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Show ll nD Park City, Utah Vol. VII, No. 52 Thursday, September 16, 1982 Two Sections, 20 Pages 1L Perry wins primary for County Commission sea White, Desimone, Larsen also advance It will be Ron Perry against Al Cooper in November. Perry, a resident of Summit Park, swept 26 of 29 Summit County districts Tuesday to win the Democratic primary and the right to face Republican Al Cooper for the two-year seat on the County Commission. Perry's opponent, Matt Alvarez of Park City, was the voters' choice in three of the four Park City districts, but was given little support in other areas of the county. Perry finished with 854 votes to 535 for Alvarez. In other election results, James White and Vince Desimone won the Clinic gains respite from funding cut By Morgan Queal Lawyers for the national Planned Parenthood Association Tuesday won a temporary restraining order to retain federal funding for Planned Parenthood of Utah and the Park City Community Clinic. Clinic director Diane Maxell said the 10-day restraining order was granted in a Washington, D.C. court pending a hearing on a request for a preliminary injunction to prevent the cut-off of federal funds to the state association and the local clinic. That hearing is set for Sept. 24. The Park City Community Clinic, which provides family planning and other services to the area, had just begun the third year of a three-year grant when it learned earlier this month that its direct federal funding was being terminated, along with that of the Utah Planned Parenthood agency. It was learned that the federal Department of Health and Human Services would reroute all its family planning funds through the state of Utah. The federal grant, which would provide about $55,000 for the fiscal year that began July 1, is the clinic's main source of revenue. Without it, the clinic would have a hard time staying in business, Maxell said. If direct federal funds are halted, the clinic would have to apply for its Title 10 funds through the county Department Depart-ment of Health, which in turn would receive financing through the state. Maxell said last week that the root of the hostility toward family planning in the state stems from the serving of teenagers without parental consent. State-funded agencies are required by. law to refuse family planning services to teenagers unless they have parental consent. Federally-funded agencies do not have that restriction. Because the Park City clinic receives direct federal funding, it is not subject to the state law, Maxell said. "Since our opening, we probably have not served more than four or five in this category," she said. "Most come in with their parents' knowledge, often with the parents themselves." Planners lean toward Silver Mountain base The members of the Park City Planning Plan-ning Commission said last Wednesday they had no objection to a controversial controver-sial transport base for the Silver Mountain project at the southern intersection in-tersection of Lowell and Empire Avenues. An unofficial poll of the commissioners com-missioners showed them leaning 4-1 in favor of the base, which would hold customer parking and a station for a funicular tram up the mountain. The approval came after the panel heard objections from citizens and a recommendation recom-mendation for denial from City Planner Plan-ner Bill Ligety. 'I feel an empathy with the neighborhood," neigh-borhood," said Commissioner Walt Bishop. But he said that other possible accesses, such as King Road, or a tram based in Swede Alley, haa more; negative impacts. Developers contended the base would not have a detrimental traffic impact on Lowell. Using a multi-media right to run in the November election for commissioner in the Park City Fire Protection District. White collected 245 votes to 237 for Desimone. John Carbine finished a distant third with 134 votes. In the competition for the Democratic Democra-tic nomination for Summit County Treasurer, Gwen Larsen defeated Catherine Dallin, 724 votes to 659. In the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Representative in Utah's Third Congressional District, Ray Beckham was the choice of Summit County voters, but only by a whisker. Beckham finished with 391 votes to 389 for Howard Nielson. Maxell said the clinic's board of directors, at the meeting Tuesday, discussed whether to give up the policy of serving teenagers without parental consent if it should become necessary to seek state funding. Some felt the clinic's existence should not be jeopardized for these few clients; others felt it was a matter of principle that the policy be continued. In any case, Maxell said, the board agreed to hold off making a decision on the issue until absolutely necessary. Maxell also reported to the board that the clinic's official "site assessment" assess-ment" an evaluation by Region Eight of the Public Health Office in Denver resulted in a high rating of the clinic's operation and services. Actual written ratings are not in yet, but Maxell said the verbal results were excellent. Less than a month after the evaluation took place, Maxell noted, the federal funds were cut off. The board, she said, decided