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Show Mountainland tries to halt funds for Park City Community Clinic The Newspaper Wednesday, April 1, 1981 Page All For the second consecutive year, the Mountainland Association As-sociation of Governments (MAG) has voted not to approve funding for the Park City Community Clinic. Mountainland, a regional organization representing city and county governments in Summit, Wasatch and Utah Counties, performs an annual A-95 review of federal funds requested by local agencies. The Park City Community Clinic was established es-tablished last year to provide family planning services to local residents. "Mountainland has a policy poli-cy that it will not okay an A-95 review where funds are going to a private organiza tion not answerable to the public," Summit County Commissioner Carl Ovard explained. "This is no different differ-ent than many other ( private agencies) that come before us." The Mountainland vote came Thursday at a meeting in the Summit County Courthouse Court-house in Coalville. The Community Com-munity Clinic had requested approval of a $59,800 federal grant for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Mountainland Executive Director Homer Chandle listed several other private organizations for which Mountainland will not approve ap-prove federal funding because be-cause they are not answer able to the taxpayer. That list included the L'tah Migrant Mi-grant Council and the Coalition Coali-tion for Senior Citizens. "I could go on and on," Chandler said. "There are many examples. Some of these groups have been trying try-ing to use federal monies for years, and we've opposed this." Community Clinic Director Direct-or Diana Maxell, who was present at Thursday's meeting, meet-ing, told The Newspaper she attempted to show that there was public participation. "I tried to point out that there was a tremendous amount of overview going on all the time." Chandler said there was one way to get around the problem. "I suggested to her that there is a way to overcome our concerns, and that is to make an arrangement with the State Health Department, Depart-ment, which has a family planning program," Chandler Chand-ler recalled. "But she said they want to run their own program without the supervision super-vision of the state." " But Maxell contends the solution isn't quite that simple. sim-ple. "It's true, we're not willing to go through the State Health Department," she said. "The reality of it is, that's really not an option." She explained that the director of the State Health New board will oversee changes in historic district In an effort to more closely oversee development in Park City's old town area, the City Council last week unanimously passed an ordinance or-dinance creating a Historic District Commission. The purpose of the new five-person commission is to preserve the diverse architectural ar-chitectural styles that reflect the city's building histcry, and to encourage complimentary, contemporary contem-porary design and construction construc-tion in the historic district. In addition, the commission's com-mission's job will be to protect and enhance the city's attraction to visitors, to resolve conflicts between the preservation of cultural resources and alternating land uses, and to protect historic landmarks. Up to this point, overseeing over-seeing the preservation of historic structures and con struction of new buildings within the historic district has been the responsibility of the Planning Commission. But in the past several months, discussion has centered cen-tered around creating a board made up of members with expertise in historic preservation. preser-vation. As outlined in the new ordinance, or-dinance, the Historic District Commission will include in-clude a licensed" architect or member of the American Society of Interior Design with experience in historic preservation; a member recommended by either the local or state historical society or the Utah Heritage Foundation; a resident of the historic district with a demonstrated interest and knowledge of historic preservation; a member of the Planning Commission; and an at-large member irom rarK uty witn a demonstrated interest and knowledge of preservation. In addition, non-voting members will attend the commission meetings and will include a member of the planning department and a member of the Redevelopment Redevelop-ment Agency. ' The commission will meet as often as is necessary to review and make decisions on all requests for construction, construc-tion, demolition, alteration or location of any building or physical element of a building ( including signs and lights) within the historic district. In addition, the commission will recommend to the City Council standards to be used by the board, research funding mechanisms to promote preservation of the city's cultural resources, recommend recom-mend zoning and zone boun dary changes for the district to preserve the historic integrity in-tegrity of the area, and offer advice to those property owners who wish to restore, alter or in any way decorate structures or landmark sites within the district. It is pointed out in the new ordinance that the Historic District Commission will have no authority to waive requirements of existing city ordinances, and will not be responsible