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Show MtTAirMarketrSpecials Inside Box 2403 SLC, UT 84110 Volume Two Community Servants m Well-known Park City residents Violet Terry (left) and Nan McPolin (center) were honored by PTSA President Lynda Simmons Sim-mons during dedication ceremonies for the new high school Saturday. Violet and Nan were cited for their many years of service ser-vice to the Park City community. Various school, city, county and state officials attended the dedication which featured a speech by Utah State Senator Robert F. Clyde, Million $ The 1977-78 fiscal year will usher in Park City's first million dollar budget. Revenues and expenditures for the coming year, as projected by city-treasurer city-treasurer Bruce Decker, city manager Wayne Matthews and the City Council's finance committee, will total $1,117,954. This compares with the 1976-77 revised 3HG EH3E SHOE David Fernandez has been named director of the Kimball Art Center. Page 3 The Holiday Inn received another approval ap-proval last Wednesday. Page 3 The Park City Muckers downed the University of Utah over the weekend. See Gary Avise's story on... Page 6 INSIDE Budget budget figure of $973,695. Last year's original projection was $775,578 with a dramatic jump in building and impact fees responsible for most of the difference. Building and impact fee projections for last year totalled $47,000 but the actual amount collected will exceed $190,000. As usual, property taxes will be the single largest revenue generator. The city 's share of property taxes is expected to be $320,000. up $19,000 from last year. Impact and building fees have been estimated at Slfio.800 while sales tax revenues are pegged at $95,000. The winter of 77 caused last year's sales taxes to be $18,000 less than anticipated. As for Ihe spending side of the budget, more than 40 per cent of this year's expenditures will be for capital improvements. improve-ments. Claiming the lion's share of this money will be roads. The city has allocated $171,916 for upgrading it streets. City treasurer Decker noted that it may be physically impossible to spend all of that amount on road improvements and said some of this money may be transformed to Main Street projects. The money, in turn, could be repaid if the proposed redevelopment agency comes into being see story on this page.) Also of interest, city officials are proposing a three-mill decrease in property taxes this year. Combined with an expected revocation of the sewer district's two mill levy, property owners can look for a total tax reduction of five mills. The Park City Fire District cannot increase its four mill levy and Summit County is proposing to keep its lew at 11.5 mills. w ft a i r-r r Wednesday, Council Hears Pla Revita Of Mai Revitalization of the Main Street commercial area through the creation of a redevelopment agency was studied and endorsed by the Park City Council Thursday evening. If the redevelopment agency is established estab-lished , tax incremental funding could be used to inject new money into the downtown area, attracting new businesses busines-ses and stimulating construction. Agency ; City treasurer Bruck Decker explained to the council the process of forming the agency and detailed it's potential The redevelopment agency has to b approved by a majority of the city's voters and has the right to acquire land, demolish buildings and construct public buildings or improvements according to a formally adopted plan. The agency can expend funds only in areas which are designated "blighted, " Decker said. He added, however, that Park City "would probably have r-'-, trouble qualifying any area south oi 151 h street as "blighted" using criteria set forth by the Utah Code. The conditions listed include: -The presence of buildings defective in design or construction, -Faulty exterior spacing due to side-yards side-yards or setbacks; -Unacceptable density; Lack of ventilation, light, open space or recreational facilities; -Age or obsolescence; -Deterioration or misuse; -Irregular form and shape of subdivided lots; -Inadequate streets or utilities. Decker also noted that the presence of non-blighted areas within redevelopment boundaries is not prohibited and is, in fact, desirable if tax incremental funding is to be utilized. The redevelopment agency would be comprised of members appointed by the City Council or would be the council itself. The treasurer suggested that the council act as the agency, Many local businessmen contend that, due to low taxes on downtown property, vacant lot owners are content to sit on their investment, waiting for prices to rise. The agency would have the power to purchase these lots at the appraised market value. It could then hold on to them for future use, sell them to someone wanting to build, erect a public building for city use or build on the lots and then sell them to private interests. Financing To finance the land purchases and or Little Opposition To Depot A rezoning request for the proposed Depot planned for 13 acres just north of Main Street