Tuesday to explore other funding options while the legal action is proceeding. A committee has been established, made up of board members and interested citizens, to explore different sources for fund-raising. fund-raising. However, she added that Planned Parenthood's legal case in Washington looks promising. "We are optimistic because of the response of the judge. He said Planned Parenthood had presented an excellent case," she reported. In addition to family planning, the Park City clinic provides general women's health care such as Pap smears and breast examinations, and is the only veneral disease clinic in the area. The clinic, Maxell emphasized, does not do abortions or abortion counseling, but refers those cases to other agencies. Some 80 percent of the clinic's patients are from Park City; seven percent are from Summit County and another seven percent from Wasatch County. The remainder come from northwestern Utah, with some traveling travel-ing from Wyoming. presentation of slides, film and video, planner Van Martin said an analysis showed the worst hourly traffic on Lowell would have a vehicle pass by every 45 seconds. Angry residents were skeptical, however, about the data. "That traffic study is a crock," said Kim Whitesides. "You'll have a horrendous traffic problem, no matter what they say," added Lamont Gunderson. Said resident Dave Prudence, "There were 19 times last winter when Lowell was blocked." John Quinn said developers weren't responding to complaints made by residents at the last Silver Mountain hearing on May 12. "They keep hammering ham-mering away at this turkey," he said. "They choose to spend their time putting put-ting together this slick presentation, in the belief that those of us who aren't paid to be here will get tired of coming to these meetings to fight it " In an interview with KPCW's Blair Feulner late Tuesday, defeated commission com-mission candidate Matt Alvarez attributed at-tributed his loss to a poor turnout in Park City and an apparent Republican crossover vote in the outlying areas. "I'm very disappointed that, again, as in the past, we are allowing the other part of the county to call the shots as to who will be our commissioner and who will not be our commissioner," Alvarez said. In the four Park City precincts, only 530 out of 2,369 registered voters went On the SrOWl Over Redevelopment School board lawyers prepare Attorneys for the Park City Board of Education are laying the legal groundwork ground-work for filing suit against the Park City Redevelopment Agency, according accor-ding to Bruce Findlay, Salt Lake attorney at-torney for the district. "We have been told by the board to file suit, and we will do so as soon as we can. When that will be, I don't know," Findlay said. He did acknowledge, however, that action may be taken within the next two weeks. At last week's board of education meeting, board members voted to proceed with court action againit the RDA, a city agency which receives some $497,000 annually in tax revenues which otherwise would go to the school district. In July, the Park City Fire Protec Silver Mountain, consists of 210 acres in the hills west of Main Street, to be developed by Chicago builders Ed Beaulieu and Clyde Carlig. The project envisions up to 474 units of various kinds, 25,600 feet of retail space, and 48,400 feet of convention, administrative and support space. The development would be concentrated on a total of 80 acres. Silver Mountain planners presented a number of important new points in their presentation according to the Hal Joseph, director of planning at J. J. Johnson, the project planners. Martin said the entire west hillside of the project would be given to the city in perpetuity. Buildings on the mountain moun-tain will not be seen from the city, he added, or intrude onto the skyline. He said tax benefits to the city would include in-clude $3 million in one-time impact fees, and $800,000 $1 million a year thereafter to the various taxing entities en-tities in Summit County. to the polls, or about 22 percent. In the county as a whole, that figure was about 36 percent. Within the four Park City precincts, Alvarez collected 309 votes to Perry's 153. However, Perry carried all of the other districts, posting a whopping 86-14 margin in District 10, which covers Summit Park and Pinebrook. Alvarez suggested that some Republicans Repub-licans had voted in the Democratic primary in an effort to elect the candidate most likely to lose to Cooper in November. s menac'nS Jaguar was one of about 30 which were seen slinking through the streets of Park City last weekend. They were all part of the Concours d'Elegance sponsored by the Wasatch Mountain Jaguar Club. Agency tion District sued the RDA, asking for the return of some $80,000 the RDA would receive this year in fire district tax funds. City and fire district officials of-ficials are working on settlement of that suit out of court, although the litigation is still outstanding. Findlay said the school board left open to school district lawyers whether to join in the fire district suit, or to undertake un-dertake separate action in the matter. It has been "pretty well" determined, Findlay said, that the litigation