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Show Omnlffsst Corp. 11 3322 So. 3rd Ea3t gaU CHy. UT 84U5 Page 6 Park City's newest dentist has plans that will take the wince out of a trip to the tooth doctor. Page 11 If last week' success of Romanoff and Juliet is any indication, Park City has spawned a community theatre. Fair weather through the weekend with seasonal temperatures. Highs will be around 80 with lows in the mid 40s. Twenty-Five Cents Volume Four numnl nmniniu Thursday, August 23, 1979 Number Forty-Nine County ealth Board Axes Cli nic Despite apparent support by Park City residents, the Summit County Board of Health Tuesday night terminated termi-nated the Park City Family Planning Plan-ning Clinic after only four months operation. After two hours of sometimes emotional debate, the health board voted 6-1 against continuing the twice-monthly twice-monthly clinics. Park City board member Otis Falls cast the only vote in favor of the program. Over 100 people crowded into the Coalville Courthouse for the public hearing on whether or not the board should renew the agreement with the Utah Division of Health for the federal "pass through" money that funds the clinic. By a show of hands, the overwhelming over-whelming majority of those in the audience indicated they opposed the clinic, several expressing fears concerning con-cerning availability of contraceptives to minors, abortion and the use of federal funds for such a program. However, when asked how many of those in opposition to the clinic were residents of Park City, no hands were raised, adding credence to reports earlier in the week that there had been a well-organized telephone campaign cam-paign to get residents from Coalville, Kamas and Henefer to attend the meeting. This prompted Summit County Health Director Robert Schapper to observe Wednesday: "Once again Park City has had something taken away from it by the other end of the county." At Tuesday's meeting Schapper spoke in favor of the clinic, which was started in April after 375 Park City residents signed a petition of support. In a prepared hand-out, the health director said family planning programs are estimated to save taxpayers tax-payers $1.80 for every $1.00 spent, partly because of early detection of cervical cancer. Park City board member Otis Falls also spoke in favor of the clinic, asking: "What is the real cost related to adolescent pregnancy?" " "Family planning deals with prevention unintended pregnancy costs taxpayers money," Falls stated, citing the latest available statistics indicating Summit County has the highest abortion rate in the state. Kathy Waldo, from the Utah Family Planning Agency, spoke next, stating: "This program is an alternative to abortion." She said the state agency had been "extremely pleased" with the operation of the Park City Clinic, adding ad-ding it had been well supported by residents and the City Council. Those speaking in favor of the program, however, were in the minority Tuesday night, with the five board members from North and South Summit expressing strong opposition. A commonly voiced concern had to do with the use of federal money for a program of this nature. Carl Ovard, board member and Summit County commissioner, stated "I'm not opposed op-posed to family planning, but I am opposed op-posed to the concept of the federal government being involved." He went on to say he was opposed to "using tax money to provide contraceptives," con-traceptives," especialy in a community com-munity that has "an average income of $12,500 per year." A newly appointed representative on the board from the Kamas area expressed her opposition on more philosophical grounds. She asked if the clinic's purpose extended ex-tended "beyond Christian beliefs," concluding: "I don't think a clinic has more wisdom than the Lord." That observation was supported by Continued on Page 3 Subdivision Action Stalled Final approval of two major subdivisions sub-divisions was withheld at last Thursday's Thurs-day's City Council meeting after an unusually large and vocal audience aired questions and concerns for more than an hour. The topic of the sometimes heated conversations was the 93-lot American Ameri-can Flag subdivision in Deer Valley, and the 70-lot Quarry Hills subdivision 0 pera In The Park hth$ jffj ' f ; ! ?--tV) fit -wC, h' 1 , If L S i In v L I ill 'sc'iy """ " """ "' " ""3 r- ;-Jf . , mT 1 ll 4v, r-tvi - .