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Show THE Wednesday, March 16, 1977 LETTERS T THE iBIf 0E How About It ? 3 Page 2 'Saving' The Old Section Of Town Dear Editor: " Let me explain how we're going to save the 'old section' ., of 'ark City. First by revamping the Coalition Building. Actually it's the last thing we will touch, you know it would cost a fortune. But by using it as a carrot at the end of a stick we plan on gaining great popular support. sup-port. We wouldn't dream of using the Coalition Building to house the base of the ski-lift, even tho' the building was originally designed as a tramway terniuud,; No , we plan to comHemeiH '1he old structure by building a Ja pa nose M i -li fj; along , side of it. " " ' Can't you picjure the beauty beau-ty of it. rustic Park' City ala modern Nippon Fantastic;. ; Then we will replaced 'the' stately Carnegie Steel tram towers with Nippon's finest. That's almost a shame for those towers are the only known Carnegie Steel in the state, but the town will still have its Carnegie library and no one has messed with it since the original grant in 1019, and I'll do my damndest damn-dest to see that no one louses it up with modernization. After all that would cost us taxpayers money. 01 course after our ski-lift is in we'll have to drape about six city blocks with safety netting to conform with' the Utah State tramway1- laws, i It's supposedto catch the garbage that riders like to throw at the people below. It does stop some 6ft. this will give an interesting aAma come summer, Th'e -lift riders will have to get their kieKs with spitting and throwing cigarettes butts. might havTtlF$dnoW this net is unsightly. But most people,, are, so 'gullible that we 'feeding lor pass the net off as a work' of art. like that guy in California who built that: crazy long .fence that went nowhere. What was bis name? No matter we'll find out before the next art festival. We're going to run rail-road track to the top ol Main Street the cos,t..tobe.-picke'd-up by the City. They think it's only going to cost , them $20,000, this ' is' a, gimmick we picked up from ' the defense industries. It's called cost over runs. Hell . I'm afraid to tell you the true cost. Once the track is in we're going to sell the City some genuine Portuguese trolley cars. This will be all' in keeping with; the decor of an old mining camp setting! All famous old mining camps had Portuguese trolley cars, well one did somewhere down in BraziL What's the town's name? -Oh it doesn't matter as long as Park City has one. . : . Actually what happened is . Wally got stuck with a whole bunch of these Portuguese trolleys from his St. Louis deal and he will let Park City buy them for $25,000 each. We wouldn't want Wally stuck with them, would we? Did you hear how we're going to extend Norfolk Avenue North and join it to ' Lowell Avenue? Most of the street to be built is actually Lowell Avenue, but we don't want to use that name. Some citizens still remember how we pulled off the Lowell Avenue development, so we will call this one the Norfolk Avenue development. Oh, another thing we're going to give to the 'old section' of town; it's something some-thing that Thaynes Canyon and all the better sections of town have already got. Ski runs! We'll really break up ; the monotony of looking at all those old trees. Oh yes. and we'll have an L on loading station on the ski lift between Norfolk and , Lowell Avenue. Some of the natives think that their neighborhood will become congested with cars parkec all- over the place, lawnsr drive-ways, etc., and tht area crawling with people. Can you imagine that, na fives actually thinking! Very truly yours, Gary A. Kimball Hits Waiver Of Impact Fee Dear Editor and Citizens of the Snyderville Basin Sewer District: ' I applaud Mr. Robert Wlls . for his letter to the Editor i calling attention to the appalling manner in which , the Park City Council is mismanaging the impact fees it established in May 1975 as a' vehicle whereby persons thereafter bulding in Park City would pay the cost of city amenities for which they were generating the need that is. purchase of water and expansion of water and sewer facilities, fire station sites and fire protection apparatus, land for public parks, land and bricks and mortar for needed need-ed public buildings, etc. Mr. Wells called attention to the recent acts of the City Council in waiving the collec- tion of those fees in a ": promiscuous manner not based on any established , reasonable or consistent standards. Mr. Wells did not go far enough in exposing what our pseudo-Robin Hood officials are doing to tax the poor to enrich the rich. On Monday, Feb. 14. a group