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Show Wednesday, March 1, 1978 Holiday Village Responds To Critic Continued From Page 1 ping center would have on Main Street, McComb wrote: "There are some uses which are perfect for what the Main Street area represents, namely tourist related businesses; restaurants: and sufficient suf-ficient 'ordinary' commercial for the people within walking distance to buy the bulk of their normal requirements. Activities which draw cars are less efficient and less desirable uses here and should not be encouraged.. We fully support the effort of the Planning Plan-ning Commission and the city to find ways to aid in the growth and development of Main Street but that effort should not confuse competition from other areas as one of Main Street's significant problems." Projection Lawson questioned the population projections presented by McComb in his previous economic report. In his response, the developer acknowledged the fallibility of such projections but noted that Sandy, Utah and West Jordan, Utah experienced ex-perienced five-fold population increases in-creases in the last seven years. He said Summit County is closer and more convenient to downtown Salt Lake City than either of those communities. com-munities. His projection that 41,000 people could be living in Western Summit County in 12 years "should not be categorized as 'blatantly exaggerated and totally unsubstantiated," unsubstan-tiated," McComb wrote. At Wednesday's meeting, Lawson said the critical issue relating to the population growth is which commercial commer-cial areas need to be expanded. "In what areas don't we have enough?" the commissioner asked. "Where is the additional square footage needed?" McComb replied that it is a lead-lag situation with new businesses built around existing facilities. "I think George (Polychronis, owner of the Mt. Air Market) would tell you he's hard pressed at peak hours. All the signs are there. We're starting to max out existing facilitites but it's not possible to pick out the exact time when a new facility is needed." After listing in his written response concessions made by the developers at the request of the Planning Com-mision, Com-mision, McComb concluded: "...we feel that we have gone 'the extra mile' in trying to address the legitimate concerns of the Planning Commission and provide answers to those concerns. We now ask for any further direction which the Planning Commission may wish to provide so that we can proceed towards final approval ap-proval in March." Zone May Allow Gas Station, Office Continued From Page 1 station on Park Avenue and another at Kimball Junction, said the service station originally approved by the commission would have been built except ex-cept for delays by the Federal Energy Administration. Citing the bureaucratic process for gasoline allotments which held up financing for the service station, Read said the delays pushed him past the one year conditional use permit deadline. He then referred to government statistic-tics statistic-tics which he said showed the need for another gas station in Park City. Park City experienced a 233 per cent growth rate between 1973 and 1976, according to federal reports, Read told the commission. If the city's gasoline allotment remains static and another Arab oil embargo . ,. occurs. he eontinb 45pet cent of Yo drive their cars, lie said another energy shortage is "not very unrealistic in the next few years." Petition Supports Station Read also presented a petition, bearing the names of more than a hundred residents, supporting construction con-struction of the self-service station. Only one person refused to sign and four people abstained (two city coun-cilmen coun-cilmen and two planning commissioners). com-missioners). Read said. The service station operator also presented a letter from adjacent property owner Jerry Hanley. In his letter, Hanley referred to past commercial com-mercial ventures on the property and said he had no objection to the rezoning proposal. George Polychronis, owner of the Mt. Air Cafe, told the commission he needs to build two refrigerated storage areas on to the back of his restaurant to make his operation more efficient. Under the current zoning, however, he cannot do so because he now is operating as a nonconforming non-conforming use. Noting that the city approved conditional con-ditional use permits for the cafe, carwash and service station, Davidson David-son said there were "clear indications" in-dications" that "real economic hardships" hard-ships" had been created by the downzoning. Read called the rezoning an "oversight." "over-sight." r ) "Nobody wants to build a house on a .:Astatehighway," he said-, ; w v Motion Passes A motion by Davidson to recommend recom-mend the commercial rezoning passed 3-1, with Davidson, Reynolds and Merrill Sanchez voting in favor and Greg Lawson voting against. Commissioner Kurt Nelson was absent. ab-sent. The rezoning request now will go to the City Council. The council will set a public hearing date and most likely will make a decision at that hearing. If the council votes in favor of the zone change, plans for the self-service station and the office building still will require Planning Commission approval. Parleys Summit Resort