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Show Thursday, October 4, 1979 Page 6 5 Water Halt I5 Itliiir I YiiIii.t The significance of a Weber Basin Water Conservancy District decision to slap a moratorium on all new water applications has yet to be felt in the Park City area. The fact is, the impact of that decision will be widespread, wide-spread, affecting both the Salt Lake City resident who wants to build a summer cabin in Summit County and the Kamas area farmer who would like to subdivide an acre of his land so his son can build a home nearby. Of even more significance is that the moratorium may serve to slow some of the developments that in recent years have been transforming transform-ing the sagebrush-covered hills near Park City into a high-priced suburb of Salt Lake City. Tie Up Water Although many of the developers of established projects had the foresight to tie up the necessary water rights, others who bought land on speculation here with an eye to eventually subdiv-ing subdiv-ing it will find the market for Alpine Real Estate Guide Makes Debut This week's Newspaper includes something extra. It's the first-ever issue of the Alpine Real Estate Guide. The Alpine Real Estate Guide is a twice-monthly publication covering both Summit and Wasatch Counties. Coun-ties. In addition to being inserted in every copy of The Newspaper, both those sold at stands and by subscription, subscrip-tion, 2,500 copies of the guide will be distributed on a stand-alone basis. Key distribution dis-tribution points are located throughout Summit and Wasatch Counties along with selected spots in Salt Lake City. According to managing editor Vicki Webber, the emergence of the Alpine Real Estate Guide is the direct result of soaring interest in local real estate. "We have been receiving many requests for subscrip HAPPY HOUR 5 p.m. -7 p.m. Free Hors D' Oeuvres x Specialty Drinks $.85 J I Door J?. Cotiine C rt I X We have a State Liquor Store on the premises ANDREA entertaining Thurs., Fri., Sat., 8:00-11:00 p.m. Contemporary Music at THE YARROW a Holiday Inn 649-8659 1800 Park Ave -w existing water rights tight and expensive. The conservancy district, which controls water rights in Morgan and Summit counties, has said all 50,000-acre 50,000-acre feet of water rights allocated to upstream uses has been sold. That means until a treatment treat-ment plant at Willard Bay is built, the district will accept no more applications for water in Summit County, even from those who just .want to drill a small well to serve a single-family dwelling. dwell-ing. No Assurance And even if the Willard Bay Plant frees more upstream water rights, there is Ho assurance in the areas around Park City that there is sufficient underground water to support unlimited development. Concern about growth in the Snyderville-Parley's Park area, where some predict 40,000 people could be living by 1990, prompted the State Division of Water Rights to undertake a study of underground under-ground water availability tions to The Newspaper because of interest in real estate in Park City and the surrounding areas," Weber said. "We feel the Alpine Real Estate Guide provides a service for prospective buyers and sellers and is a valuable marketing tool for agents, brokers and other real estate-related business persons." The first issue of the new publication features an article on the Deer Valley resort and a profile of Heber realtor Brent C. Hill. mmmmmm PUB Will be Felt this summer. According to hydrologist Rex Larsen, the three-month study is nearly complete, but may not be released to the public for several months. He says Weber Basin's decision was made independent indepen-dent of the results of the study. Provide Answer In the meantime, the net effect of the conservancy district's decision may be to provide the answer to the oft-asked oft-asked question here: "What are the limits to growth in Summit County?" "We don't have unlimited resources, Ithink that's a lesson-we've got to learn," says Summit County Planner Plan-ner Stan Strebel, who thinks the major impact of the moratorium will be to curtail growth outside of towns with established water systems. "It appears to me that it will severely curtail the growth we've seen alongside county roads in the Kamas and Oakley areas," he said. Show Proof The moratorium will mean new building in Summit County will now have to occur within the city limits of towns or subdivisions with water systems and the pressure on small towns here to annex will undoubtedly be intense. Mr. Strebel also predicts there will be a tougher attitude by the county toward to-ward issuing building per-, mits, with those wanting to build summer cabins and homes in unincorporated areas having to show proof of both water rights and physical physi-cal water. In the areas surrounding Park City, Mr. Strebel says, many developers foresaw the water crunch. "Those that are on the ball tied up their water rights a long time ago." One of those projects that won't be slowed initially is the Silver Springs development develop-ment near Snyderville, with plans for the construction of 1,277 homes and condominiums condomin-iums over 10 years. ill' I I u I I I ROCK&ROLLM 1 5" 11 pllliRevival DiscoJll g W a mimm J? Tickets Available: Chamber of Commerce Alamo Saloon K.A.C. "The developer has been working on the water for eight years, they're in pretty good shape," sand Van Martin, project planner with Jack Johnson & Associates, the firm designing Silver Springs. Fronts 1-80 According to planning consultant con-sultant Max Greenhalgh, the same is true of the massive Jeremy Ranch project, which fronts along 1-80 in the Parley's Summit Area. "We've got the water rights for the first three phases," says Greenhalgh. The project will encompass l2,uoo acres, with golf course and 1,200 building lots. But of other less-established projects, Mr. Greenhalgh Green-halgh said, "Short term this is going to Tiuft the guy who wants to get started up here and there's plenty of those around." A former planner for Summit Sum-mit County, Mr. Greenhalgh Is now working "with the" county and some of the major developers in the area to form a special services district to pool the water resources in the Snyderville basin. Power Tax Such a district would have the power to tax and could, by building one large system, sys-tem, consolidate both water resources and system maintenance. main-tenance. "There's no sense in having eight different systems out there," said Mr. Greenhalgh, who also takes issue with the manner in which the Weber Basin district is allocating water in the area. "I think it's a joke the way Weber Basin looks at water" he said, adding, "no matter how much we use up here the water goes back into the ground and is still available for use downstream." Mr. Greenhalgh favors "multi-allocation" of water, stating, "Our best bet is to convince Weber Basin to allow the double use of water. We'd use it up here and then let people downstream down-stream use it again." The Mayor wants Dick back... The Council wants Dick back... Council VOTE OCTOBER 9 PAID FOR BY THE COMMITTEE TO ELECT DICK mam SHOFF |