called The Ski Company Com-pany appeared before the Snyderville Basin Sewer Board and represented that it wished to move its ski-manufacturing operations opera-tions from Ogden to Park City, would employ 35 people ( 26 or 27 to be recruited from Park City) at " a monthly payroll of $25,000. all of which acts would greatly enhance the economy econo-my of Park City thru this munificent payroll and the taxes the company would bring into Park City. For these blessings, the Ski Company felt thev were entitled to some consideration considera-tion in return, to wit: since toq5fiEt,inlj.oi)t,'galJ()i of wiTterpel- day m 1 heir 5kf manufacture, the onlv im-. im-. pact on the Park City water 1 supply and the commensurate commensu-rate impact on the Snyderville Snyder-ville sewer treatment facility facil-ity would be drinking water and the use of two toilets by the employees. Therefore, the company suggested, the company1 should be relieved of .the $5,500.00 sewer connection con-nection fee. established for comparable commercial en-terprises en-terprises and should be required to pay the minimum mini-mum fee established for , comparable residential usage only. Call Engineering Co., the Sewer Board's experts who were in attendance, atten-dance, quickly assented to the propriety of this proposal. propo-sal. Without any further investigation or any further questioning of the proponents. propo-nents. Commissioner Jan Wilking moved that the Board waive I the $5,500 commercial sewer connection connec-tion and allow the company to pay the residential connection con-nection fee of only $500, thereby leaving people like you and me to pay increased fees, taxes, or whatever it requires to take up the slack whenever our Honorable Board chooses to so nobly and generously give away - sums like this $5,000. The remaining Commissioners quickly and without any further questioning adopted Mr. Wilking's motion. Continued on Page 11 On The Concerts Dear Mr. Ballif, In response to your rather angry letter you sent to the Chamber of Commerce regarding re-garding an article you read in The Newspaper (March 2, 1977, I'd like to clarify a point or two that you seem to have misread or over reacted re-acted to. James McNeil has approached ap-proached the Park City Chamber of Commerce regarding re-garding the possibility of staging outdoor concerts in the Park City area during the 1977 summer season. An "exclusive contract" is hardly in the making nor was the intention of any arrangement. ar-rangement. In fact, the Chamber of Commerce -specifically stated that other events .were already scheduled sche-duled and made it clear that , in no way would they be cancelled. If the article was Llyod Stevens llplitl Phyllis Offret 'Jnn N!8 una. in some way misleading to you, the reporter attending is at fault.,. Any assumptions you ;may have are purely speculation. Mr. McNeil is attempting, as I see it, to further extend his business. You, assuming you are in the same business, have that same option. If that is the case, we would welcome contact from you also. Sincerely, . Amanda Peterson -Director of the Park City Chamber of Commerce Responds To Petition Dear Editor: I'm sick and tired of the criticisms leveled by people who have not put forth enough effort to find out the facts, and find it easier to appeal to emotion than to reason. Criticism, even un-founded, un-founded, can usually be tolerated in silence by those who know that the truth will surface in time. But in the case of recent criticisms of the Snyderville Basin Sewer District, I cannot be silent, because during the time it may take to resolve the issue . through an initiative peti-.? tion, the citizens of Park City will be incurring at least $100,000.00 in needlessebt. It is appalling that such a lack of information exists concerning the sewer problem pro-blem in Park City and the Snyderville Basin, but the blame cannot be placed squarely on anyone's shoulders. shoul-ders. Perhaps the newspapers newspa-pers did not make enough effort to inform the people.,,. Perhaps the people did not make the effort to find the ' facts by attending the public meetings. In any ' case, I would like to ask anyone interested in better inform- . ing himself about the sewer situation, , and especially , anyone who is thinking about signing or has signed the initiative petition now circulating circu-lating in Park City to get comfortable, forget the rumor rum-or and gossip and read this long letter to the end. An initiative petition is a method of passing a law, except that instead of being voted upon by the City 1 lilSX! ft flHi I . I What is your reaction to the proposed redevelopment plans for lower Main Street? Lloyd