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Show The Enterprise Review, December 1, 1976 Page 8b NOW AVAILABLE! Planner Carves Out Prime Direction for Sandy City Business Park Office Space ' The concept 2000 plan calls for a regional shopping e mall, a civic center, a y industrial park, residential development, a lake, golf course, campground and park, professional office buildings, a by Mary McMillan Gaber Review Staff Writer in South Salt Lake. 600-acr- high-densit- After year of undefined, haphazard growl h, Sandy, Utah has proclaimed its intention to establish an identity of its own and become self sufficient. Although recently it has become one of the country's fastest growing cities, it has injected this new sense of direction and purpose into its development only during the last four months. And during the next three weeks, the city council will take its first step toward converting what has been only a plan, into law. This month the council members are scheduled to conduct six public hearings, on subjects ranging from rezoning and annexing new property into the city, to allocating funds for taking an inventory of existing property. These hearings are only a beginning of what city planner Ed James calls a plan to aggressively annex property, to close in the islands, apendages and fingers and even off the boundaries of the city." From California Probably more than any other individual, James is responsible for the new spirit of management and control over its destiny the city is exhibiting. Ed James is experienced, says Dewey C. He Bluth, Sandy mayor. has energy, and he's not He afraid of the council. doesn't try to second-gues- s the council members. He gives us alternatives. And college 'and retail 500 to 13,000 Sq. Ft. Finish to suit client. Adjacent freeway locations. Call Gregory Gunn highway-oriente- d 486391 1 commercial outlets. Presently the subject of an economic feasibility study, the project would function as a complementary aid to Salt Lake City, James said. It would be a satellite community, providing local services to the surrounding communities, professional planner Ed James is molding Sandy into planned organization . I fices to move to Utah. think that's the way Sandy can be. IT IIC a subsidiary of price industries corporation 35 CENTURY ' PARK-WA- SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH 841 15 ,f he said. Currently under consid- eration by the planning commission is a $60 million, e shopping mall for the project, James said. Plan Implemented 130-acr- Concept 2000, being developed under the professional guidance of Saski of Sausalito, Walker Calif., was introduced to the public two months ago during a public hearing. As the plan begins to take root, Sandy's historic role as a passive bedroom community for Salt Lake City may change. Included in the concept is a proposed growth limit for Sandy's residential population. Although the Salt Lake County 208 Water Quality Study projected an This month actual rezoning and annexation of the property included in the plan is expected to begin. On December 8, two public hearings are scheduled to consider annexing property and State between Street, between 114th and 9750 South, and to rezone the property, placing it under the restrictions of the planned center. Present property owners petitioning for the annexation include Zions National Bank and EnviroWest. About 60 other individuals and companies also own property in the area. 1-- PRICE RENTALS, INC. estimated Utah White Truck Inc. Traditional construction material for our truck maint- enance buildings would have cost us a fortune in heating cooling costs. We needed a better alternative. Bill Smith-Presid- ent, Utah White Truck, Inc. population of .250,000 for Sandy, we have decided we want a total of 15 only 120,000 residents, James said. There is no such thing as a bedroom community, said Mayor Bluth. "Although our main role is to provide housing, we also need to build a decent tax base to support future And that is that growth. Concept 2000 is all about. O 3 hes cognizant of what the council wants, think, James. Bluth how we said about Sandy has needed a planner for six or seven McConahays, your diamond counsellors Bluth continued, but the old council didn't years, think we needed a professional. Coming from the planning department of Santa Ana, California, James has worked as Sandy's planner for eight months. Probably his major accomplishment so far has been the initiation of Concept 2000, the massive plan for a 2,000-acr- e regional core, including space for industrial, residential, com- mercial and recreational center, James said. That's why I took a pay cut and made a few other sacri- - working in the maintenance buildings year round. 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