experienced relatively smooth sailing at a public hearing held Thursday night. Although Dan Willard and Jim Can-expressed Can-expressed concern over the traffic pattern which might be created by the commercial project plans rather than discussion of the rezoning. The Depot presentation followed the more discordant Norfolk Avenue subdiv-sion subdiv-sion meeting (see story on this page.1 Depot developers want 8.7 acres of the project site rezoned from estate to historic commercial. As explained by consulting engineer Jack Johnson, the development will occur in three phases. First phase plans call for the restoration of the Coalition Mine Building and the Union Pacific Depot. The Coalition Building would house a mining museum, a restaurant and possibly other commercial space while the depot would also include a restaurant along with a railroad museum and a check-in facility for restored railroad cars serving as lodging units. Some 35 to 50 of these railroad cars are planned as nightly rentals with two units per car. A lounge car would also sit outside the depot. Most of the project landscaping would be completed during the first phase. June 1, 1977 ion reet improvements, the agency can borrow money and repay it through tax increment funding. Tax increment funding works as follows : The redevelopment agency establishes boundaries for the redevelopment area. The assessed valuation of this area, upon which Saxes are based, is frozen at the level existing when the agency is created. Taxing entities such as the school district, the city, the fire district and the sew er district would collect taxes oiiiy on the frozen valuation . A:, new construction and improvements lake place the assessed valuation rises. Taxes on the valuation exceeding the base level accrue to the redevelopment a y which uses the money to retire debts or to make improvements, on mt valuation exceeding tne base level accrue to the redevelopment agency which uses the money to retire debts or to make impi ovomenis. If, in any year, the increased taxes are greater than the amount needed to retire the agency's debt or to make planned mpro ements, the other taxing entities divide the excess. Decker said the redevelopment boundaries bound-aries and the types of improvements made will be crucial to the success of the plan. Since all new construction within the redevelopment area will increase the assessed valuation, the treasurer noted that Ihe boundaries should include land already slated for improvement, such as property north of Main Street proposed for the Depot project. In addition, agency money should be spent on improvements which will attract new businesses and private development to the Main Street area, creating a "Snowball" effect, Decker stressed. Boundaries In a memorandum outlining out-lining redevelopment plans, Decker said, "Given that the redevelopment area would take in the Main Street area, the question is how far north to extend the boundary " He presented three proposals. "If the boundary is extended to Tenth Street, most of the proposed 'Union Depot project would add to the valuation if built. If the boundary is extended to the Silver King Bank, future development in the resort area would add to the valuation. If the boundary is extended to Highway the proposed Holiday Inn would add to the valuation." Continued on Page 7 A major hotel utilizing turn-ot-the-cent-ury architecture would be constructed during the second phase. The third phase would see construction of two-story buildings with (he bottom floors used as commercial space and the upper floors providing living quarters for the merchants. Again, the architecture would be lurn-of-the-century. Johnson said the third-phase commercial commer-cial space would not be built until ' the economy dictated it." An old-time trolley would provide transportation within the development. It would run from the parking area at the north end of the site to the depot with stops in between. After showing slides of similar projects around the country, developer Wailv Wright noted that most commercial areas such as Main Street require a "critical mass which makes it go Dang He cited Trolley Square, one of his creations, as a shopping mall which "didn't work until it got to a certain size." Helen Alvarez asked Wright if he envisioned the trolley line as a public transportation system. "It could be." he responded; "I think it would be really neat." Wright said he hoped to begin restoration of the Coalition Building and the Union Pacific Depot in the near IS r O lizat WEATHER Mostly fair weather through Sunday with high temperatures between 75 and 85. Lows will be in themid-40s. A i-H"! IE1P sac 3DE Elwe Set For LATE BULLETIN The Park City School Board announced announ-ced Wednesday afternoon that a public hearing on the tenure of Marsac principal John Elwell will be held Friday at 12:30 p.m. at the new high school. A school board decision on the tenure of Marsac Elementary School principal John Elwell will be made on June 14. The board spent five and a half hours Tuesday listening to