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Show 2-A's titans set to tangle Sports B5 Volleyballers call it a 'growing year' sPortsB7 Buy a painting and maybe win a Jeep ewsA6 1 t i rJlirl,:nn A Q h ; A m' j.'klu-, - mimi wiv aM n OiGflEl 4? mm Vol. 107, No, 34 3 Sections, 38 Pages Thursday, October 2, 1986 Imum IE Una Man sought in homicide Summit County Sheriff Fred Eley Wednesday said an all-points-bulletin has been issued for Billy Cudd, 61, of Pueblo, Colo. Cudd is sought in connection with the alledged murder of Samuel Patt, 71, of Winterhaven Fla. Patt was found dead on July 6 on 1-84 near Echo in Summit County according to Eley. The Sheriff said no warrant has yet been issued for Cudd who is believed to be in the Oklahoma area, at present. Rentals are on agenda The Park City Planning Commission Com-mission will consider four proposals pro-posals for nightly rentals at its Oct. 8 meeting. Two of the applications are for homes in the Thaynes Canyon area at 2195 Three Kings Court and )4 Keystone Court. The other requests are for a nightly rental in the Ridgeview subdivision (at 3029 in the Ridgeview Condos) and in Oldtown (918 Woodside.) The applications are requests for conditional use, submitted by the same company, Park City Resort Lodging.. . , The commission meeting begins at 7 p.m., in the Marsac Municipal Building. Sun Peak hearing set Developers of the proposed Sun Peak commercialresidential development have finished submitting sub-mitting documents for a public hearing set for October 14. The meeting would start at 7:30 p.m. in the New Summit County Courthouse. Cour-thouse. The project, which is requesting re-questing a Class II Development Permit, consists of a membership member-ship equestrian country club, commercial sports complex and a mix of residentrial uses. For further information, contact the Summit County Planning Office, 55 North 50 East in Coalville, phone 336-4451. Telephone cables cut Cut telephone cables in Emigration Canyon were the blame of a telephone outage in the Park City area for most of the day Tuesday. Mountain Bell spokesperson Eve Mary Verde said the cut cables affected toll calls, but not local service. The cables, which were cut by a construction company working in a new subdivision in Emigration Canyon, were sliced at 9:45 a.m. and toll service was restored by about 3:30 p.m. Pentelute is guilty Bradley Pentelute. Park City, pleaded guilty to federal charges he was in an operation to steal corporate checks from post office boxes. He was named last July in a grand jury indictment issued in San Diego. His guilty plea was entered Sept. 15, according to Edward Ed-ward Weiner. assistant U.S. Attorney At-torney in San Diego. Pentelute admitted to a charge of conspiracy con-spiracy to receive stolen goods in interstate commerce and to receive stolen mail matter. Pentelute was charged with being be-ing a "middleman" in the operation. opera-tion. Sentencing will be in early 1987. i 4 1 r, V 7 i V "1 "3L 1 f r . V ; - v i i I . . .. - 9 -X' I w Then and now In the early 1900's, Venus and Mayme Schneitter grew up together in Midway. Friday, Venus Lawson, left, and Mayme Church were reunited at The Homestead's birthday party. See story A 10. White Pine battle continues in court by RICK BROUGH Record staff writer Developer Hy Saunders has renewed his fight against Summit County over its handling of his proposed pro-posed White Pine development. He is suing the county and the Snyder-ville Snyder-ville Basin Sewer District for $13 million to $18 million in damages. The plaintiff, listed as the White Pine Ranches partnership, said the defendants have forced him to install in-stall unreasonable capital improvements, im-provements, such as road upgrading and extension of a sewer line. The improvements, he said, amount to illegal il-legal and unlawful taxes. The defendants have conspired to delay or stop the project, render the White Pine property worthless, and cause economic hardship according to the suit. This behavior, said the suit, has occurred from 1980 up to the present time. The suit is alleging violations of state anti-trust law; denial of state civil rights; and denial of due process pro-cess and equal protection under the law. The suit also names Stan Strebel as a defendant, asserting he engaged engag-ed in a pattern of malicious and illegal il-legal behavior against White Pine. Strebel was planning director of Summit County and now serves as General Services Director. Other individual in-dividual defendants are former County Commissioners Gerald Young and Ron Perry. Saunders made similar charges in a federal suit dismissed