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Show Iron County settles lawsuit in out-of-court agreement Commissioner James L. Clark expressed some concern that there would be no fire protection, and that sometime down the road the residents of the subdivision would come to the county requesting that something be -done. However, Commissioner Com-missioner Howard Knight countered that people, through a required disclosure' statement, should know what they are buying. "People that buy in that area know the hazards of living there when they buy it." In another matter, the commission told a resident of Park West Subdivision that until the roads in the subdivision sub-division were brought up to county standards and deeded to such, that the county was not responsible respon-sible for maintenance. Patrick Moore appeared ap-peared before the commission . to. .. see,iL. something couldn't be, done about the condition of the roads in the subdivision sub-division west of Cedar City. Moore had several complaints. First, he had a letter that said that the roads had been accepted by the State of Utah. However, countered the commissioners, they hadn't been accepted by the county. He also noted that the original developers of the subdivision had not lived up to promises to surface and maintain the roads, and that they had not posted a bond to the county to guarantee such. "That was the county's fault, and I think the county should be responsible," he continued. con-tinued. However, the commissioners com-missioners noted that at the time the Park West Subdivision was developed, the ordinances or-dinances probably did not .ruir.e.ihefiosUng of. a bond. , By BRUCE LEE Record Assoc. Editor PAKOWAN - The Iron . County Commission reached an out-of-court agreement Feb. 11 concerning a lawsuit which had been filed earlier against the county. The commission agreed to approve a variance to the subdivision sub-division ordinance to Sunrise Subdivision, being developed by Kenneth Clark, in Clark's return for dropping the suit. The variance will allow the subdivision, near (juichipa Lake, west of Cedar City, to be developed without fire hydrants. Instead, the subdivision will have a homeowner's association, which will establish its own fire district. The subdivision as planned has no central water system; thus, the installation of water mains and hydrants would have been very expensive for the developer. Instead of a community water system, the residents of the subdivision sub-division will each need to drill their own wells. Clark filed the suit last summer after the commission apparently rescinded an earlier decision to grant the variance. Clark said that on Feb. 27, 1980, he had received approval of the variance from the commission; however, on June 3, 1980, he received a letter from Iron County Attorney James L. Shumate saying that the hydrants must be installed at 600 foot intervals, in-tervals, the standard set by the county ordinance. "It was granted then turned around and denied," said Clark, in his appeal to the commissioners com-missioners to settle out of court. The commissioners were split somewhat concerning what they thought the best solution would be, but eventually agreed that the variance should be granted. |