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Show Volume Three Three Three more candidates have entered he race for the two Park City Council eats to be decided this November. The announcement by Councilman tichard Martinez that he would seek re-lection re-lection was expected but a decision to un by former Councilwoman Mary ehmer was not. In addition to Martinez ind Lehmer, long-time Park City esident Wayne Putman also filed his letition. The deadline for filing passed at 5 p.m. Monday afternoon. Mrs. Lehmer's tusband Ray did not pick up her petitions rom City Hall until that same morning ut did acquire the needed number of ignatures. The addition of three more candidates neans a primary election will be held on ktober 11. At that time the top four vote jetters out of the six hopefuls will go on Council Members To Meet With Experts The Park City Council Thursday night decided to meet with redevelopment ex-perls ex-perls from three Utah cities but the. futur e of the local redevelopment project was somewhat clouded by concerns expressed ex-pressed by two council members. City treasurer Bruce Decker reported that he met with Salt City Mayor Ted Wilson and Mr. Chitworth, head of Salt Tentative Figures Show Arts Fest. In The Black Although a "tentative" ten-page financial finan-cial report indicates that the 1977 Park City Arts Festival finished in the black, Chamber of Commerce executive director direc-tor Amanda Peterson said festival revenues were "not as high as we had hoped." ' Working figures now being used, which Peterson said "cannot be considered actual," ac-tual," show an excess of revenues over expenses amounting to $7,377. The biggest revenue generators for the festival were the artists entry fees and sales commissions which totaled $12,456 while the largest single expense - $9,031 -was incurred for promotional purposes. -Peterson said promotion expenses were "considerably higher than ever in the past" because of this year's expanded expan-ded schedule. "We felt a real need to heavily promote the nine-day festival," she explained. Until this year the Arts Festival was a Summit County is trying to buy two pits. Page 3 Calgary has won the Challenge Cup for the second year in a row. Page 6 If you think air is just something you breathe turn to.... Page 11 Quicksilver samples a Kentucky Fried Movie. Page 13 INSIDE i WMiaSST CCRPCP.ATION Dox 26 03 SLC, UT 84110 More to the November election. Now in the race for the council seats are Planning Commissioner Bob Wells, Summit County American Party Chairman Chair-man Bob Trepanier, Timberhaus sports store owner Matt Alvarez and the three candidates who announced this past week. Mrs. Lehmer served on the council from 1971 to 1975 and ran as a write-in candidate for mayor in the 1975 election. She was defeated handily by now-Mayor and then-Councilman Leon Uriarte. Prior to her term as councilwoman, the outspoken Lehmer served as city attorney. attor-ney. The Newspaper was unable to reach Mrs. Lehmer for comment at her Deer Valley home prior to press time. Martinez has been on the council for Lake's redevelopment project, during the recent Utah League of Cities and Towns convention. Decker said Chitworth offered to set up a meeting which would include himself, Park City officials and representatives from the Ogden and Provo redevelopment redevelop-ment districts. The meeting would allow the local officials to investigate the alternatives available to redevelopment two-day event. With the advent of the weekend-to-weekend format promotional efforts had to be geared to "exposure rather than reminding," Peterson said. "It took hard work to get people up here the first few days and to make them aware of the various performances," she observed. The quality of this year's festival was highly acclaimed by both visitors and participating artists and many artists gave "best sales ever" reports. However, Peterson predicted commission com-mission revenues from sales would come "very close" to last year's figures. "They're not as high as we had hoped," she commented. Noting that between 175 and 200 artists can be expected to generate between $9,000 and $10,000 in commissions, the executive director said the Arts Festival Committee may consider a higher entry fee next year with no commissions exacted. exac-ted. Continued on Page 10 Skaggs The proposed Holiday Village shopping mall, which would include a Skaggs food and drug store, will be the subject of a public input hearing on Wednesday, September Sep-tember 28 at the Treasure Mountain Inn. The 7 p.m. meeting was scheduled by the Park City Planning Commission after it heard vocal arguments both for and against the project at its Sept. 7 meeting. Although the shopping center would contain a Wolfe's sports and clothing store, a laundromat and a savings and loan company, it's the 46,000-square-foot Skaggs store that has drawn all the fire. Several local merchants depicting the chain operation as a threat to established businesses and the Main Street commercial commer-cial district were supported by Planning Commissioner Merril Sanchez at the Sept. 7 meeting. In a letter' sent to the City Council, the commission