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Hearings have begun General Plan's Phase 2 covers future land use and development By Angelique McNaughton The Park Record They say the conversation must go on and so it's time to talk about the Snyderville Basin General Plan again. Snyderville Basin residents will have their first opportunity to go before the Summit County Council to comment on Phase 2 of the General Plan next week. The County Council plans to hold a hearing at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 6, at the Sheldon Richins Building's, on the proposed amendments to the document that guides growth in the Basin. The County Council held its first work session about the document last month after the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission forwarded the General Plan to the County Council with a positive recommendation. While the Planning Commission spent months dissecting the document and held well-attended hearings, the County Council has only held one public work session. But County Council member Roger Armstrong said the process has been vetted "pretty well." Armstrong said there were multiple opportunities at the Planning Commission level for the public to weigh in, adding there will also be more opportunities at the County Council level for public comment. There is no indication when the County Council will take a vote on the document. "I'm not sure we are going to be ready to do that yet," Armstrong said. "This is such a big deal and I think we need to spend a significant amount of time to make sure that we get it right because it is this powerful, overarching document." County officials say the General Plan is intended to serve as a map to guide growth and development in the Basin for the next 25 years by promoting the handling of existing entitlements before approving additional density. The work in Phase 2 is concentrated on the existing Land Use chapter, which was approved in Phase 1, and specifically addresses future land uses and patterns of development. Continued from A-1 Construction concerns walk on the east side of Swede Alley and add landscaping, benches and decorative elements to the area, has made about 50 parking spaces temporarily unavailable. Peterson said the lack of parking near Main Street is a problem even with the Continued from A-1 Dog attack reported public places throughout Park City, including the library field, but dogs are oftentimes seen running free in many places. The Quinn's Junction dog park is the only public place in Park City where a dog is allowed to be off a leash. According to a draft of the General Plan, the language the County Council ultimately agrees upon is intended to promote development that creates "high quality, livable neighborhoods that are connected" and not reliant on cars as the primary modes of transportation. The draft states this can be achieved by: • Emphasizing in-fill development and creating better connections between neighborhoods • Creating compact, nodal development through a variety of methods, which may include the use of density transfers, land acquisitions, conservation easements and clustered development principles • Discouraging low density, large-lot dispersed development • Maximizing the efficiency of the road systems and trail networks • Recognizing the importance of open space • Creating a Development Code that is predictable and creating zones that best reflect the neighborhoods that exist Hundreds of residents from the Basin, particularly the Jeremy Ranch neighborhood, have attended past hearings out of concern about the future uses for undeveloped parcels near their neighborhoods. "I hope at the end of the process we have taken into account nodal development, which allows development to go forward on a smart basis in concentrated areas," Armstrong said. "That way we have a positive impact on traffic and we can start addressing our traffic issues partially with development. "And we can respect the open spaces we have and make sure the overall characteristics that people value in this county are preserved," he said. The process is moving in the right direction, Armstrong said. But now is the time, he stressed, for residents from all over the Basin to express their opinions. "We are getting closer," he said. "And now is the time, as we have this important issue, that the public pay attention to that. "My concern is that if you look at the numbers of the public that have turned out it has primarily been from a couple of concentrated areas," Armstrong said. "I would hope a broader cross-section of residents appear as the county looks at this document." full amount of spaces available. However, she didn't expect the Swede Alley construction to have as large of an effect as the work on Main Street. "Parking, in general, is obviously an ongoing issue for all of the businesses on Main Street," Peterson said. "Luckily, I feel like we've survived having our very front door under construction, so I don't think it will be anything as bad as that." Sanchez said the goal is to finish the Swede Alley construction by the end of June. "We're trying to get those parking spots back as quickly as possible," he said. "Our hope is to have that done before the busy time of year gets here, before July 4 comes around." The attack continued a string of police reports involving dogs in recent weeks. Two bites were reported earlier in April, one on Prospector Avenue and the other on Daly Avenue. There have also been complaints about dogs off leashes. The Police Department last