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Show Fifteen Cents Volume Four Heavy equipment blockading situation is just impassable. The ever-changing construction sites a with;, their accompany ing blinking barricades and fleet of heavy equipment that have dotted the local landscape land-scape in recent months would provide the meat for a new television series entitled "The Streets of Park City." But local officials have expressed confidence con-fidence that finding a way to your driveway will get easier all the time. The $2 million plus water, sewer and street project now underway has caused pedestrian and automobile access ac-cess problems throughout most of downtown Park City. But Snyderville Basin Sewer District manager Bruce Decker pointed out that it is the nature of the town, not the project planning, that is creating the problems. "This town is so linear that it creates terrific problems of coordination," coor-dination," Decker said, adding, "Park City was never built for cars anyway." Decker pointed to the economics of a project of this size and noted that repairing and repaving one street at a time to minimize inconvenience to residents results in astronomical construction con-struction costs. "For 50 years Park City has been so broke it couldn't do significant repairs on its water and sewer lines, and the situation has been continually deteriorating," Decker said. "Now with grants from Farmers Home Administration, Ad-ministration, Economic Development Administration and the Environmental Environmen-tal Protection Agency we can afford to update. We could've done one street per year for the next 12 years with the old lines still causing problems. Or we could do it all at once. The obvious choice is to do it all at once. Granted it puts the town in a turmoil. .. " Decker noted that the sewer repairs are "slightly behind schedule" but all work !' now completed on Woodside Avenue, with work continuing on Daly and upper Park Avenue. Future, sewer projects will include Woodside and Park Avenues north of the middle school, but Decker said "we don't want that torn up and not be able to have it paved this year." The $323,000 sewer project, contracted contract-ed with R.C. Tolman Construction of Centerville, is funded 75 percent through the EPA and 25 percent throug' the Snyderville Basin Sewer Districi Dry and through be in . - ! 1 i i WW w VLSX Q he in the 70s. udth lows near 40. i e Sum ur Disc Hm ,- ' s . if ft 9 JUS Park City streets has stimulated Decker said there have been frequent checks with the state climatologist to aid the planning process, but last week's snow was unexpected. The weather caused some delay, but Decker noted that each phase of the project sewer, water and paving can take up to four weeks, thus leaving the streets torn up for months. "If people will be aware and cognizant of the construction it will make it easier on them," Decker said. "And we've been after the crews and asked them to be aware of where they are parking equipment and filling in ditches, et cetera." City Manager Wayne Matthews said although the city hoped all streets on the west side of town would be completed this year, asphalting is scheduled only for Empire Avenue, and Norfolk Avenue between 8th and 13th streets. It is possible Woodside Avenue will be paved, Matthews said, but a final decision will be made after af-ter a close watch is kept to see that compaction will not later create sink holes in the asphalt. Matthews noted that setting water meters leading from new lines has created some time delays not accounted accoun-ted for, but added assurances that all roads currently under construction will be passable by the first snowfall. He commented that all roads would be at least rough graded and gravel based and, "they won't be that bad it will be a 100 percent improvement over last year." In answer to queries if sidewalks now being ripped away will be replaced, Matthews said they would, and that they will be replaced with a rolled curb and blacktopped walkway. "People have been very patient," Matthews said. "I understand they are getting tired of the construction, but they are going to have to bear it a little longer. We can't do this project one street at a time we couldn't possible afford it. That's why we held off on the streets, until we had enough work to keep crews going." Matthews noted that people vandalizing van-dalizing construction sites and knocking down barricades have caused two accidents over the last week, and asked that residents be aware of the potential hazards near the sites. mild weather expected Friday Sunday. High temperatures will the 70s, with lows near 40. Wednesday, September 27, 1978 1 1 . a rash oi complaints that the "We would like to have seen a larger percentage of completion," Matthews said, "but