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Show Page 2 Thursday, February 15, 1979 i aJ (USPS 378-730) WN V? SUBSCRIPTION RATE: y $6.00 a year in advance in State i year i SIO a year outside Utah PUBLISHERS: Jan v.t. Wilking Stephen K. Dering Editor Steve Dering Business Manager Jan Wilking Office Manager and Advertising Leslie Grace Kate Hamilton Graphics Donna Pouquette . . Marianne Cone Kate Peters . . Bobbye Jean Hammond Reporters Tina Moench Conrad Elliott Typesetting Phyllis Rubenstein Contributing Photographers Nick Nass Pat McDowell, 'Wasatch' Warren, Craig Reece Subscriptions Sonya Ratcliff Entered as second-class matter Mov 25 1977. at the post office in Pat City utanMOGO under me Act of March 3. 1897 Pubtshed every Wednesday ai PoK City Utah Second-class postoge paid at Par City Utah Pictures news and advertising may be submitted prior to Wednesday puCcalion at our office 419 Mam Streei Par City Utah 84060. by mad. Box 738 c by calling 649-9592 Publication material must be received by Monday afternoon lor Wednesday pubtcation Public JSotos SENIOR CITIZENS BUS Due to the high demand currently placed on the Senior Citizen's Bus, ' the Transportation Committee has set up the following rules and regulations which are effective immediately: 1) The bus will run on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday of each week from 8 a.m. to 12 noon; and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. 2) On Monday and Thursday of each week, the bus will operate from 8 a.m. until 12 noon; and from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. 3) Reservations should be made a day ahead whenever possible. 4) Elach Senior Citizen is allowed to ride the bus twice weekly plus one doctor call. We hope everyone will cooperate with us in order to make this program work effectively for the benefit of all Park City Senior Citizens. IMMUNIZATION CLINIC Immunization Clinics are being held the third Tuesday of each month from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Public Health Nurse's office at Marsac School. The February clinic will be Tuesday, February 20th . The following immunizations will be available: 1) DPT (Diptheria, Pertussis, Tetanus) for infants and preschoolers 2) DT (Diptheria, Tetanus) for persons 6 years and old er to be given every 10 years'. 3) Polio for infants in-fants and preschoolers. 4) MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) one shot at 15 months or older 5) Trivalent Influenza for persons with a chronic disease andor who are over age 65. This service is free and is available to persons of all ages. Please bring your immunization record with you. Children under the age of 18 years must be accompanied by parent or guardian. guar-dian. For further information, contact Diana Maxell, Public Health Nurse, at 649-9072 Tuesdays or Thursdays. If there is no answer, please call back. ARTS COUNCIL MEETING The public is invited to a meeting of the Park City Arts Council Thursday, February 22 at 6 p.m. at the Kimball Art Center. There will be an in-depth discussion on implementation of Council goals. Why not get the news All vn i have to do In receive tin- news, and happening in flic I'.irk City diid .urroimdtny irtM ! to fill mil thi' coupon Ivlnw ind riMil it toddv and whilf you'tv H it. wliv not -.end a mihm ription to friend PliMsf fix lost' proper payment and happy readmij' per year 56.00 in Summit County $12.00 outside county Name. Address. City and State. 649 - P.O. Box 738-Park by mail? 9592 City, Utah 84060 - - ft : w f t - I Glenn Bishop I VvJ d- Chet Hale Dominic J. Radanovich ! 1 j i iff4. 9k 5 1 ' 'TIB 'I 1 s g WELL-CHILD CLINIC The February Well-Child Clinic will be held Wednesday, February 21st from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the Memorial Building. Each child will be weighed, measured, receive a physical examination and necessary immunizations. There is a $1.00 fee per clinic visit. Immunizations Im-munizations are free. For further information, call Diana Maxell, Public Health Nurse, at 649-9072 Tuesdays or Thursdays. If there is no answer, please call back. MEETING FOR HANDICAPPED GROUP Attention parents of handicapped infants and pre-schoolers: Parents in Summit County interested in-terested in forming a parent group to start an infant stimulation and pre-school program please call 649-9684 for more information. BLOOD PRESSURE CLINIC The Public Health Nurse will be taking blood pressures from 2 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, February 20th in her office at Marsac School. This free service is being offered by the Summit County Health Department and persons 18 years of age and older are urged to come. For further information, contact Diana Maxell, PHN, at 649-9072 Tuesdays or Thursdays. Thurs-days. If there is no answer, please call