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Show riilillCB I ' ' ' ' vL!711 VJ XJJ Park City, Utah 250 Vol. VI, No. 37 Thursday, June 4, 1981 2 sections, 24 pages ' (''' , r4 ' 'ill '- , f 11 n City, Noraitdla reach Spiro Tunnel agreement ' t-- ' .--t -V . - y t Irl ' . J - , s v -. Bond issue would turn page in hospital's history To further acquaint residents with the upcoming June IS bond election, The Newspaper this week will take a closer look at the renovation of the Miners Hospital into a public library for an estimated $750,000. Next week, an in depth review of the proposed City Park improvements and construction of a field house will be offered. Since the Miners Hospital was moved in 1979 from Nelson Hill west of Empire Avenue, it has stood guard in front of City Park, offering a reminder of the miners who funded its construction in 1903. Local preservationists have pushed to renovate the hospital as soon as possible to spare it further deterioration. And because it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C., and its special significance to the town, residents have encouraged its renovation renova-tion into a public facility. As proposed, a general obligation bond would finance the interior and exterior renovation of the hospital to its original appearance, provide landscaping, landscap-ing, road access and parking, and pay for the purchase of all furnishings, new books, and specialized equipment. Why do we need a new library? According to Park City Librarian Judy McMahon, "The Main Street library has reached its capacity. The population is growing, but we can't keep up with the demand right now I can only buy about 20 books a month because there is no place to put them." McMahon said the current library has about 2,000 books and 2,000 paperbacks, a number she termed "inadequate." Although there is a good core of "standard" books, the library does not have a wide selection, especially of children's books. Many people have said the Main Street library hardly is used, so why build another, larger one that also won't be frequented? "The library hasn't been used because there are not the things there that people want," said McMahon. "And our space is so limited, we can't really organize things the way we would like to. We literally don't have the space to spread out our records to see what we have." Why not use the high school library? Some residents have commented that when the high school was constructed, it was intended that the library be used by the community. But according to the librarian, the idea really is not plausible. "Even if the high school library was completely up to date, it would not be geared to the needs of the community. The materials the students need and the community wants don't have any relationship to each other if the school is doing its job in curriculum support. And the psychological aspect is that adults won't go to a high school library. There are all kinds of arguments why that's stupid, but they don't go." Entrance to Spiro Tunnel. What would a new library offer? With the help of McMahon, architect Wally Cooper has outlined how the four floors in the Miners Hospital could be most efficiently used. The basement would be set aside as the children's reading area, and also would have office space and restrooms. The first floor would be the "guts" of the library, said McMahon. A large display area would allow the Historical Society to set up exhibits of Park City memorabilia, and the floor also would house the reference catalog, circulation desk, a production center, meeting rooms, Historical Society office, and computer information retrieval system. The second floor would be the adult reading section with book stacks, magazines, and conference seating for studying or browsing. The top floor would hold the library archives, which would be open to the public. McMahon said that if the bond passes, several "exciting" services could be provided to library patrons. One is a computerized information retrieval system. Books not available in Park City could be located by computer in libraries across the country and would be sent here for lending. "Features that would be marvelous for Park City also would be possible," said McMahon. ''Daily stock market figures could be called up on the computer screen. Or, for instance, if someone wanted to buy a $200,000 house, they could plug in the cost and interest, and in 10 seconds see what will happen 10 years down the line. In short, if people are willing to wait a bit, we can get anything that exists on' a data base for them." McMahon said the library also could have onhand film strips and audio cassettes for patrons to check out. In the future, video cassettes might be added for home movie watching. One area of the library has been designated as a production center, said McMahon. Included would be a typewriter, dry-mount press, paper cutter, overhead projector, opaque projector and a slide-tape projector. "People could come in and produce their own medium," the librarian said. "It would be free to community members, but visitors would pay a fee to use the equipment." Included in the bond would be the purchase of 4,000 new books for adults and 2,000 books for children, said McMahon. She projected that by July of 1982, 1,000 audio cassettes would