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Show od WASATCH COUNTY ae me“i & 44 oa tant 1 iy \ “. 7 innfh] in 74 eel + an p te {y a4 <a Ay a9 aif ah a An Wasatch Jury 13, 1999 County's eee for News ee VOL. 1 ISSUE 2 Shit Se SY Py f 4 4 iaVi Vi County Planner Not Invited to Party ¢ J a We ae he ij "{ & % id Wasatch County Left Out of Planning for Bonanza Flats a wt an - Municipal Dark Green i Brown ig id a 4 - Agricultural ~ ee Light Green Blue — uy = Recreation Forestry REM ee) MM i aaF " - Watershed Conservation - Major Lake/Reservoir ce “F “24 roi | G By Sin ee | Flats. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER PARK CITY- In a brazen attempt to control development within Wasatch County, Park City has signed a development agreement with the United Park City Mines Company that places et | * x. ving 5 slieinialinand or fi ; - Several years ago when UPCM approached «4 tS “t rm > & a” Fa i+ because the County would receive all of the tax i$i am] revenue and Midway would receive most of the impact from increased traffic flows, etc. strict limits on what they can and cannot build in Some Midway residents are now considering Bonanza Flats. the idea of annexing Bonanza Flats into the - Bonanza Flats is a popular recreational area Midway City limits. This would give Midway _'for snowmobilers and outdoor enthusiasts that _ more. input concerning the development of lies within the North-West borders of Wasatch Bonanza Flats and it would allow Midway to — County. impose and collect municipal taxes on any According to this: development agreement, developments that are built. -UPCM cannot build more than 260 residential _If Pine Canyon Road, located North é units, 75,000 square feet of resort-related comMidway, was improved, it could become the primercial development, and one 18-hole golf ‘mary access road for the residents and visitors of course. There are also specific restrictions on the Bonanza Flats. This would bring more business— , development of ski runs, ski lifts, sand other skithrough Midway as well as relieve traffic conrelated improvements. gestion on the already busy Mine Road in Park In addition, only owners and renters of propCity. 7 erty in Brighton Estates will be given snowmoOf course, if most of the Bonanza Flats seat bile access over U- — to Bonanza flats in the fic came through Midway, feeder routes like winter. Burgi Lane and River Road would have to be ~ In order to get eae Br the annexation of % 36) re +f i oy ee vf Bt r¥ Lyny ~ ats -. », 7 ce ‘tie on x at a * Z ' ai it #3 Al a! at. . a _ improved. Portions of River Road are already Flagstaff Mountain, another UPCM develop- _ 7 ~ expecting improvements because it will be one ment, into Park City, UPCM had to agree to . these restrictions on its development i in Bonanza , €{ Midway to discuss the development of the Bonanza Flats area, it was forcefully rebuffed. Midway did not want to encourage development oe Py 7 Te a} oe | ~ 3 & of the primary feeder routes for the new — Olympic venue in Wasatch County. 7 | : a Ye +0 $3 eu be a ake ae} a zat . 4“ > Wasatch County School District would be felt on first east and also — future impact on Mitchie ee <a ReTSTINT a T rer DEER CREST - Property tax revenue may not be as high as expected. Plans for a RitzCarlton hotel may not come about. Since no - cost analysis has been done on the Deer Crest _ development, it is hard to say what the net _ effect not having the hotel will do to the — financial situation for Wasatch County. ty had a surplus of about $1,000,000 at the end of 1998. oe “The initial traffic study came back with little benefit to the (WCSD) went before Midway officials to get approval for the | a second study done. We had project. Ekoff, Watson and Preator of Salt “We had a numbers probLake City come in and do anothlem,” WCSD Superintendent See MIDWAY on page 3 a . Lane. Midway school should the improvements be made on first east and Mitchie Lane,” Talbot said. “But Midway (City) wanted oe ¢ any a' a : _HEBER-A copy of Wasatch County’s 1998 financial statements show that the coun- rey 7 ae TT decided that a traffic study should be done on the impact that * ef albi Rt peat aaa > being felt over the remodeling and improvements made to the ~~ Midway Elementary. Behind all of the problems, the civil suit and the arguments, the issue comes down to dollars and roads. Prior to the improvements made to the Midway Elementary, Wasatch County Surplus the project to move forward, they tt 3) i a rr rrr Before Midway would allow is still a “35 at the shock wave a total long-term debt obligation of roughly $9,500,000 and the total assessed value of property in- Wasatch County is now over a billion dollars. HEBER - Wasatch County’s insurance carrier will only pay the replacement costs of the three garbage trucks that burned several weeks ago. ; a | The county will have to make up the difference from its general fund. It has been verified that the cause of the fire was electrical. . Service Distriot has WASATCH COUNTY COURIER 525 SOUTH MAIN STREET HEBER City, UT 84032 WASATCH COUNTY'S COLOR NEWSPAPER Presorted Standard | U.S. Postage Paid _ Heber City, UT Permit No. 32005 TR Midway, ae | HEBER - After all the buildwas said and done in Garbage Trucks Update The Jordarielle | | had a had to we did time to “y2 o ssa a tat a Gf, tans icheettonattt shal gil Ll "| da | alba ileal ing racine Talbot said. “We surplus of students and we put them somewhere. And not have a long. period of -work with.” =% 7 By KARI Gis BUSINESS MANAGER 34 = 7 vicitleatliabodann sideline : \ hi Midway vs. Wasatch County School District ~ County Pulse” as i ez saalin Read Rash © at |