from court last summer by U. S. District Judge David Winder. In the federal suit, filed fil-ed November of 1984, Saunders said the county and sewer district imposed impos-ed onerous, illegal and unreasonable requirements on his project. In a June 30 ruling, Winder dismissed the case on summary judgment, saying the suit raised no federal or constitutional issues, but it could be reviewed at the state court level. He also ruled that governmental units are allowed broad discretion in planning and zoning issues. The suit, he said, did not show Summit County's requirements re-quirements are unreasonable, vague or discriminatory. The White Pine project, said the suit, was started in 1980 as a plan to use 60 acres in White Pine Canyon (south of the Park West Resort) for twelve five-acre single-family residences. Later the project was changed to six sites. But the plan was frustrated by the defendants imposing a series of demands, the suit says. In many cases, they were requirements not imposed on other developers, the suit said. Among the demands, said the suit: The plaintiff had to dedicate a 60-foot-long strip of road, located adjacent ad-jacent to his property, to the county. A similar requirement was not made on contiguous landowners, The developer was required to provide a gravel surface on White Pine Canyon Road for a mile, from Highway 224 to the southwest edge of his property. This also widened the road to 24 feet. The defendants, the suit alleged, required him to install an off-site sewer sufficient to handle 2,000 to 4,000 connections. The sewer line stretched 1.3 miles from Saunders' project (meant to service six units) Whitepine to A7 Sweeney project prompts spirited density debate by TERI GOMES Record editor ,The city planning staff recommended recom-mended approval and the Planning Commission had already recommended recom-mended approval; but when the discussion of the proposed Sweeney project in the Creole Gulch area of Old Town came before a joint session ses-sion of the Park City Council and the planning commission, the issues of density trades and hillside developments were discussed anew with members from both groups surprising sur-prising one another and the developers, by expressing their op-positition op-positition to the project. The Master Plan Development was first granted to the Sweeney family in September of 1985. The approved ap-proved hillside development consisted con-sisted of 455 units to be built on the more than 125 acres of land which consists of much of the hillside area behind Old Town and up Creole Gulch. The land is zoned Historic Residential (HR-1) Estate (E) and Historic Recreation Commercial ' (HRC). The gliche in the approval process comes from the height exception request re-quest from the Sweeney's to build an 85 foot building as part of the project. pro-ject. The council has the option of calling call-ing up any project which requires a height exception, for a full vote before the group. The height exception was a consideration con-sideration by the council because the Sweeney family was willing to swap 110 acres of their land and have them rezoned to recreational open space. In addition, at the suggestion of the planning staff, the group was willling to cluster their units to take up less hillside space and build perhaps as few as 219 units. But at last week's joint session, city ci-ty council member Kristen Rogers, told the developers, "it is a matter of record the council has decided to look into hillside development. If there was a mistake made in the past," she said referring to other densities granted, "it doesn't need to be repeated." Rogers then told the developers, "what would work for me is a configuration con-figuration that doesn't violate the basic fabric of Old Town your project pro-ject just doesn't do that. " Pat Sweeney pointed out to the group the density they were asking for was considerably less than simliar approved projects in town. "Masonic Hill is 4.79 units (per acre) and the Surprise development is 2. 