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Park City, Utah 84060 Restaurant Seafood Beef Oyster Bar Set Sail For Park City's Finest Restaurant SERVING DINNER NIGHTLY FROM 5:00 At the Resort 649-7778 City working now on 21st century problems The Snyderville Basin may be home for as many as 55,000 people by the year 2010. and a major industrial park and regional shopping center already are being planned for the area. What other changes are due, and how will they affect the quality of life in Park City? The city is attempting to find answers for those questions ques-tions by formulating a series of documents that together make up its goal-making machinery. A big part of the job will be a series of public meetings, and City Planner Bill Ligety said he will try to start that process within two to three weeks. Consultant Nolan Rosall from the planning firm of Gage-Davis is helping Ligety, and he said that it is important for the public to attend the meetings. "Their input is important," said Rosall. "They are liable to wish later that they had come to talk about some of the decisions that will be made." Here are some of the plans the city is working on: An update to a comprehensive compre-hensive plan for the area. Rosall said the plan would look ahead to the year 2000, making projections on the probable population, its composition, and its needs. "What kind of services in sewer, water, fire, police-will police-will be required?" asked Rosall. A comprehensive plan was done in 1973, he said, but no update has been done since then. An annexation policy. A recent state annexation law gave cities greater discretion discre-tion in annexing areas, said Rosall. For instance, the city can initiate an annexation proposal if the area is within a half mile of city property. But how should the city use its new prerogatives? It is generally recognized, said the consultant, that the city now can ask an annexed development to provide employee housing, but what kind and how much? How should the phasing of such developments be controlled? "We're developing scenarios to show the costs of various kinds of annexation," he said. "We can then recommend recom-mend what would be appropriate appro-priate for the city to request from developers in various situations." Currently, the city has no annexation policy. The city also has no hillside ordinance at present. "We're studying what kind of ridge lines to preserve visually. What areas we will save from development," Rosall said. The ordinance will contain a set of performance perfor-mance standards that will protect the area from scarring. scar-ring. Yet, he added, the standards can't be just a series of obstructions to the developer. "The builder comes to regard those as a series of hoops that he soon learns to jump through," said the consultant. A capital improvements program. This kind of plan, said Ligety, only exists very loosely in the yearly budgets. The new goal, said Rosall, is to look at the kind of budgeting budget-ing available, and to examine ex-amine the costs of operation and maintenance that would come with each improvement. improve-ment. Revise the present zon-regulations. zon-regulations. In addition, revise the review process by which city planners seek to apply the zoning laws to proposed developments. (This review process, said Ligety, exists presently as only a few paper. ) loose sheeia ol i ; ri l i.i(4'i s.'id all of the above programs will be approved by either the Planning Commission, the City Council, or both. "Both bodies will at least have a look at all the plans," said Ligety. Rosall said the city should update these plans at least every four to five years or even better, every two to three years. The planning process is so complex that considering just one single entity brings in a whole web of questions from all of the areas considered con-sidered above. We took, for example, Highway 224, running run-ning from Park City to Kimball Junction, and asked Rosall to detail the questions he would have to handle concerning just, that thin strip of highway. "We would consider the land use along that corridor," corri-dor," said Rosall. "We would consider the amount of traffic going to and from Park City, above and beyond the local traffic. How many left-hand turns should be made. How many lanes, how much right-of-way will be necessary in the future. Should there be bikeways? Should there be bus stops, and if so, how many and where? What kind of housing design standards and setbacks set-backs should you have along that road? "How many roads or driveways do you have along the road." The more points of entry for traffic, he explained, ex-plained, the more even flow along that road is