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Show .'.-, 4i ir v; -; , ' It1) ST"' I6'jf-'. ' ' III. MM i . v-it'l This ciiy-owned curlier ut 3rd South and 1st Fast is presently being considered as a possible site for the new city hall. Others are also being studied. I City Hall Locations Studied Different sites which wouU' have adequate sp:ice for a cil; hall building were studied lithe li-the Bountiful city counci Wednesday evening. lip to this time the are; "orth of the rose garden wa: tlie only one really considered However, this site has beei often criticized for variou. reasons. Some feel a city hal would look ".squeezed in" be tween the rose garden and tlv new armory. Others feel it i-too i-too close to the South Duvi. Junior High School. The council is now trying to ascertain where the best location loca-tion would be. Especially being be-ing considered are lots now wned by the city. One area is the southwest orner of 1st East and 3rd 'outh. This corner, locatei' ust east of Jhe post office ow has only one building icing used as a school for ex cptional children. A new development which ould makt this a favored site vas announced by the eitv nanager, Alvin Sessions. He old the council use of the tost office building will be dis -ontiiuied in about six years At that time a rsw federal building is planned for Bountiful, Boun-tiful, which would house the post office and two or three government agencies. This plan is definite, he said. If the city hall were located hi the corner, it might eveiitu-dly eveiitu-dly be enlarged to the post il l ice and include it. Or the inst office could be used separately sep-arately as a library, it was uggestcd. Councilman Larry Eckman aid there is one difficulty to : his corner, however, It is not wide enough to be adequate, 'ie said. This could be remedied remed-ied if about 75 teet could be obtained from the school board en the north side (presently a playground. ) In return for this land Hit city could possibly close the .-tree t in front of Stoker School eiving the land to the school. The street is now closed dur-;ng dur-;ng school hours. Another site on 1st South street was discussed. However, it would involve buying andor trading other property, increasing the cost of the proposed pro-posed city hall. A third site was suggested I by Mrs. Octavia Burnhani and Mrs. Walter T. Wilson, of the I Bountiful League of Women I Voters. The topic had been discussed dis-cussed in their meiting, they said, and they proposed putting put-ting it further west from the Irose garden. |