15 units. What we're asking for is 1.77 per acre, about 30 percent less than those deveopments. If everyone else can do, why not the Sweeney's?" he asked. Council member Jim Santy had started the discussion rolling by saying say-ing if he were voting that night (there was no vote, it was a meeting for discussion only) he would vote in favor of the project. That appeared to surprise council member Jim Doilney who told Santy, San-ty, "that's about 100 percent different dif-ferent from the opinion you expressed express-ed when you were interviewed for this position." Santy felt it was consistent with his feelings last spring but Rogers agreed with Doilney that she remembered a different response. Planning commission member Ruth Gezelius urged the council to look at the trade off it would get in terms of open space. "The aesthetic view of the hillside and the trees have to count for something," she said. The issue of the height exception and the entire project approval is slated to come before the council at their regular meeting, Oct. 9. Recreation district is formed b SENA TAYLOR ,A Kecord staff writer J -v - Summit County Commissioners passed a motion to approve the formation for-mation of a Special Recreation District for Park City and the Snyderville Basin area Oct. 24, and appointed an administrative control board to govern the district. New board members are Park City Ci-ty Board of Education members Ed Axtell and Gene Lambert, city council coun-cil member Kristin Rogers, county commissioner Tom Flinders and Park City ChamberBureau board member Kim McClelland. This five-member board is designed design-ed to have two school district representatives, and one each from the city, ChamberBureau and county coun-ty in order to best represent the entities en-tities that will be involved in recreation recrea-tion district affairs, and possibly later fund a proposed indoor recreation recrea-tion facility. An Indoor Recreation Facility Task Force has been working since March to form a recreation district and an indoor recreation facility which would be jointly used by residents within the Park City school district boundaries and visitors to the area. Although the district and the facility are unrelated issues, the district had to be approved to meet task force proposals for the indoor facility. TKe" next step in task force efforts to develop a facility is the passage of bond elections which were previously previous-ly scheduled for Oct. 7. Kristen Rogers, who is also a task force member, said, "the whole schedule of plans has been set back because of the time it took to create the district. We can't proceed with our original plans until 30 days after the district has been in place to allow for protests pro-tests to be heard against the district. We also need to spend some time educating people about the district and the facility, then set dates for bond elections." Under original plans, a $3 million bond election for the Special Recreation Recrea-tion District would partly fund a facility, and would increase property proper-ty taxes by 2.25 mills. A school district bond would also contribute about the same amount, but its current cur-rent levy of 12 mills would not be raised; instead the debt would be retired at a later date. And Park City Ci-ty Municipal Corp. has said it would be able to contribute $500,000 from the sale of the Memorial Building. Additional funding was being sought by the task force from the state Community Impact Board. Rogers said the task force had planned plan-ned to approach the impact board Sept. 19, to request $2 million for a facility. But their meeting was postponed indefinitely because of the board's backlog of statewide community requests. State Impact Board member Samuel J. Taylor said, "we have had so many applications and so few funds that the board had to freeze its acceptance of new applicants. There are about 25 requests that are pending pen-ding answers from the board, and we've about run out of money. So we're going to try and work through that backlog and accept applications again by the first of the year. By then there should be some additional funding." At press time, county commissioners commis-sioners were scheduled to adopt a resolution at their Oct. 1 meeting following its informal approval of the district last week. The district won't be permanently in place, however, until after a 30-day protest period. Persons opposing the district were previously able to challenge district formation during a period in September, during which time four percent of the citizenry in the district registered protested. That translated to a representation of 3 12 percent of the assessed property in the district, according to Stan Strebel, Summit County general services ser-vices director. The district now meets its second and final challenge. - 4y Mo A ft i P 1 V :i 1 3 i w - i - ii r A taste Missie Willard, left, tries to catch a snouflake on her toil (HIP Hnrinf the Park Citv Hiilh School homecoming foot- ivniMv n rf Ai ntor ,)al1 game. Sharon VonClasen tries to keep warm in the Ul Will LCI frigid fall snowstorm. Neal Paiumbo Business A10 Calendar A13 Classifieds Cl Columns A4 Education A8 Entertainment Bl Legals B12 Letters A3 Sports B5 Television B17 |