impeded. "Maybe you'll try to reduce the number of driveways there." Rosall said the answers will be taken from several perspectives economics, the environmental impact, the aesthetics. He will also draw his data from a wide variety of sources the stats, county, local transportation transpor-tation engineer, and Moun-tainlands Moun-tainlands Association of Governments. Rosall said a Salt Lake engineering firm, EWP Systems, has been retained and a San Francisco Francis-co firm called Economic Research Associates is helping help-ing to formulate economic projections. But, when you ask Rosall and Ligety what small army is helping them gather the data, you find the work force basically is made up of the two men and their staffs. Yet Rosall said the process is expected to take only six to seven months. "We will have to be fast. We don't have the time and the budget for an immense amount of research," re-search," he said. "We're pulling together a lot of different things." Ligety said Rosall is im portant to the process because be-cause he is not frantically playing catch-up ball, like the city planning staff, and can see problems from a clearer perspective. After all, Ligety recalled, it was only last year that he acquired ac-quired his first staff planner. Last summer, he said, he was making "crisis revisions" revi-sions" to the Land Manag-ment Manag-ment Code. And his staff still is busy with planning and zoning work. "Nolan can see the obvious solutions that don't appear to us because we have our noses to the grindstone," said Ligety. Some of the public meetings meet-ings will be oriented to a particular neighborhood, said Rosall. Others will be more general. All of them will be important. "I hope we don't see people coming only to the later meetings and not the early ones," said Rosall. "The citizens can help fine-tune the documents," said Ligety. "They can not only indicate the areas with problems, but the areas with opportunities." Rude is in, declares City Council Mayor Jack Beige and the City Council passed a resolution resolu-tion designating April 22-29 as Rudeness Week in Park City. . Mayor Beige explained the purpose of the special seven-day seven-day period. "Throughout the year, Park City employees and residents must patiently endure the stream of visitors constantly demanding services, ser-vices, asking directions, and generally treating Parkites as if they were doing us a HOW THE CITY COUNCIL VOTED... Thursday, March 26 MOTIONS' to Y ' llf Alvarez Lewis .Marline. Sliellcnlierger Wells "SSSr yes 'es absent absent yes I Approve bills paid and I checks written for period absent absent yes I March 10 -March 24. J" I Approve ordinance creating I an Historic District yes yes absent yes yes I Commission. I Approve amendment to sub- I division ordinance to yes yes absent yes yes I guarantee improvements. J I favor by allowing us to grease their Rossignols and kiss their Nordicas. "Since the economic life-blood life-blood of the town depends on good relations with tourists, we strongly encourage the community to treat tourists with courtesy and respect. However, we also feel the locals should have a time during the year, preferably the off-season, when they can blow off steam. Therefore, There-fore, during Rudeness Week, April 22-29, if a tourist asks you for help or assistance, feel free to respond in the following waVs: "Hey, bite my shorts!" "Can't you see I'm reading?" . "It's been a long day. What is it?" "Oh, are you supposed to be somebody?" "Stick it where the snow never falls!" Mayor Beige told City Manager Marlene Mogul to have the order published in both city newspapers. "Sure, Jack," snapped Mogul. "Pull the other one, while vou're at it." she said, folding the resolution into a paper airplane and throwing it out the window. Smile You Fool HOW THE PLANNING COMMISSION VOTED... motions Lai iH! m m M m B. COLEMAN , R. DAVIDSON B. WATTS D. BERRETT B. MAMMEN W. BISHOP M. VANCE Approving Greg Lawson as new chairman. yes yes yes absent yes yes yes Approving Mike Vance as co- yes yes yes absent yes yes yes chairman. SSlSesofJaa'"' yes yes yes absent yes yes yes XISCSSta,. yes absent yes yes yes Approval for one sign for Calico Katie s; two for park Meadows yes abstain yes absent yes yes yes Approval of retail building on southeast corner of u-248 and yes yes yes absent yes yes yes Woodbine Way. To table subject of office building , . (U-248 and Monitor) until Board yeS yeS yeS absent yeS yeS yeS of Adj. review. Approval of changes to Yellow nQ a aWnt no no n Slicker four-plex (9th & Lowell). " " aDSem 110 no HO Approval of changes for Prospector Pros-pector Ridge plat, stipulating no yes yes yes absent ves yes ves changes in density. . J |