said it was holding the input hearing because "several members of the Planning Commission are concerned about the possible effects the shopping i Park Wednesday, September 21, 1977 'Enter the last 11 years, having been appointed to fill an unexpired term in 1966 and then being elected to two four-year terms. A surface superintendent in charge of maintenance for the Park City Ventures mining company, Martinez has lived in Park City for all of his 42 years. A desire to see the completion of the city's various water improvement projects was cited by the incumbent as his major reason for running. Martinez heads the city's water committee com-mittee and was in charge of the new Judge Tunnel construction which provided a more reliable water source. He feels the current council has performed per-formed well. "Just look at the various projects that are underway," Martinez said. "We're getting things done to upgrade the city." Wayne Putman is also a Park Citv agencies. Decker noted. One of the alternatives for Park City, the treasurer said, is the creation of a redevelopment district which would extend ex-tend from the top of Main Street to Highway High-way 248 at the north end of town. Through tax increment funding, the city would be able to bond for up to $750,000 for capital improvements and have this amount matched by the Economic Development Agency, giving the city a total of $1.5 million to spend. Mayor Leon Uriarte took exception to the statement, saying the redevelopment concept was originally proposed as a method of rejuvenating the Main Street area. He said the project needs to be redefined and added that a list of improvements im-provements planned for Main Street should be compiled before the redevelopment district boundaries are established. "I have to spell out my concerns because you're over my head," Uriarte said later. Councilman and mayoral candidate Jack Green also attacked the $1.5 million figure. " Is it justified? ' ' Green asked. He said the Park City School District is experiencing fund raising difficulties and claimed it would lose $60,000 in tax revenues to the redevelopment district. Green said the purpose of the redevelopment project was to influence lending institutions to provide loans for Main Street construction. Other factors which have been introduced must now be considered, he added. The council instructed Decker to schedule the meeting with the redevelopment experts and also asked city planner David Preece to formulate a plan for Main Street improvements which could be part of the redevelopment project. Hearing Set center might have on the existing local merchants..." As presently planned, 70 per cent of the Skaggs store space would be allocated to grocery items and 30 per cent to drugs and a pharmacy. The grocery area would contain a delicatessan and a scratch bakery. In addition, Skaggs developers have said they will give 3,000 square feet of space in the building to the Park City Family Health Clinic for a permanent facility. A suggestion that an independent market analysis be financed by the city to determine the impact Skaggs would have on local business was rejected by the City Council Thursday night. Councilman Jack Green said it should be up to the opponents and proponents to provide their own statistics. City attorney Nick Colessides added that there are "enough studies around" to make a determination on the matter. Councilman Steve Dering voiced sup City Race Ventures employe. Asked why he is seeking election, Putman Put-man replied, "I just think it's time to get somebody else on there. They're throwing money down the drain on things like the old street lights. " Putman also cited opposition to the railroad cars being converted into hotel rooms as part of the Depot project. He said trailer houses should be permitted in town if the train cars are allowed to remain. Although there will be six candidates trying for the two council seats, mayoral candidate Councilman Jack Green will be running unopposed. However, the council will have to appoint a replacement for Green once he takes over as mayor since he still has two years to serve on his council term. Public Input On Mem. Bldg. The Park City Council is divided over future use of the Memorial Building and it will listen to public opinion on the matter mat-ter at its October 6 meeting. Councilman Steve Dering said Thursday Thur-sday night that a determination on the use must be made soon so that remodeling plans can be finalized. Dering advocated using the building for strictly recreational purposes but was opposed by Mayor Leon Uriarte who cited a need for more city office space. Uriarte said the deterioration of City Hall necessitated the need for offices in the Memorial Building. Dering, who heads the city's recreation committee, countered that offices in the building would be only a temporary solution which would eventually make the building unacceptable for either use. He predicted a new city hall would have to be constructed in the not too distant future. The councilman added that if the building was remodeled for offices of-fices and the offices were removed at a later date, conversion back to