -- present Layton City Council plus $1.21 tax each. They can be purchased at the Museum. Grants CBBG extension Many people contributed photos for the book. These can be picked up at the museum also. book project was made possible through the joint efforts of many researchers, writers, editors, typists and through the contributions of information and photographs donated by hundreds of people. The thousands of volunteer hours that went into the production of this book is greatly appreciated, dmg THIS HISTORY By DONETA GATHERUM - The Layton City LAYTON Council has granted a six month extension for the CDBG (Community Development Block Grant) contract to allow the downtown Layton rehabilitation project to continue until July 30, 1986. LAYTON CITY received Answer: Darker building on your right is jail complex in Ventura, Calif. Proposed Davis County Criminal Justice Complex will appear similiar with no visible signs of being a jail. a CDBG grant nearly two years ago for the purpose of rehabilitating the downtown Layton area. The original amount was $238,000. By investing the money, this seed amount generated one and one-hamillion dollars worth of work to be lf done. In addition the UDOT (Utah De- partment of Transportation) conin state road tributed $750,000 work from Sill's Cafe on the south to the Big-- 0 Tire Company on the north. This work was completed last summer. MUCH OF the CDBG work is still to be completed. Low interest loans to property owners in the target area are still being processed and there is a possibility that additional property owners might qualify for loans bought down" by the grant money to a low interest level. Requirements for this grant money are that it be used to add the the facade or to increase the useability of the building. Repaving of the asphalt surface has not yet been completed. LANDSCAPING will be the final area to complete in the rehabilitation project. Planter boxes are still under construction. There is some bidding in the area of trees and shrubery to be done before the June 30th deadline. The fire and water system work which included replacing water lines and installing new fire hydrants has been completed. AN APARTMENT rehabilitation project has been dropped from the grant because the project was cost prohibitative. Although ther are many for sale" and for rent or lease signs along Laytons Main Street, some hopeful signs are also in place. Magic Mill has recently opened a store on Main. Street near the Church Street intersection. The Adams Super Market building that once housed the half-pric-e store and later a gymnastics studio will soon become a Building Decor Service, offering everything needed to furnish a home such as carpets, lighting fixtures, ap- pliances, cabinets, etc. ALTHOUGH it is not related to the CDBG money and project, as soon as the weather improves, the UDOT construction crews will be working on Gentile Street from the Main Street intersection to Fair-fiel- d Road. The road will be taken down to base and completely re- done. This project should take most of the summer, according to Layton City Community Development head, Scott Carter, dmg |