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Show 3 r Park City's Only locally Owned Newspaper 03WHEST CORPORATION 3322 SO. 3rd EAST STREET SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84115 Wednesday October 20, 1976 Volume Two Number Five Pars. City. Ulah MOftQ - i i ; r i FIRE CHIEF Tom Sullivan cautioned the city council on Park City's fire protection deficiencies. : :Park City Fire District Board Chairman Jim Schnirel listens in foreground'. loGDillnllrilOilD Iniodliiiri RdSMcmi ti Park City's Bicentennial travelers have returned home after comoleting a 1,300-mile trek over roads "paved with a special kind of humanity." On July 5th, Debbie and Jody Foss and John Najar set out on horseback for Spokane, Washington, to rediscover the West. In the best tradition of American folklore, the trio endured early hardships and enjoyed a happy ending as they sought, to capture the "openness, youthful hope, mutual dependence, trust, and love of freedom and open spaces" that were the hallmarks hall-marks of our early frontier. Debbie characterized the 93 days spent on the road as "one of the most wonderful experiences we'll ever have." Departing Park City after its traditional Fourth of July celebration (held on the fifth ,f July). Debbie, Jody, and .John commented ; what .k , . ' would prove to be the "shakedown" leg of their three-month experiment in self-reliance and human kind ness. "We got all of our troubles out of the way in the first month," Debbie philosophized. philosophiz-ed. V : It was between Evanston and Cokeville, Wyoming' where "everything Vent wrong at once." , Those traveling miles were ' marked by a saddle sore horse, a lame horse, a mosquito attack, six straight days of rain and two days ot ' unoriented wandering in the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park. , Debbie described , that period as a learning process and, although admitting she andher companions' some- ' times entertained doubts as to the wisdom of the venture, she said, "We would never have quit." Pride and ever- ' increasing positive reinforce Pack Cofiy ments precluded that alternative. alter-native. Covering anywhere from six to 26 miles daily, the latter-day pioneers gradually learned the best methods and means of traveling by foot . and animal. But most of all, they learned about people. And they were surprised by what they learned. The incessant illustrations of man's inhumanity to man which lump daily from our televisions, radios, newspapers news-papers and magazines do not jive with the warm encounters encount-ers the trio experienced on the way to Spokane. , "We got to the point where we were meeting so . many . people each day and we couldn't beleive the amount of kindness and cooperation we received," Debbie recalls. Kindness and cooperation as manifest by the woman who, altered by the media of the coming of the trio, stood at a roadside for three days' to give them lunch. Or the woman bearing dinner who wandered ' for1 three hours in search of the bicentennial travelers' camp site. Or Glen Birch, the stranger who motored the human- animal ensemble 100 miles from Cokeville to Wilson, Wyoming, allowing them to rest for nine days and stilly maintain a semblance of a schedule. He would accept no recompense. , Debbie says there were I many others too numerous to mention. She speculated that one, reason for the inordinate. amount of aid and comfort the three received was their . mode and theme of travel. "If we had arrived in those4 towns in a Volkswagen van, our 'reception might have been different." , cont.onptgt3 l s me civsing cnapicr 01 hn ever-emerging Park City revised zoning ordinance story was written at a public hearing Wednesday evening when the city council passed the controversial legislation into law. -: After suffering rejection at an Aug. 5 public hearing, the Land Management Code, as often before in its stormy three year evolution, underwent under-went extensive modification before it was resubmitted to a council vote. : The. major revisions, aimed , at placating developers and residents who strongly -objected to portions of the code, included the creation of 'an entirely' new residential zone and reinstatement of spot commercial zoning on lower Park Aye.'; , ' New Zones - The recently conceived med- , ium residential zone, RDM, is a response to the complaints' com-plaints' of developers who claimed the disparity between be-tween the relatively dense RM zone and the more restrictive RD zone was too great.. .7 , The RDM zone was added to, fill the density gap between the two. Whereas RD zoning re- TU- -YT i .i a - Al. guires 1200 square feet of;. land for a single family house and RM requires only 2,812 square feet, a single family unit could be constructed on a minimum lot size of 9,000 feet under RDM. The major provisions contained con-tained by RM which are excluded from RDM are the construction of lodges and multiple dwellings exceeding four units. RDM would allow single family houses and duplexes 1 as permitted uses and three and four unit buildings us conditional uses, subject to planning commission approval. ap-proval. ' Park Ave. Commercial Perhaps the biggest reason for the Land Management Code's defeat in August, however, was the cry raised against the removal of commercial zoning on lower Park Ave. A group of Park ' Ave. commercial property owners led by Nan McPolin, argued Local Miners Support Bob Trepanier For Coriimission Post The United Steelworkers of America, Local 4264, has endorsed the candidacy of Robert E. "Bob" Trepanier, running for the 2 year term on the Summit County Commission. Local 4264 of The United Steelworkers of America represents the miners employed at Park City Ventures. -Wording lo ' local union official. Noil Clogg. "Hob Tropaniw represents the hardworking, average taxpayer tax-payer of this county, and we M that he would be the beat nindidate for the job. We at proud to have him a a member of Iak&I 4264 of tb I'nited Steelworkera." n D yon that their commercial zoning should be left unmolested and their protest did. not go unheeded by the master plan committee. - ' Questions and Protests After City Planner Van Martin explained recent changes to the proposed ordinance to the group gathered at Wednesday's public hearing, Mayor Leon Uriarte opened the floor to questions and protests. First to address city officials was Park City Fire District Chairman Jim Schnirel, who inquired, "The new RDM zone would increase the density of . population correct?" .Replying "yes and no," planner Martin explained that while the new RDM zone allowed for greater density compared to the RD zone it still, represented a sizeable reduction in the total populaiton allowed by Park City's old zoning ordinance. Martin said if Park City . was built to the theoretical maximum allowed by the new code there could be a population of approximately 30,000 residents. Comparing i this to the 90,000 maximum of the old ordinance there is a potential population reduc- ' . tion of two-thirds. ' Martin was quick to add that a more realistic ceiling for Park City's potential population, based on the new ordinance, was 16,000 to 2o;ooo. . J" Fire Rating "Right now our fire rating is 2 points off going to the next higher rate," Schnirel told the council. 