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Show jf Page A4 Thursday, September 16, 1982 The Newspaper JUlffEB SBSID, developers lock horns over sewer fees Claimjumper Restaurant 7 DAYS A WEES 6 -10 WEEKDAYS 6 -11 WEEKENDS Main Street 649-0051 The fee for residential sewer hookup in the Snyder-ville Snyder-ville Basin Sewer Improvement Improve-ment District is still $2,000, regardless of the size of the new unit. The SBSID board of directors Monday decided not to act on adjusting that fee, and one development company is irate. Saunders Land Investment Corp., developers of Landmark, Land-mark, a proposed 900-unit low-income housing project at Kimball Junction, has been asking the board to change the sewer hookup fee structure so builders of smaller units would get a break. Hy Saunders and Mike Milner, developers of the project, were on hand at the special SBSID meeting Monday Mon-day to reiterate their contention content-ion that the high $2,000 hookup fee could jeopardize the financing of their project. 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SUV The board's policy since last February has been to levy the flat $2,000 fee to provide the district with some $19 million in funds by the year 2000 for capital improvements needed to handle effluent from the 12,000 new units expected by that date. The hookup fees would allow the district to eschew both a mill levy and bonded indebtedness, carrying carry-ing out the board's commitment commit-ment to a pay-as-you-go expansion of sewer facilities. Sewer user fees will double in January to cover the district's costs for maintenance mainten-ance and operation as the district's population expands. The SBSID board's special meeting was called to consider con-sider District Manager Bruce Decker's investigation, investiga-tion, launched at the urging of Landmark developers, into ways of "refining" the residential hookup fees. Alternatives to the current fee structure could include charging on the basis of the number of bedrooms per unit, on the number of fixtures or on square footage. Decker noted, however, how-ever, that the accepted practice in the industry is to charge a standard fee per living unit, regardless of size. Decker recommended to the board that, if the fees were to change, they be based on the number of bedrooms per unit, with all units paying a base rate of $1,000 per hookup and an additional $500 for each bedroom after the first bedroom. Landmark officials are complaining because their low-cost, one-bedroom units are being built in clusters, with each 12-plex requiring only one hookup to the main sewer line. Yet they will be charged $2,000 for each unit, resulting in a $24,000 charge for each hookup. The hookup cost actually is more than $2,000 because the developer must also pay for the actual labor and materials of the hookup process, Saunders noted. Sewer costs to the development develop-ment Saunders noted, would eventually total some $2 million. "We are building marginal profit units because we want to bring affordable housing to the people who live here," Saunders said. He claimed that financing institutions have expressed reluctance to lend on the project because the high sewer hookup fees would drive rents up, taking the units out of the moderate-income moderate-income level. Saunders and Milner requested re-quested that the board either alter the hookup fee structure struc-ture so Landmark would be paying around $500 per unit, or at least that the board accept partial payment for the hookups now and defer the rest until the units are sold as condominiums in three to five years. According to Van Martin, project manager for Landmark, Land-mark, if neither concession Police Report Swede Alley rip-off Dave Riggs of Naturita, Colo., called Park City police from Coalville last Sunday and said he had discovered expensive property missing from his pick-up. Apparently stolen when the vehicle was parked in Swede Alley the previous night, he told police, were a Cannon camera, cam-era, prescription sunglasses, binoculars, a .357 Magnum, 75 cassette tapes, a leather jacket and an AM-FM cassette cas-sette player, for a grand total of $2.110.. In other police incidents the last week: A Park City man told police he had just broken up with his girlfriend and was receiving threatening telephone tele-phone calls from a male caller. The threatenee said he did not want anything done at this time, but if anything happened to him, he wanted police to launch a major investigation. He said he also notified a cousin in Illinois who is with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Investiga-tion. John Worthen reported the theft of a briefcase containing important