for approval of subdivisions, conditional uses, or planned unit development applications. Those areas still will be handled han-dled by the Planning Commission. Com-mission. Before the Historic District Commission can go to work, the City Council must accept applications and appoint members, alter which those members will set up operating procedures. Thaynes residents challenge subdivision Loud voices disrupted the discussion at last Wednesday's Wednes-day's Planning Commission meeting on a proposed development de-velopment in Thaynes Canyon. Can-yon. A group of home-owners in the area hotly opposed the project, and their protests led the commission to set a further public hearing on the- matter in May. Park City Resort President Presi-dent Ray Johnson proposed a three lot sibdivision for the southwest corner of Morning Star Drive and Thaynes Canyon Can-yon Drive near the 15th hole of the city golf course. But homeowners charged the project would eliminate open space and a view of Thaynes Canyon they said had been promised to them when they bought their property. "We believe we have an absolute right to look up that canyon," can-yon," one man said. Resident Dick Shoff said in a letter to the commission , that the subdivision violated a gentlemen's agreement. Shoff said the city had wanted to buy the property now in question when it was negotiating with the resort in the early 70's to buy the golf course property. "This was to satisfy the concern of Thaynes Canyon Subdivision residents that the open space and view of the canyon would not be destroyed by the addition of four homesites proposed by the resort at that time." Shoff, who said the parcel in question was kept by the resort. Johnson agreed, he said, not to build a subdivision subdivi-sion there, but to use it as a single lot for his own home. After the letter was read to the commission, Johnson stepped forward and said, "That's a damn lie!" - Dick Shoff, also present at the meeting, leaped out of his seat angrily, but Johnson persisted, "There was no agreement that parcel would be left open, Dick. I only mentioned that to you as something I might do! " (Johnson later struck a conciliatory note by asking the panel to strike his "damn lie" remark from the record. "Dick and I have been friends for years. I'm just saying he's got the wrong information," said Johnson.) Shoff's case, however, was apparently reaffirmed by another letter of protest to the planning board by Jack J. Johnson, who said he worked as a planner-engineer planner-engineer for the Greater Park City Co. from 1972 to 1975. Johnson charged that in 1971 and 1972 the resort expanded its nine-hole golf course to a n 18-hole course which would abut areas (Thaynes Canyon number 1 and number 2 and resort property) that would be used for residential development. However, said Johnson, the resort also planned to preserve pre-serve other small parcels of land "to maintain certain windows or view corridors throughout the golf course and its interspersed development." develop-ment." J. Johnson said the proposed subdivision known as Thaynes Canyon number 7) would shut off one of those "windows." He said, "(It) would virtually eliminate the view of Thaynes Canyan itself it-self when driving and-or walking on Thaynes Canyon Drive southerly from Payday Pay-day Drive." "There seems to be a long history of an understanding of that property as open space," said commissioner Bill Mammen. But City Planner Bill Lige-ty Lige-ty said it would be difficult to deny Ray Johnson's proposed pro-posed project, for two reasons. rea-sons. First, the area has been zoned RD (residential development) since 1976. "The Thaynes Canyon number num-ber 7 proposal has no topography topo-graphy problems it is set on flat ground and on the surface sur-face it appears to meet the conditions we would set for that project." If the commission commis-sion rejected the project, he said, their decision could be challenged in court as "arbitrary "arbi-trary and capricious." Mrs. Clinton Tinker, a Thaynes Canyon resident, attacked what she termed as the deterioration of the area. "When we bought our property, proper-ty, we thought 'How green is my valley'. But now the charm of Park City is going down the drain," she said. "The greed of the developers is unbelievable!" "You and the other residents," resi-dents," said Chairman Greg Lawson, "are going to have a chance to indicate your concerns." con-cerns." The historical, legal, and ethical aspects of Thaynes Canyon number 7 will be further explored at the public hearing set for the fourth Wednesday of May. e!taedMe m CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Wednesday Evening Meeting Public Warmly Welcome 649-7264 7:30 p.m. 649-7812 833 Quaking Aspen Court LUTHERAN SERVICES Sunday Worship at St. Luke Episcopal Church 525 Park Avenue 649-7889 Everyone Welcome All Dinners Include X f Bonanza Salad Bar Seasoned Rice Hot Rolls & Butter Partial Menu Top Sirloin 8 oz. . 7.95 Top Sirloin 11 oz. 8.95 Teriyaki Sirloin 8.50 London Broil 7.95 Beef and Bird 6.95 Chicken Cordon Bleu 6.95 Fresh Snapper 5.95 Shrimp Scampi 9.95 Halibut ' 7.95 Seafood Boat 9.95 Steak & Sea Combo 12.50 m mm Department refuses to fund programs which do not have the support of the local government. gov-ernment. 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