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Show A-20 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, July 13-16, 2019 The Park Record Meetings and agendas More Dogs on Main TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM SNYDERVILLE BASIN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING AGENDA July 15, 2019 ** District Office** 5:00 p.m. I. CALL TO ORDER II. CONSENT AGENDA A. APPROVAL OF BOARD MEETING MINUTES FOR JUNE 17, 2019 B. ESCROW FUND REDUCTION APPROVAL 1. PCFD FLEET SERVICES BUILDING – RETAIN 0 PERCENT 2. SR-248 BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS – RETAIN 40 PERCENT III. PUBLIC INPUT IV. APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURES – BILLS IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,096,001.74 INCLUDING SCWRF PROJECT PAY REQUEST #39 FOR $372,499.14 V. SERVICE AWARDS – SCOTT COOK – 15 YEARS VI. SUBDIVISION PROJECTS ESTIMATED LEA RES YEAR TO DATE: # ABOVE SPLITTER 0; # ECWRF 0; # SCWRF 230; TOTAL 230 PROPOSED THIS MEETING: # ABOVE SPLITTER 0; # ECWRF 0; # SCWRF 0; TOTAL 0 VII. DISTRICT MANAGER A. ACTION ITEMS 1. URS CONTRIBUTIONS RESOLUTION #138 2. UPDATE TO POLICY MANUAL SECTION 19 – GENERAL SAFETY & VEHICLE USE 3. AUTHORIZE CERTIFICATION OF DELINQUENT USER ACCOUNTS TO THE SUMMIT COUNTY TREASURER B. INFORMATION ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENT 2. IMPACT FEE REPORT VIII. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS A. PROJECTS B. OPERATIONS C. FINANCE D. GOVERNMENTAL MATTERS IV. ADJOURN IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO ATTEND THIS PUBLIC MEETING AND, DUE TO A DISABILITY, REQUIRE REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION IN UNDERSTANDING, PARTICIPATING IN OR ATTENDING THE MEETING, PLEASE NOTIFY THE DISTRICT TWENTY-FOUR OR MORE HOURS IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING, AND WE WILL TRY TO PROVIDE WHATEVER ASSISTANCE MAY BE REQUIRED. BOARD MEMBERS MAY APPEAR TELEPHONICALLY. Notice is hereby given that the Eastern Summit County Planning Commission will meet in regular session Thursday, June 18, 2019 Location: Summit County Courthouse, Council Chambers, 60 North Main Street, Coalville, Utah 84017 AMENDED AGENDA Agenda items may or may not be discussed in the order listed. By Tom Clyde Our charming mid-sized city I was out with some equally fossilized friends the other night, and the conversation turned to growth and the destruction of the world as we know it. It was, I suspect, the exact same conversation that others had 40 years ago when we all moved to Park City. Only they were talking about us. Change has been constant here. I guess it’s constant everywhere, but in a town with an economy that has always depended on such undependables as silver prices, snowpack, and the vagaries of second home tax laws, it seems like change happens more rapidly here. This is a very different place than it was a generation ago. And we are to blame because we made it happen. We really have no business complaining about reaping what we sowed. But the traffic really stinks. We’ve polished off all the rough edges, somehow forgetting that it was the rough edges that gave the place its appeal in the first place. Everything is structured, permitted, and administrated. If you want to do something really spontaneous, you first have to form a 501(c)(3) corporation and hire an executive director at six figures to manage the permits. Yes, it was unpleasant having to fight your way through a pack of dogs to get to the Post Office, and seldom did your shoes escape without stepping in it. But you also knew most of the dogs, and seeing them in full scrum confirmed that a friend was in the Post Office or the laundromat across the street, and led to blowing off an hour of work over coffee at the Deli. But those days are gone. We are no longer a quirky little mountain town. We are now a metropolitan area that will soon sprawl continuously from Summit Park to Daniels, east of Heber, and all the way around Jordanelle. Blink a couple of times and we will become a city of 100,000 people. If none of the jurisdictions involved ever approves another unit, what’s already approved gets us there. They are strip-mining condominiums in Wasatch County. Every time I drive into town, there is another gouge taken out of the mountainside. Much as I’d like to turn back the clock to the one-stoplight days (and by the time the first one went in, we needed it), it isn’t possible. 100,000 people is a certainty. 150,000 is not off the table. So deal with it. Continued from A-16 who perished at Storm King. He designed a new kind of fire shelter, which didn’t end up being used, and later designed liners for fire trucks. Those gathered also included Alex Robertson, who survived the fire and has continued to work in firefighting, now as a fire and aviation staff officer for an interagency fire office in Oregon. “The challenge we have is that we cannot just not fight fire, we can’t not put people in harm’s way,” Robertson said. “If we didn’t fight fires, they would burn up towns, and people would lose lives. The challenge is deciding when it’s necessary to put firefighters in danger, and how.” People in Hideout get their mail in Kamas, send their kids to school in Heber, and think they live in Park City.” We need to quit planning and governing like we are that long-lost quirky town that got polished into the sort of gem where Gorsuch seems like a perfect fit. We need to start dealing with the reality that we are a mid-sized city. Park City is just a neighborhood in the greater metroplex. That means figuring out what makes midsized cities