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Show os::nssT cchpcration Eox 2603 SLC, UT 84110 V -"""""n -TIT Prkllv. lllk 81000 I j Fifteen Volume Two L" v ,A'.f ,X " , , - . it - I r ' ! - Park Cilv's Alpine Slide opening. See Story on Page 2. Plans for the Norfolk Avenue subdivision. rejecU-d two weeks ago by the Park City Planning Commission, have been abandoned, at least temporarily, according to proponent Jack Sweeney 'Sweeney said funding oi the Norfolk Avenue extension plus a special improvement district assessment owing on some of the property involved have put the project on the - neb "o" Vote The Planning ( 'oinmissinn. during a special meeting held .luiy , voted to deny preliminary approval for the controversial subdivision. Plans called for -1st duplex lots on 126 acres on upper Norfolk Avenue which the developers proposed to extend. Originally involves! m the project with Sweeney were Salt Lake City dev eloper Wally Wright and stockbroker John Prince but Sweene;. announced last week that Wright and Pr.ne have withdrawn their backing. Sweeney said (. r.ia resurrect the project if problems u i!h a 25-acre parcel SJGl 1 ! j 119 J The Park City .Muckers maintained their perfect home record against the University of I'tah Saturday. I'agef! We take a look at the Ladies of Little League on Page 7 There's sonit changes being made at the 1 p i n e Prospector Hotel. Page !l f 11 fSf II " . 3Bfrn8rSri51EI iU O 1 . .' ! ,Vr SrV-Vf'- v - ?. - is near completion. Owners of land included in the project site can be overcome. Sweeney, along with G.W. Anderson, attempted to purchase the 25 acres from Joe Butkovich in 1970 only to learn that title to the land was being claimed by another person. After five years and two State Supreme Court suits, the property was awarded to Butkovich who in turn sold the property to Sweeney, However. Sweeney said the original asking price of $30,000 for the 25 acres excalated to $6,000 an acre during the five years of court battles. The developer said one of the main reasons he purchased the property was to obtain the tramway right-of-way which runs from the Coalition Mine Building in hopes of someday building a ski lift from the historic site. Local Unemployment Better But Not Good The Park City unemployment situation this summer is improved over last summer but the local unemplovment ratio is still high compared to the rest of the county, according to the Park City-Job City-Job Service Office. The unemployment ratio for May of '77 was 6.5 percent for Summit County as a whole as compared to the May '76 figure of 8. 9 percent. Robert Welch. Director of Job Service, explains that these figures, however, do not reflect an accurate picture of the county. Welch said, "I'm always leery when I read these figures. They don't give us a true picture of how many people are out of work. We usually have a very high unemployment rate in Park City but not in Echo, Henefer and Coalville. Park City raises the percentage greatly while in the remainder of the county South Summit and North Summit the situation is usually-fine." The figures for Wasatch County are, however, higher for this year. The unemployment ratio for May of '76 was set at 9.4 percent with the figure for the same period this year reaching 11.7 percent. Park Wednesday, '.. . "4, f'i-4 tk" ' , " '"'A'Av. ?M.e-n Xi are looking for August 1 vision Present Pullout There were several reasons for Wright's pullout. Sweeney said. He revealed that the trio of investors were unable to contact owners of property west of Norfolk Avenue in an attempt to have them share a portion of the cost of improving the road. He said Wright felt $6,000 an acre was "way too much" to pay for the Butkovich property "even though it provided the opportunity for the ski lift." In addition. Wright thought the 49 lots proposed for the subdivision were too few to make it economically worthwhile, Sweeney remarked. Also casting a shadow on the project is a $17,000 assessment for the Lowell -Empire Special Improvement District Continued on Page 8 veicn explains that there are very few cities in Wasatch County with the exception of Heber City, Keetley. Hailstone Junction and a small section bi the populace down by Soldier Creek. He said although city unemployment ratios are not calculated, he feels the Park City unemployment rate to generally run along the lines of the Wasatch County figures; that is, much higher than the figures for Summit County as a w hole. Mr. Welch said as of the period ending July 2. unemployment claims are down substantially over last year's. The claims totaled 127, with 111 being in-state claims and 16 intra-state claims. For the same period last year claims reached 166. He said the reduction is due partially to the poor winter season which didn't allow-enough allow-enough time to qualify people for unemployment benefits. "Many have gone through their benefits, their extentions and even their emergency extentions and are simply ineligible for any more assistance," Welch commented. Continued on Page 8 City JUB- July 20, 1977 City Gets Water Grant Park City received word Monday- afternoon that it will receive in excess of $900,000 for improvements to its water system, city manager Wayne Matthews announced. The near-million dollar grant will come through the Economic Development Administration. As outlined in the city's EDA application, the money will be used to construct a 500,000-gallon water reservoir near the Judge Tunnel. It will also be used to resurface all streets in the older part of town undergoing excavation during the city's previously approved water distribution improvement project. In addition, a transmission line from the new reservoir to the existing distribution lines and accessory items such as pressure stations will be funded by the grant. "This will pick up where the FHA loan leaves off," Matthews said, referring to the street improvements. The city has obtained a $600,000 loan from the Farmers Home Administration to upgrade water distribution lines in the old part of town, but the line improvements will cost $653,000, leaving no funds for street improvements. The EDA grant will cover the street resurfacings along with the reservoir. The grant approval was good news to city officials but it may cause problems with the ongoing negotiations for a city takeover of the Memorial Building. Because of the EDA grant, the city will not be able to accept $53,000 by way of the county for street improvements. This $53,000 was part of the Memorial Building agreement but the city is now asking that the county provide maintenance funds on an annual basis in lieu of the $53,000. The county is not expected to react favorably to this proposal. Last week, the county Board of Commissioners agreed to all the contract modifications requested by the city. However, the latest turn of