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Show 1 dh bla tienen satya: heckled tel nnn ainnheillatncernr inet alesis sade be eI ll 27 Reh HA Y T N U O C H C WASAT Vol. 1, Issue 15 Wasatch County's Sandee for News, ‘Opinion and foe October 12, 1999 Death Trap in Timber Lakes Subdivision Sam Allen, Courier Staff Should a fire start in the dry scrub = _ find money and resources for the county from federal and state programs, resulting in considerable savings to county taxpayers. near the bottom of the Timber Lakes subdivision, located in the mountains ‘east of Heber City, hundreds of people could be trapped because the county did not enforce it’s own development codes “‘Althoush when the subdivision was built. | For If a fire raced up the canyon, residents would be forced to go further and fur_ther up until they could go no further. _ Unlike other developments in the ) This fast attack rude is one oF two operational atte in the fimber Lakes development. If there was a major fire in Timberlakes, it would be next to impossible for Ralph Lewis and his fire dog Fluff to: stop it. that take place in Timber Lakes, a is bound to RaDERD: eventually, | msoe the fire escape toads were open ad they, . means large sion because it’s two batteries have been " unable to keep a charge. Ralph Lewis | water ae : the that the county Fire Marshall . : Besides it’s lack of adequate fire escape routes, Timber Lakes only has two fire ~ trucks to cover the entire 1600 lots and — : eh miles of mountain Toads. Both ; ake, . ; in it’s tank, it is severely under powered. Indeed, it may not even be — able to make it up some roads and | ‘ | : DEATH TRAP continued on page 6 . eP paar the bottom of the canyon. According to major fire. With all the snowmobiles, four-wheelers and wilderness parties Ralph Lewis, “the only exit is the gate.” Director for the county. Kent Berg is known for his almost eical ability to 9thcama before Timber Lakes has to deal with a were loaned by the Forest Service at the request of Kent Berg, the Public Works ‘i to the one exit at aa funnel down eee them a matter of time eetA it’s sei hg ioe tle ewe -Bethers’ Business Sam Allen, Courier Staff is a partial transcript of a there, buy property, or lease from some- Wasatch County Commission meeting in -one, that is where which the commissioners state that the — business license. county will not issue a business license for Sweden Road in Daniel. Citizens in Daniel have had major concerns with the noise,. ee company in @ res-— -idential area. RALPH DUKE We have tried to work, I. think you know we have tried to be as fair as we possibly can. ~ ANITA. BETHERS You have. _ Duke And um— BETHERS But am : | going to come the . [Then there is more DUKE discussion DUKE You can use it on your car. You can’t operate your [maintenance] shop. We can’t issue a business license in the ‘area. The business license will be issued in an industrial area. Once you get what can fix and they can change oil in that and they can do farm work in that. They cannot run the business outit of the shop. | ? about GREENMAN They cannot repair that bailer if they are doing it for compensation. They can do it if it is their bailer for their farm. BANE ea os DUKE Well, that is what I am saying. GREENMAN Okay, I just want to be sure that we are clear on this. And then after September then there will be no was just said. You are saying that we are going to give them until September to find a new location. Is that correct? trucks on that property. DUKE That’s right. 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That. arrangements that could be made to park up me BPa After Sopeeer will be closed. Is that correct! DUKE We will give you a month to move the other three trucks and by the first of September you can try and get a business license but we are hoping that you will be located somewhere else. against this issue every time | hee to— [unintelligible]? issue county code. The Commission then indicates that it will not address this issue at this time; they will look at it later] pollution, and.safety threat to neighborhood children from a we will ‘Creer [Then there is a discussion sp county’s policy that lets others have one truck on a resi~ dential property even though it is against the the Bethers Trucking Company along Little 68 enn License Issue i The aie tenet ~ County Does An About Face on =n wale " Chief, a LL TT | ete months en ‘ee fast attack truck has some problems. When it has a full load of Causea massive traffic jam that could SS Sasae LL last two the batteries were replaced. They are either too rough for normal traffic or they are chained shut. If fire -engines were coming up the roads as residents were going down, it would eeiaiiamiiaamaieoaa the claims Timber Lakes does have 3 few fire - escape roads but they are unusable. =a has. — knew about this problem but did nothing to fix it until just last week when escape. A fire at the bottom of the development would block the only way } Lakes _pumper truck has been out of commis- county, Timberlakes, the largest subdivision in the State of Utah, has only one entrance and exit that can be used as an out. Tie: trucks, they are not always operational. 36 ——sHIGH_LOW ~—~65 36 HIGH LOW —_—w HIGH _LOW 64 35 rie _ Presorted Standard U.S. Postage Paid. Heber City, UT | Permit No. 32005: =| ee | 4 |