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Show oumssr cop.rcp.ATio:; Box 26C3 SLC, UT 84110 Fifteen Cents Volume Three i . " " ' ..;,. '" - , rtmfrJ ' J LI " v, -fc Ib Tfaj-g 1S a snm chance 0f showers j r Jrf VFS among Park City residents until the i jpZf lg( V77lx weekend. Hot winds are expected from I lvA t city Ha" PromP(ed bv 'ow Pressure iJTS d from local lobbyists. Highs are suspec- s 7 ESiL C"nn t'1S teenS t'lose we" 'nt0 0 sguthorpe Critical Of ark Meadows Expansion Engineer Jack Johnson countered opposition to the proposed Park Meadows subdivisions No. 4 and No. 6 at Wednesday night's Planning Commission meeting in an effort to receive preliminary approval for the projects. Dr. D.A. Osguthorpe, who owns property to the east and south of the Park Meadows plat, voiced his concerns con-cerns about road access, water drainage and traffic flow through the proposed developments. -According to Osguthorpe, a few years ago then-owner Warren King wanted to drain the marshy land of Park Meadows through his property in exchange for a verbal promise to Woman Falls From Gondola A California woman plummeted 60 feet from a gondola car at the Park City Resort last Thursday but was uninjured when her fall was broken by i' deep snow. Mary Lou Whipple was riding alone in the gondola car returning from the Summit station to the base of the mountain. Mountain Manager Phil Jones said the woman leaned out the window of the cabin door to take a picture pic-ture with her camera. The car then traveled over Tower 10, and according accor-ding to Jones, the vibration going over the rollers coupled with her weight opened the door and broke the safety chain. She reportedly was buried ! The Park City Council has announced announ-ced that it will augment its free bus system with a new service which will specialize in transporting residents to the less accessible places in town. The service, which will be called Dial-a-Hide, will consist of a large trained buffalo and a driver familiar with the remote parts, of the city. Local residents need only call City Hall and it will dispatch Dial-a-Hide to the doorstep. To protect the driver from possible armed robbery attempts, Dial-a-Hide users will have to buy buffalo chips at city Hall and use these to pay their buffalo bills. "We're really taking the public for a ride on this one," Mayor Jack Beige said Tuesday. "We recognized the problem and we took it by the horns. Now people trying to reach the hard-to-get-to places need only shuffle off the buffalo." Beige revealed that the" city will sponsor a novelty baseball game this spring to help defer Dial-a-Hide costs. The game will be similar to donkey baseball games held in other areas where players ride donkeys instead of running. The difference will be that one team will ride deer and the other will sit atop antelope. "This will be the fruition of a childhood dream," the mayor remarked. "I've always wanted someone to give me a home where the buffalo roamed and the deer and the antelope play." build a road down his west fence, separating him from the proposed No. 6 subdivision, northeast of No. 5. "Now they've done away with the road and they're going to build right up against my property line," said Dr. Osguthorpe. "If I'd known before, I wouldn't have allowed them to drain." Johnson said the agreement was made while he was employed by the land owners, but he had no recollection recollec-tion of a verbal agreement for a road. "He remembers the situation differently dif-ferently than I do," Johnson said Monday. The doctor told the commission that the traffic situation in the area was her waist in soft snow near the Waterfall Water-fall run just before Treasure Hollow. Jones said several skiers discovered the woman and summoned the ski patrol. After being checked in the ski patrol clinic, Ms. Whipple was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City for further tests. When asked why the safety chain on the gondola door broke, Jones said, "It's hard to say. But when one person sits in a gondola car and they lean to one side, the cabin hangs crooked. This woman was leaning clear out, and that put a lot of pressure on the latch and chain mechanism." Wednesday, Planning Commission Holiday Village Development Approved After more than an hour of public input at an informal hearing Wednesday Wed-nesday night, the Planning Commission Com-mission approved the controversial Holiday Village shopping center in a 4-1 vote. Architect Ted Warr briefly described the proposed 92,000 sq. ft. shopping center to be located southeast of Highways 224 and 248 with the help of renderings and slides before commission chairman Burnis Watts opened the meeting to public comment. Strangle Downtown Resident Patricia Smith has been campaigning for historic preservation of the Main Street area and contended that traffic congestion and parking problems have been the major barrier to growth in that area. She said the Main Street shopping district was approaching ap-proaching an environment that could compete with the proposed shopping center, but the project would "strangle off the downtown area just when lif eblood is needed. " "The proposed project is well planned," plan-ned," Smith said. "But maybe it should be put off to give Main Street a chance for a facelift and economic boost." She suggested the city solve the existing traffic problem before the new center created more strain on Park Avenue. Chairman Watts said after many "soul searching sessions" the commission com-mission has concluded the project is within ordinance requirements but added, "I do share those concerns." He said the commission would deal with the project "as best our authority allows." Merchants in Favor Commissioner Rusty Davidson, who has "long been an advocate of Main Street" said an informal poll showed a large number of Main Street merchants were in favor of the proposed project. Because of the uniqueness of the area, Davidson said there may be a duplication of services "but you can't duplicate Main Street." Jan Peterson, operator of Wolfe's sporting goods store at the resort plaza, said