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Show Page Fourteen - The Springville Herald - March 22, 1979 fvtaplefofi growing pains By Dixie Welch Cases of property owners who assume that their purchase or inheritance of Mapleton land may be built upon without compliance to city code are of great concern to Mapleton City Council at this time. The second such case to initiate court proceedings within a year, met with council Tuesday. City Attorney, V. Pershing Nelson presented his recommendations first to Council, which has yet to decide whether to accept them, and then to Bud Osborne and his attorney, Don Peterson. Peterson and Osborne and his attorney, at-torney, Don Peterson. Peterson and Osborne expressed willingness to conform to Pershing's compromises, with reservations as to specifics. In question is wheather Osborne will accept a time limit for installing in-stalling a water line of 700 feet from city line to his proposed home at his expense if other property along the road is not purchased by people who would share the cost. He requests specific requirements for the road which he would be required to widen, surface and Maintain. Council is presently preparing such specifics which the attorney will present in written proposal, in hopes of settling out of court. Other weighty problems facing Council are the sewer study report and its effect on the Master Plan, replacement of a full time police officer, of-ficer, financing the construction of a reservoir and choice of engineers, road deletion request, and trying to come to an agreement with Nebo School Board as to the proposed park adjacent to the proposed Middle School. A breath of relief in the midst of legislative turmoil was the enthusiastic presentation of David Nemelka who sought a time committment ..for a Mapleton Stake youth clean-up and beautif ication project. Also a budget officer was designated. Other cases of recent property purchases which do not comply with . building permit code have been reported. Even though convinced of their legally correct position, Council expressed strong desire to stay out of court with all its attendant costs and time consumption. Council seeks some way to inform potential property purchasers that because of limited municipal facilities, the building permit requirements are very restrictive at this time. Bud Osborne's building permit was denied for three reasons. The narrow, unsurfaced road does not comply with city fire and maintenance main-tenance code which would make it possible to move in with city equipment. equip-ment. Osborne appeared to be agreeable to accepting the responsibility respon-sibility of widening, surfacing and maintaining the 800 South road to his property to minumum requirement. . Long range planning sets the width of this main road at 80 feet, but he would need to widen it only 20 feet at this time, setting his home back to allow for future widening. Osborne's purchase of the required 700 feet of water line presents the biggest obstacle. He has requested a waiver, indicating that he would have a well dug instead. Council questions the well water quality which could contain an unhealthy amount of iron sulfate. Also the water pressure for fighting fires would not be controllable as the city source would be. Osborne seemed agreeable to waiving his claim to city services. Pershing recommended that the city allow Osborne temporary reprieve from the expense of a water line. By putting a city lien on his property, he would promise to purchase the city water connection line at a later specified date either alone or sharing the cost with future property purchasers pur-chasers if there are any within the time limit. Osborne reserves comment until the time limit is specified. Council pointed out that its concerns about his fire protection are not only for his sake alone. If his situation is precarious, the insurance rates for the surrounding neighborhoods would likely be raised. Osborne is confident he can work out the other problem concerning location of his well more than 100 feet from his septic system. With a population forecast of 8,000 for the year 2000 in Mapleton, a study was prepared by Dave Nelson for possible sewer system. Council considered the possibilities , and concluded that the costs far exceed capacity to pay. It is likely that federal grants and city supplement could pay for an initial sewer line from 3rd West and Maple westward past the cemetery to a pump station northwest of Provo. Projective plans are worked out to have 380 residences connected to a sewer at $1500 connection fee and user monthly rate of from $5 to $46 depending on bonding and grants becoming! available. Council realized the far reaching effects of a decision needed at this time. Whether or not to plan for a sewer system is a crucial decision that can not wait another year. The planning commission which has been working toward a release of the moritorium and presentation of the master plan by the end of this month, must now consider changing the whole plan to be suitable to a no sewer city or leave as planned with high density residential district in the northeast quadrant, which development would necessitate a sewer. Further sewer study facts will be presented at next council meeting at 9 p.m. Other business A full time police officer is needed to replace Floyd Duke who has resigned to take a higher paying job. Chief Bogardus presented to Council a possible replacement. No