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Show Page A8Thursday, January 21, 1982The Newspaper I POTATO JOHN'S at the Park City Resort presents SUPERBOWL XVI Sunday, January 24, 1982 The Bengals vs. The 49'ers on our new GIANT color screen PLUS Buffet lunch - all you can eat Beer and set-ups available All for $6.75 in advance $7.75 at the door. Seating will be first come - first served from 12:30 p.m. (pre game program kick-off at 2:00 p.m.) Open daily 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. k Lowest beer prices Our chef s daily specials Special videostill photography. Packages for groups and families. 649-5990 Planners o.k. draft timeshare ordinance The Planning Commission approved a draft, with conditions, con-ditions, for a timeshare ordinance by a 3 -1 vote, in a Wednesday meeting that was attended by several representatives of timeshare firms. The panel approved the Jan. 7 draft of the ordinance. It also stipulated that the parking requirements for timeshare would be those of the overlying zone. In addition, ad-dition, the commission said (1) the impact of sales activity in neighborhoods must be considered and adequately met, (2) conversion conver-sion of old units to timeshare would be a conditional use in the RM, RC, GC, and HCB zones, and (3) new time-shares time-shares would be a permitted use in those zones. Commissioner Burnis Watts said he wanted to exclude new units from RM, and voted against the package pack-age for that reason On the other hand, Commissioner Bill Mammen indicated earlier ear-lier he was prepared to vote against the timeshare ordinance or-dinance if it did not include RM. He said it was illogical and elitist to keep it out of that zone. City Manager Arlene Loble said the economy would be affected if the nightly rentals in RM were converted to timeshare. "You would lose that part of your market which you devote to conventions and large groups," she said. "If we build new timeshares, and keep the old buildings for nightly rental, we have the best of both worlds." Jeff Jonas, a representative represen-tative for Resortex, responded res-ponded that the Planning Commission could use the conditional use process to keep the whole area from going timeshare. He also said that many timeshare owners use their units for nightly rental. Another discussion arose because the parking requirements require-ments in the draft called for 1.5 spaces per two-bedroom unit. "We've checked St. George, Jackson, and Hawaii," said a timeshare representative, "and everywhere every-where we go it's one stall per two-bedroom unit." Mike Vance, the city's director of community development, said that amount of parking was demanded due to the assumption as-sumption that timeshare customers were from a local area, and would drive, often followed by friends, from their homes. Jonas said that 51 percent of the Resortex customers were from out-of-state. "And in peak periods we aren't jammed up." Resident Monty Gibson said the city should watch the effects of timeshare and then increase parking requirements re-quirements if necessary. Parkite Ennis Gibbs objected ob-jected to a provision which said that a condo owner wishing to convert his unit must obtain approval from 65 percent of the owners in his project. "It grinds on me," he said. "As an American citizen, I don't feel good about my neighbors deciding what I can do." Gibbs said the conditional use process by itself could make a proper decision about the conversion. conver-sion. Attorney Steve Ingleby, who has worked on the timeshare draft, said 65 percent is a lower proportion than is demanded for condo conversion in Salt lake City. But Gibbs said there is a significant difference, "Eighty-five percent of the condo residents here are non-owners." Resident Bill Reed objected object-ed to timeshare in the RM zone, saying the goal of previous master planning efforts was to reduce the density of that area. "If I have a 13-unit condo next, to me will I have one neighbor or 185 neighbors?" he asked. "If the area is going to be destroyed as a residential, then change the densily and go all-out. Put it in R-l and see how you feel." Besides adding conditions to the ordinance, the commission com-mission also wanted a declaration dec-laration of goals. "I want to see some language of intent, not just the legal jargon," said Mammen. The proposed ordinance lays down definitions for the various forms of timeshare. It also specifies requirements require-ments for converting condos, and establishing contacting locations, and information required for approving time-shares time-shares as conditional use (i.e. the agreements and covenants, coven-ants, information on the managing agent for the timeshare project, etc.) Sid lift concept approved i I J s si 0 1 ? i s 'S I I ! 1 in in in in W 1W The Planning Commission last Wednesday recommended recom-mended a zone change for the HR-1 and HCB zones that would allow ski lifts to be considered as a conditional use. The vote was 3 to 1 with commissioner Burnis Watts arguing in his dissent that the motion was very close to spot zoning. "This is singling out one property and giving benefit to it, for the benefit of a development at one end and a ski resort at the other," he said. It was an apparent reference to the Pat Sweeney proposal for a lift that would start at the old Coalition site and Depot Project area and would extend west to the mountains. After his defeat, Watts suggested that a legal opinion opini-on from the city attorney on the spot-zoning question accompany ac-company the recommendation recommenda-tion to City Council. Commissioners Com-missioners Bill Mammen, Carol Calder, and Dean Berrett joined with Watts to approve his motion unanimously. unani-mously. "?. Before the vote;.Commis sion Chairman Greg Lawson said he was not convinced ski lifts would work in those areas. But he said a decision would be made for each individual lift project, using Land Code provisions. Watts charged the change violated the concept of zoning, which he said is to protect and preserve a neighborhood. He said it serves only the Sweeney project and nearby business. "It is not a use available to the residents of that zone," he said. Commissioner Bill Mammen