'A higher rating means an tncreas in insurance ; pre-mimums pre-mimums for everyone in Park City, he said. "In behalf of the fire district board, I hope this body would take into consideration considera-tion the risk of higher density concerning fire protection pro-tection problems," Schnirel added. Fire Chief Sullivan Responding to the building heights allowed by the new ordinance, including a maximum max-imum of 45 feet on Main Street, Park City Fire District Dist-rict Chief Tom Sullivan cont.onpag3 Local union officials continued," con-tinued," We fed Bob Trepanier Trepan-ier has an excellent chance of winning the race. He has picked up the support of many Democrats and Republicans Re-publicans who are not pleased with their own party's nominee. Bob is the only candidate who is bringing bring-ing the issues to the people, instead of trying to win a popularity contest." Local union officials con-cluded,"We con-cluded,"We know Bob has the support of hundreds of local union members, and we urge all of our members to vote, support and work for the election of Bob Trepanier. to the Summit County Commission." No-Far Approval After listening to Salt Lake City Transportation Prsident Charles Boynton's enthusiastic description of the quality no-fare bus system he intends to offer both skiing visitors and Park . City residents, -the city, council Wednesday evening voted unanimously to sign a three-year trasportation contract. con-tract. ' , The agreement, approved earlier last week by the Park City Transportation committee, comm-ittee, a group comprised of local merchants and city officials, calls for 146 days of service this season at a cost of &235 a year. The no-fare service is to be financed through contribution contribu-tion from local merchants plus a $12,000 pledge by the city. - The system's original price tag of $16,294 was adjusted by the committee when restaurant owners insisted that the operating hours be extended from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. , The bus service, scheduled to run from Nov. 22 through April 17, will begin every morning at 8 a.m. Convinces Skeptics . Although confronted with local skepticism left behind by the trials and tribulations of last year's "Get On If. bus system which was operated by Lewis Bros. ' Stages, Boynton's impressive impress-ive plans and his sincere promises for a more efficient system appeared to convince most doubters that this year's transportation service could and would be much different. ; Changes and Improvements Among the many changes and improvements his company com-pany intends to make Boynton listen two-way radio communications, a full time Park City manager, and some mechanically sound buses that will be kept and maintained in Park City. "You have every resource we have coming up here," the transportation official said. Describing the four two-door transit coaches equipped with ski racks, radios and seteros, Boynton told the council, "We have some very sound vehicles. They're not necessarily pretty but they are in excellent working order." One bus, according to the official has a . new engine while another has had its original engine completely rebuilt. " Continued dry through tht wtekend wHh temperatures continuing con-tinuing to drop bolow tht freezing merk. Low's In tht 20's, and high's ki tht 50's. Bus Bus Schedules 1 Beginning on Nov. 22, a single large bus will institute a regular route service within Park City for the Thanksgiving Thanks-giving weekend, and starting again a week before Christmas, Christ-mas, and running until the end of the season two additional buses will be brought on during peak hours of "going to" and "coming from" the ski resort. ' According to Boynton, buses will begin running at 8 a.m. and will enable Park High and Marsac students, not presently bused by the school district, to catch a free ; Vide. ' ;- ' v During peak periods when . three buses are circulating through the city, one of the four vehicles will be kept on reserve in .case of ..a brejdc? .down. -'- , ' : Schedules showing '' the - times at which buses will be arriving at different locations ' - will be posted around town ' and published in the newspapers news-papers once the , season ; begins, the transportation president said. Dial A Ride Speaking of the new transportation trans-portation system's i most unique feature, Boynton told , the council, "There isn't another place in this country that has a dial a ride transportation service." At a charge of 50 cents per ride within Park City, a person can call a dispatcher who will be in contact with the dial a ride vehicle by a two-way radio. The rides will be shared and no one passenger will have exclusive use of the dial a ride vehicle. "We're going to mail out a letter to Park City's senior citizens telling how the dial a ride sevice can be used", the transportation official informed in-formed the council. By using the dial a ride service, he explained, "An older person can get a ride to and from the grocery store and then have their sacks carried in for them, and all for 50 cents." Marketing and Promotior . "Try Our Lift -It's Free" is the slogan for this year's no-fare transportation system. Plans to promote the system - with maps, schedules, posters and newspaper news-paper advertisements will be. under way soon, Boynton explained to the city officials. , Other promotional activ- oont.onpo4 |