recreational uses would entail considerable con-siderable expense. Dering then called for a public hearing so that the council could receive citizen input. In a related matter, Summit County Planner Max Greenhalgh reported Monday Mon-day that federal money approved for Memorial renovation work cannot be transferred from the county to the city. The county has been granted $147,000 by the Economic Development Agency for Memorial Building improvements. Under an agreement reached recently, the county was to turn the money over to the city and the city, in turn, was to Continued on Page 10 port for the independent study. He said opponents and proponents could influence influen-ce the conclusions of separate studies since they would be paying the researchers. resear-chers. However, the majority of the council felt both sides should provide their own statistics. "Let's attend the meeting and go from there," Mayor Leon Uriarte advised. Skaggs proponents received support, if indirect, from the Park City Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors last week. Although not mentioning Skaggs but obviously prompted by the current controversy, con-troversy, a board resolution called for "support of any business development on commercially zoned property as long as the development is in good taste and in keeping with the tone of Park City." The motion, made by Rick Becker of the Gump and Ayers real estate firm and seconded by Bill Shorter, manager of the Treasure Mountain Inn, was passed unanimously. r WEATHER Partly cloudy through Friday and generally fair over the weekend. Highs will be in the (JOs and 70s with lows between 35-45. n It! X ) I v:4A I, , IT ft , If: ... , s & M J l r & Iistorian Phil Notarianni inspects one of the old cabins on "easy Street." "Look, I found this," said a smiling Phil Notarianni of the Utah State Historical Society holding an aged silver clamp-on ice skate. After a morning's documentation documen-tation of the 1891 cabin on Poison Creek's "Easy Street" just above "Hobo Village," the historian completed a rundown run-down of the cabin and anticipated the possibility of doing digs. "We aren't looking for anything in particular," par-ticular," commented Notarianni, "but outhouses are sometimes a gold mine." The cabin, property of Layton, Utah resident Louis Shields, is scheduled to be leveled this week to make way for the new state highway. Notarianni explained that even though the Department of Transportation would not proceed with a full 4-F study,, which would put an automatic three-year moratorium on the buildings demolition, the role of the Historical Society is to record the existence of the dwelling and document its potential historical significance by creating a file of the joints, join-ts, type of wood used in construction and planking. They also photograph and sketch floor plans. The historian classified the Shield's structure as the "typical shed style vernacular" ver-nacular" representative of the early mining town architecture. The "vernacular," "ver-nacular," explained Notarianni, is a style "endemic of an area which utilizes materials found locally." He pointed out the rows of many-paned windows and the tin added to the exterior, ex-terior, an additional insulatorfire protector, as "typical." (The Poison Creek cabin is the only building of its type to survive the fire of 1898. ) He began his interior survey by stripping strip-ping the decades of faded wallpaper to reach the newspaper insulation, a clue to Number One iiai mr. the structure's past. The ceiling of the Poison Creek cabin held in heat with 1928 editions while an out-building was kept warm by 1904 journals from Denver and San Francisco. Several "Easy Street" residents were on hand in hopes of delaying the project. Bill Plapinger, who pays $25 rent for the shack adjacent to Shield's, said with concern, con-cern, "This area of town is a home for wildlife and my home as well. I definitely feel the city's moving too fast in this destructionexpansion." "Easy Street" resident Steve Lloyd expressed similar discontent. "I'm concerned with the trees, squirrels and wildlife and the historical value of this area. I hate to see this area pushed in without recognition." "One thing you've got to realize in this game of preservation," Notarianni interjected, inter-jected, "is you're going to win some and lose some." Notarianni, who has just finished a year's study of the Tintic mining district, holds a B.A. and a Master's in history and is a native of Magna, Utah. His grandfather immigrated from Italy in 1904 to work in the Sunnyside Coal Mine and his father relocated in Bingham in 1919 as a shoemaker. Before joining the Utah Historical Society in 1976, the historian worked for the Immigration History Research Center Cen-ter at the University of Minnesota -Minneapolis studying Italian immigration. im-migration. He will soon become involved in an in-depth inventory of Park City housing which will include the date houses were built, by whom and a description including architectural history. Notarianni urges any private homeowner with a home slated for destruction to contact the Utah Historical Society at 533-5755. J |