be available, along with 100 video tapes and 100 film strips. Cassette decks and film projectors also could be borrowed. Because of the ample space, McMahon Mc-Mahon said the Miners Hospital also could serve as a display and vault area for historic artifacts. "We could run Park City history clear up the stairs into the archives with the space we have." enthused McMahon. "11 could be just beautiful. And righl now. we are in danger of losing 'Ma! history through lack of organization and space. If we don't get it together soon, it will be gone. Right now, there are things in the basement of City Hall and on top of the john in the library. There's just no place to put the photographs and artifacts." Additional costs McMahon said that even if the library moves to the hospital, lending cards will remain free to residents, with a fee charged to visitors and county residents. resi-dents. McMahon said patrons who use the computer terminal for such things as calling up stock market figures may be charged, since the library would be Miners to 3 I r If vC "J ' - I V""111 .: iwioimnri' v ; 7r-'' I !H t I fni". If tmff $ t in in u nil inijh iiji 'WMiii yn iiiliii up i Mime Gregg Goldston, in town Theatre, put on an impromptu Main Street Friday afternoon. The Park City Municipal Corp. and Noranda Mining, Inc. have reached an agreement governing the installation and operation of a pipeline to collect water inside the Spiro Tunnel. The agreement w as reached Monday , after several months of negotiations between the two parties, culminating in several marathon sessions held during the past week. According to City Councilman Bob Wells, a letter of intent also had been signed with the Silver King Mines Inc. "In terms of the operation of the pipeline, we've agreed with Silver King also," Wells said. The mining companies own easements ease-ments in the Spiro Tunnel and have expressed concern that collecting culinary water in the tunnel would not be compatible with a possible resumption resump-tion of mining in the area. Concern was focused on the possible pollution of the water and damage to the pipeline. Wells said the agreement with Noranda allows the company to review any plans for future development of the system, and establishes operating rules over the installation of the present water line. "This agreement provides that if we extend the system or improve it further, they have a right to look at the plans," he said. The agreement also stipulates that anyone working inside the tunnel be qualified under the terms of the Mining Safety and Health Act. The city also recognized that mining activity in and around the tunnel could have an impact on the water supply. "We acknowledged that the pipeline is in a mine tunnel, that there is a possibility of occasional interruption of service," Wells said. , Although the differences over access to the water appear to have been resolved, permission to use the water still appears to be several months away. "Our advice is that it will take about four months, more or less," Wells said. "That's related, more than anything else, to the way the system works." Two change applications have been filed with the State Division of Water Rights seeking permission to use the water for municipal purposes. Sixty percent of the water in the Spiro Tunnel, as measured at the proposed point of collection, belongs to Salt Lake City. An agreement has been signed between Park City and Salt Lake City for a show at the Silver Wheel performance for passersby on for the use of the water, but Park City must be given permission to divert the water. Another change application was filed this week relating to the other 40 percent, owned originally by the United Park City Mines Company, now under contract of sale to the Greater Park City Corporation and the Royal Street Land Company. Royal Street, in turn, has assigned its share to the city. That water currently is approved only for agriculture and mining; the change application, if approved would permit municipal use of the water. Protests to one or both of the change applications are expected. "So far, we knmv that when thev advertise (the Contractor picked for temporary highway Construction of a temporary access road linking Snow Country Drive (Pacific Avenue) and Heber Avenue could begin within the next two weeks. According to Cal Cowher, vice president in charge of engineering and construction for the Deer Valley Resort, the HAJCO Construction Company Com-pany of Murray was the low bidder on the project. However, he pointed out that the contract must be approved by the city before it officially is awarded. Cowher said that the road would fall mainly within the right-of-way designated desig-nated for the realignment of Utah Highway 224, following the old Union Pacific railroad bed. The road is designed to relieve traffic congestion on Park Avenue until the new state highway is built. The contract calls for a standard road-grade base topped with a temporary tem-porary surface similar to that used in the "chip-and-seal" process. "We expect it to last no more than two seasons," Cowher said. According to Cowher, work on the temporary road will- not begin until about two weeks after the end of the current wet spell. "You just can't do any road work or excavation work in this kind of weather," he