Stevens -1 think it is the thing that we have all been waiting for to happen. This will lend credibility to the economic development of our town and it will help draw the attention to Main Street that it deserves. Deanna Burdick - Basically, I agree with it because it will cause Main Street to be the central focus of Park City and, hopefully, the merchants will have some impetus to add a little class and uniqueness to their business. Phyliss Offret -1 don't like it. The trolley will destroy the mining town atmosphere. I feel there is too much emphasis on skiing and not tnough on mining. I don't like the idea of the chair lift either. Leave those ski things down at the resort and not going over people's homes. Matt Alvarez - This is an excellent opportunity to develop the central business district which was one of the original intentions of the first Master Plan. The thing that makes Vail and Aspen so successful is the ability of a person to ski off the hill to a large variety of eating places, shops and services. This will be possible with the proposed ski lift. " , Hopefully, this will stimulate the speculators that have been holding back the development of Main Street to do something with their property. John Newland - I'm not completely sold on the project yet. I need more information before making a decision. Some people say this will make Park City another Aspen. I'm not ready for that and I don't think Park City is either. Dick Doty - I think it is a great idea. The Coalition Building will either be developed or torn down. I would like to see it developed. The Union Pacific Depot is one of the prettiest buildings in town and I would like to see it preserved. I feel the quality of the people behind the. is one of the biggest assets of the proposal. In Wally ; Wright we have someone who has successfully done redevelopment and made it a national point of appeal is right! Council,' it is voted upon, by the people in the cityat an election in November. To get the proposed . law on the ballot, the petition must be signed by 130 voters. Such a ,' petition is being circulated in Park City calling for the city to withdraw from the Snyderville Sny-derville Basin Sewer Improvement Im-provement District. It has not. been determined whether or not such a law if passed would be constitutional, constitu-tional, since to withdraw, the city would have to break a contract. My hope is that a lengthy court test can be avoided through an appeal to common sense and an examination exa-mination of the facts. I urge you to read the proposed ordinance attached to the petition very slowly and ' carefully, especially the.f thirteen thir-teen reasons for passing the proposed ordinance which begins with "WHEREAS." Signing the petition means that you agree with the contents of the ordinance and support it. I have, evaluated each reason and have found flagrant errors of fact, inflamatory, and misleading mis-leading language and unfounded un-founded claims in all but one. Below I have detailed my opposition to each of the petition's claims. This is not to say that there are no legitimate reasons for opposition oppo-sition to the regional sewer district concept, - there probably are some. I only contend that our actions should be based upon fact rather than the misconceptions misconcep-tions spread by the uninformed. unin-formed. 1. "WHEREASthe passage of the proposed Snyderville Basin Sewer District Improvement Im-provement bonds would immediately raise sewage fees for the residents of Park City by at least 49 percent;" Sewage fees will have to be raised from $3.35 to $5.00 with a general obligation bond or from $3.35 to $7.25 with a revenue bond regardless regard-less of the passage or failure of a regional system bond election and regardless of whether a regional plant is built or the Park City plant expanded. Treatment standards stan-dards have become tougher and costs have increased forcing increased fees to be charged to the people who use the sewer, system. We should be thankful that and recognition. jrr T- : ; increases in sewer fees have ndt "kejRt pace with other pricesduring the last twelve years. I can think of no other cost which has remained at the same level since 1965, not food, clothing, entertainment, entertain-ment, rent, and certainly not utilities. Our former city officials deserve a pat on the back for bu:iding the plant that they did in 1965. There oafy one plant in the Salt Lake Valley which has not been abandoned or expanded during the last seven years. 2. "WHEREAS, Regional sewer plant would cost at least $4,800,000.00 of the taxpayer's money;" This phrasing seems to be an effort to scare the reader into believing that he would be liable for raising over four million dollars. 