week received at least two other complaints involving dogs. On April 23 at 6:49 p.m. a dog was reported to be off a leash on the Rail Trail in the vicinity of Lower Iron Horse Loop Road. Earlier in the week, on April 21 at 7:06 p.m., a woman was apparently seen on Daly Avenue with a dog off a leash. She was asked to put the pet on a leash. Continued from A-1 Yarrow Hospice ins Building Room 113, 1885 W. Ute Blvd., from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. The meeting will help Yarrow Hospice launch its volunteer effort, said Teteberg. "Even though we are a for-profit company, the laws are different for us," she said. "For-profits aren't normally allowed to recruit volunteers or provide volunteer services. But hospices are required to do so. About five percent of all billable hours have to be volunteer hours per Medicare regulations. And that's a real gift, because it's the volunteers who add a huge chunk of service that otherwise we couldn't afford to provide." The meeting will be hosted by Carlyn Lynch, Yarrow Hospice's director of volunteer services. "Volunteers are an integral part of what we do," Lynch said. "We are looking for people who are interested in volunteering their time in several capacities. The basics are as follows: • Patient care and emotional support for patients near the end of their lives • Respite care for caregivers who need support and time away • Practical services such as grocery shopping and running errands for families • Child care • Bereavement support to help families before the death, but more importantly after death Yarrow Hospice also needs volunteers in other capacities, Lynch said. "We are also looking for people to help with administrative, clerical and office work," she said. "We also would like volunteers to help with community outreach, who will not only promote Yarrow Hospice but educate the public about end-of-life issues. "We are also looking for some techsavvy individuals who can help us get our name out through social media" Lynch said. "We are also in the process of developing pet care for while the person we care for is still alive as well as placement after the person has passed on." Volunteers will work alongside an interdisciplinary team consisting of a medical director [Dr. Julie Dolan, M.D.], social workers, chaplains and physical, occupational, speech and respiratory therapists, Teteberg said. "The thing that makes us unique from other hospices around is that we Continued from A-1 Control of lands ty's proposal shows an expansion of the Uinta Mountains wilderness designation by 23,903 acres, including the creation of watershed management areas and special management areas for wildlife and grazing. As Bishop continues to receive the different proposals, they will be merged into a legislative bill, Ferguson said. There isn't a deadline for the submissions, but Ferguson suspects to have them within weeks. 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"We live in Park City and because we are small and people deal with us directly, we have the flexibility that other hospice organizations don't have because of their corporate requirements. We can evaluate services that aren't generally provided through hospice to see if it is something that we have the resources to do." Typically, end-of-life patients are referred to hospice by their physicians for mostly in-home services, but Yarrow Hospice provides services in assisted-living facilities and nursing homes, according to Teteberg. "We go to the patient for hospice services, which is theoretically six months to a year, assuming the normal course of events," she said. "However, people are in our care shorter and some are in our care longer. In fact, some actually improve enough through symptom and pain management to where we discharge them and then see them at a later time." "The troublesome area is when people come to us too late and we don't have time to provide for them as they need," she said. "We individualize the care we give." Yarrow Hospice and Palliative Care will host a volunteer-information meeting at the Summit County Library Kimball Junction Branch, 1885 W. Ute Blvd., Room 133, on Thursday, April 30, from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. Yarrow Hospice is looking for caring, compassionate individuals who would like an opportunity to give back to the community. RSVP to Carlyn Lynch by emailing cll.yarrow@gmail.com. Drop-ins will be welcome as well. For more information, visit www.yarrowhospice.com. of these plans have been vetted by these local groups," he said. "By now they are pretty airtight and are pretty strong." Ferguson said locally elected officials have been "tremendous partners in all of this and have taken on this project and it made it their own in ways we never could have imagined." "If we have the support of local communities and local groups, the process becomes much easier," Ferguson said. "It shows we've taken the process seriously. We realize we can't make everyone happy and not every group will get what they want, but they will come away from this with something." As the process moves forward, a lot of people are going to be paying attention to see if Bishop can build a consensus among stakeholders with the Public Lands Initiative, Ferguson said. "If we can be successful here, it can serve as a pretty big blueprint and model for land planning in the West," he added. For more information about Bishop's Public Lands Initiative, go to http://robbishop.house.gov/issues/issue/?IssueID =3623#PublicLandsInitiative |