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Show , tudy Bays Prison Should Be APRIL ADAMS Review Staff said Robert Boyle, another member of the consulting firm. Eleven acres are needed for a county facility but with a joint resource But Davis County officials on - the committee emphasize that no decision has been made yet on any of the' questions and probably wont be made for at least a year. The jail should be built within five years, said Sheriff Brant Johnson. "We are right down to the on this study. But this is us talking, not any county officials," said Gary DeLand, of the The best FARMINGTON site for a corrections facility in Davis County may be the new Davis County fairgrounds in west Kaysville or a parcel of land off Glover Lane in Farmington. Cost of the facility will be between $12 million and $18 million, and a jail would projoint county-stat- e vide the most cost effective oper- center for county and state programs about 15 acres would be required, he told the 16 committee members. Get as much ground as possible. You're not land poor here," nitty-g- ritty he said. The county jail is planned to be d facility with the capaThese are recommendations The site analysis was a bility of expanding to a made by representatives of process. We can make jail in future years, he said. The and Associates, a consulting a building fit on any size property state would require another 70 firm hired by the county to study simply by building upward or beds to house inmates if a joint the cost, site, funding options and outward. If we are forced to build resource center were built. y involvement in a on a congested site, we can do it," The new fairgrounds property has more than enough land, but it proposal to build a regional cor- he said. rections facility. The recommenThough the two locations are is remote from the county courtdations were outlined at a county the best sites now, others are con- house located in Farmington. This is a major- drawback, since jail committee meeting Thursday. tinuously ' becoming, available, ation. a firm. Sandy-base- d 200-be- 364-be- d chick-en-and-e- De-La- state-count- - County-Stat- e prisoners must constantly be escorted to and from the courthouse, Boyle said. But if the county is serious about going in with the state and you want enough room to potentially house over 300 inmates, that tells you quickly how much land you need." Boyle said. The other site consideration may be 46 acres available on Glover Lane immediately west of the Rio Grande railroad tracks. These are the sites with the most potential, since they have the most land and give flexibility, he said. cussed yet. he said, but other parcels are starting to surface as people make land available. The land should be at least 450 feet wide, have major freeway access and utilities, Boyd said. Proposed sites designated as the most unrealistic for the jail include land near the courthouse f .4 X A Project told listeners. The land was men-- , tioned at a Kaysville City Council meeting recently and the idea of changing its use was critsized by local residents. The acreage is also not conve- niently accessible to the courthouse and to freeways. Boyd and the County golf said. course. Boyd said. Though any A downtown site near the courtsite you pick for the jail is going house is also unrealistic, he exto be unpopular, these sites dont plained. There is not enough land make any sense." he added. so the building would have to be The golf course properbuilt in several stories, putting it ty. never under consideration as a in with the citys jail site anyway, has major politibuilding height limit. cal problems because using it for "The thing would be like an the facility would be an extremely amoeba, taking up every space it unpopular idea, he said. can find. It would be very ineffiBesides, I understand the cient." Boyd said. county has other ideas in mind, Continued On Page 2A for that land in the future," he Davis 10-ac- re 30-fo- ot Information was received last week on two additional sites, he said. One is farther south on Glover Lane, west of the tracks and closer to Centerville. The other site hasn't really been dis For Bum Plant Bountiful Drops Two Conditions the council. He said that would CHERYL ARCHIBALD Review Staff give Bountiful a good position to The Bountiful BOUNTIFUL take liability for closure... The proposed burn plant would City Council voted to drop two requirements from their list of be built between the North Area conditions to backing a proposed Refuse Disposal (NARD) and waste to energy bum plant. Hill Air Force Base, and would The council dropped the conditurn Davis Countys garbage into tions after a Chicasteam to be sold to Hill Air Force go based builder of burn plants, Base. accepted all other conditions last Regular garbage trucks from week. North Davis County cities would Bountiful was given 36 hours to haul weekly to the plant and either drop the requirements or trash from cities in the southern reject the proposal. The council half of the county would be dropped a 10.5 percent interest hauled from a transfer station at rate requirement and a condition BARD two or three times a week be liable for by a truck the size of a semithat closure of the plant. truck, said North Salt Lake MayThe deadline was later extended or Robert Palmquist. Traffic increase would - be around one another four days to give Clearfive Davis one of field, County percent, he said, The plant would not be much cities to originally vote against the plant, a chance to reconsider. plant larger than the ' Katy-Segher- Katy-Seghe- s, rs Elmer Barlow, Bay Area Refuse in Bountiful. Clearfield did not object to the concept of a burn plant, but wanted it located in another city. About 20 Clearfield residents disapproved of the burn plant idea at city council