will remain separate from the fire district. Voting in favor of the legal action last week were four of the five school board members, with Gary Avise on vacation and not present to vote or discuss the matter. Avise said Wednesday Wed-nesday he has had time, since retur He presented a plan to transport construction material to the mountain via helicopter. Developers also showed plans for the Lowell-Empire base (The number of required spaces has not been defined yet, but city staff awJ Silver Mountain planners project some 500-700 spaces, in a structure with 4-7 levels.) "We took them through the whole Environmental Impact Statement, said Joseph. However, resident, became increasingly restless with tht prolonged presentation. Bill Ligety, in his report, said the project had many positive aspects. But he said developers had presented no new information to alleviate the city's concerns about traffic impact on Lowell. Construction access was another problem. "It's also important for us to see what the people feel," he added. "And this response substantiates substan-tiates what we heard on May 12." Commissioners Walt Bishop, Carol "I think there is a very strong indication that there was a lot of crossover here, and that most of the crossover occurred in the other end of the county." Perry acknowledged the existence of a crossover vote, but suggested a different motive. "I know of a lot of Republicans who crossed over because they knew me." He pointed out that one of the four Park City districts did vote in his favor, but recognized that his support came mainly from other areas. ..w.-.'''V-.-.vr':-: ning from vacation, to study the issue thoroughly. "It took me by surprise," Avise said, "but I have to say I'm not educated as to the legal implications. I'm for the sharing of information on the RDA with the public, and I believe the fire district suit has accomplished that." The fire district, he noted, is under more constraints financially, with a four-mill levy limit. The money it loses to the RDA cannot be recouped by raising the mill levy. The school district, on the other hand, has raised its levy some eight mills to cover losses to the RDA. The school board agreed to the legal action at the urging of Vince Desimone, candidate for the fire district commission, who appeared at Calder, and Dean Berrett said they were not opposed to the base. Cal Cowher agreed, but said developers should study other forms of transport. The only dissenter was Rusty Davidson, David-son, who cast what he called a "wishy-washy "wishy-washy no." Said Davidson, "It's possible that if we denied it, something might be built there with a more negative impact. There'd be no problem if it weren't next toHR-l." Dean Berrett stressed the commission's com-mission's action was not an official vote. "The base still has to go through a rigorous approval process." After the decision, Ligety said, "That base is certainly the easiest for the developers. But I was hoping a denial would be an incentive for them to look at other options." On a hopeful note, he said, "If we are careful in that area, it would not be too detrimental." The hottest topic was undoubtedly the amount of expected traffic the base including Summit Park, Coalville and Kamas. "I'm out in the county all the time, and I know a lot of people in the outlying areas." Perry said, that to win the November election, he must have the support of traditionally-Democratic Park City. He said that Alvarez, the chairman of the Summit County Democratic Party, has offered his support. "But I can't alienate the other end of the county either, because it's very obvious they gave me their support." lawsuit the meeting last week to explain the issue. He said that when an RDA is formed, the tax base of the area within its boundaries is frozen, and any increase in-crease in tax revenues resulting from improvements within the area accrue directly to the RDA for further improvements. im-provements. In Park City, the RDA area included Deer Valley when the resort was on the drawing boards. Tax revenues from subsequent development of Deer Valley now go to the RDA instead of other taxing entities, such as the school and fire districts. The fire district's suit challenges the inclusion of Deer Valley in the RDA area, claiming the state law under which RDAs are formed calls for the inclusion of only "blighted" areas. would cause on Lowell. I'sing a videotape prepared by Aysha Quinn and John Sturgeon, Martin showed what the maximum amount of traffic traf-fic 80 cars an hour-would be like. (A car passed the camera point every 45 seconds.) The film was then contrasted con-trasted to traffic on Park Avenue. The comparison amounted to 6.6 every five minutes on Lowell vs. 92 cars on Park Avenue. Otto Carpenter objected that there were already enough cars in the area. "Cars from the ski resort are parked on Empire up to 10th Street," he said. Ligety said that construction of the base, estimated at 14 months, will cause traffic problems. Just to haul away the dirt from the underground parking, he said, would take 35 days of trucks operating 8 hours a day. But with some dirt kept on site, that could be reduced to 22 days, said Grant Silver to 3 |