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Show OJSIinEST CORPORATION Box 2603 SLC, UT 4110 Fifteen Cents . VVoiume Three Jrf ; ' ' ' ' " easure Hfflls Park City Planning Commission Chairman Burnis Watts told the City Council Thursday night that limited road access to the Treasure Hills property was a "major concern" to the proposed annexation of the 45-acre parcel, northwest of the Holiday Ranch area. The property, which received a Burnis Watts positive commission recommendation for annexation, has access off Highway 224 on an existing dirt road, but has no exit through Park Meadows. That would leave a long drive in and out for Treasure Hills residents. Watts noted that the 4 - , Fire Insurance: in xtjenswe In a situation similar to the one created by Mrs. O'Leary's cow, a devastating fire gutted Park City in 1898. An August 1973 fire leveled several Main Street businesses and charred neighboring ones. In the summer of 1975 a home on Empire Avenue owned by Salt Lake residents burned to the ground. A 1977 New Year's fire in a modular home on Park Avenue took the life of one . sleeping victim and severely injured several others. The newly opened Mt. Air Cafe was seriously damaged in a fire last August and a February 14 fire caused $15,000 worth of damage to the Caboose Restaurant at 440 Main Street. Local insurance agents Jamie Lawrence of Farmers and Tom Ligare of State Farm discussed with The Newspaper Park City's fire insurance in-surance situation. "Before we do a write-up on fire insurance, in-surance, a building has to be within Snow Sculpture Festival Sat. If plaster of paris or clay is not your artistic medium, come try modeling snow at the 7th Annual Snow Sculpture Festival at the Park City Golf Course on Saturday, March 11. This is a no-entrance-fee, fun contest of skill and creativity sponsored spon-sored by Coca-Cola, who will award $400 to the best sculptor. The contest begins at 9 a.m. on the golf course and all works of art must be completed by 3 p.m. All sculptures must be made of snow only, with no decorations or adornments allowed. Any implements of construction may be used to chisel a mass of inanimate snow into an ingenious winner. The contest is open to either individuals or groups. In a group, one member must register as the official entrant, as only one entrant will be judged a winner in each prize category. Winners must be present to be awarded prizes at 4:30. "Last year was the first time I watched the contest," Coca Cola representative Jim Peterson said. "The objects the people made were unbelievable!" Last year, Peterson said, the biggest problem was keeping the sculptors supplied with snow. "We had to keep hauling it to the contest site. I don't think we'll have, that problem this year!" abandonment of the originally planned plan-ned Holiday Ranch loop road left limited ingress and egress from Park Meadows and said a road to Treasure Hills through Park Meadows would serve both areas effectively. The chairman suggested the road could be a condition of future Park Meadows subdivision approval. Councilman Steve Dering opposed requiring Park Meadows to provide the road because "one developer's project should not dictate what another developer does." He recommended recom-mended that a written agreement on the route be reached by Treasure Hills and Park Meadows developers before the council considers the annexation request. "I met with Dick Smith (a partner in the Park Meadows Development Company) and he agreed that a road through there would serve them and Treasure Hills," Watts said. He agreed with Dering that a written agreement should be secured. Councilman Bob Wells suggested that the city consider annexing two other pieces of property at the same time, if the Treasure Hills proposal is accepted. Both properties lie within the city limits and are surrounded by city property. According to Wells, one parcel of land belongs to Jerry Hanley "atthe- junction of Highu ays1 224 and -248 and the other to Vic Peterson and A the age limit or the wiring and heating has to be updated," said Tom Ligare. Fire insurance costs are based on a rate per thousand dollars and the higher class rating a fire district receives from state officials, the higher the insurance rate, according to Ligare. Park City has a class 7 rating, Summit Park a class 10 and most of Salt Lake falls into either class 2 or class 3. "A 7 is an average rating," said Ligare, "and there is a phenomenal rise in rates from class 7 to class 10." In addition, the Insurance Service Office, a state agency, rates all buildings in Utah. Ratings are issued according to a building's use and construction con-struction