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Show Salt La3 City, Twenty-Five Cents Park flk. L ft il, II I B-.H I I r I m I'll TMW At "v. Mrk. "v ijj ill nil wmtf-n . . S.'t m "S, t-lj' r ill it JZtMtl l 1 Volume Five jQt. ktbMffMt J 4 1 tV y L " . fi I ' - y sis . J ' - ' ' 7 (f . 1 " I V . ' i r An estimated 700-800 people jam- five minutes before running dry. Free Queen by winning the beer carrying V med into the City Tent last Saturday spending celebrants bought enough contest, toting a total of 19 steins; J (f to celebrate Park City's first Oktober- beer to drain another nineteen kegs by Stewart McLauren, Salt Lake City, V ) lest. evening's end, ensuring a small profit won the six-mile Oktoberfest race; V L , .. . . . L for the Park City Chanber of Com- and John Allsen, Provo, came in first ( X The fete otficialy got underway merce which organized the event. in the half-marathon. CarlJacobson J with the tapping of a wooden keg of and Marit Glenne were, respectively, Z U Lowenbrau beer by Burgerme.ster Though billed as a local celebration the first Parkites to com ,ete the sjx. V UgT ' f 3 k f ubeer' f" I" ne,6VKei!tSwe? W" i f " mile and half-marathon races. More V 7 fered free to a sea of stems thrust for- towners: Michele Wes over Salt Lake , results are Qn L ward from the crowd, lasted a mere City, was crowned as the Oktoberfest Page6 Utah Ranks High aw I CO ' i , V-.! m.sry ks. ss. s2n. fet. rX s. L Page 5 In a classic seesaw battle, the Alamo Bums beat the Brothers to take the Division I Softball crown for the second year in a row. Thursday, September 27, 1979 Council Adopts New Subdivision Law The Park City Council last Thursday Thurs-day unanimously approved the adoption adop-tion of a 23-page ordinance defining and regulating subdivisions that will replace the abbreviated version currently being used. In light of Park City's explosive building boom, an ordinance more closely governing the development of subdivisions has been a concern to both city officials and citizens. The new ordinance, more than a year in the making and incorporated in part by the 180 member cities of the League of Cities and Towns, was reviewed by the council Thursday before its adoption. Barney Saunders, a local resident and member of the Concerned Citizens of Park City, commented that the group had retained the services of a Salt Lake City lawyer to review the ordinance and requested approval be delayed until the council read the attorney's comments. Voicing reluctance to continue under the previous ordinance, Councilman Steve Dering replied that it would be "better to adopt this now than to wait and use what we have in the interim." His feelings were echoed by city attorney Mike McCoy, who was instrumental in the development of the ordinance. "I'm anxious to get this ordinance through tonight," McCoy stressed. "The present ordinance is a disaster. ,And though the proposed ordinance has its weaknesses, it's better than what we've got. The city needs a good subdivision ordinance, and this one is 90 percent better than the rest of the state." McCoy emphasized that a delay in adoption of the new ordinance could encourage litigation, since the developer de-veloper is required only to meet the terms of an ordinance on the day of application, not approval, of the project. The council unanimously agreed to adopt the new ordinance and offer specific recommendations for review by the Planning Commission. Several In Use By Tina Moench Cocaine. Webster's dictionary defines de-fines it as a drug obtained from the leaves of the South American shrub coca, whose use can result in "severe psychological dependence." Utahns, per capita, are the second highest consumers of cocaine in the nation. That surprising statistic is further leavened by the fact that Utahns also rank in the Top 10 in the consumption of all major stimulants: 4th in the use of Ritalin, 9th in amphetamines, methamphetamines and Preludin, as well as 13th in the use of Percadan, 17th in Demerol, and 28th in Quaaludes. "When I think of Utah and drug use, if I was to guess per capita where it would fall on the scale from one to 50, 1 guess it to be down toward the bottom," said Bob Wadman, director of the Utah State Narcotics and Liquor Enforcement Agency. "These statistics are shocking." So shocking, in fact, that it has raised the eyebrows of the federal government, which now has made Utah the 18th state to receive a special grant to investigate the situation. "We have no picture right now what is causing this high per capita consumption," Wadman said. "Hopefully, "Hope-fully, it won't be a criminal nature. Maybe it will be a case of there being Page 9 From dancing classes to stained glass instruction there is something for everyone in the Kimball Art Center's new fall schedule of classes. Park City's only locally owned newspaper changes recommended by both council coun-cil members and the audience were incorporated into the ordinance before be-fore its approvel