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Show Page 16 5 Thursday, November 1, 1979 Historic Miners Hospital May Be Moving Soon (Again) Things are really moving in Park City, and any day now one of them ought to be the Miner's Hospital. After nearly near-ly two years of controversy and conversation, the relocation reloca-tion site was given final approval last week, but not everyone was happy with the decision. City Councilman Bob Wells, who appeared as a liaison at last Wednesday's Planning Commission meeting, told the commissioners the building build-ing is ready for the move from Empire Avenue to its new Park Avenue site. Once relocated, he said, the building build-ing will be renovated and could be used by a variety of city entities, including the recreation department, the Chamber of Commerce, city building inspection office, or a museum. Wells noted the building will be moved laboriously down Empire, across Park Avenue, Ave-nue, in front of the Snow Country condominiums and down a temporary road built on top of the railroad tracks. Plans call for the hospital to be moved within the next week. Wells said. Bruce Erickson, a planner for J.J.Johnson Assoc., told the commissioners the building build-ing would be placed on a piece of city property just east of where the tent has been standing this summer on Park Avenue. The planner plan-ner said extensive landscaping landscap-ing is planned and will include formal gardens, walkways and benches to encourage visitors and locals to enjoy the historic building and its surroundings. Park City resident and former City Councilwoman Mary Lehmer commented, "The city spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy park land, and now they want td. put this crummy building en it. First there should be an analysis to see if it's even useable. It's a piece of junk right now. I think a decision should be made after the new City Council is in to revoke what this one did. You should stop right now and hear some of the citizen commentary. I've heard nothing but dissention ever since the day everyone heard the hospital wasn't going to the Depot." Commissioner Greg Law-son Law-son noted he would be in favor of having a public hearing to determine public sentiment over the building's location. Wells said emphatically, em-phatically, "This whole thing has been beaten around for a year and a half. The proposed pro-posed property isn't being used right now." Erickson concurred, adding the property in question currently is overgrown with sagebrush, and the move will mean landscaping, added city office space and a nicer Park Avenue view to City Park. He pointed out the building would only occupy a plot 40' x 40', a total of 1,700 square feet to be taken away from useable park space. "If it's only sagebrush, why hasn't the city done something some-thing about it before this?" Lehmer asked. "All I've been hearing from everyone is how we need more park space, and now you're going to put an old building on what we have. I think it should go on the Depot property where it was supposed to in the first place." Depot project partner and commissioner Bill Coleman commented, "When the Depot Project was mentioned men-tioned as a possible site, that's all it was, it wasn't a promised site. There were several different locations proposed for the hospital relocation, but all lend themselves to city property that has another use. This piece of land is used only as a sandpit volleyball court. As for the renovation, it may or may not be at the expense of the city that hasn't been determined yet. This hospital hos-pital move has not been pasted together quickly you're trying to lead us: in a different direction vvi'h your comments, Maiy." Commissioner ftliKe Vance asked Mrs. Lehmer if her objections were aimed at the proposed location or use of the building. She responded, "I want the building in the Depot Project where it originally was supposed to go so the city doesn't have to use the existing park space and then have to go out and purchase more park land at today's prices." Erickson commented, "I don't know what else to say. Nowhere can you go in town and sit in the sun and look at the mountain. We've got planned gardening, flowers, planters, seating. We want people to come here and walk around and sit down and enjoy the area. What could be more park-like? I feel really bad, Mary. We thought you'd be proud of the damn thing." The relocation site and the landscaping plans were unanimously approved by the commission. Cable T.V. Norwalk Television architect archi-tect John Carbine returned to the Planning Commission meeting last week seeking conditional use approval for a cable television office and antennas to be located in Prospector Square. A special input session was called October 10 when proposed plans for a 100-foot receiving antenna drew concerns con-cerns from residents. It was standing room only at the public hearing, but few complaints were aired. At that meeting, Carbine said after hearing initial complaints, com-plaints, engineers reexamined re-examined the tower and were able to reduce its height to 80 feet and still receive an acceptable signal. In addition, addi-tion, a 20-foot diameter parabolic microwave receiving receiv-ing dish is planned for the area. At last week's meeting, Carbine reiterated engineers had reduced the height of the antenna, although they tried unsuccessfully to relocate it in a more obscure area. Commissioner Mike Vance commented, "I felt from the beginning the thing shouldn't go there, and if there was a great outcry at the public hearing I intended to vote against it. I didn't hear that outcry." Carbine responded, "None of us wanted it to go there, but it's the only place for it to go and still get a strong signal without interference. We will plant as large a tree as possible to mitigate that overwhelming feeling the community and developers have. We took the commission's commis-sion's suggestion and will paint the tower an earth-tone earth-tone so when viewed from the north, it will blend in more with the mountain. Our intention has only been to provide cable television service and cooperate fully with the residents and the city," Carbine concluded. Commissioner Lawson made a motion to approve the cable offices and antennas, an-tennas, and the conditional use application was granted. Commissioner Rusty Davidson David-son abstained from the vote. Wildwood Planner Van Martin of J.J.Johnson Assoc. returned to the Planning Commission seeking conditional use approval ap-proval for the fourth time for 28 Wildwood hotel-apartment units to be located on Woodside and 14th Street. Martin told the commission that since the last meeting he had obtained sewer and fire district approval for the project and a letter from Bush and Gudgell engineering engineer-ing firm for a proper system to deal with water run-off. The planner noted there was concern at the last meeting that units may have been platted on dedicated streets, and