decision was made. Presentations were made by two engineering companies seeking the opportunity to bid for construction of a reservoir which is a high priority need for Mapleton. Mayor Wiscombe expressed ex-pressed hope of beginning the reservoir project within a year and a half. The greatest obstacle in the path, he said, is not the choice of engineer, but the method of financing it. No decision was made concerning the proposed road deletion of 100 W. between bet-ween 400 N. and 600 N. The deletion which had been approved by the planning commission and residents surrounding the property in question, was opposed by a resident further down the proposed road. Council tabled the motion for field review. Mr. Miller, petitioner for the deletion, responded to questioning, stating that he had future plans for commercial development of the property. The Nebo School Board appears to prefer to hold ownership of the entire 10 acres of proposed park adjacent to the proposed middle school, and allow the city to help develop and maintain it. Superintendent is presently putting the committment into written contract. It is Council's desire to keep the project moving so it does not become tabled as it was last year. Councilman Morris Warren will continue meeting with the school board. 1D L f - Springville volunteer firemen carry mattress from mobile home owned by Ernest V. Steele. The home was completely destroyed with loss estimated at $18,000 according to fire department reports. Firemen received the alarm at 11:48 a.m. Thursday, Thur-sday, March 15, and 15 firemen and three pumper trucks were dispatched to the scene. The trailer was completely engulfed by the time firemen arrived, just in time to save the trailer next to the Steele home, and a small camp trailer parked in the Steele driveway. The fire reportedly began in the kitchen and flames engulfed the structure within minutes. Brady Wiley, who was working in Valley View Subdivision just east of Art City Terrace where the trailer was parked, spotted smoke coming from the trailer, wast first at the scene, and turned in the alarm. i ought to know better bv oneita sumsion Last week it became evident evi-dent that if we didn't get our 12-year-old to a dentist, den-tist, he most likely would end up with a fang, as his permanent eye tooth was coming in over the top of his baby eye tooth. "Will I have to get braces?" he yelped. And then, "I don't want those railroad tracks in my mouth," before I could catch a breath taranswer him. I knew what he was talking about as I had gone through the old "brace face" "tin grin" routine myself once. I must have suffered severely from the "lack of mother-love syndrome" because, try as she would to break me, I kept my right forefinger stuck in my mouth until fourth grade. As a result, with the buck teeth I acquired, I could easily have passed for Bugs Bunny's twin. I bemoaned my prominent teeth for many a year, but Mother always said, "Just smile all the time and nobody will notice." Well, when our daughter grew up with too many teeth for her mouth, my dentist suggested that maybe I should take advantage of the fact to talk her orthodontist orthodon-tist into putting braces on my teeth at the same time. Two years of headgear and no popcorn later (a fate worse than death because popcorn is my favorite food and traditional Sunday night supper) I came out ex-huberant ex-huberant with a beautiful set of my very own teeth. Before and after pictures proved it was worth every penny of the hundreds it cost. Only trouble is, though, when my teeth got pulled back into their proper place, my jowls sagged. Anybody out there know a good face lift surgeon? Uniform procedures code requires a budget officer to be designated to prepare the budget for the city. Council appointed the Mayor to assume this responsibility. Beautification Will Mapleton be known as the Garden of Eden this spring asked David Nemelka of the City Council. The suggestion that the Mapleton Stake youth, who Nemelka represents through Stake APMIA, join with other volunteer groups to clean up the city, was received with enthusiiastic approval. ap-proval. Mayor Wiscombe said that other groups had likewise approached him, such as Mr. Shurtliff and his scout troop. Mr. Nemelka suggested that the clean up project be approached with vigor, not just disposing of a can, a rubbish pile, a car or two, but that the citizens pile their trucks high with unsightly rubbish and sweep the city really clean. Seeds could be distributed throughout town to make it blossom as one big garden. The date decided upon is April 21. Although the youth will be spearheading the project, all residents will be invited to join in. Some sort of entertainment activities will be planned to complete the day, said Mr. Nemelka. Perhaps, he said, Mapleton could be entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the most beautiful city. I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. Vergil Behold, lectures charity, When I myself. I do not give or a little give I give Walt Whitman There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. n I 3 VA may I help you? Q. I have just been awarded educational , benefits for an on-the-job training program. With the first check I received a computer card. What do I do with this card? A. Your employer should certify the number of hours you work each month and sign the card. 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