materials. "I find the values an individual would like to insure for and the type of coverage he would like, then call our Salt Lake office to get the rating and use that factor to develop our rate," I ' i mi . ..uti mrn rmrKlrT"- Hin Wednesday, Elmer Stahle, extending from the entrance of Park Meadows to the Treasure Hills property. "It won't be too long before some development occurs on these properties," proper-ties," Wells said Tuesday. "If development is going to occur that close to the city, there's no sense in having it fall outside city control." Councilman Richard Martinez expressed ex-pressed concern over annexing too much property. "If we keep opening up new areas to build new homes on, what incentive is there to build uptown'.'" Martinez asked. "We talk about trying to make it better up here, but then we annex more land." Mayor Jack Green, who said, "In the next 20 years Park City will probably go to Kimball Junction," commented that the city could build up both areas effectively. "When the mine closed, everyone in the state was concerned about the impact. But we had a big bedroom community, and this particular time it served us well. If we had hati a bad winter like last year we would, have been in terrible shape," Green said, adding that land development "makes Park City a viable community." The final decision on the Treasure Hills annexation proposal will be madelr.Howhig a public hearing, set for April 6. explained the State Farm representative. represen-tative. According to Ligare, the price range for fire premiums through most insurance companies is close. Some companies, however, can write to the 4, ,.,,,,, liSSittSlllliillillBlillg . V" -1 , -v. ' - i .'. - . - ' - ; 1 March 8, 1978 Dan ( lose took a first place state for a package policy and receive from the Insurance Service Office, a "specifically" rated building. Ligare cited the "apartment" class as an example. - "Certain factors such as underground un-derground parking and building materials considered under the specific package can knock off 25 percent," per-cent," he said. Commercial and residential ratings are done differently, but general factors fac-tors taken into consideration include materials stored in the building, the presence of fire extinguishers, the general upkeep, wiring and plumbing conditions, roof materials, exterior liability exposures, etc. "We've been real fortunate as far as fires," exclaimed Ligare, "and several things we've looked at and turned down have caught fire." The most hazardous structures in town, he noted, are the framed restaurants without sprinkler or ansel Continued On Page 5 School Bird ..-v sv 5jr I ft K I I x V . f I - . . v I over the weekend. See Page 14 'Combine Governor The Summit County Board of Commissioners was asked last week to consider a controversial state plan to unify social services in the region. The discussion was in response to Governor Matheson's proposal to unify social services in the state under one statewide director, who would administer the programs through regional offices. The programs in question are services for the aged, assistance payment programs, and family services programs. Under the proposal. Summit County would be combined with Wasatch and Utah counties and all such services in the three county area would be administered by a regional office. Homer Chandler, who is the Director of the Mountain Land Association of Governments, brought forth an alternative to the state's plan. The Mountain Land Association, which represents the same three counties, proposed that they act as the INSIDE Here's a new dish ...Page 15 Number Twenty-Five Photo By Pat McDowell Partly cloudy Friday and increasing in-creasing clouds Saturday. Chance of snow late Saturday Satur-day and Sunday. Highs will be in the 40s with lows in the teens. Services Suggests regional administrator of these services, ser-vices, instead of the state. According to Max Greenhalgh, Summit County Planner, much of the controversy surrounding the issue was due to the mistaken belief that the state's plan included the takeover of services now under local administration. administra-tion. Dr. Arnold Isiacson, Deputy Director Direc-tor of the State Health Department, told Greenhalgh that the Summit County plan, which administers social services through one controlling board, is among the best in the state. The state, he said, has no intention of taking over the administration of local health services. The state's plan calls for regional administration of only those programs pro-grams now under state control. A meeting w ill be held in the near future to hear counter-proposals to the plan. Miners Lose ...Page 15 |