back. HEART FUND DRIVE The house-to-house drive for the Heart Fund will be held February 24 through March 4. The Heart Fund Fashion Show will be held Thursday, Thur-sday, April 5. LADIES LUNCHEON The 25th Annual Park City Ladies Luncheon will be held Saturday, May 5. Details will be provided later or call Nan McPolin at 649-9417. HIGHWAY INFO. The Utah Department of Transportation will have available publications for highway improvement im-provement proposals for the Park City vicinity. The publications are available to the general public at the Chamber of Commerce office of-fice or at City Hall. C3 EL r prtf tiO.TOO HowabouNt? In view of spiraling inflation do you think the Carter Administration's 1980 defense budget of $125.8 billion is too much? Glenn Bishop I would like to believe that the defense budget is too much but it isn't. I was in East Germany this summer and I saw more tanks on that side of the border than on the NATO side. Bill Kopelman No, I think that defense spend ing is Deneticial because it provides jods tor the middle-class. Chet Hale Ideally speaking, I think we spend too much on defense; tUinb- lira knt.n 1 miun. nave IU SUCI1U ahead. i Steve Clegg I'm an avid believer in a strong defense so I think the 1980 budget is well spent. Dominic J. Radanovich I think it is too much; that money could be better spent improving living conditions in our country. There is a particular par-ticular need to take care of older people and increase in-crease their social security benefits. Diane Scheurich I think the defense budget is adequate. I prefer the money be spent on defense than on welfare. i -sua pj mmi" ear practically speaking I lt : I i 1 d 1UI 111 UI UCr IU RCCD Zone Change Requested By Snowcrest Telling the Planning Commission Com-mission his project "is not out of step with the direction you're moving," Salt Lake City developer Charles Aker-low Aker-low has requested a zone change for 1.24 acres of land at the northeast intersection of Empire Avenue and Silver King Drive. Akerlow wants his property changed from the general commercial zone to recreation recrea-tion commercial so that he can include kitchens in his proposed Snowcrest Hotel. Saying he has financing and is ready to build when the construction season starts, Akerlow described the 54 Snowcrest units as "larger than standard hotel units." Commission chairman Burnis Watts noted that the City Council currently is considering the addition of District Named To Register The Howe Flume Historic District in Summit County near the Wyoming border has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the Utah State Historical His-torical Society reported. The historic district in the Uinta Mountains contains the ruins of 19 logging structures dating back to the 1870s. Among the remains are a log flume, a dam, a bridge, a loading platform, excavation cuts, a road and 10 log cabins. W.ido setstie mem T - 8 -6W0. ewe, PAT. fine f- Bill Kopelman Steve Clegg Diane Scheurich kitchens to hotel units built in the general commercial zone. "I don't want to risk it," Akerlow replied at the Feb. 7 commission meeting," say-' ing he wanted to proceed with the zone change request. re-quest. Watts remarked that rezon-ing rezon-ing for specified uses is "not the only criteria" for judging the merits of such a request. The chairman said the use should be compatible with the city's master plan. "This is not out of step with the direction you're moving," mov-ing," Akerlow responded, noting the property is adjacent ad-jacent to recreation commercial com-mercial property. Watts said the land is contiguous to the resort area but questioned the construction construct-ion of a high density project on the corner. Commissioner Rusty Davidson countered that an equally dense use is permitted under the current zoning. City Planner David Preece recommended that the re-zoning re-zoning be approved due to the proximity to the resort area and City Councilman Bob Wells noted that a change to recreation commercial com-mercial would be a down zoning except for the inclusion inclus-ion of kitchens. The commission is expected to decide on the rezoning request at its February decision-making meeting and then pass on a recommendation recom-mendation to the City Council, Coun-cil, which will make the final decision. 