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Show RDA Out of Money Hfeumfloful By RON KNOWLTON Review Staff BOUNTIFUL The Bountiful Redevelopment Agency ran out of money as of March 1, so the Bountiful City Council has agreed to loan the agency up to $350,000 for the coming year. ,RDA Chairman Dean Stahle said the agency has run out of tax increment funds (money the agency receives from property tax money each year). Agency officials had anticipated receiving tax increment funds from a r lnms Ageney Up hotelmotel project on 500 South and 500 West that was planned jointly with a Brigham City developer and the Woods Cross Redevelopment Agency. But those plans appear up in the air and no new money is available for the agency. RDA Executive Director Randy Sant said the money would be needed for the next nine months and the agency would like to. borrow the money on a basis as it is needed. If the agency is able to sell some of its month-to-mont- h ,0 tf Stahle said the agency earlier had purchased 13 acres of property in Centerville in anticipation of a successful hotelmotel project. The Centerville property was to be used to trade with the Utah Department of Transportation for property on 500 South that is presently owned by UDOT. The 500 South UDOT property was to be used for the hotelmotel project. The agency has also purchased property at 100 West between Center Street and 100 South. Roger Sears, a property, the money from the sale could be used against the agencys debt, he said. The agency has agreed to pay back the money borrowed from the city with interest during the next five years. The money will be used to meet payroll expenses, employee salaries, office supply and equipment expenditures, legal and auditing fees, administrative services, utility fees, land acquisition costs and any other miscellaneous expenses incurred by the agency. had originally proposed three elderly housing apartment buildings and enlarging the med- developer, six-stor- y ical facilitv there. The RDA has also purchased a piece of property at 300 North Main, Stahle said. The purchases have helped to deplete the agencys funds. The agency will pay back whatever money is borrowed from the city at a rate equivalent to what Bountiful has and will receive on its investment funds during the same period of time. Q38li QGE&fcmtlm 33anwUO nai (Mam 3asruiw i3D Wednesday, March 30, Vol. 3 No. 31 1 983 Bountiful RDA funds Approved For Renderings By RON KNOWLTON Review Staff The BountiBOUNTIFUL ful Redevelopment Agency has approved $5,000 to be paid to a group of architects who will draw a set of renderings. The renderings will be used as a tool to give area businessmen an idea of what a revitalization project for the downtown area may look like, RDA Executive Director Randy Sant said. Sant said the drawings are just a place to start to get input. They will show possibilities for landscaping, uses for existing businesses, and locations for new businesses, Sant said. Stahle said the RDA board would like to hold seven public meetings to allow property own- ers and businessmen SNOW REMOVAL takes on new dimension after storms dumped several inches of snow on Bountiful area last week. Group Opposes Refuse Burning Plant rather than going with the resource' recovery plant. Mayor Dean Stahle said one of the biggest problems the council has with the plant is the cost to the city to transport garbage to the proposed site presumably in Layton or Clearfield. By RON KNOWLTON Rtvitw Staff About a doBOUNTIFUL zen Clearfield and Layton residents told the Bountiful City Council last week that many residents from those two cities dont want a garbage dump in our backyard. The residents were referring to a resource recovery plant planned for northern Davis County. We dont want to see Davis Stahle said it may cost the city as much as $8 to $15 per ton to transport garbage north, a factor that officials in favor of the plant seem to ignore. It doesnt take a lot of calculation to figure what would be better financially for us, he added. ' The group has also made a presentation to the Clearfield City Council. Bob Hallet, a member of the group, said simi- County become the garbage county of Utah, James Hurst told the council. Hurst and two other north Davis residents presented the council with a study giving points against the plant. Hurst said most of the facts and figures in the study are taken from studies and reports prepared for county agencies to determine the feasibility of the lar presentations are planned , plant. Hurst said the countys north landfill has 14 years of life left and the south landfill has 37 years of life left. Were not in that big of a hurry now because there are other types of technology that may come along. He suggested the council wait, rather than go with the proposed plant. The mood of the council seems in favor of waiting to develop other alternatives, for the Clinton and Layton City councils. The1 group has also sent a letter to the mayor of Centerville and has contacted the mayor of Woods Cross, he said. Hallett said the group has tried to oppose it (the plant) in our own community. But every time wed feel that we beat it down, theyd (officials in favor of the plant) do something to build it back up again. Stahle said another problem the Bountiful council may have with the plant is with traffic. He said he didnt like the thought in the downtown area a chance to react to the RDAs proposals. He said he would like to show the drawings and allow the board to meet with businessmen and the property owners in the downtown area first before the new information becomes too public, so that they dont get second hand information. Stahle said the city needs to find two anchor stores to help build the downtown area. He said the two would likely be that the streets may be littered from here up to there. Hurst said the plant must operate at capacity. Hallett added that the county would be able to provide 83 percent of the Hallet said there would also be problems with city residents who could no longer haul their garbage to the landfill in the south end of the county. He said that a lot of vacant lots may waste needed to oper- - suddenly have a lot of trash. All refuse would be required to ate the plant. The plant ownerjunior department stores, ship would need to find another be hauled to the plant. rather than large department 32 tons per year from outside Hallet said the decision on the stores. The stores would help to the county to keep the plant plant doesnt need to be made operating efficiently and to for another 10 to 12 years. We think