and Pokey Richardson For donating your facilities the evening of February 21st to the Park City Ski Team for our skate and ski party. It was fun. Your support in developing a better ski racing program for our young Park City and Salt Lake skiers is much appreciated. Signed, Coaches, Racers, Parents and Park City Ski Club Supporters Page 5 V hJV ,, -: :.;tT4t . j Jim Hire, Inn keeper and Debbie Travis, marketing director, ol the new Holiday Inn. Inn To Open Aug. 1 A sales and marketing director and an innkeeper for the Park City Holiday Inn are busy scheduling activities ac-tivities and readying the facility for the August 1 opening. Six groups have been booked to date, including the annual Energy Conference to be held in August, a Continental Con-tinental Banks convention and a Frontier Airlines convention, con-vention, which will host 120 booking agents. Both the Holiday Inn and the Park City Learning and Cultural Center will house some of the Moana overflow for a May convention of the American Society of Travel Agents, expected to draw 2,000 participants. Sales and marketing director Debbie Travis admitted ad-mitted there is some competition com-petition with the newly opened Learning and Cultural Center, but she believes the two centers can "work hand-in-hand to handle han-dle larger groups." "Park City really should have a convention bureau," she noted. Travis, a native of Liber- tyville, Illinois, has a B.A. in ' Hotel and - - - Restaurant ' management from Michigan State and worked as a sales " executive for the Hotel Utah prior to joining the Holiday Inn staff. Innkeeper Jim Hire, who has been in the hotel and restaurant business since the age of 15, has worked for Holiday Inns for the past six years. He has been at the Airport Inn in Salt Lake City for five years and in Ft. Meyers, Florida; Denver, Colorado, and Angola, Indiana In-diana prior to that. According to Hire, the Holiday Inn will have a staff of up to 110 employees during peak seasons and 70 during lulls. Personnel will include cooks, a maintenance crew, maids, a housekeeper and assistant housekeeper, waitresses, bus boys, bartenders, courtesy cour-tesy car drivers, etc. "Both skilled and unskilled un-skilled labor," said Hire, "all the people necessary to keep a hotel running." The 183-room Holiday Inn will offer 5,000 square feet of meeting space, break-out rooms for special meetings, seminar suites, exhibition space, total food service, liquor store, private club, disco, specialty shop, ski rentals, and a childrens' game room. Local golf and swimming facilities will be made available to guests. The Holiday Inn will cater weddings, banquets and special events of all types. Jere Calmes Selected As C Of C President The Park City Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors Direct-ors selected Jere Calmes as president at the monthly meeting held February 23 at the Kimball Art Center. Other board members selected sel-ected to serve under Calmes' leadership were 1st Vice President John Man-, ookin, who will serve as financial and membership advisor; 2nd Vice President Laura Thomas, who will supervise communications; and Secretary Tina Lewis. City Planner David Preece attended the meeting and, among other topics, discussed discus-sed the possible Utah Historical Histor-ical Society nomination of the Main Street historic district to the National Register. The upcoming Arts Festival was discussed and Chamber official Shirley Smith said there will be five co-chairmen this year instead of one director, as in past years. The committees are: Funding, Fund-ing, chaired by Amanda Peterson and David Fernan dez; Graphics and promotional promo-tional material, Pat Smith; Application and Registration, Registra-tion, Shirley Smith; Organization, Organi-zation, Tina Lewis; and Publicity, Nancy Bradish: Anyone interested in volunteering volun-teering to serve on any of these committees is invited to apply at the Chamber of Commerce on Main Street. A transportation committee was appointed at the meeting meet-ing to aid the City Council committee in solving Park City's transportation problems. prob-lems. The board members voted to send a letter to the Utah Liquor Control Commission to support a Main Street area location for a liquor store. The commission is currently looking for a new operator for the package store now housed in Rosie's Delicatessen Delicates-sen on Main Street. The Chamber suggested that a move to Swede Alley could alleviate traffic and parking problems and would still be convenient to the Main Street. BURGlARY COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL SECURITY SYSTEMS LOCAL ALARMS 24-HOUR MONITORING RENTAL SYSTEMS PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS, HOME OR CONDOMINIUM. Free Estimates Incorporated For information regarding employment or reservations, reser-vations, call 649-7000. , Design Coalition . GIFTS quills. ' the n,itur,ilit" itls. low bdih'h, (jndcs. ili' tr,ilie dtressorcj Resort Center .Design CoalitkmJ hi SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 7:30 pm Park City's j KIMBALL ART CENTER iPresents -H '5V J CQJNID Formerly the band for the Utah Stars, they also S J performed for years in tneSkyRoom at the Hotel I Utah. 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