meetings. Palmquist said if the plant could be built at the NARD landfill site there would be fewer obrefuse, jections. However, the line accept only making it a sterile landfill, carrying steam must be no more said liability would be rethan a mile long to be location would be two duced. I feel well have $1 million by the time the burn miles from the present NARD plant is completed, Barlow told landfill. manager, (BARD) Disposal doubted Clearfield would go along with the plant, but he said Were in a very good position. Though Ive been against the burn plant before,' well have to do something somewhere down the line. Since the BARD landfill would ! iff1: , Photo by Robert Regan le Bar-lo- w he be buoys and like their three letter counterparts they take the chance to run atoay and play whenever possible. Such is the problem Kent BUOYS WILL Ballard has with his load of old navy buoys on in Woods Cross. The spheres, which are a build pontoon walkway, rolled being delivered to on the trip from Ogden to around several times will be used by Kennecott. Magna where they 690-pou- nd Torn Down By Winds Boundary Dispute Davis County Fair's Bubble Bursts Goes to Mediation nected to tear and separate from the main structure. There is no FARMINGTON- - The $42,000. time to repair the damage for this air bubble building used in last years fair, he said, which begins and runs to Aug. 1 1. years Davis County fair wont be today used this year as planned, due to The problem with the doors wind damage sustained Saturday had been progressive since being and Sunday night and to quesinstalled by the manufactuer, tionably installed emergency exit They were showing stress, APRIL ADAMS Review Staff Though the items will still be judged, the Davis County home arts and senior citizens exhibits are just of few of the exhibits that couldnt be shown in the air bubble as planned this year. Some of the fair events scheduled to take place in the bubble building will also be relocated, over to the Farmington Junior he said. High School and the Farmington last set The bubble was ' up r . Elementary School. week. v Fair The Davis County Queen Tippetts, the chairman of this contest,' the Prince and Princess years county fair, said the fair contest and the barber shop quarwill --go on as normal, but that tet competitions will take place in certain exhibits cant be shown the junior high schools auditoriumtheir original dates and . and certain events must be ,-on times, Tippetts said. The junior high is located on 160 S. 200 W. and the elementary school is on 50 W. 200 S. in Far- 4-- H, mington. The exit doors were installed to meet part of the citys Uniform Building Code requirements. The city building inspector, Walter Clock, said the doors and exit lighting were one in a list of eight items that had to be corrected by the time the building opened to the public for the fair. Bir-dA- ir. doors. The bubbles four new emergency exit doors were damaged by short duration gusts over the weekend, said County Commissioner Harold Tippetts, but he said there was also a question on the manufacturer-installedoors. Winds caused the portion of the building where two doors con d . Tippetts said that the bubble at next years fair, on the new 145 acre fair ground property west of Kaysville next will be used ; i year. , "T 3 adversely impact North Saif Lake CHERYL ARCHIBALD Review Staff FARMINGTON The Davis County Boundary Commission and county attorneys are trying to determine who will eventually annex an unincorporated area south of Bountiful and east of North Salt Lake known as the Woods property. e Bountiful says the area is 'in the citys policy on future expansion, and North Salt Lake claims the land is in their own future expansion policy. The dispute arose when petitioners, HaleRedd Investment group, Granada Incorporated, and Leilah Investment Incorporated, asked to have the land annexed to Bountiful. North Salt Lakes protest was based primarily on its annexation policy declaration. Since the land would be develby the oped into a Lake said Salt North petitioners, that storm water runoff would 110-acr- , sub-divisi- residents because of inadequate storm drainage and lack of flood control. The matter was turned over to the boundary commission, a board comprised of representa- tives from Davis County cities. A decision on annexation "rights was postponed to review allegations by the petitioners attorney, Greg Erickson, that North Salt Lake Attorney, Mike McCoy, failed to follow certain procedur-alrule- s for protests. He allegedly failed to certify that all filed documents meet statutory requirements, said Lane Forbes, Bountiful Citv Attorney. If the failure to certify is found to be jurisdictional. North Salt Lake's protest will be thrown1 out and the annexation will automatically go to Bountiful. But if the omission is determined directional the Boundary Commission will proceed, determining which city will get annexation rights. Repairs Close Airport WOODS CROSS-Th- e Utah Skypark Airport closed down last week and will remain closed for six weeks, according to Ralph Lewis, airport manager. The airport, located between IMff JNWPVIWIB1IIPIU UIIHIPI iu Kill w.-- ' ... - have ruined the Davie County Fairs With the loss of the bubble, weekend. last bubble HIGH WINDS air county officials plan to put certain events areas. in different 1500 South and 2600 South on Redwood Road is undergoing repairs. Swale ditches will be installed g to drain areas, Lewis said, and the airport will get new low-lyin- landing lights. The runway and taxi areas will receive new capping. The old administration building and old hangar will be torn down to make room for more areas. paved The airport is scheduled to reopen in the middle of September, Lewis said. .The airport is owned by F.C. Stangle, Salt Lake City. tie-do- i 4 |