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Show Planning Association Studies Ways Of Financing Sewage Disposal Plants city, the purpose of the zoning ordinance being to encourage the proper use of land for residential, commercial and industrial uses. A map of present land uses was made to help in the study. Work cn the over-all development develop-ment of the Kelly Grove recreational recrea-tional area in Hobble Creek canyon can-yon highlighted the activities of the Springville City Planning Commission. Com-mission. A large fire place undertaken under-taken by the Springville Lions club was completed during the month of July. Other organizations have pledged work on other phases of the project. Lane M. Barron, of Payson was recently appointed to the Utah County Planning Commission, and Ray Murdock' was named to fill an unexpired term on the Provo City Planning Commission. annual report for 1950 of the Utah County Planning Association's Associa-tion's activities was completed. The report is availible at the Association As-sociation office in the city and county biulding and is being distributed dis-tributed to public officials in Utah and other states, Mr. Callahan said. Two reports to the Utah Public Service Commission objecting to the Union Pacific Railroad Company's Comp-any's application to close two vital vi-tal crossings in the county were prepared. Agreement was reached with University officials during the month of July to obtain additional information concerning the human hu-man and physical resources of Utah Valley through specific studies stud-ies of social and economic conditions. condi-tions. BYU officials will urge graduate students to do their masters mas-ters and doctorate work on problems prob-lems confronting the area. Information Infor-mation contained in the theses will then be made available for association study and public distribution. dis-tribution. Elsewhere in the County, Planning Plan-ning Association activities included includ-ed working with Pleasant Grove on a zoning ordinance for their A study of possible ways to finance the construction of sewage sew-age treatment plants needed to check the polution of Utah Lake highlighted the activities of the Utah County Planning Association Associa-tion during July, said Wm. H. Callahan, chairman. During the forepart of the month the mayors of the county met with the County Commissioners Commission-ers and planning commissioners throughout the county to review the findings of the committee previously pre-viously appointed to make the study. The plans presented at the meeting ' proposed that a sewer district be set up which would make it possible to construct the necessary treatment plants on a levy of 1.7 mills on property within with-in the district, while if the cities finance the cost on an individual basis, the mill levy would range from 2.2 mills for Provo to as high as 6 to 7 mills for some of the other cities. Only those cities surrounding the lake would be included in the district, acording to the committee report. American Pork Mayor, Willard Cleghorn, this week had already voiced approval of .the sewage district plan as the cheapest, best and only practical solution to the pollution problem. Publication of a 22-page fifth |