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Show 4 Twenty Five Cents Volume Four t Jay Nielson aster ; v t , A v " . " ? 1 - k'jZs Presented At Hearing Three proposals were presented last Thursday night at a public hearing held to review plans for the update of Park City's master plan and land management code. One more proposal pro-posal will be presented tonight at 7 p.m. at Prospector Square. Six proposals were received at City Hall for the update. The master plan review committee, made up of Bob Wells, Steve Dering, Mike Vance, Burnis Watts, Dick Wilde, Bill Coleman, Helen Alvarez, Jack Johnson, Pat Smith and Bruce Decker, rated the proposals. Four proposals were then selected from the original six and the firms were asked to present their ideas orally at a public hearing. The last revision of the master plan was in 1973, and because Park City has grown so rapidly, many residents and officials are concerned it has outgrown it. It was decided to solicit the assistance of professional expertise exper-tise outside Park City to effect the master plan update. Following tonight's final proposal, each member of the committee will be requested to make a final selection for the master plan update. Gage Davis On Thursday night, the first proposal was presented by Nolan Rosall of Gage Davis Associates, Inc., of Boulder, Colorado.. About 20 local residents listened while Rosall described des-cribed his company and their plans for Park City. He stressed that his firm had previously done work for about 25 ski areas, including Vail, "75 C Omniweat Corp.- -H J 3322 So. 3rd Ea3t Salt Lake City, UT 4115 John Short and Associates " " X Plan Proposals Aspen, Winter Park and Copper Mountain. Most recently they did a master plan for Brianhead, Utah and a new ski area near Snow Basin called Trapper's Loop. Rosall, who was the planning director for Boulder for five years before working for Gage Davis, described how the firm would approach Park City's update of the master plan. First, a determination would be made of the possible recreational impacts on the Park City area, including a market and growth analysis; then the development of population projections and a land use needs assessment, an inventory of public services; an analysis of the environmental impacts of future growth; the development of a policy plan; an update of the land use plan to conform to the policy plan; the development of a capital improvements improve-ments plan; a review of the zoning regulations and their conformity; and a review of special ordinance needs, including, architectural, rehabilitation, rehabilita-tion, and urban desigft. Rosall suggested a complete master plan update could take as long as one year, with some elements of the revision completed sooner. By the end of 1979 he hoped the base data and analysis would be completed, with development of a policy plan begun. The completed policy plan, including the development of the capital improvements plan, could be finished by early spring..The total cost of the project was estimated to be a maximum of $30,000 Page 2 Though rocks are rarely talked to because of their stony exterior, The Newspaper found some as eager to answer 'How About It? ' as most people. ... Thursday, August 16, 1979 Nolan Rosall "The approach we would tak in Park City would be to take a critical look at the whole recreation component what exists and the Deer Valley complex recently approved will have a great impact on Park City and its environs. The first step will be to look at that impact in terms of the demand for housing, the addition of commercial commer-cial space and the services the city will need to provide." To that end, Rosall said population projections should be made for 10 to 15 years in the future. Then a determination determina-tion of the city's needs will be made in view of the marketing demands; an inventory of the water and sewer capacities, transportation and fire protection, schools to meet the existing needs and the anticipated needs; and a comprehensive analysis of the development suitability of certain areas of the city in view of flood plains, landslides, hillsides and other geologic factors. "Then we can get into specific policies," Rosall said. "Some things will be controversial, like annexation, phasing of growth, downzoning, the role of the downtown area versus satellite community areas. We intend to involve the public pretty intimatelyit's intimate-lyit's absolutely essential in the development process." Rosall commented, "Park City is not 100 percent in control of its own destiny." He noted that it would have to work closely with other jurisdic- jContiniied On Page 3 J f 1 "tj I D evelopment May Cause Problems Downstream Researchers studying the water quality in East Canyon Reservoir currently are looking at Park City with a critical eye. Located at the headwaters of many East Canyon tributaries, Park City and its ceaseless cease-less development may be irreversibly altering local as well as reservoir streamlife. The research is being conducted under the 208 Water Quality Plan brought about by 1972 legislation that adopted the Clean Water Act. Under that act, the federal government has required that all water in the United States pass certain standards by 1983. Administering the 208 Water Quality Plan locally is the Mountainlands Association of Governments, a tri-county tri-county regional government organization organi-zation that includes Utah, Wasatch and Summit Counties. Ray Loveless, a biologist and 208 project director for Mountainlands, Highway Hearing In September The first, and only, public hearing on the proposed highway improvements im-provements for the Park City area hos been scheduled for next month by the Utah Highway Commission. Location and design features of the highway will be subject to public scrutiny and input at the hearing, to be conducted at the Prospector Square Ski and Conference Center, September 13th at 7:30 p.m. The public hearing is the final step the Utah Department of Transportation Transpor-tation needs to take before submitting the project to detailed planning. Already UDOT has published and locally distributed three environmental environmen-tal evaluation studies on the highway improvements. These improvements entail: widening to four lanes that section of Hwy. 224 that stretches from the Kimball Junction interchange inter-change to 16th Street on Park Ave.; constructing a new alignment, or east-wall realignment, of Hwy. 224 that branches off from Park Ave. at 16th Street, runs roughly along the hillside parallel to Park Ave., and connects with Marsac Ave. near the elementary school; and improving Hwy. 248. Phil Fredrickson, captain of the UDOT team which compiled the three environmental studies, said the meeting provides residents with a chance to air their viewpoints on the highway project. But Fredrickson doubts there will be any recommendations recommen-dations for major alterations of the project. "We'll give a verbal presentation of what we plan on doing and discuss such design features as retaining accesses and changes in