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Show Park Need Study Started in Bountiful added cost is fell, they said. Mayor Harold L. Pope said llic city has a problem in recreation. rec-reation. And what is needed is definite, positive recommendations recom-mendations to improve the situation. The problem is acute right now, the major said. If w wait too long there will not be any land left for parks. And then it will mean buying homes, or undesirable areas. Perhaps a master purk plane, like the master road plan, is needed to designate areas that can be held for later development, develop-ment, the mayor said. Mayor Pope also asked the builders to appoint three of their number to help study the problem, and to help look for possible sites for parks. They agreed to do this within with-in two weeks. At the same time the Citizens Citi-zens Advisory Council will begin a study of parks and recreation. Bountiful is taking a thorough, new look at ways of financing needed recreation recrea-tion and park areas. As a part of this study, the matter has been referred to t'iie new Citizens Advisory Council, and other groups are looking at the problem. The Bountiful city council had been considering a plan whereby $10 would be added to each building permit over a certain sum valuation. The council had asked City Atty. Rendell N. Mabey for an opinion on such a plan. In a letter, read during the regular meeting last Wednesday Wednes-day evening, he said he could find no cases on such a means of obtaining money for parks in Utah. It is being done in California, he said. Councilman Kjenyon Gurr then read an article from House and Home garden magazine mag-azine concerning the California Califor-nia situation. After action by the California Supreme court several cities are obliged to pay back to builders money taken in just such a way, he said. One city, about the size of Bountiful, will have to pay back $85,000, he pointed out. The court pointed out it is not lawful to charge one . group for something that will be used by everyone in the community, Councilman Gurr said. Ned Jensen, Dee Packard and Farel Anderson, repre-senting repre-senting local builders, said they would not be in favor of the added fee. During past years there has been a constant con-stant edging up on requirements require-ments and costs in building. And since builders must sell close to the FHA' estimate, they are being caught in the squeeze. Also with increasingly increas-ingly keen competition, any |