papers, cash and airline tickets from his unlocked convertible parked overnight over-night at 2431 Butch Cassidy Drive. There were three auto license thefts reported the nights of Sept. 10 and 11, two at the Holiday Inn and one in Swede Alley. A complaint from Kimball Kim-ball Art Center Sept. 8 prompted police to investigate investi-gate the selling of rugs in the Timberhaus parking lot. When officers went to the site to check for a business license, the alleged salesman sales-man was gone. Holiday Inn's night clerk, Niles Harbertson, told police someone stole $147.75 in cash and other items, including a calculator, from his office sometime during the night of Sept. 9. Police got a report from Doug Vilven, pro at the Park City Golf Course, that a golf cart was missing and that someone had seen it being driven up Park Avenue. The cart was found by police the next morning in Swede Alley. real estate COALITIONe SNOWCOUNTRY NO. 1003 i! bedroom end unit. "Owner Desperate" Malu- Otter I lexible Terms 1515 Park Ave., Park City, (801) 649-4400 is forthcoming, it could kill the project. The first 250-unit phase of the Landmark project was approved some two years ago by Summit County planners. Saunders' firm, joining with Prowswood Ltd. of Salt Lake City, plans eventually to build some 900 units on the 92 acres south of Interstate 80 at Kimball Junction. The complex prr posal also includes plans for a sub-regional shopping center cen-ter and a variety of amenities, ameni-ties, such as tennis courts, swimming pools and athletic facilities. Units would be 600 and 800 square feet for one and two-bedrooms, renting for $400 and $450 a month, Martin said. "We want something affordable to the work force here, and were trying to keep rents comparable compar-able to those in Salt Lake," he said. Under the current sewer rates, Landmark would be paying the same fee for hookups as a $750,000, 5,000 square-foot condominium in Deer Valley, Martin noted. "The sewer board agrees with us that the fee is not equitable, but they are extremely conservative in changing that," he said. Board Member Burnis Watts said he can foresee discon tent if the district lowers the hookup fee now. Those who have just paid the $2,000 would have reason to complain com-plain of inequities, he said. "The change would do violence to the policy we adopted in good faith. I'm not willing to adopt a new policy for just one project." The board proposed that the issue be addressed in more depth to consider how hookup fee adjustments would impact cash flow projections and capital improvements. im-provements. The board also expressed willingness to discuss dis-cuss alternative solutions to Landmark developers' problems. Whadd'ya Enow? by Rick Brough COLD WEATHER BULLETIN: "Whadd'-yaknow" "Whadd'-yaknow" has learned that a write-in candidate will enter the race for Summit County Commission. The applicant, identified identi-fied only as "S. Claus," held a press conference at the Memorial Building on Tuesday. Claus was at first evasive with reporters' questions (he said "Ho, ho, ho" a lot and kept giving us handsful of Brach's candy mix) but did say he was amply qualified for political life. In his last job, he said, he made a lot of promises, and handed out goodies, (though they weren't expensive and he never paid for them). His stock in trade, Claus said, is to inspire a child-like faith in the populace. His candidacy however, provoked other members of the Claus faction to make public statements. In a letter to the two newspapers, 14 elves declared their support for GOP candidate Al Cooper. In their note, the elves cited Cooper's experience, his policy on balanced budgets, and his support of a severance tax to ease the impact of mineral development. They also liked the twinkle in his eyes. Meanwhile, Democratic candidate Ron Perry received an endorsement from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which should help Perry get the bar vote along Park City's Main Street. Claus, at this time, is not a resident of Summit County. That may not be a problem, since City Council has directed Planner Bill Ligety to investigate the possibility of annexing the North Pole. Said Councilman Bob Wells, "If we're going to have this kind of weather, we might as well get the sales tax, too." Local actor Steve Stanczyk begins a Salt Lake theatrical run next week in the Stephen Sondheim musical, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." The play, presented by Theater 138, is based on the legend of the barber, victimized by an English lord, who gets even with society by slitting customers' throats, and putting the remains in his lady friend's meat pies. Stanczyk has a major supporting