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Show R edevelopment The Utah State Department Depart-ment of Health indicated this week that approval for major developments to hook onto the city's water system will be withheld until proof is presented that enough water exists to serve their needs. Gayle Smith, director of the Bureau of Public Water Supplies, said in a letter to city officials that approval for the construction of piping systems for the Aerie and Westview subdivisions cannot can-not be given until data is received that proves the city system can handle the extra demand. Smith said the department recognized that the city has made "great strides" in improving the water system. But, "when measured by Department of Health criteria, criter-ia, our estimate is that, at best, the Park City system is now only marginally capable of meeting the culinary water needs of the city. "Although we are optimistic optimis-tic that the measures you have taken have significantly significant-ly improved the capacity of the system, it is our responsibility respon-sibility to firmly establish that sufficient water is State says Not enough water for new subdivisions Last Thursday, the Park City Redevelopment Agency, Agen-cy, which also is the City Council, held a public hearing hear-ing and approved the annual implementation program for 1982-83 and a budget of $1,138,732. The Redevelopment District Dis-trict includes much of Old Town and Deer Valley, and its purpose is to direct funds to the improvement of blighted blight-ed areas within the district. The agency's revenues are raised by collecting the yearly year-ly property tax increment within the disrict, and the ultimate goal is to expend $6.5 million, after which the agency will be dissolved. While other taxing entities the city, county, school and fire districts complain that they lose revenue to the Redevelopment Agency, the theory is that improvements within the district increase Their goal: the United Nations and an end to hunger By now they are on the Great Plains somewhere, the Rockies behind them, the East Coast in their sights. They plan to reach the United Nations by the Fourth Four-th of July. They call themselves "Winning." "Win-ning." Sixteen of them, plus relief and support personnel, have formed a transcontinental transcon-tinental relay team to draw attention to world hunger. Last Friday morning they passed through Park City. While one unit, or "pod" was out on the road, pounding the pavement along U.S. 40, the rest met in the Wallbanger Lounge at the Prospector Athletic Club. According to Joan Bor-dow, Bor-dow, publicity chairman for the group, the idea was generated a year ago. A group of people in Northern California, some without ex The City Council of Park City will hold a regular public meeting at the Memorial Building at 5 p.m. on June 24, 1982. 1 p.m. Pending Litigation 2 p.m. Budget Review - Sanitation, Water, Golf Course, Transportation Capital Improvements Budget 5 p.m. Public Hearing AGENDA Public Hearing - Amendment to Ordinance 81-6 "Developers Fees to be Paid to the city related to the construction of residential resi-dential and commercial properties in Park City, Utah" Public Input I ROLL CALL II APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF MEETING OF JUNE 17, 1982 available before we can approve plans for additional connections to the system," Smith continued. City Councilman Bob Wells said Tuesday that he is confident the city can provide pro-vide statistics that will quell the state's concerns. "After reading the letter, it seems it's procedurally the same type of thing we've gone through with the board of health every six or eight months for the last few years," said Wells. "Basically, "Basical-ly, what they're saying is that they need to be updated." updat-ed." Wells said that the date the city will take to the state will show that system improvements improve-ments have increased the water supply, and that meter readings will show that less water is used than the state assumes. Because the city has not had historical useage data to present to the state, the average consumption of 800 gallons per water connection connec-tion per day has been applied, in addition to the storage of 400 gallons per connection for fire suppression. suppres-sion. Wells said that because of the assessed valuation. Thus, when the agency debt is retired and the property is returned to the tax roles, it is worth more to all entities than prior to the formation of the district. The implementation program pro-gram outlines projects to be undertaken within the next fiscal year, including: the purchase and resale of land for development; renovating City Hall, library and territorial terri-torial prison; developing vacant city land as a mini-park; installing new sidewalks; installing street furniture, trash containers, signage; constructing permanent per-manent sanitary facilities; purchasing Swede Alley land for parking; and constructing construct-ing parking structures. City Manager Arlene Loble said that the Redevelopment Rede-velopment Agency budget includes a deficit of $300,000, tensive running backgrounds, backgroun-ds, decided to take a message across the country: "We run to carry these words, to bear this message: to align with people all over the world in ending hunger and starvation ..." The message was to be carried in the form of a scroll, passed on from runner run-ner to runner as the group moved across the country. The group was diverse. It included a psychiatric social worker, a realtor, a graduate student in engineering ... To finance the trip, they dug into their own pockets. By the time they left San Francisco June 12, all the expenses for the trip were covered. Bordow explained that they didn't want any money raised by the trip to go to pay plan adopted Park city's transient population, popula-tion, water useage is not in line with state averages. "We have a substantially different mix of units than most communities," he said. "Historically, when we have the peak population in the winter, we've never had any kind of water shortage. But in the summer, especially the last two years, we've had to curtail lawn sprinkling. Our ambition is that the metering on a rate basis will force people to conserve." Public Works Director Bob Lashier said that the Aerie subdivision planned to build only four single family homes this year, while Westview was not scheduled to build any units. The city's system could have handled the Aerie