desirable places to live, and fostering that. The parallel is now places like Bend, and Traverse City. Toto, we’re not like Telluride any more. There is a jurisdictional chowder in place that doesn’t make sense. There are planning commissions in Park City, Snyderville Basin, Eastern Summit County, Wasatch County, Jordanelle Basin, Hideout, Francis, Kamas, Oakley, Midway and probably others. That’s a whole lot of planning, but when as the edges blur, nothing meshes very well. It’s all focused internally, without much attention paid to what’s happening across the jurisdictional boundary. The school district boundaries make no sense at all. There are more school districts than we need, and the tax base isn’t located where the kids live. That’s a problem. People in Hideout get their mail in Kamas, send their kids to school in Heber, and think they live in Park City. I see confused Hideout-ites in the Kamas Post Office all the time trying to make sense of it. They can’t because it doesn’t. We need to be dealing with regional planning, with all those jurisdictions working together, and the artificial boundaries ignored. Planning commissions will spend months on a vacant lot in historic Newpark, but not five minutes on a project of 1,300 units on the other side of an arbitrary line. Silver Creek Village, Black Rock, Mayflower—those projects are huge, but not discussed because they are somebody else’s jurisdiction. Despite we old timers’ grousing, the Wasatch Back is still pretty appealing. Somebody is buying all those condos around Jordanelle, and every week another farm in Francis bites the dust. While some of us look at it and recoil, others have discovered paradise, and are willing to pay astounding prices for a piece of it. If it’s going to work, we need to be dealing with the whole enchilada. Existing towns need to retain their identities within the whole. Hideout needs a downtown, or at least a 7-Eleven. People live and work here like it is a single community, but we manage things like it is several separate continents. That needs to stop. The Wasatch Back needs to be managed as one entity. Tom Clyde practiced law in Park City for many years. He lives on a working ranch in Woodland and has been writing this column since 1986. 6:00 p.m. Regular Session 1. Pledge of Allegiance. 2. Public input for items not on the agenda or pending applications. 3. Public hearing and possible action regarding amendments to the Eastern Summit County Development Code, Sections 11-4-5 “Subdivisions, Condominiums, Subdivision Plat Amendments, Parcel Boundary Adjustments, and Divisions of Land for Non-Development Purposes” and 11-4-12, “Master Planned Developments” as they relate to wastewater systems. - Ray Milliner, Principal Planner 4. Public hearing and possible action regarding potential amendments to the Eastern Summit County Development Code, Sections 11-7-16, Appeal procedures. –Ray Milliner, Principal Planner 5. Public hearing and possible action regarding the Conditional Use Permit for the proposed accessory building larger than 2,000 square feet in size on Parcel NS-411; 720 E Chalk Creek Road, Coalville, Utah; Cody Wilde, Applicant. – Sean Lewis, AICP, County Planner 6. Discussion and possible action regarding the Leavitt’s Contractors Yard Conditional Use Permit; 23 West Rob Young Lane; Parcel JWR-1; Michael Leavitt, applicant. –Amir Caus, AICP, County Planner Work Session (Public comment may be taken at the discretion of the Chair) 1. Discussion regarding the Echo Wind Divide Conditional Use Permit, 100 MW utility-scale wind energy generation facility that would interconnect with the Rocky Mountain Power transmission system approximately 7 miles southeast of Evanston, Wyoming. – Ray Milliner, Principal Planner 2. Discussion regarding Promontory, Pinnacle Subdivision, Parcel NS-1, NS-2, NS-3 and SS-23; Shawn Potter, Applicant. – Amir Caus, AICP, County Planner Commission Items Director Items Adjourn To view staff reports available after Friday, July 12, 2019 please visit: www.summitcounty.org Individuals needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Vicki Geary, Summit County Community Development Department, at (435) 336-3123. Eight protestors arrested in inland port meeting incident Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY – Eight people were arrested after protesters of the Utah Inland Port Authority clashed with authorities, police said. Three people were cited and released Tuesday by Salt Lake City police, but five were taken to jail on suspicion of charges ranging from assault against a police officer and resisting arrest to trespassing and rioting, news organizations reported Tuesday. Those charged included 30-year-old Elizabeth Chauca, 25-year-old Rosemarie Obrien, Kaden Fralick, 65-year-old George Zinn, and Hannah Zivolich. Tuesday’s protest was organized by the advocacy group Protect our Community and joined by Utah Against Police Brutality, Civil Riot, ICE Free SLC, and others. The demonstration started peacefully outside the Salt Lake City Hall, but it became chaotic when protesters entered the chamber of commerce building. Police forced the group out, resulting in violent confrontations that included punches being thrown during clashes with police. Officers and protesters had “bumps and bruises,” but no serious injuries were reported, Salt Lake City police said. Several Utah officials condemned reports of violence at the protest. Gov. Gary Herbert called the actions “borderline terrorism” on Wednesday. Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski said she supports citizens’ right to protest but denounced violent behavior. The protest was the third related to the Utah Inland Port Authority. The first protest successfully shut down authority’s board meeting, while the protest last month resulted in clashes with police and one arrest, reports said. Activists have raised concerns about the port project’s impact on air quality and wildlife. Protesters on Tuesday also railed against immigration policy, climate change and capitalism. The inland port will aggravate air pollution, poison children, and exacerbate climate change, protester Mariella Mendoza said. “It’s the system. It’s capitalism. It’s settler colonialism,” Mendoza said. “It’s the way we’ve been pitted against each other in this killer system.” Republican Gov. Gary Herbert on Tuesday called the actions “borderline terrorism.” Mountain Town cled. In Whistler, 50% of waste gets diverted from the landfill. Jurors will have to decide in pond-skimming case JACKSON, Wyo. – A jury will be given the task of deciding whether an injury suffered at the “pond skim” in 2017 was the result of negligence by Snow King Mountain Resort, the in-town ski area in Jackson. The skier, still a minor, had skied across the pond several times when he agreed with friends to be part of a ‘rowdy train,” in which all ski down together. “As he tried to exit the pond, another skier in the rowdy train skied across (the boy’s) left leg,’ the lawsuit says. “The edge of that ski cut (the victim’s) leg, severing muscle, tendon and nerve. He now suffers ‘drop foot.’” The parents of the boy, who filed the lawsuit, must prove that their son’s risk was not an inherent one to skiing, explains the Jackson Hole News&Guide. 14 fallen firefighters at Storm King remembered GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. – Twenty-five years ago strong winds accompanying a cold front pushed flames from a small fire in the oak brush on Storm King Mountain, located along the Colorado River west of Glenwood Springs. The fire killed 14 firefighters, including 12 in a small cluster who had too little time to deploy their potable shelters. Crosses mark the spots where they died. On Saturday, Jim Roth was among those who gathered to remember the conflagration on July 6, 1994. The Glenwood Post Independent reports that he has been driven to use his training in aerospace engineering to help firefighters. His younger brother, Roger Roth, was a smokejumper from Idaho Durango’s No. 1 tourist draw on the hot seat about wildfire DURANGO, Colo. – The U.S. government last week filed a $25 million lawsuit against operators of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. Daily during summer the train takes passengers to Silverton in cars pulled by smoke-belching coal-fired locomotives such as were used before mining slackened in the San Juan Mountains in the 1930s. On June 1 last year, the train was making its daily run when embers from the locomotive landed on brush, parched from a remarkably dry winter in the San Juans. The 416 Fire blew up almost immediately and eventually blackened 54,000 acres, the sixth largest wildfire in Colorado’s recorded history. The Forest Service reported $25 million in suppression costs. This is the second lawsuit filed against the train operator. A lawsuit filed last September on behalf of homeowners and businesses similarly found the railroad careless. After the fire started last year, the railroad shut down for 41 days. During that time, the town’s economy took more than a $33 million hit. The railroad later announced purchase of two diesel-powered locomotives, to be used when fire conditions are ripe. A third locomotive will retrofitted to burn oil, instead of coal. The Denver Post reported that Durango is sharply divided about the lawsuit. “They’re re- ally foolish and short-sighted,” said Duane Smith, a historian in Durango. “For heaven’s sake, this is not the right solution.” Without the railroad, he said, Durango is an isolated town with a small college. Durango is isolated: almost four hours to Albuquerque, more than six hours from Denver, and a half-hour longer yet from Salt Lake City, according to Google Maps. Can’t descendants of the South find better symbol? BAYFIELD, Colo. – Somebody needs to figure out a different flag for people proud of being from the American South. The so-called Confederate flag comes just too loaded with history, most of it loathsome. How about a flag with images of fried chicken and corn bread? The repugnant flag was in the news again in Southwestern Colorado, where a group called Rocky Mountain Confederate Conservation entered a float in the July 4th parade in Bayfield, a town 20 miles east of Durango. The Durango Herald cited a Facebook page for the group that insists it “does not support “violence, racism or hate against any persons.” The group believes the flag signifies support of Confederate heritage and “powerful Southern Pride.” The flag was one of several created during the Civil War and originated to represent the Army of Northern Virginia. The war was about the right to self-determination of Southern states, more specifically whether they could expand what slaveholders called their “peculiar institution” westward into New Mexico, Arizona and eventually the Pacific. Colorado, too, for that matter. Later, the flag became the symbol of the Ku Klux Klan and also segregationists who wanted to protect Jim Crow laws, points out HistoryNet. com. Yes, the Confederate flag is a symbol of the South, but of ugly elements of Southern history. The float in Bayfield had 8 people, followed by a protest entry of 30 to 35 people. The two groups remained civil, an observer told the Herald. |