'THAU VOW IWCA06 e, Mi?, mmm. no peesiveur 1 L I en Letters f (Only signed letters will be published.) Upset Because... Dear Editor: As one of Park City's concerned con-cerned and until now passive citizens, I am finally upset enough to break the apathy habit and write my first letter-to-editor. The situations responsible for my upset are as follows: 1. It is my understanding that Greg Lawson's term on the Planning Commission expired, that he applied for reinstatement, and that the City Council is "considering the matter." I find it astonishing that Greg, who is experienced and knowledgeable in the areas of planning and economics, was not instantly and unanimously reinstated. The mayor has repeatedly stated that these very qualifications should be represented on the Planning Commission. It would be interesting in-teresting to hear the reasoning behind the decision to postpone reinstatement. rein-statement. I, for one, find Lawson to be a Greg very professional, competent Commission member as well as a person of integrity. Perhaps Greg has been reappointed by now; if so, I congratualate the Council on their good judgement. 2. I was told there would be a public hearing on the matter of the proposed seven-member Planning Commission. The day the hearing was to take place, I called City Hall and was informed in-formed the issue had been dropped from the agenda because no public notice had appeared in the newspapers. The following day I was told that the matter mat-ter was not only considered, but was voted upon! Questions: Does the public have' thcr right to be heard in this situation, and if so where and when -was -the public hearing announced? announ-ced? Most important, why were the many valid questions raised by Planning Plan-ning Commission members and attending citizens ignored by the Council? 3. I wonder at the motives behind the proposal to expand ex-pand the Planning Commission. Com-mission. One of the stated purposes is "to more completely com-pletely represent the local business community." At present we have a computer expert, an architect, a city plannereconomist, a Summit Park roads Editor: There appears to be a little controversy concerning the proposed service district for road maintenance in the Summit Park and surrounding surround-ing areas. For those concerned, con-cerned, I have researched the following data: Total assessed valuation in Summit Sum-mit Park $1,137,530; Total tax dollars to be collected in 1979 at the 63 mill levy $71,664; Summit County's "share" at 9.5 mills $10,806; Total homes on tax rolls in Summit Park 147; average assessed value per home ($1,137,530 less $366,357 vacant va-cant lots divided by 147) equals $5,246. flNG Ml feBdibr banker and two long-time city residents. Two more local interests are to be represented. Which two? Historians, resort, developers, Main Street business, arts and athletics, appliance repair? If we are actually going to have fair representation maybe we should increase the number to 16 or 24. It will be interesting in-teresting to see which "interests" "in-terests" are most important in the eyes of the Council. 4. Law suit paranoia : Wait till word gets around that Park City will do anything to avoid a law suit. Perhaps a sign "Welcome to Park City, Walk On Us Anytime, No , Questions Asked." Supposedly the expanded ex-panded Commission will help prevent court challenges by enlarging the field of expertise. Are we certain that two additional members will cover all the possible areas of legal action? ac-tion? Burnis Watts' suggestion to create an Ad Hoc Committee makes sense sen-se (in fact, all of Burnis' suggestions merit considerationsee con-siderationsee Park Record, February 8, page 5A). It would provide the expertise without creating two more voting members and diluting the effectiveness effec-tiveness of the Commission. We also pay a city attorney for advice. He, together with a committee of experts should be able to cope with potential law suits. Perhaps it is time to reexamine re-examine our ordinances. Are they enforceable as currently Written? As a permanent Park City resident I would like to feel confident that my local government is prepared to go to court, if necessary, to protect the quality of life we now enjoy. "TT . 5: '.Finally,, 'my congratua-lat'ions congratua-lat'ions ; and heartfelt thanks go to "Woodro Celt" and David Preece who, in spite of heavy-handed heavy-handed opposition and personal per-sonal harassment, continue to speak candidly. I would also like the present Planning Plan-ning Commission to know that their efforts are appreciated ap-preciated and that the inconsiderate in-considerate treatment they have received in the past few weeks has not gone unnoticed. un-noticed. Sincerely, Juli M. Bcrtagnole At the proposed 7 mills that the service district wants to levy, it would mean that each home owner's tax would increase approximately approxi-mately $36.72 per year. If for this amount of money residences resi-dences will receive better service, better maintained equipment, and possibly newer equipment, why then the objection by a few people? After talking with some people, I have sum- 1. "We are going to be reappraised this year and most likely our taxes will double. The county will then have plenty of money to work with." Continued On Page 12 W. TOO RtfTHkWT. ODKT, VS W vr.QK wow udeiowe, |