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Show Wednesday, September 23, 1998 The Park Record A-3 County Seat Does growth pay for itself? County commissions $70,000 study of growth in the Snyderville Basin by Kevin M. Schultz OF THE RECORD STAFF Finalizing plans to commission a much-anticipated survey on growth issues in the Snyderville Basin, the Summit County Board of Commissioners voted Monday to contract Economic and Planning Systems, Inc., a Berkeley-based survey sur-vey team, to conduct a survey to analyze the economic and governmental govern-mental stresses growth has on a community. The study, said Summit County Community Development Director Doug Dotson, will survey and project proj-ect the Basin's economic growth and population increase, then overlay the impacts of that growth on community com-munity needs. From those findings, said Dotson, the survey will then make recommendations recom-mendations as to how developers and other direct agents of growth can pay for the impact their projects will have on the community. The study will take place over the next three months. "This study will help us make sure our growth is a balanced kind of growth," said Dotson, who presented present-ed the contract at the commissioners' commission-ers' regular Monday meeting in Coalville. "It will really give us an answer as to whether or not our growth is out of balance," he continued. 1 The importance of the study was not lost on any of the commission County Olympic video is coming your way! by Kevin M. Schultz OF THE RECORD STAFF ? In an effort to answer all of your pressing questions and concerns about the upcoming 2002 Olympic Games, the Summit County Board of Commissioners voted Monday to produce a short video on the potential, impact the Games will have on Summit County. )! r?--t?sf.'; -'-According to Summit County Olympic Planner Doug Dotson, the seven- to ten-minute video, which will cost just under $1,000 a minute to produce, will address among other things the effect the Games will have on taxes, transportation trans-portation and the area's crime rate. ''Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Eric Schifferli told Dotson that he did not want a glossy, advertised image of the Games, but rather "an honest perception per-ception of what the Games will do." C Reiterating what he regards as the most difficult question to answer concerning the Games, Commissioner Sheldon Richins asked, "How can you invite the world and control growth at the same time? I've only heard that question about 10,000 times," he said. ' The video will cost $6,455 to produce and will be ready in the next few months. It will eventually eventual-ly be sent out to community groups, schools, and any individuals individu-als who request the video. Information radio headed to Park City 5 Park City will soon have a new radio station. Responding to a request from Bark City Director of Olympic Planning Frank Bell, the Summit County Board of Commissioners t , ' - - - , COUNTY EDITOR: ers, who quickly realized that the results could give them a much stronger tool with which they could better control growth. To control growth, the county can presently only rely on the Doctrine of Concurrency, a legislative tool that mandates that each development develop-ment application be evaluated in terms of its effect on existing public facilities, including water, sewer, storm drainage, and transportation. For example, one provision states that the Park City Fire Service District should be able to respond to a emergency in less than 10 minutes. If a development compromised these service levels, it would be denied approval. "This study," said Eric Schifferli, chairman of the board of commissioners, commis-sioners, "will tell us how concurrency concurren-cy really works." Impact fees are another tool the commissioners have been using to try to get growth to pay for itself. Presently, however, due to state legislation, leg-islation, the county can only ask for impact fees to cover certain costs. The state recently concluded that school districts cannot demand money based on the subdivision's impact on area schools. As a result, the Park City School District has become so burdened, it is proposing a $30 million bond in a special election this February. Dotson made clear that the impact growth has on schools is an Briefs approved a $20,000 grant to fund an informationadvisory radio system. sys-tem. The station will generally fol- low the information-only format of other community radio stations. The $20,000, which will come from revenue earned through the recently-approved restaurant tax, comes in response to a formal request from the Park City Municipal Corporation, who will own the station once it is in place. The radio station, which will broadcast traffic and weather information as well as advertise upcoming county events, will be receivable from Pinebrook to Silver Creek to Upper Daly Canyon Road. According to Bell, the radio station's boundaries will roughly follow the triangle that is the Park City School District boundary. The station was the last of 18 grants requested from the restaurant restau-rant tax to gain approval from the commissioners, who were initially worried the station would not work due to the extremity of terrain ter-rain in western Summit County. "Some of those community stations sta-tions makes it sound like you are in Hong Kong or China," said Commissioner Sheldon Richins. Assured by Bell that the station would work, the commissioners approved the grant. 34-year Splendor Valley ordeal heads to court Continuing a 34-year dispute, the owners of Splendor Valley, LC, a Utah-based land holding company, compa-ny, have filed a lawsuit against Summit County, claiming the county commissioners acted unjustly three weeks ago when they denied a request to allow the building of a subdivision on the company's land. The development in question called for 84 residential family lots eVvave yoUr Sofa... Kevin M. Schultz 649-90 1 4 ext 1 1 2 integral part of the study. With the data provided by the study, the county commissioners said they might be better armed to request funds for the school district from developers. Handling growth has been a continual con-tinual challenge for the county, which, at one time was ranked as the second fastest growing county in the nation. The commissioners were hopeful, therefore, that this study might provide the planning commission commis-sion and the developers with an analytical ana-lytical understanding of what rapid growth is doing to the area. Furthermore, the study could also answer questions as to how much more growth the county can effectively effec-tively sustain. "I'd feel better," Schifferli said, "to have a professional analysis to depend on, rather than just my gut feeling, which might be off. Plus, it will help us approach this in a systematic sys-tematic manner rather than a knee-jerk." knee-jerk." The commissioners noted that results of the study will likely be highly controversial because they will directly affect landowners who currently seek to capitalize on the Basin's burgeoning real estate market. mar-ket. "But," said Schifferli, "at least we'll know if growth really pays for itself." The survey, which cost the county coun-ty $67,740, will also offer analytical forecasts on tourism, real estate markets and land use. Conclusions will be presented early next year. on 50 acres on a swath of land adjacent adja-cent to Upper Loop Road in Marion. The owners of Splendor Valley, LC continue to claim they have a vested right to build on the property proper-ty from a subdivision plat purportedly purport-edly signed by the county commission commis-sion in 1964. The 34-year-old plat would allow the developers to build 84 units on the 50 acres of land, far exceeding the present density ratio in the, Snyderville Basin, Planning Commission's .General Plan, which states that unless granted approval otherwise, all subdivisions must have a ratio of one unit per 40 acres of land. The lawsuit, which claims the county violated the company's Fifth Amendment right to maintain main-tain private property unless judged otherwise by due process of law, seeks to overturn the county's decision deci-sion not to allow the high-density development. It also asks the county to pay for both actual and consequential damages resulting from the board's denial, although no figures were mentioned in the lawsuit. "Summit County's conduct was arbitrary, capricious, and illegal, furthering no rational or legitimate government end or purpose," the lawsuit reads. 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