vegetation, but we won't tie down any technical features," Fredrickson said. He added ad-ded that the finer details like guard rails, medians and the precise course of the realignment can't be known until un-til the project enters the construction planning stage. Those residents who cannot attend next month's public hearing but wish to express views on the highway project may do so by writing the Utah Transporation Commission, Attention: Atten-tion: James E. Johnson, Community Involvement Officer, Room 612, State Office Building, Salt Lake City, Utah 84114. Such letters must be postmarked post-marked by midnight September 24th in order to be included with the official of-ficial transcripts of the public hearing. Page 5 With a team of big batters, the Giants ' captured the little .League Tournament Saturday. commented that research into the water quality of Easf Canyon Reservoir Reser-voir is being funded by a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. It is a two-phase project that began last October, with field analysis scheduled to be completed next month, and analysis and recommendations recommen-dations made by February. The intensive monitoring of the tributaries to East Canyon to discover the origin of pollutants has required Mountainlands to coordinate the assistance of the Division of Wildlife Resources, the Bureau of Reclamation, Reclama-tion, and the cities and counties within its boundaries. Once the study is completed, public hearings will be held to disclose the findings and to inform the populace what needs to be done. "Since we are only a planning agency, we will take the information gathered through different sources and come up with different solutions to the problem," Loveless said. "Then we'll try to work with whomever needs the assistance. Maybe we'll try to work with the soil conservation district to get cost sharing for the farmer to help clean up the problem. If we find it's urban runoff, say through Park City storm drains that run into the creeks, we'll work with that. We don't know right now what we'll find. We'll analyze the data, come up with the best available technology, and work with different agencies the city to amend its zoning, or whatever. Maybe there is no problem." Field analysis and research into the water quality of East Canyon Reservoir Reser-voir and its tributaries is being conducted by both the Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) and engineers en-gineers from Brigham Young University. Univer-sity. Their findings will be submitted to Mountainlands, who then will solicit help from enforcing agencies within its jurisdiction, including the counties, cities, conservation districts,' forest service, the DWR, and other local, state and federal agencies. Dr. LaVere Merritt of Brigham Young University is a civil engineer who specializes in environmental engineering. Four investigators and three graduate students make up the team Dr. Merritt directs in a variety of water quality projects in Utah and Wyoming. Currently, they are work Council Property For the fourth year in a row. the Park City Council has voted to reduce the property tax rate. In a unanimous vote last Thursday evening, the council adopted a mill levy of 29 mills, down a mill from last year's level. Since 1975, the tax burden bur-den has been cut by eight mills while the city budget has increased more than 100 percent. The mill levy reductions have been made possible by escalating building permits and impact feeseing collected collec-ted as a result of the rapid development develop-ment taking place in Park City. This construction has caused Park City's total valuation to jump from $11.5 million to $17.2 million in one year, a 50 percent increase. Although the city's total valuation climbed dramatically, the valuation for the property encompassed by the redevelopment district actually declined, according to Summit County figures. If true, this would deal a severe setback to redevelopment Number Forty-Eight ing on the chemical analysis and biological food chain processes of East Canyon Reservoir and its tributaries. "Our main concern and the impetus for our studies is the increased activity in the drainage in the Park City and Snyderville area," said Dr. Merritt. "We are looking at the current water quality and what is projected for the next 20 years. Because of the increased load down the canyon into the reservoir, we are concerned with the growth of algae. It is what we call a eutrophic situation-too situation-too many growth nutrients are put into a body of water, which stimulates the algae to overproduce. That causes many problems, including the loss of fish and a change of the aesthetics of the reservoir." Dr. Merritt remarked that the key nutrient in the accelerated algae growth pattern is phosphorus, an element found in high concentrations in sewage. The algae proliferates and dies, using the oxygen in the water to decompose. That means less oxygen for the fish. "This is not usua'iiy a complete kill situation," Dr. Merrit noted, "but it is stressful and can lower the production of fish. Also it changes things aesthetically. The overabundance of algae causing mats of moss to float up on the banks, which decay and cause an odor. It's differnt than most pollution problems because there are no health hazards involved. But it changes the aesthetic and recreational use of the water. "East Canyon Reservoir was man-made man-made 30 or 40 years ago," Dr. Merritt continued. "It had a certain eutrophic level when it was formed. If left alone it would naturally grow and change, but the accelerated growth is what we're looking at." Dr. Merritt said he and his team will study the entire drainage basin and take water samples to check the phosphorus levels. From their findings find-ings they can discern what areas are contributing most heavily city street runoff areas, construction sites, graze land. "Possibly, if nothing is done, East Canyon may deteriorate markedly as a recreation area and fish reservoir," Dr. Merritt said. "The question still Continued On Page 10 Reduces Tax Levy plans since project funding is based on valuation increases within the district. "Either the calculations were made for the wrong area or something was left out," said Councilman Bob Wells Thursday night. "We have proposed that the city accountants review the assessment roles within the redevelopment area to determine what's happened." Based on the $17.2 million valuation, the new mill levy will generate $449,000. The new budget projected property tax revenues totaling $386,000 while an additional $70,000 was expected to go to the redevelopment redevelop-ment district decreased in value, the difference between expected property tax revenues and actual revenues, $63,000 will be earmarked for redevelopment projects. Wells noted that the budget can be opened and modified at a later date if the district's assessed valuation is found to be in error. iieather Widely scattered thunder showers are expected through the weekend. Days should be warmer with highs near 80 and nighttime lows in the 50s. |