last week. One change, recommended by the city attorney, was in the definition of "Subdivision." McCoy pointed out that by definition, a subdivision includes those parcels of land located in districts zoned for residential purposes, necessitating all builders within that area to comply with the ordinance requirements. "That could have an adverse impact on a single builder," McCoy said. "That would mean no one, even the owner of a single lot, can build unless it's on an improved lot, which means putting in curbs, gutters, etc. Usually that's something a subdivider would Voter Registration Drive Now DesDite the recent marked increase in citizen attendance at City Council meetings, Parkites usually display a rather apathetic approach to politics as evidenced by voter turnout in local elections. One resident doing his "small part" to change that picture is local builder Jim Doilney, who is organizing a voter registration drive for the upcoming municipal elections. "The more people we have voting the more representative the -lected officials will be, and the less intimidated in-timidated those officials will be by small interest groups," Doilney told The Newspaper. He noted that some of the recent elections have been decided by very close margins, including in-cluding one 1975 municipal contest that was won by six votes. Doilney cited examples of how apathy has hurt Park City on the county level: "In the last county election elec-tion Lloyd Stevens (of Park City) lost to Bill Wallin 1602 to 1633, that's only 31 votes. Stevens won 80 percent of the Park City vote but not a single Park City voting district had more than a 55 Of Cocaine a higher number of research groups than we are aware of, or poorly handled distribution. The grant should help us deterine that." The $349,000 grant will enable the Salt Lake City-based enforcement agency to develop what is known as a Diversion Investigation Unit. Although Al-though local and federal government agencies point out there is a high volume of clandestinely produced drugs trafficked throughout the country, coun-try, the main thrust of the investigation investiga-tion is to trace the illegal channelization channeliza-tion of legally manufactured drugs. "We know, of course, that cocaine manufactured in Columbia is smuggled smug-gled into the United States and used illicitly," Wadman said. "But the diversion program is concerned with the drugs legitimately manufactured that are somehow being used at a very high rate." William Nelson, chief of the Federal-State Federal-State Section of the Drug Enforcement Enforce-ment Agency in Washington, D.C., described how the Department of Justice becomes aware of the inordinately high drug use figures. He noted that a computer system has at ready retrieval : the generic name and trademark of the more than 2,000 legitimately produced, government controlled drugs; how much of the drug is produced; and where it is Number Two do, but this requires the single lot owner to do that. I've never seen that definition in any other city. It's designed to be restrictive, but I haven't weighed the impact on the community, particularly in the old part of town." Councilman Steve Dering commented, com-mented, "It would seem to create a lot of trouble. A lot of strange situations could occur. If you have a neighborhood neighbor-hood with one lot that has been empty for the last 30 years and someone comes along who wants to build on it, then he's required to put in curb and gutter for 25 feet in front of his house, while no one else has it. It doesn't make any sense." Continued On Page : Underway percent turnout, in the rest ot the county 15 out of 17 voting districts had a 75 percent or better turnout. Even Continued On Page V. Jim Doilney being shipped. DAWN, the Drug Abuse Warning Network, alerts the agency to unusually high usage of those drugs in certain cities. Nelson noted that drugs controlled by the government are rated from one to five according to their medical use and potential for abuse. Schedule l drugs, including heroin, mescaline LSD, marijuana and peyote, have no currently accepted medical use in the United States and are considered to have a high potential for abuse. Schedule 2 drugs, including cocaine amphetamines and the other drugs Utahns consume at a high rate, also have a high potential for abuse, but for which there is a currently accepted medical use. Nelson pointed out that these drugs are restricted because of their ability to produce ;i severe psychological dependence it mishandled. "ARCOS, our automatic retrieval computer program, lets us see which parts of the country are consuming ;i particular substance," Nelson said "Say, for instance, California orders fifty percent of the total amount of a particular drug manufactured. That tells us that California is the number one consumer. It doesn't mean illegally. Our DAWN system con Continued On Page : -MUM II I 1,11111 . 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