he wants to "build the neatest store you've ever seen" in the "unbearable." He said the proposed Treasure Hills road, Monitor Drive and Holiday Ranch Road, the only existing access roads, would not be sufficient to handle the traffic generated by the proposed plan. "And no storm sewers have been planned," Osguthorpe said, adding, "When we get a storm it washes out my fences." He said asphalt in the existing projects increases the water flow, flooding his prooperty. Not only do the roads create water problems, Osguthorpe said, but they are full of chuck holes and too narrow to snow plow properly. The doctor's property is not currently curren-tly part of the city and he indicated that until these problems are solved, he would be "braced when the city wants to take me in." Former City Councilman Mary Continued On Page 5 A Prestigious Crew. Page 3 March 29, 1978 shopping center. He said too many retail dollars were spent in better-stocked better-stocked Salt Lake City stores and hoped to offer more products to keep customers in Park City. As for Main Street, Peterson said, "The merchants won't make it unless they maintain reasonable hours and days of operation." He added that the competition from the proposed shopping shop-ping center might make the downtown shops better. Free Enterprise ' Hank Verrone, who owns a building on Main Street, supported Peterson. "We encourage free enterprise in this society. If the land is zoned for what is going in, I can't see why we should discourage it just because it might hurt a few friends. If they (Main Street merchants) are good businessmen, they can overcome it. With competition, they might become more concerned with what they're running." Chamber of Commerce President Jere Calmes told the commission the organization passed a resolution four moths ago supporting the shopping center because they felt it would benefit Park City. "When the city backed the sewer plan they were saying growth in Park City is the way to go," Calmes said. "This project has been planned well by locals. If it's going to go, let's do it now with people we know before fTr 7 Sift' -yvKHrVli vi rJ w ,. q W y 7P' " t . . 1 ""- . 1 A " i i .'-. Wrong and Pauper Present: Ride The Wild Basking in the success of the Alpine Slide, which was introduced to Park City last summer, Wally Wrong and John Pauper have announced that a new ride, the Alpine Barrel Roll, will be added in June. "The concept of the barrel roll is the same as the slide," Wrong said Monday. Mon-day. "It is propelled by the same forcegravity. for-cegravity. There is a subtle difference, dif-ference, however, in that one rolls and the other slides." Pauper described the barrel roll as INSIDE Real Estate Control Officer. Page 8 . IIIIIIMIIIMIM''l,fjil!!lill,''MIttttllIHIItlMIIIMHHHMMIIIHtMiml someone else comes in here with a bulldozer." Need To Look At Code "The real issue here is we need to look at the Land Management Code," said Patricia Smith in another effort to forestall the project. She noted that Park City has three centers of activityMain ac-tivityMain Street, the Resort, and the hub intersection of Highways 224 and 248. She said without an improved transit system the town would become a bottleneck as traffic separated to each of those areas. "We need to talk about planning," Smith continued. "Each of those three areas is distinct. but interdependent-it's all Park City. If one-can one-can support the others, that's planning. plan-ning. If it can't, we need to look at the code." Real estate agent Jim Doilney said he originally felt part of Park City's uniqueness was not having a shopping center like most other towns. "I tried to buy on Main Street and the price per foot for property probably exceeds that of Tokyo," Doilney said, adding that he now supports sup-ports the proposed project. "There's too much traveling to Salt Lake. The shopping center will be providing services ser-vices desperately needed in Park City." Restaurateur Lloyd Stevens said he would like to see the competitive. "a longer and more exciting ride" than the slide. He said riders will take the gondola to the Summit House at the 9,400-foot level. There, they will be placed inside a barrel and given a vigorous shove, sending them rolling down the mountain. "Barrel rollers can reach the bottom bot-tom of the mountain by a number of routes, just as skiers do in the winter," win-ter," Wrong commented. He noted that the Alpine Barrel Roll has been patented to stave off anxcqmeptition Visitor Lost In Chuck Hole Page 9 Number Twenty-Eight produce prices that would come with the shopping center instead of having to go to Salt Lake to do his comparison shoDDing. He also noted that "we voted in a of a per cent sales tax for the transportation system. It would be a shame to lose it to Salt Lake when we could put it to use here. We'd be helping Salt Lake's transportation Continued On Page 5 Barrel 7 L ft k M - If. s Ted Warr "We've sewn up the market, lock, stock and barrel," he joked. Pauper admitted that early testing of the new ride has been plagued by some mishaps. "Directional control of the barrel is minimal and we have had some cases of test rollers crashing into lift towers, trees and large rocks," he said. "And there was the one incident where one tester zoomed past the base lodge, through the resort parking lot and onto Park Avenue. A state trooper pulled him over in Snyderville and cited him for rolling without a license." licen-se." Both Wrong and Pauper expressed confidence that the kinks will be worked out before the scheduled summer opening date. If all goes well, ramps will be in"N stalled on some of the steeper slopi J making barrel jumping contests possible, they said. Tentative plans call for a world invitational barrel jump to be held in Park City sometime in August, attracting the . best rollers the sport has to offer. First prize will be an all expense paid trip for two over Niagra Falls in a barrel. "But this is more for recreational rollers than professionals," Pauper said. "Any well-rounded individual can roll out the barrel and he'll have a barrel of fun." |