&iJ l I 1 'i x , 4 "J"'1'"' ' Hot on the heels of the Utah Symphony's free concert here, the Utah Opera Company Com-pany will perform at City Park on Labor Day. See story on Page 7. north of Park Meadows. Final approval by the City Council and the plat signing by Mayor Jack Green is generally a formality that follows the months-long reviewing and approval process by the city's Planning Commission. But the formality became be-came an hour-long interrogation and information session, with Jack Johnson of J.J. Johnson and Associates Associ-ates fielding the questions. Of concern to the audience was assurance that an approved flood control plan be obtained before council approval of the subdivisions, and that state established provisions guarding against erosion be implemented. imple-mented. Johnson countered that the developers develop-ers had complied with specific city ordinance requirements, which led to approval by the Planning Commission. Commis-sion. "I think we've complied with everything we need to at this point," Johnson remarked. City Attorney Mike McCoy responded respond-ed in favor of Johnson's comments, noting that the city has only "minor discretion" to turn down subdivision requests once city law is met. Continued on Page 3 Another Lengthy Planning Agenda A typically long list of new developments and an unusually large audience that raised questions and concerns about Park City growth kept the Planning Commission discussion meeting in session until past midnight August 15. On the agenda were proposals for two condominium projects, two hotels, a planned unit development, three duplexes and a state liquor store. Park City Boardwalk Plans for a nine-unit condominium project to be located on Marsac Avenue across from the elementary school was met with concerns and questions from both the planning commissioners and the audience. The project was presented as four, two-story buildings designed in a quasi-Victorian architecture. Two biddings would be situated on Marsac with a driveway leading back to the other two buildings. Commission chairman Burnis Watts asked the proponents to secure a letter from the state of Utah Continued On Page 3 TH 1 P!Ekl L. J I S - " k - - Otis Falls was the only County Health Board Member to vote in favor of the Family Planning Clinic. Citizens Group Not 'Exclusive' To erase feelings that the newly formed Concerned Citizens of Park City is an "exclusive group," the organization held another meeting Tuesday night at the high school. Addressing a gathering of about 80 persons, steering committee member Mary Lehmer said the city had been divided into nine districs. A chairman was chosen for each district who was charged with compiling a list of concerns, which was presented in the form of recommendations to the City Council at its August 16 meeting. Mrs. Lehmer said the Tuesday night session was a repeat of the meeting that produced the list of concerns. Lehmer noted that she had heard complaints that the list was formulated for-mulated by "exclusive group." "We want to provide a chance for all to participate," she said. Lehmer told the audience that members of the Concerned Citizens had caused postponement of a decision on two subdivisions brought before the City Council last Thursday . (see related article) . But the former city councilwoman noted that the group is "not opposed to growth" as long as it is orderly. Lehmer said that the list of recommendations was accepted by the council with assurances that they would be studied and addressed. "We look forward to good cooperation and good things from them (the Council)," she remarked Tuesday. Park City resident Dan Christians objected to the method of dividing the city into districts, saying the older part of town should be given more clout. Bob Pinder responded that many former old town residents now reside in Park Meadows and Holiday Ranch. He said these citizens are "very aware of the problems in the old part of town" but claimed the newer areas are more sensitive to the problems being experienced by the city. "The particular neighborhood problems prob-lems are insignificant compared to the overall problems," he said. Wayne Putman disagreed with Pinder's observation. "I can count the number of people who have moved (from the old part of town) to Park Meadows on my hand," Putman said, "and they hate it." The full meeting then subdivided into district meetings, with each district electing a representative and compiling com-piling a list of five concerns. ' The Concerned Citizens of Park City will meet again on August 30. At that meeting articles of association will be presented for adoption and council board officers will be elected from the general membership. Also, a membership mem-bership list will be compiled and attached to the articles of association. According to steering committee member Julie Bertagnole, the district representatives will meet with their area members once a month. They then will meet with the council officers, also on a monthly basis. Continued On Page 15 Mines Will Open In the not-too-distant-future, mining sounds once again will be heard in the tunnels under Park City. Following a special stockholders meeting of the United Park City Mines Monday where near unanimous approval ap-proval was given to transfer operations opera-tions from Park City Ventures, the Canadian-based Noranda Mines Limited Limi-ted announced their intention to reopen the local mines. In May, Noranda Explorations Inc., the Denver-based affiliate of the Toronto company, paid $300,000 to Park City Ventures, operators of the Park City mine and mill, for the right to inspect the property. The option to take over the lease expired Tuesday, and now Noranda will pay Ventures an additional $200,000, plus $3 million in $1 million annual installments. The total payment will be $3.5 million. Continued on Page 9 |