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Show c:.::;n::7 c:?.:;.?at:o:i Box 2-b;3 SLC, UX 4110 Fifteen Cents Volume Three Wednesday, May 3, 1978 Number Thirty-Three City CommiiEicatioiis Details City's The results of a nine-hour communications com-munications workshop April 26 in the Park City Learning and Cultural Center Cen-ter may have dramatic impact on the future of this burgeoning town. Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and the Summit County Travel Council to assess problems and set goals, the brainstorming session was attended by nearly 60 Park City citizens representing interests in-terests ranging from the arts to city government. Dr. John Hunt and two associates from the Institute for the Study of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism at Utah State University served as magnets, drawing from the audience problems, goals and strategies to turn Park City's potential poten-tial energy into reality. The faces were all familiar, but a brief self-introduction broke the ice and turned a diverse roomful of individuals in-dividuals into a unified front. Dr. Hunt stressed the necessity of participation par-ticipation and said the session was not a platform for argument any suggestions were fair game. The large group then split into three smaller ones, making it very difficult to be a wallflower. The group of 15 led by Dr. Hunt was a well-balanced cross section of concerned con-cerned residents: artists, developers, city councilmen, hotel proprietor, ski resort personnel, and the media. After an hour, the intimidatingly blank three-foot lengths of butcher paper taped to a display board were overcrowded over-crowded with Park City problems, ranging from the critical lack of a public transportation system to a mock plea to secede from the state 61 problems later. Dr. Hunt said the gripe-listing process first came about when he noticed problems being aired during coffee breaks and not during subject meetings. Even though the subject was, problems, this was no exception, and a new rash of Park City perplexities per-plexities were hurled to the front of the room after an enlivened Sanka break in the hall. Each person then ticked off his 25 most pressing problems, to be later tallied with the entire group's assessment. Heading the Top Ten chart was the root problem of poor communication between fragmented groups in Park City groups that were duplicating efforts ef-forts and still not achieving a common goal. But all the diversified groups that want something from the town and for the town were there Wednesday: Wed-nesday: homeowners and developers; the resort and the mining community ; Koleman Will Run For County Commission Seat Ike Koleman of Snyderville announced an-nounced Monday that he will be a candidate for the four-year seat on the Summit County Board of Commissioners. Com-missioners. The outspoken critic of the present Commission and also the Koleman v'. "VJ Ike Dr. John Hunt helps workshop participants prepare a list of the historic Main Street and Prospector Square; senior citizens and the still wet-behind-the-ears. Communicating. And all the groups agreed that the town can never achieve its potential as a nice place to visit and a nicer place to live until it takes serious steps to improve its major shortcomings, short-comings, including a quality, dependable depen-dable transportation system, a coordinated coor-dinated advertising-marketing program, a community-wide growth plan, visitor orientation, employe-management employe-management professionalism, a Parley's Summit Plan Vetoed An overflow crowd of angry citizens attended the Summit County Planning Commission meeting in Coalville Tuesday, April 26 to voice their opposition op-position to the proposed Parley's Summit amusement park. The developers of Salt Lake City's Trolley Square, who now also own the ski resort at Parley s Summit, were refused permission to build a 125-acre Planning coaru auvises uiai ne is running for the Democratic nomination at the urging of several concerned citizens from various areas of the county. Some of the issues Koleman said he plans to address are: county unity; fiscal responsibility; equitable representation of the county's largest taxpayer, Park City; short and long range plannng; returning control of government to the people with area action groups; preserving the atmosphere at-mosphere that has attracted the present residents to this area; increased in-creased countywide medical services; ser-vices; controlling growth within the limits of available natural resources; increased parks and recreational facilities for the families of the county; coun-ty; responsible confrontation of the growing narcotics problem; and increased in-creased services to the elderly. Koleman, an executive of a major aluminum producer for 25 years is now president of Great American Construction Co. of Salt Lake City, and vho' wife Miss P.illie of the popular Kaggeuy Ann and Andy Preschool. Incumbent Bill Wallin has filed as a Republican candidate for the four-year four-year seat and Park City resident Lloyd Stevens last week announced he will file for the seat as a Democrat. 