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Show A-3 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, April 6-8, 2005 COUNTY SEAT COUNTY EDITOR: Patrick Parkinson 649-9014 ext.l 12 countynews@parkrecord.com You Don't Have To Rob The Bank... VanBuren completes term To Eat At The Grub Steak! 2& day aged Black Angus Beef • Young Adults & Children's Menus Fresh Fish and Seafood • Lunch & Dinner 45 Item Fresh Salad Bar • Live Entertainment Friday & Saturday Nights Since 1976 649-8O6O Prospector Square • Corner of Sidewinder and Gold Dust GRAYSON WEST/PARK RECORD www.grubstealcrestaurant.com Park City resident Donna VanBuren is pictured here in her Thaynes Canyon home with her dog Lucy. She recently retired from the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission after serving nine years on the board. VanBuren has been a Basin planning commissioner since the board formed in 1996. cials to improve their relationship with the county. VanBuren says she needed to serve her last term in order to complete work on the new Snyderville Basin General "A lot of the developers here By PATRICK PARKINSON are good guys," she said. "1 started Plan and Development Code. Of the Record staff to understand that preserving the adopted in 2004. Park City resident Donna mountains and the meadows and "I wanted to see something VanBuren retired this month after the viewsheds in our resort com- through," she said. serving more than nine years on munity were important to keep it Her most controversial vote the Snyderville Basin Planning some place special - not allow it was likely her opposition as a planlo be developed as Anyplace. ning commissioner last year to an Commission. LDS Church currently under con•'I hope that 1 have listened and USA." I hope on their behalf (to) both the She credits Basin planning com- struction in Trailside. citizens of the community and the missioners for stopping suburban •'It was the process," VanBuren developers,1" VanBuren said sprawl in western Summit County. said. L'I didn't like hearing that Monday. "I know I tried." •'[Citizens] wanted to maintain, almost any church couid be above In 1996, Summit County was enhance, restore, a resort and planning standards." /' the first in Utah to split its county- mountain feel lo the community." The heated discussion generatwide planning commission into VanBuren said. "We didn't all ed some of the largest public heartwo, after the Utah Legislature chain ourselves lo Kmart like ings ever in Snyderville. She authorized the move during the some people did. But a few of us, praised all residents who have pro1990s. In 2005, VanBuren and in hindsight, wish we had." vided feedback during her time on Pinebrook resident Max Among the commissions first the planning commission. Greenhalgh were the only two major tasks, were writing a gener"It's difficult to do that, number original members left on the Basin al plan for western Summit County one, most of us have a bit of stage Planning Commission. Each and apprnvingilhe development of fright," VanBuren said.1 ' served their nine-year term limit. The Canyons, she adds. However, she 'expects Basin ''It was a very big deal," "We actually met in people's residents to continue speaking out VanBuren said, about the at meetings as their 7creation of planning cominember planning commissions on both sides of We didn't ail chain ourselves to mission attempts to balthe county. ''The East ance approval of a 430Side is definitely interest- Kmart like some people did. But a few acre development proed in preserving their agriposed at Kimball cultural nature and their of us, in hindsight, wish we had." Junction, with already history. And I believe the congested roads. Snyderville Basin was "If you want to somewhat caught by surslop suburban sprawl, that Donna VanBuren prise with the growth, that means you need to get seemed to many of us, to Park City resident people out of their autos appear overnight." wmm^^ and that means you need lo have developmenl that She moved to Park City from her native San Antonio, homes in different neighbor- works with mass transit," in 1972, and immediately began hoods." VanBuren said. "We VanBuren said. working as a property manager. As wanted to make sure it was a welShe currently owns the owner of many businesses, come atmosphere for people to Greater Park City Properties, and dependent upon tourism over the express their viewpoints." because commissioners were dispast three decades, preserving the Commissioners spent about a cussing her client, she recused herBasin for visitors was critical to year gathering public input before self once as a planning commisVanBuren. passing the first Snyderville Basin sioner from a debate about the "I've always been involved ... in General Plan. Newpark development al Kimball the resort nature of our communi"That was a big first step," Junction ty. We need to always remember VanBuren said, adding that comFor almost three years, that, in order to keep it success- missioners also began attaching VanBuren has lived in Thaynes ful," she said. "It requires cooper- expiration dates to approvals. "At Canyon with her dog, Lucy, and ation between landowners." that time, there were not expira- husband, Fred Woods, whom she Clustering development is tion dates to developmenl married nearly three years ago in essential to preserving open space, approvals. We know what that Florence, Italy. Though she doesVanBuren says, adding that she could mean if you wait 1U years. n't expeel lo ever run for public spent much of her time as a com- You're building something thai office, VanBuren won't rule out missioner working with developers maybe wouldn't be approved in other public service. to move density from sensitive the same mindset." "Tin not just going lo fade areas into town, resort and village Also, Basin planning commis- away." she said. centers in the Basin. sioners worked with Park City offi- Moab's Oasis for food Original Snyderville Basin planning commissioner serves four terms Ken Garff; nOllQa Downtown »%^#w% 4 f l i l l fun! 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