the charges brought against Elwell by school superintendent Dr. Richard Goodworth and to Elwell's defense. " ' " " " ' Contacted after the hearing, which we held in the new high school, Kathryn Collard, the principal's attorney, said she told the board that Goodworth 's move to oust her client is the culmination of a May 1975 threat to terminate Elwell if he ever publicaly aired philosophical differences between the two admin-strators. admin-strators. Collard claimed she forced Goodworth to admit that he had never taken any intermediate in-termediate disciplinary actions against Elwell for alleged misconduct. She told the board that if Elwell was guilty of misconduct it was for refusing to become a "yes" man for the superintendent. superin-tendent. McConkie said the question was a simple sim-ple one, whether to retain Elwell, Collard recapped. She said McConkie asserted the principal prin-cipal was guilty of obvious misconduct. Collard contends that McConkie has a conflict of interest because he has served as counsel for the school board and is now representing Dr. Goodworth. She noted that another attorney, Byron Fisher, was present Tuesday evening to advise the school board. Collard said she learned Fisher was retained after the board hearing held May 24 which ended in a postponement. Elwell's attorney said she has filed charges of unethical conduct with the Disciplinary Screening Committee of the Utah Bar Association against McConkie for his purported dual representation. Collard said she opened the proceedings by renewing her objections future and have parts of both open for the coming ski season. "We will build commercial when Main Street fills up," he added. Main Street merchant Dick Doty and Chamber of Commerce executive director direct-or Amanda Peterson both gave strong endorsements to the Depot project, citing its benefits for the whole town The City Council will deliver a decision on the commercial rezoning at its Thursday night meeting. Vote At Memorial Building 11 D Transportation Tax Election Park City voters will go to the polls this Tuesday to decide whether or not they want to impose an additional quarter of a per cent sales tax to finance public tran-portatton. tran-portatton. According to city treasurer Bruce Decker, Dec-ker, the transportation tax would generate gener-ate "at least S4f;.ooo" for the city's no-lare no-lare system unless another drought occurs. oc-curs. The law giving cities the sales tax option op-tion was authored by former Park City Number Thirty-Six 3G1E SHE SHE 0G ecision une 14 to excluding the public from the hearing and restating her belief that McConkie has a conflict of interest in the matter. Before the hearing began attorney Fisher advised the board that it should try to avoid public hearings and that the board could make its decisions based on written briefs rather than oral testimony, Collard claimed. Continued on Page 7 Protests Against Norfolk Subdiv. A rezoning request for two parcels of land to be included in the proposed upper Norfold Avenue subdivision elicited protests at a public hearing Thursday night.. Most of the complaints were raised against the 48-lot subdivision rather than rezoning and backers of the project claimed they could develop the same number of lots even if the zoning is denied. Follow ing lengthy discussion, the Park City Council opted to delay a vote until its regular meeting this Thursday night. $20,000 Former Park City Councilwoman Mary Lehmer did object in particular to the rezoning of the .59-acre and the 1.2-acre triangular parcels from estate to historic residential. Lehmer contended the city had paid "experts" $20,000 to formulate a master land use plan which called for the estate zoning. There were "valid" reasons for this zoning, she said, including road problems, prob-lems, access for emergency vehicles and preservation of the aesthetic qualities of the mountainside. Subdivision How ever, the majority of the comments were directed at the total division and not the two parcels. The City Council will make the rezoning determination but subdivision approval comes under the jurisdiction of the Planning Commission. Consulting engineer Jack Johnson told the standing-room-only crowd at the Treasure Mountain Inn that the two areas in question include 16 of the subdivision lots. "We could cram the 48 lots in the existing HR1 legally but we want to stretch it out," he said. As planned, the single family and duplex lots would vary in frontage from Continued on Page 7 Tuesday Attorney Carl Nemelka at the request ol tne city s transportation committee. It a-roused a-roused little controversy in the state legislature leg-islature and passed with relative ease. Decker said the tax would provide the city with an enforceable means of collecting collect-ing transportation funds from locaj merchants. mer-chants. "The merchants won't have to worry a-bout a-bout setting aside money for the bus system sys-tem and the city won't have to worry a-bout a-bout collection," The treasurer observed. observ-ed. "The state will do it for us." |