75 percent of the sum will be contributed and has been set aside for this project by the EPA which 25 percent will have to be raised locally. So in a literal sense, 100 percent is taxpayer's money - as in any federal-local matching project. pro-ject. The point is this; if the EPA's share ($3.6 million) is not spent here, it will be spent on some other project somewhere else in Utah or Deanna Burdick Matt Alvarez Dick Doty perhaps Georgia or Maine. I think the people here deserve de-serve some return of the money they have paid the federal government through the years. And since taxpayers tax-payers will save no money by refusing this EPA contribution, contri-bution, the only thing refusal would do is allow your federal tax monies to be spent elsewhere to benefit another community. The 25 percent local share (1.2 million) will have to be raised regardless of whether a regional plant is approved or a Park City plant expansion expan-sion is chosen. 3. "WHEREASan engineering engineer-ing estimate has indicated Park City could expand its facilities to accommodate the same number of people as the first phase of the Regional plant, for less than 20 percent of the Regional plant's cost;" This information is ; based ' erroniously on 1966 cost estimates and outdated treatment standards. It is necessary again to keep in mind the difference between the local share (25 percent) of a regional plant and the total cost. The implication is that an expanded plant Continued on Page 10 if t -I PUBLIC HEARING The Park City Planning Commission has determined that a public hearing should be held concerning the project being proposed by: Bill Coleman, Harry Reed, John Sweeney, Wally Wright, John Prince. The proposal involves the creation of a ski lift which would originate from the Coalition Building, a subdivision which would tie with Norfolk Ave. and Empire Ave. from approximately approxi-mately 3rd St. to 8th st., a lodging facility which would be west of Lowell Ave., a commercial development which would involve the existing depot and the property north of it, a trolley system going up Main St. and north to the Mt. Air Market. This same system could eventually connect the existing resort with Main St. and the proposed resort Deer Valley. The meeting is set for March 28th at 7:00 pm in the Treasure Mountain Inn. All people are encouraged to attend. For additional information contact Harry Reed, Bill Coleman, or the Park City Planning Office. K.A.C. REGISTRATION Kimball Art Center extends Spring Quarter class registration until Friday March 18th at noon. Classes are available for children and adults days, evenings, and weekends. For information call 649-8882. RECREATION NOTES A ballet class will be starting Thursday March 17th, 8:00 p.m. in the Memorial Bldg. This is a beginning ballet class for adults. It is a 10 week course and costs $15.00. For further information call 649-9461. This week's gym schedule: Monday-open 2:00 p.m. till 10:00 p.m. Badminton 7:00-10:00 Tuesday-Open gym 2:00p.m. till 10:00p.m. Wednesday-Open 2:00 p.m. till 10:00 p.m. Volleyball 7:00 p. m.-10:00 p.m. Thursday-Open gym 2:00 p.m. till 10:00 p.m. Friday-Open gym 2:00p.m. till 10:00p.m. Saturday-Open gym 2:00 p.m. till 10:00p.m. (Kids under 18 yrs. get priority use of facilities after 5: 00 n.m. on Sat.) -n! a lube B-1. heart Were you home when the Heart Fund Drive Volunteer called? If not, please call Carolyn Gross, 649-9764, Beverly Pace, 649-9583, or Nan 5 McPolin 649-9417, and they will call for your contribution for this worthy cause. Remember the Heart Fund Fashion Showto be held in the High School Auditorium Thursday, March 31, at 7:00. More details next week. If your child is to be in the Heart Fund Fashion Show, please contact one of the persons listed above. M.C. for the fashion show this year will be Elain Heward Shields, wife of Mayor Glen Shields of Layton. COMMUNITY EDUCATION Anyone wishing to participate in a sewing class through the Community Education Program contact Nan McPolin at 649-9417. The class is schedule to start Thursday, March 24 at Park City High School. FOR SALE The following two vehicles are for sale by the Park City Board of Education: 1958 Ford pick-up truck 2 ton, 6 cyl.; 1962 Dodge bus, V-8, 60 passenger, 38" cubic engine. The Board will accept sealed bids up until 3:30 p.m. March 28, 1977, at the district office, 301 Main St., Park City, Utah. If you desire to see either of the above vehicles, contact Bob Johnson between 9 a.m. & 3:00 p.m. at 649-9621. If mailing bids, please write truck or bus on outside of envelope. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. rarar |