11 1 JMRs &M.iLkJ Mm f v ft l fife ; I ' .e beautification program, and the hard-to-explain liquor laws. How and when could these pitfalls be overcome? Back into three groups for a goal-setting session. "From this point on it gets more difficult," dif-ficult," Dr. Hunt prefaced the exercise. exer-cise. "We are here to set goals, not decide how to achieve them that's strategy. It's a fine line and the two tend to overlap and show up the imperfection im-perfection in the system." It was almost like child's play, arbitrarily ar-bitrarily assigning dates for the im amusement complex that would have included summertime rides such as an Alpine slide, a go-cart track, a motor boat ride, and a "Le Mans" miniature race car ride. After three and a half hours of heated discussion, the commission voted to deny the required zoning change. They cited specific objections to the motorized rides and invited the developers to submit a new proposal that did not include those rides. Letters to the editor in all county newspapers and special letters send to area homeowners indicated that the meeting was likely to involve heated controversy over the proposed project. Long before the commission was to convene, the meeting room was full. Nearby offices in the building were stripped of chairs and the spectators overflowed into the halls. As the meeting began, the commissioners com-missioners saw that it was going to be a long evening and decided to postpone post-pone most of the issues on the agenda until the next week. Someone in the crowd demanded they get to the Parley's Summit issue. In a decidedly unfriendly climate, the developers represented by Wally Wright took the stage and presented a carefully prepared, well-documented well-documented outline of their proposal. They presented facts and figures that, they said, proved their project would not be harmful to the environment, would not be noisy enough to be heard by nearby property owners, and would not effect property values adversely. ad-versely. The facts and figures were received in silence. Then the area homeowners took the stage to make an equally well-prepared presentation. Every speaker who made a point opposing the development received a loud and long ovation, making it clear where the majority of the audience stood on the issue. Most of the opposition was voiced against the proposed motorized rides. Continued On Page 11 city's major problem area. provement t a short and long-term transport:- - v .. system, or when a new visitor information program would be Continued On Page 5 NSID ; 'Almost Summer' comes to KAC ...Page 3 Tree Day takes root ...Page 5 Newspaper Cup .Ytl 1 S i : ; Li !! l I : J in ' "' "" "' f . ESS " Vi"' p5 ZjL , 11 ' A A ii Jul Dry Claimjumper Project Stalled By Park City Planning Commission Chairman Burnis Watts cast a tie-breaking tie-breaking vote Wednesday night that dealt a setback, at least temporarily, to the proposed expansion of the Claim-jumper Claim-jumper Hotel. The hotel addition would extend north from the existing building and would encompass an area stretching from Main Street west to Park Avenue. The Park Avenue portion of the project site is zoned residential and this created an ambiguity which led to Watts' deciding vote. As currently planned, the new section sec-tion of the hotel would house suites with two and three lockout bedrooms. Developers of the project contend the suite combinations should be counted as one unit when determining density. But the commission was concerned that each bedroom might constitute a separate living unit, making the project too dense for the residential zoning. "We're not trying to circumvent the ordinance," architect John Carbine told the commission. "Our intent is to provide two- and three-bedroom units for a family-type situation. " Commissioner Roy Reynolds suggested that only one entrance be provided for the suites, insuring that the bedrooms would not be rented as individual units. Carbine responded that this would diminish the flexibility of the project and Claimjumper owner Lloyd Stevens said that existing condominium con-dominium units with lockout bedrooms have set a precedent for his project. "It's definitely not a feasible project if we can't have this many units," Stevens told the commission. Chairman Watts replied, "That may be the case but we can't break our own ordinance." It was noted that counting each bedroom as a unit, bringing the total number of new units to 30, would not only