impact, he said, adding that the state based its denial on the full build-out of both projects. Lashier cited improvements improve-ments to the system that have increased the city's supply, including a leak detection survey by Community Com-munity Consultants, which resulted in the discovery and repair of 11 leaks, resulting in an additional 120,000 carried over from the past fiscal year. That deficit was caused by the unbudgeted payment to the Park City School District for the purchase pur-chase of the Marsac School. Loble said the district asked for the payment prior to June 30 of this year. The other half of the deficit is attributed to an error made by the county. She explained that the mill value for all taxing entities is adjusted to allow for a percentage of uncollectable taxes. Incorrectly, Incor-rectly, that adjustment was also applied to the Redevelopment Rede-velopment District and last year's budget was already adopted at the maximum tax increment allowed. The agency now requires a loan of $300,000 from the city, said Loble, which will be repaid, with interest, as would any loan. their expenses. Eighty percent per-cent of all donations, she said, will go directly to OX-FAM OX-FAM America. The other 20 percent will be divided between be-tween The Hunger Project, Winning, and World Runners. Run-ners. "We want to see visible, measurable results," she said, acknowledging the concerns expressed by would-be donors. While they recognize the need to end short-term food shortages, they also believe that people in underdeveloped nations must learn to feed themselves. So much of the OXFAM money, according to Bordow, is going to buy solar-powered irrigation pumps for East Africe: 'What we're particularly interested in funding is agricultural development." Their donors have been in City Council Upcoming n EM I III IV APPROVAL OF VERIFIED BILLS PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS AND PETITIONS 1. Don Brady and Assoc. Request to put stairway on City property in Swede Alley 2. Request from Men's Coalition for a temporary tem-porary beer and business license for City Park on July 4th and 5th. 3. Plat approval for Olive Branch project for condominiumization. COMMUNICATIONS AND REPORTS FROM COUNCIL RESIGNATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS ORDINANCES UNFINISHED BUSINESS 1. Ordinance Establishing Beer and Liquor Regulatory Licenses NEW BUSINESS L Authorization for Nuisance Complaint Action for non-compliance of building permit requirements against McLeod Creek Developers VI VII VIII IX gallons per day added to the system; and repairs to the Judge Tunnel, where an estimated 280,000 gallons per day will be recouped. "That's 400,000 gallons per day," Lashier calculated aloud. "That's a sizeable amount of water and it will weigh heavily with Gayle Smith and his group." Lashier said it is too early to see if the new water rate structure has encouraged conservation. "But we think it will have a tremendous effect," he said. Lashier said he didn't "Expect" the letter from the state, but at the same time, "I wasn't shocked, since we've been in touch with each other and I am aware of Gayle Smith's concerns." He said he plans to meet with Smith after June 30, when meter reading data will be compiled. Councilman Wells noted that once the problems with the Spiro Tunnel and Park Meadows Well are ironed out, the city will be in a stronger position with the state. The city's use of both sources is being contested by Loble said the district's valuation jumped from $12,138,577 to $18,468,174 in the past year, entitling the agency to a tax increment of $1,249,360. However, to reduce re-duce the impact on the school district, the agency will return $221,000 to the district, an amount equivalent equiva-lent to this year's payment on the levied loan borrowed to build the new middle school. Architect Richard Kohler offered the Redevelopment Agency a list of 10 suggestions sugges-tions for expenditure of funds within the district. They include the purchase of a 10-foot easement behind Main Street businesses to insure fire equipment access and the preservation of historic buildings; the development de-velopment of an emergency fund to purchase historic buildings threatened with dividuals, not large corporations, cor-porations, she said. One man saw the caravan of vehicles on the freeway, pulled one of the RVs over, and handed a $20 bill through the window. win-dow. Running 24 hours a day has its share of hazards, she conceded. "What we contend with is triple-trailer trucks. What we contend with is drunk drivers. In the middle of the night, the ratio of drunk drivers is just phenomenal." Their goal seems insurmountable: insur-mountable: to end world hunger by the end of the decade. Buy they are convinced con-vinced they can do it. Their address : Winning a transcontinental transcontinen-tal relay, P.O. Box 11282, Santa Rosa, Calif., 95406. Winning is a tax-exempt charitable corporation. June 24, 1982 downstream water users. City Attorney Tom Clyde said he hopes for a favorable ruling by the state engineer's engi-neer's office on the city's application for rights to the water in Spiro Tunnel by this fall. The Park Meadows Well is the subject of a lawsuit brought against the city by landowners near the city dump and Silver Creek Junction. After monitoring mon-itoring water flows this summer, the city hopes to prove in Third District Court that pumping of the well does not interrupt water levels in Dority Spring, which irrigates irri-gates that land. Clyde agreed that Park City has had "serious water problems, and we're doing everything we can to correct them." Wells said that council was scheduled in the next week to review the results and recommendations rec-ommendations of a water rights study conducted by J.J. Johnson Associates, to analyze data from the meter readings and the effects of system improvements. "This action (of the state) will speed things up," he said. demolition; the hiring of a redevelopment director; the adoption of less restricted architectural design guidelines guide-lines in the historic district; better handling of minor property improvements so that property owners don't have to expend excessive amounts of money to gain Historic District Commission Commis-sion approval; and more funds funneled toward physical physi-cal improvements rather than land acquisition. Councilwoman Helen Alvarez Al-varez commended Kohler on his suggestions. 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