the Wasatch Front Regkeep costs down, he said. The groups study shows that ional Council (a group involved during the last 10 years of the with the planning of the plant) project, 45 to 58 percent thinks there is no other alternaof the countys refuse would still tive available, Hallett said. need to be placed in a landfill, Hallett said he felt very because the plant would not be strongly that the public is beBy RON KNOWLTON able to handle the additional ing led down a primrose path. Review Staff waste. During the first Stahle said the plant at preyears BOUNTIFUL City Attorthe plant would have a refuse sent seems tenuous without a ney Layne Forbes didnt have a and would require site for the project and without typical city ordinance. This one shortage outside waste. signed steam and electricity is multiple choice he ancontracts. He also noted that the nounced, as Bountiful City Reed said the Shirley project would run at a loss for the first Air Force has never before signCouncil members studied their 10 years and would receive siged a $3 million steam contract. copies of a business license ordiSo the Air Force steam contract nance. nificant tax benefits. The taxpayer in reality is paying for all would set a precedent. Everything was complete exof the risk on this project. There According to the groups cept the figures. How much is no risk to the contractor. study, mandatory city ordishould the city charge transient Hallet said that during the 18 nances would be needed requir- businesses for a business months when the plant is being ing all cities who had entered license? Under the present city built, the contractor would bear into contracts to send all of their ordinance the city has been the risk for the plant. After it is waste to the plant. charging $50 per day. There would be a 20 year combuilt, the county and the users But some city officials conmitment and the cities during sidered the fee a little bit high. of the plant would bear the risk. In Dade County, Florida, the that time could not return to That was the reason for the county is suing the ownership of sending their refuse to landfills, change. the study shows. burn plant there, Hallett said. Transient businesses will now have to pay $150 for a stay in the city. The choice, offered by Councilman Keith Barton, stipulated that the 120 days (four months) must run Saunders said the funding wetlands area, and permission consecutively. out the Forbes program was predicted to run from the Army Corps of Enout of money by 1987, but the gineers must be obtained for the previous answer (choice C) and a gallon road to be built on the land. wrote in the new answer. And additional. what grade did the council regasoline tax passed by Congress will almost double the fund. The In the past, the county has ceive? Forbes didnt say. But council members did money can only be used for sec- discussed building a road have differing opinions on ondary roads, said Tippetts, through the foothills near Farand rural communities should mington and Centerville, but which answer should be chosen. benefit the most from the grant Tippetts said that the proposed Councilman Keith Barton was road from Shepards Lane to the first to come forward. He program. Tippetts said the proposed Redwood Road was now the liked Choice A. Charge them business $100 for a highway must travel through a most attractive to the county. pro-cessab- le Bountiful Approves License Fee Law 20-ye- ar , 120-da- y County Receives Federal Road Grant By KENT SOMERS Ravlaw Staff FARMINGTON County will receive - Davis $250,000 in a federal road grant for an environmental impact study and preliminary design of a Davis Highway, which would run from Shepards --Lane in Farmington to Redwood Road in Bountiful. Commissioner Harold said in a commission meeting last week that Commis Tip-'pet- r ts sion Chairman Glen E. Saunders obtained the grant for the county. Tippetts said Highway 106 and Interstate 15 are the only two routes through Davis County that link northern Utah with Salt Lake City. Another corridor is not only important to Davis County but to the whole northern part of the state, said Tippetts. One teacher in 0300 three-mont- h methods to create enthusiasm among his 4B Classified Editorial School Sports license. Councilman Paul Allen preferred Choice B. $5 per day with a maximum fee of $100. But Mayor Dean Stahle was not pleased with that choice. City officials would be burdened with higher administrative costs to figure which business had for how many days and who should pay what, he reasoned. Then enter Councilman Dean Hill. He liked Choice I. Charge them $100 for a stay of one to ten days. After that time, charge them $10 to go for another 100 days. all of The other choices? F none of the the above. G fill in your own above. H None of which fee. outrageous were chosen. Forbes seemed pleased with the final choice and even elaborated further. What determines a temporary business from a permanent business? Forbes said a permanent business is one that is housed in a permanent building that has footings and a foundation. If a business is located in a permanent building, the business would be required to purchase a regular business license, Forbes said. tf 4A 6B Business Boun- tiful uses unusual students. red-pencil- Index Learning More create traffic for the rest of the stores in the downtown area, he said. John OHara, an opponent of the downtown mall idea before it was defeated by the RDA, said he has worked with architectural firms in the past. He said he was involved in the planning stages for the Layton Hills Mall. Nearly 30 renderings of the outside of the mall were made before two or three were finally chosen, he said. When they finally found what they wanted, then full color renderings were made, he said. This seems like youre putting the horse before the cart, O'Hara said. Stahle said the agency wont be considering full fledged renderings. But they may be more than pencil sketches, he added. He said the architects arent being paid a large sum of money for their work and have donated some time on the ject without reimbursement. He said that in the past when the RDA asked for ideas on what should be done with a pro- ject, the board only received one or two responses. And if the RDA came-u- p with a proposal of their own, city residents felt like the proposal was being shoved down their throats, he added. We want to start with something we can talk about. .... 6B, 7B 3A 3B,3B IB, 2B All-Sta- rs Local basektaball teams were represented last weekend in the basketball game. All-St- ar IB 'Juki's r" : , |