events could send the proposed transfer of the Memorial Building back to the negotiating table. Central Res. Expands In anticipation of increased business and an expanded staff, Central ReservationsPark City, the town's nonprofit non-profit reservations center, soon will be moving to a new and larger office in the Mt. Air Mall. Central Reservations manager Tom Hansen and assistant Dorrie Spurlock expect to have from three to five additional full time workers for the coming winter season. The new office will also house a Hughes Airwest computer terminal which. Hansen said, will facilitate work flow and reduce paper work. The terminal will provide a computer printout of Park City-lodging City-lodging requests made by Hughes customers, eliminating many telephone calls between the airline and the reservations office. Hansen noted that the terminal will also increase the volume of business from Hughes Airwest. "Hughes estimates we will receive 3,000 reservations from them this season," Hansen said, "whereas we had Continued on Page 3 Fire District Adopts Prelim. Budget A 1978 preliminary budget of $68,000 for the Park City Fire Protection District was adopted in a special public meeting held at 7:30 p.m. Monday night at the Park City Fire Station. The district can assess a maximum four mill lew and the full limit will be - - r ami imi , mi intxiraF WEATHE1 Scattered afternoon showers through temperatures will be theSO's Summer Business On Upswing The Winter of '77 may have been a disaster but a small survey of local merchants indicates the Summer of '77 is going to be relatively prosperou.s. Dick Doty, owner of the Family Jewels on Main Street, reports that his June business was t wice that of a year ago and he is projecting his July business to double that of July '76. Doty notes that he moved into a larger location at the bottom of Main Street a month ago and that this is partially responsible for the increase in volume. Although wholesaling constitutes the majority of his business at present, the jewelry store owner said he is striving for a retail trade that will permit him "to stop running all over the country" selling his wares to other outlets. "I'm gearing for the walk-in business and it looks very promising," Doty said. "I have no complaints regarding this summer. I was amazed at June." He observed that the largest part of his increased retail sales is attributable to Salt Lake workers who have moved to Park City and Salt Lake shopers driving to Park City to shop. An improvement in the "quality of people" who shop his store has meant the "amount of the average purchase has increased tremendously," Doty remarked. Another change is a more lively weekday business. "Last summer most of our business was on Saturdays," he said. "Now we have a steady flow during the week with big Saturdays." The weekdays have really picked up over last year." He added that last week he sold more goods Monday than he did Saturday. "Our sales are steady because people know we're open every day," Doty commented. "We live on that person driving up here to buy." Doty said he would like to change his present wintersummer business ratio of 75 percent25 percent to 60-40. County Code Called "I feel, and I think the Board of Commissioners feel, that the ordinance we adopted is a fair one and is widely accepted by county residents." This is county planner Max Greenhalgh's summation of the Summit County Development Code approved by the county Board of Commissioners on July 12. Land use in the county is now governed by three documents: the master plan; the development code and; the engineering standards. Master Plan The master plan was adopted by the county Planning Commission three weeks ago and it outlines the pattern of growth the planners foresee for the county. According to Greenhalgh, it encourages residential and commercial development from Kimball Junction west to Summit Park with the intent that utilized in the '78 budget in view of the needs of the district. Section I of the budget calls for an appropriation of $21,240 for district office operations. Included in this expenditure is a $16,000 allocation for the salary of a professional to serve as District Number Forty-Three and evening thunder the weekend. High in the 80 s with lows in Uiair . IBE He noted that his promotional efforts are being directed at local and Wasatch Front residents. "We don't want to depend on the tourists," he said. "We want that to be our gravy." Carolyn Bloom told the Newspaper that business at Bloom's is "ahead of last year by quite a bit." She did note that business was down during the Jazz Festival which she described as "the only bummer this summer." More of every type of customer seems to be the situation at Bloom's. "There's been so many more tourists more from out of state," Carolyn remarked. "And there's mow people living in town, too." "I think the customers are spending more but I won't know how much more until the end of the year," she added. Thanks to a "heck of a good mail order business," Bloom's volume is not seasonal, with summer sales equal to 'those of the winter. As for the recent surge in residential growth locally, Carolyn Bloom commented, "Park Meadows is the best thing to happen here in a long time. It has brought in families and stable people." George Polychronis, owner of the Mt. Air Market, told us that his business from April through June is up 39 percent over the same period a year ago. The Mt. Air Market has experienced an increase in local patronage but George said it's the weekend business that's "really up." He speculated that the unusually hot summer weather has driven a greater number of Salt Lakers to Park City for a respite. Although the Mt. Air Cafe was not open last summer, George commented, "We're doing three times the business we thought we would." Continued on Page 3 "Fair this area will eventually incorporate. A significant amount of residential development in the Park West area is also predicted, Greenhalgh said. According to the planner, the determination of what will go where was arrived at by "weighing the intentions of the land owners against the physical constraints of the land such as slope and water tables." He said the master plan "gives order to the zoning process" because the planning commission is compelled by law to compare proposed zone changes with the intent of the master plan and it cannot recommend a zone change to the Board of Commissioners unless the two are in harmony. If the Planning Commission feels a non-conforming change is appropriate, it must first amend the master plan before sending the proposal on to the Board of Commissioners. Continued on page S ManagerChief. This proposal brought to the fore by Commissioner Clement Hansen drew some comment and negative response from the 14 volunteer firemen present at Continued on Page 8 |