the developers intended to acquire the land from the city. One area resident, Fannie Williams, jumped to her feet and angrily asked how the city was able to sell the property to the developers. She noted she had been informed by lawyers that if dedicated streets are vacated, va-cated, the ownership of the land reverts back to the abutting land owners, not the city. A survey of her Norfolk Avenue property shows the streets were dedicated to the city by previous property owners, and should be returned re-turned to the existing owners for resale to the Wildwood proponents, rather than the city selling the land and reaping the profits, she said. Mrs. Williams contended the city has in the past illegally vacated streets and sold the property, and it was her intention to stop that from happening in her neighborhood. neigh-borhood. Abutting property owner Gary Boyle said land owners on both sides of the Wildwood project have come to an agreement with the city and the developers, but the woman argued a street vacated on one end for a particular project affected residents on the other end, too. City Attorney Mike McCoy, who at first contended the city was within its rights to vacate and then sell the street property, advised the developers to research the question more fully. "If the approval of this project is contingent on the sale of dedicated street property by the city, and it's possible there will be litigation litiga-tion and it's possible the city can't uphold it, perhaps it would be better if the developers get a decision from the city." Commissioner Rusty Davidson asked the Norfolk resident how development on Woodside affected her down the road. She responded, 'I don't think you should be allowed to build on a street that has not been legally vacated." Abutting property owner Mrs. Yates told the commission commis-sion a 19' x 100' piece of property included in the Wildwood plans was actually owned by her. "How many units would you scale for that piece of property?" Mrs. Yates asked. "I've been fighting that boundary for quite some time." Commission Chairman Burnis Watts commented, "This becomes more and more mystifying. It behoves the developer to get a letter from the. city. I suggest we table this issue for not." Commissioner Bill Coleman recommended the vacation dispute be taken before the City Council, and Commissioner Commis-sioner Davidson moved the Wildwood project be tabled. Prospector Ridge A 160-unit planned unit development to be located adjacent to Prospector Square and Prospector Park was granted approval at last Wednesday night's commission commis-sion meeting. Planner Martin remarked that previous commission concerns included the amount of open space incorporated in-corporated in the project and the road access. When Martin noted that 70 percent of the area was left as open space by the clustering cluster-ing of the units, Commissioner Commis-sioner Davidson asked how much of that area was actually useable space. "For hiking and equestrian uses, the area is great," Martin responded. "It couldn't be used for football, for instance. There's about two acres that would be great for that." Martin continued that the fire district requested a second access be incorporated incorpor-ated into the plans for emergency purposes. The planner said currently there is planned an access out of the north end of the project, with a dirt road access exiting from the south over the ridge into Deer Valley. The planner's concern was another access may not be used just for emergencies, but would encourage traffic past residential areas through the whole development. develop-ment. Commissioner Greg Law-son Law-son said despite the possible traffic increase through the development, he felt it important im-portant to have a properly maintained, permanent second access through the project. Commissioner Davidson moved the commission grant preliminary approval of Prospector Ridge, contingent contin-gent on the inclusion of a second access and final fire district approval. Mike Vance seconded the motion, and the project was approved. ap-proved. Park City Reservations The decision to grant approval ap-proval of a professional off ce to be located in a train car at the Park City Depot was tabled until further research is conducted. Planner Bruce Erickson told the commission the access planned for the train car onto Park Avenue eventually even-tually will be moved to the state highway when it is built. He added, however, that Park City Reservations currently is located on the bottom of Main Street and its relocation to the Depot Project would not create any more traffic since customers must drive up Park Avenue anyway. Commissioner Davidson said he was not opposed to the train car as. an office, but "so far the things actually approved for that area are much different than the conception. I can see month after month different pieces coming in for changes. I think we can get piece-mealed piece-mealed until there's just a hodge-podge at the Depot Project. It's just not what was presented." Chairman Watts said, "I'm not a lover of train cars. But my major concern in turning Park Avenue into a commercial com-mercial strip." Depot Project partner Harry Reed asked, "What if someone came in here with plans for a 20-plex? The impact would be a lot more than this." After more discussion, commissioner Kurt Nelson moved approval be denied. When there was no second, Commissioner Greg Lawson moved the project be tabled until further investigation into the whole project. Davidson Da-vidson seconded the motion. Commissioner Vance voted in favor of the motion, while Nelson voted no, and Bill Coleman, a Depot Project partner, abstained. More Approvals Also at the October 24 meeting, the Planning Commission Com-mission approved plans for the Eddington Apartments which includes six apartment apart-ment units at 1475 Park Avenue and six units at 1465 Park Avenue, to be used as nightly rentals. An eight-unit condominium project to be constructed on Marsac Avenue across from the elementary school was approved. Parking for the project will be completely underground, with access from one large area through staircases leading into the separate units. The Soap Opera laundromat laundro-mat to be located in the Holiday Village Shopping Center also was approved. Included in the laundromat will be 30 washing machines, 15 dryers, five 25-lb. capacity washers, folding counters, and a one-day dry cleaning drop-off service. mmmmmm (ITALIAN CUISINE) Join Us!! Open Wednesday Saturday 6-10:30 412 Main Street 649-8211 HOW ABOUT IT? WHY ARE YOU VOTING FOR TOM SHELLENBERGER? TOM SCHWENK Because he understands understan-ds the need for improved emergency medical care. t - . : , !" -.-.'. - V ' - J. f.v.: l . ' " .' ; rtt iy ' V44J RAY ROBINSON Because he cares about Park City. TOM SCHWENK Doctor ' - J JIM DOILNEY-I know Tom well and I . RAY ROBINSON believe in him. He is a proven doer. 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