exceed the allowable density but would also mean the hotel would not have sufficient parking. When Commissioner Rusty Davidson David-son advised that moving the units to the Main Street side of the project would alleviate Steven's density problem, the hotel owner quipped, "And I don't have to provide any parking then." Main Street buildings are not required to provide parking due to the parking available in Swede Alley to the east. Commissioner Greg Lawson was not present at the Wednesday night meeting and a motion by Reynolds to approve the project resulted in a 2-2 deadlock. Reynolds and Davidson voted for the expansion while Commissioners Com-missioners Merrill Sanchez and Kurt Nelson voted against, leaving the decision in Watts' hands. After a pause, Watts voted no, qualifying his decision by saying he wants more research conducted on the zoning ordinance to clarify whether the suites comprise one or several units. "I think the issue should be settled, Watts said. He then called for a special planning commission session to reconsider the project after the ordinance or-dinance is studied. Homeowner's Concern Prior to the density controversy, Kate Anderson told the commission she was concerned that the Claim-jumper Claim-jumper expansion would destroy the privacy of her Park Avenue home. She said the privacy of her backyard, adjacent to the proposed project site, was "one of the charms of the house. " Architect Carbine told her, "We've tried to keep in character with the residential area as much as we can. It is of great concern to us that we don't cause any problems for you or the If I ft ji and mild Fridav through Sunday with highs in the 60s and lows in the 30s. Planners Family Jewels (located next to the site on the Main Street side. )" Carbine said the wall facing Anderson's Ander-son's property could be designed win-dowless win-dowless and the screens could be erected to shield her yard from a rooftop roof-top sundeck. "With a small screen and some trees I think we can both be happy," replied the homeowner. Plans If approved, the Claimjumper expansion ex-pansion would mark the first new construction con-struction on Main Street since the Eating Establishment was built more than five years ago. Along with the new hotel rooms, the enlarged facility would feature four racquetball courts, a new lounge, one or two commercial shops, a rooftop tennis court, an outdoor courtyard with swimming pool and increased dining and kitchen areas. Permit Taken On Miners' Hospital Monty Gibson has applied to the city for a demolition permit for the Park City Miner's Hospital, once again throwing the fate of the historic building into question. Gibson appeared at the April 12 City Council meeting and assured the members he had no intention of destroying the building. He reiterated his March proposal to give the city the building and pay an estimated $137,000 in relocation costs to move it to a piece of city-owned property. In return, the city would help secure financing and lease the hospital to Gibson for a nominal fee to amortize his costs. When Mayor Jack Green estimated that it could be a year before a suitable city site could be found and the relocation could begin, Gibson said, "I'd like to be developing my property long before a year." He indicated in-dicated he had two other offers for the hospital, which was built in 1903 and has been nominated to the National Register of Historic Places. If the city did not act on his proposal, he commented com-mented at the meeting, he would investigate in-vestigate the other alternatives, which included an offer from Depot project developer Wally Wright and another private developer. "I would rather see the city own it," Gibson commented at the meeting. "It would preclude any apprehension of the building's demise." "Maybe he is trying to force action since the city hasn't made any firm commitment," City Manager Wayne Matthews said of Gibson's Thursday application. "There has been no firm bid on relocation costs, and there is doubt as to whether it can actually be done for what he says. The city can't realistically buy property to move it to in the time frame he is talking about," Matthews said, adding that Gibson indicated he would exercise the demolition permit in June. Matthews asked Gibson to appear before the City Council at Thursday night's meeting to discuss his intentions. inten-tions. It is possible, Matthews commented, com-mented, that Gibson will disassembl1 the building and store it until arrangements are made, rather than bulldoze it to the ground. Gibson was not available for comment com-ment at press time to reveal his intentions inten-tions and plans to be out of town for (Thursday's City Council meeting. He has indicated that Al Wolcher, a Salt Lake City attorney, will appear at the meeting in his stead. |