said. The contract calls for the road to be completed within 30 days. The temporary road is expected to Lakeside Deer Valley project sparks density debate You've heard of "Eight is Enough"? Well, last week's Planning Commission meeting could have been called "One is Enough." The commission only had one development to consider, the 60-unit Lakeside project near the base of c.he Deer Valley ski resort. But the board got bogged down in an unexpectedly sticky issue. How much open space could they reasonably require from the project? City Planner Bill Ligety, claiming the units were too dense, said they should be clustered more to provide better view corridors. "It looks now like a trailer court in the middle of Deer Valley," argued Bill Mammen. He also said the individual units were too massive and should be reduced to increase usable open space on the project to 60 percent. But Lakeside and Deer Valley developers called that an unfair burden, and they were supported by Bob Wells, who represented the City Council at the meeting. Asking for 60 percent open space is a requirement for a Planned Unit Development, he pointed out. but Lakeside is not a PUD. The entire Deer Valley project was planned as the PUD, said Wells, a former employee of the developers, Royal Street Land Company. "Treating a site as a PUD within a PUD is a doubling-up." he said. "It's as if you had a one-acre hotel site in Deer Valley, and told the builders to keep 60 percent open." There also was disagreement on whether the Planning Commission even should be review ing the parcels in the Deer Valley PUD. Chairman Greg Lawson said it's necessary because. "We never agreed on an open span-plan span-plan for Deer Valley. We agreed 2.(nm acres for it. which I -- - board a ijrl linn handle on n ca-c b r;.' 1 . change applications), that there will be the Weber Basin Conservancy District and the Weber Basin Water Users that will be disputing the original settlement," settle-ment," Mayor Jack Green said Tuesday. The settlement mentioned by Green is the court decision which allocated 60 percent of the water in the tunnel to Salt Lake City. Some downstream water users hope to use the change application applica-tion as an opportunity to protest that arrangement. Green would not predict whether those protests would delay the approval of the applications. "I can't judge what the state engineer's office will do," he said. cost Deer Valley Resort about $242,000. "It's a cost of development and community relations at the same time," he said. The Utah Department of Transportation Transpor-tation has announced plans to begin work on a permanent highway realignment realign-ment in October, and Cowher said he expects to see construction begin on the stretch between Snow Country Drive and Heber Avenue in the spring of 1982. Meanwhile, city plans to build an access road from Utah Highway 248 to Snow Country Drive are contingent upon budget discussions held between now and the end of the month. Plans call for Bonanza Drive (in Prospector Square) to be extended to meet Snow Country Drive and the new highway near the old Mt. Air Market building. According to City Councilman Bob Wells, the cost of the extension has been estimated at $387,000. However, developer de-veloper Jim Gaddis has agreed to pay about 40 percent of that cost since the extension would provide access to his planned Iron Horse housing project. Wells said one property owner in the Prospector Square area would lose the corner of his property if the current plan is followed. "We take quite a bit of ground when we go through there," he pointed out. The city is holding discussions with the property owner about a possible land trade. Bob Wells said there is an open space plan in the 1977 Deer Valley master plan that designates open areas and developable space. Given that, there's no reason why the administrative staff of the city couldn't handle the rest of Deer Valley's development, he said. "I think the present process is a waste of the board's time." Commissioners urged developers and the city staff to heal their apparent impasse. "There's either been a tremendous lack of communication between the planners and the developers," deve-lopers," said Commissioner Bill Coleman, Cole-man, "or some real hostility between them." "Maybe we can change a foot here and a foot there, but the staff wants us to redesign the whole project," said developer Jim Gaddis. In his presentation, Ligety said the 60 units rested on 5.83 acres, and at best had 48 percent open space. But Lakeside is not obligated to provide a certain amount of open space, said the builders because it rests on land allotted for development in the overall Deer Valley PUD. Developer Rick Prince, speaking as an observer, said, "The land you're talking about is part of the 40 percent you guys said could be built on. The developer bought the property and has the right to do anything with it he wants." Reed Peterson, an engineer on the Lakeside project, said his figures showed that if 60 percent open space were forced on Lakeside, the project would only have an average building "footprint" of 350 square feet. "I don't think we can achieve a livable unit that wa Mammen. however, said 60 percent .a. not a hardship, and after some impromptu figuring of his own, said the Density to 3 |