Mam-men responded , that the approval process for lifts was well thought out, and did not just apply to one location, but could be used throughout the zones. In approving the zone modifications, the board also studied the three-page document docu-ment which details requirements require-ments for a ski lift approval. It includes a parking and traffic impact plan and neighborhood impact analysis analy-sis to be submitted by the developer. Residents said one aspect of the plan on liftway areas was confusing. The plan calls for a 10-foot separation between the outer edge of the lift and the boundary of the liftway zone. It also provides for a 20-foot separation betwen a lift cable and the nearest existing exist-ing housing. Residents at the meeting said a loophole might be created because the two spaces were measured off from two different points on the lift. One man suggested that if a lift had a very large chair, its outer edge would intrude much closer to homes than intended, because be-cause it is not required to be separated from homes. (Even if such a proposal was made, Mammen said, such a large-scale lift would show a negative impact in the Neighborhood Analysis.) The board decided on measurements of 10 feet from chair's edge to the liftway boundary, and 18 feet from chair's edge to existing housing. Under the motion, the HR-1 ordinance is changed to add, as a conditional use, "Ski lifts and ski lift rights-of-way, but not terminuses." In the code for HCB, the language "Open use recreation recrea-tion site", which describes one conditional use, will be changed to "Public, private or commercial recreation." Board applicants The Park City Board of Education is accepting applications from individuals individ-uals interested in completing com-pleting the unexpired term of District Four representative Susie Williams. Wil-liams. School Superintendent Richard Goodworth said that anyone interested should contact the district offices (649-9671) and submit sub-mit a written application no later than Thursday, Feb. 11. The board has scheduled a special meeting meet-ing for Feb. 16 to interview inter-view the applicants and make a selection. Williams recently sold her home in Silver Creek Estates and moved out of the district. State law requires that a board member must reside within the district he or she represents. A letter of resignation, dated Jan. 18, was submitted sub-mitted to the remaining board members Tuesday evening. "I thank my friends and neighbors as well as you all," the letter reads. "It's been a super experience. ex-perience. And remember 'Old school board members mem-bers never die they just hang around and cause trouble!'" Williams was elected in November of 1980 to serve a four-year term on the board. She completed almost exactly one year of that term. District Four covers all areas in Summit County north of Interstate 80. It also includes Highland Estates, Bittner Estates, and the Snyderville Basin area bordered by Interstate Inter-state 80, U-224, Old Ranch Road and U.S. 40. For Planning Commissioners, it's two strikes? and they're out K The City' Council acknowledges acknow-ledges that life as a Planning Commissioner is difficult, but some of the members may be taking things a little too easy. That was the sentiment expressed at last week's council meeting, when the members unanimously voted to place a limit on the number of absences that would be accepted before a Planning Commissioner was "deemed to have resigned the position." According to Council-woman Council-woman Helen Alvarez, the absenteeism problem came to a head at the Jan. 13 meeting of the Planning CominiTsiOTii'-when it looked in the beginning of the meeting that there wouldn't be a meeting. "There were three very important items on the Planning Commission agenda agen-da and it looked in the early stages that there would be no quorum," said Alvarez. "Some developers wait weeks and weeks to get on the agenda, only to find that their project has to wait again because enough of the Planning Commissioners didn't bother to come to the meeting. And I've been distressed by the number of consultants that have been hired, and the cost, to benefit and aid the Planning Commission, (and!,'thehll'the commissioners don't show up." The seven-member Planning Plan-ning Commission is scheduled sched-uled to meet the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. When the work load is particularly heavy, the commission will meet weekly. week-ly. And while the council members acknowledged that being a commissioner can be time-consuming, they stressed stress-ed the need to attend once the commitment has been made. One of the major complaints com-plaints in the Planning Department has been the amount of work created by development. The work 'load is magnified if an orderly schedule cannot be kept because of lack of attendance atten-dance by commissioners, the council said. The councilmen unanimously unani-mously voted that, if a Planning Commissioner misses two consecutive meetings, it will be assumed that he has resigned his post, and he will be replaced. While the council recognized that it was possible for a commissioner to retain his position and still miss every other meeting, the consensus was that the new dictum would, hopefully, have the desired result. HOW THE PLANNING COMMISSION VOTED... motions c ;k 3 l -ffk f 5 I R-DAVIDSON B. WATTS D. BERRETT IB. MAMMEN W. BISHOP Recommending ski lifts as conditional use in HR-1, HCB yes Nq yes yes Absent Absent Approval of legal review to go u a r r -r .... with above motion to cuy council es Absent Yes Yes Yes Absent Absent Approval of Jan. 7 draft for time-share, with conditions, for Yes Absent No Yes Yes Absent Absent RM, RC, GC and HCB zones. Approval for annexation of Deer valley land adjacent to Park Yes Absent Yes Yes Yes Absent Absent City. LrpSnTenrn 1973 Yes Absent Yes Yes No Absent Absent SSSSrir1- Yes Abse"t Yes Yes Yes Absent Absent XNtnMkPwder Yes Absent Yes Yes Yes Absent Absent Condo conversion for Silver Skis v , project, at 937 Woodside Avenue. es Absent Yes es Yes Absent Absent Tabling of request to revise Iron Horse Drive dedication piat to Yes Absent Yes Yes Yes Absent AWnt allow protection strip. uaeiH YT |
