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Show V.. . L'ffIVTPSITY OF UTW LIMAR'.ES 10 CENTS Harriott Library NOV SERIALS UNIVERSITY 2 2 id 74 SLC, Utah Of 84112 UTAH CfniK L'Lt'i Permit No 4 Park City, Utah cm WESTERM Volume Two BULK RATE S. POSTAGE U 84060 Wednesday, November 20, 1974 Number Forty SERVING: v snowbird uniTGD AiRLines Hi WEDNESDAY.. .Fair and partially AND THURSDAY clear. FRIDAY.. .Snow showers. Highs In the mid 40s; lows in the upper 20 s. com PARK CITY SNOWBIRD ALTA BRIGHTON SUNDANCE -- d 7. ve'eVeA. e Se PARK WEST Pallet pins 649-956- 1 Marshall 649-936- 1 Flra Ambulance 649-921- 1 649-921- 1 Questions concerning water, sewer, garbage, beets, etc., please call: CRyHeN City Recorder City Manager and Building Inspector 649-932- 1 649-932- 1 649-847- 4 cl Peace (Above are open Monday thru Friday from 9 a.m. 91 4 p.m.) After normal office hours John Price, CRy Justice Mayor 325 Park Ave 649-932- 1 649-857- 5 649-939- 6 Councilman Leon Uriarte, Recreation 354 Mein St Councilman Clemente Hansen, City Property 1006 Norfolk Ave Councilman Richard Martinos, Water 167 Daly Ave Councilman Jan Wilking, Planning 326 Marsac Aw CouncNwoman Mary Lahmar, 674 Dear Valley V r MILLION SUIT FIL T CITY FI P.C. Mayor John Price, Jan Wilking, the Greater Park City Company, and President Warren King were slapped with summonses in a $7.5 million civil action suit on Friday, November 15th. The suit was filed by GP-C- C Elwood L. Nielsen, a local developer, and the Great Eastern Mining Company for alleged violations of the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, the Robinson-Patma- n Act, and other anti-trulaws. before the Council several months ago seeking permission to improve a dedicated city road which leads to the property in The Council was of that the road could be utilized in its present condition but could not be improved. Construction work on the road was subsequently initiated and a cease and desist order" was issued by rtion. the city. st Land Access Hie main thrust of the suit centers on Mr. Nielsen's and the Great Eastern Mining Companys inability to gain City Council approval for an access road to their Masonic Hill property which lies north of Park City. Mr. Nielsen appeared Park West Development The summonses also state that the plantiffs' Park West Village development has incurred substantial losses of profits due to illegal practices exercised by the Greater Park City Company. Conspiracy and Monopoly The suit contends that Price, Wilking, King and GP- - have employed conspiratorial and monopolistic practices to prevent Mr. Nielsen and the Great Eastern Mining Company CC from successfully competing with the Greater Park City Company in the land development business. merical lots. The paper states that the resort company has acquired and offered far sale approximately 90 percent of such properties. Political Influence Referring to GPCC and Mr. King, the legal document reads, Hie Defendants have caused Jan Wilkington (sic) Percentages Cited The summonses delivered and John Price to be elected by U.S. Marshall Royal But-tar- s to the City of Park City, State charges that the Greater of Utah City Counsel (sic), Park City Company has who dominate and control created a monopoly in the said Counsel (sic)." construction and sale of conIt continues to state that afdominium units in Summit ter the (Sty Council refused County and that GPCC owns permission to improve the or is constructing 75 percent existing dedicated road, the of all condominium units in developers approached Mr. the county. King concerning the purThe complaint also alleges chase of GPCC land which is GPCC has conspired and adjacent to Masonic Hill and created a monopoly in the which would provide access sales of residential and com- - to the property. ... Mr. Nielsen and Great Eastern assert that Mr. King, acting in behalf of GPCC, requested a reasonable appraised value for the land plus ten percent of the value of any project which would be developed. They found the alleged offer unreasonable and desisted and deferred from accepting. The suit continues to state that contiguous property the developers assumed would be acceptable to the Park City Counsel (sic)" for the approval of their subdivirion which project was purchased great expense. at Nielsen and Great Eastern assert that the Council still refused to give the for their project while allowing GPCC to proceed un fettered with land develop d 646-950- 4 649-963- 6 649-686- 6 646-956- 4 ITS STILL OUT THERE PARK CITY BRIEFS COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES SKI REPORTS ment, thus a creating monopoly. CLASSIFIEDS SCHOOL NEWS ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION PROGRAMS CANINE epnnTC Wilking and Zoning The document also contends that after the great expense of the additional land acquisition was incurred, Jan Wilkington (sic) a member of the Park (Sty e Council who is also a employee of Greater Park City Corporation (sic), and COALITION COMIC CITY GOVERNMENT K full-tim- was actually acting at the in- stance and request of Greater Park City Corporation (sic), that he was going to use his best efforts to see the . . . zoned property so that it could not be developed at all. Ski Lifts Another allegation made continued on page 3 Skiers will soon be arriving from all over, and The Coalition will be traveling with them, (see story on page 3) |