for the most part we've done what we could." ' Mayor Jack Green said. "We certainly cer-tainly regret the inconvenience and hope we get it all straightened around so we can get back on our feet. If we hadn't done this work, the water system would just not have carried us through this winter." The mayor commented that the skiing visitors place a burden on the previously inadequate water facilities, but the new water reservoir should alleviate that problem "It's too bad we can't put in new sewer and water lines without tearing up the streets, but we can't," the mayor said. "We thank everyone for their patience and we all look forward to when the streets are finished." For an in-the-mud-to-the-knees-depth story with Park City's commissioner, com-missioner, sec story on Page 9. Park Gity Woman Killed In Junction Wreck 1 i-W'asjJlfi Park City resident Michelle Evans was killed in an early morning single car rollover near Kimball Junction last Thursday. The accident occurred at 12:55 a.m. on Interstate 80 west of the 224 exit. Utah State Highway Patrolman Frank Marcellin said Miss Evans apparently ap-parently fell asleep, causing her Honda Hon-da Civic to run off the right side of the t I INSIDE I lours lown I: i w " :i I - , ' ,v . : ., , niiMiMiiiia iiTHTur r ti rri 'T .- r ' . v 4 A-y Wf 1 I ! Wildcats Xito Miners ! i y r ' . , , il ' V i 1 v,v ; 1! ) E -ht : " : L imjm ' ; Man About Town j ' . " l' : - ragei ...... ; ILil&r I , , .,, f 4 , f : ? .1. i ; Why Is He Smiling? Page 13 highway. The officer speculated that gravel hitting the underside of the vehicle awakened Miss Evans, who maneuvered the car back onto the pavement, but overcorrected and again went off the right side of the road. The vehicle flipped over and Miss Evans was thrown out. She died of resulting injuries. She was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the r h i nri Governor Matheson fields questions at a lunchtime gathering of community members. Governor Scott Matheson culminated the Park City portion of his visit to Summit County Friday by meeting with the city's community and business leaders for a question-and-answer luncheon in the Le Pavilion room at the Park City Racquet Club. Resident Shay Clegg asked Matheson why handicapped children in the Park City Summit County area can't cross county lines to attend state accident. Miss Evans was born December 21, 1956 in Salt Lake City and graduated from Park City High School. She attended at-tended Utah State University and the University of Utah and was praised for her talent as a poetry writer. Miss Evans was buried at the Park City Cemetery Friday following family services. Number Two supported developmental programs in Salt Lake City. She also inquired how Summit County could start its own handicapped children pre-school program. The governor replied that he is very much in favor of special programs for the handicapped and that the 94th Congress has already mandated that special free public education be given to handicapped students. Organization of a pre school program for the handicapped in Summit County Coun-ty is a local matter, the governor said. He also stated that he would seek to remove legal obstacles, if there are any, at the state level that prevent handicapped children from crossing county lines in order to attend developmental programs. Claimjumper Restaurant owner Lloyd Stevens asked Gov. Matheson if some realignment in the states' regional concept is possible so that a portion of the transient room tax gathered in Park City could be combined com-bined with a share of Salt Lake City's room tax in order to promote joint recreational and convention advertising. adver-tising. Park City's transient room tax currently is doled out between the Summit County Travel Council and the Mountain Lands Travel Council. The Mountain Lands region includes Summit, Utah and Wasatch counties. Stevens noted that Park City's tourist trade has many ties to Salt Lake City's. However, Salt Lake City is part of the Great Salt Lake County region, which collects and uses the transient room tax for that area. If realignment of the regional concept is allowed then cities of different regions, such as Park City and Salt Lake City, could combine portions of their collected transient room tax for joint promotion of tourist and convention conven-tion business. Governor Matheson said he didn't see any problem with Park City's travel council working out such a plan with Salt Lake City's travel council. The two regions should be able to negotiate the plan without having to go through the governor's office or other state offices. Jan Peterson, manager of Wolfe Sporting Goods store, asked the governor to comment on the transportation transpor-tation situation for skiers traveling to Continued on Page 8 MtmHWIIIHIIIHIIMHtmiHl |