role as the sailor, Anthony. Opening night is Sept. 22. What good is a gossip column if you can't print the real spicy stuff, the dirt? Oh, we could write about who's running around with whom. But this is a small town. We have ethics. And besides, The Newspaper can't afford to hire a food taster right now ! But hey! What about a little underground sheet y'know, like the radical left-wing papers in the '60s? It could be circulated to an elite group of subscribers. On a monthly basis, it would report who's about to get married, who's splitting up, and who's fooling around. We could call it "Altar-ed States." If you like the idea, tell us at "Whadd'yaknow." On the other hand, if you feel like making a cash contribution for "insurance," let's say send all donations to David Hampshire, P.O.Box 738, Park City, Utah 84060. The Silver King Bank is about ready to move into their new branch on Main Street, but first they need a place to keep the cash. Bank president Dick Wilde said they're gearing to open Nov. 1 at the 614 Main Street building. But the full-service branch is still waiting for a vault from back East. The vault should weigh about 9000 lbs. "Nobody's gonna walk off with it," said Wilde. The recent issue of "Psychology Today" has this helpful hint: "A key to success is to copy the dress and behavior of your boss and your boss's boss." With all respect, I think it would be fatal if I were to try emulating the lifestyle of my publisher. (I can hear the autopsy now: "Apparently the coronary was brought on by some unaccustomed physical exertion. Why do you suppose he's smiling, though?") Dress, however, is another matter. We are proud to announce that the Timberhaus has the exclusive franchise on our new line of Jan Wilking Fashions. Yes, you can cause a stir at Rotary in our famous JW-brand sweater, made out of polyester and potgut fur. Stand out at sewer board meetings in our fluorescent fluores-cent jogging shorts. (Great for avoiding hit-and-run accidents at night.) And our Wilking XKE-500 shoes are ready for anything, whether it's handball, tennis, running a 30-mile marathon, or just resting your foot on the rail at Jody's. Most exciting of all, the Jan Wilking Mustache is available to the general public for the first time. Are you frustrated because you can only grow some peach fuzz, or conversely, some big sprawling mustache that looks like a dead weasel on your upper lip? This handsome handlebar model, long famous in Park City, will solve your problems forever. Available in brown, gray, forest green, or Devo orange. String model or clip-on. In looking over the newspapers, we'd say the politician this year with the worst credibility is a guy named John Lakian, who is running for the governorship in Massachusetts. Massachu-setts. Lakian is mad at the "Boston Globe," which found eight alleged misstatements in his campaign biography. For instance, the literature said Lakian's father died of war-related injuries in 1945, when he was actually killed in a truck-streetcar collision. Lakian explained, "Mom told me that a war-related leg injury prevented my Dad from applying the brakes on his truck." Lakian had also said he had taken post-graduate courses at Harvard. When a "Globe" reporter said Harvard had no record on him, the candidate said he had audited one course and never finished it. "I just said I went there without any particular purpose in mind or any particular deception in mind." Backpackers should sympathize with Dalel Goble, who recently left the Interior Department for a college job. In departing he sent friends the following announcement: "Dale D. Goble is pleased to announce that he has accepted a position with the University of Idaho College of Law and that he is no longer obligated to create legal-sounding lies allowing James Gaius Watt, his cronies, henchmen and flunkies to break the law, rape the land, and give the public's resources away." Unfortunately, the announcement gained the attention of the college, the feds, and Idaho Senator Steve Symms. In an AP report, Goble said his announcement was a private joke. The public joke, presently heading the Interior Department in Washington, had no comment. How the Planning Commission MOTIONS C. COW HER f 4 R. DAVIDSON B. WATTS D. BERRETT B. MAMMEN Dm4 W. BISHOP C. CALDER Approval of minutes for August US. Condom in iu m ization of 2nd phase. Parkwood Project. Hit Park Ave. Recommend Middle School annexation, with road casement and ROS zoning. Deiiv architectural revisions .-,i, (lower Vondos. Ptirk yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes absent absent absent absent yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes nut m-gm0HiiiJmtemrim ' |
