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Show Park Record Thursday, November 5, 1987 Pane A3 R8$ JM lh J- " 4 ta-j Heidi West A panel of six community leaders spoke to a large audience Tuesday on the way they foresee Park City's future. From left, panelists are Jan Peterson, Robert Ziegler, Reynolds Bish, Craig Badami, Charles Wintzer and Arlene Loble. Park City's future discussed by HEIDI WEST Record staff writer Six of the city's leaders gathered to discuss Park City's economic future before an audience of more than 75 Tuesday. The panel discussion was co-sponsored co-sponsored by the Park City Rotary Club and the ChamberBureau and was open to the public. Speakers were: City Manager Arlene Loble, realtor Robert Ziegler, Jan Peterson, Peter-son, owner of Jans Sports, contractor contrac-tor Charles Wintzer of Wintzer Crip-pen Crip-pen Construction, Reynolds Bish, the CEO of Unibase and Craig Badami, vice-president of the Park City Ski Area. Myles Radenian, planning director direc-tor for the city, set the stage for the discussion by relaying some of his observations from a recent trip back east. "There's a real freneticism plaguing plagu-ing the east coast," he said, noting that with the impending change in presidential administrations and stock market crash "everyone is jumping on a different bandwagon." Rademan added that total valuation valua-tion for building in Park City was 88 percent of last year's, and that reservations for the upcoming ski season were down 20 percent. "All economic indicators are pointing poin-ting to a downtrend or levelling off," he said. First to address Park City's future was Craig Badami. He began by observing Park City was a quaint town when he came here, but that it "was also quite empty." Now, he said Park City was fighting an image problem. "People's "Peo-ple's number one perception of Utah is desert," he said, adding "I don't think anybody besides the ski industry in-dustry is promoting Utah as a fun place." Several of the other panelists echoed Badami's sentiment that the state had to work hard to help pro mote tourism here if it expected to be competitive. "It's hard to work and live in Park City without state support," said Wintzer, noting particularly that the quality of schools was an important factor in people deciding whether to move here. Loble pointed out that Colorado sent "five to six percent" of its eight percent state tax back to the local governments for them to provide services. Utah does not do the same, and Park City receives only 2.75 percent per-cent of the state 7.25 percent tax, she added. The disparity creates a problem, pro-blem, since local governments like Park City and other Utah resort towns cannot provide the kind of services ser-vices which would attract visitors to Colorado towns. She also noted that money from impact fees was down tenfold from the $1 million the fees raised three years ago. Badami said Colorado also spends $1.5 million on promoting winter activities ac-tivities in the state, but Utah only manages to come up with $590,000 for the same purpose. Peterson focused his words on boosting summer business in town. "We have to take some risks to make summer happen," he said, telling the audience when he came here 16 years ago "the schools were terrible and most stores and restaurants opened and closed as they pleased." He paused, and added, add-ed, "unfortunately, there are still several stores and restaurants that open and close as they please." Although he noted the Alpine Slide and ParkWest and Deer Valley concerts con-certs bring people into town during the summer, Peterson said "we need destination, convention-type people." Ziegler said he saw Park City "as becoming more of a commuter community." com-munity." Although the cost of housing hous-ing here had kept Salt Lake" residents from considering the move, Ziegler said "we're affor dable housing now." He added a few comments on the poor health of the condominium market, not only in Park City but nationwide na-tionwide as a result of tax reform, and noted "our concerns are external." exter-nal." Although the number of realtors nationwide has risen, Ziegler said it had fallen in Utah recently. "Essentially "Essen-tially we have a theocratic form of government in the state of Utah," he said. "It's not clear whether this is an open arena for individual thoughts or if it is controlled by the church." Adding that the liquor laws in Utah were "antiquated," Ziegler said "we have to aggressively take a part in changing" Utah's image. Bish listed several reasons why Park City would be an attractive spot for businesses to locate, including in-cluding a high quality of life, low-cost low-cost labor, access to 1-80, good training train-ing and educational base, high work ethic and realtively low-cost housing. hous-ing. He said he had "witnessed migration migra-tion of businesses out of urban areas" to suburban and even rural areas to find these very qualities. But, he noted that "with 50 states trying to attract business, we have to be very .very aggressive." Loble ended the discussion by pointing out a bedroom community usually has higher property taxes than one with a commercial center. Businesses tend to be "the best type of new growth that can occur in Park City" taxwise, she said, since they "require far less in services than they pay us." She agreed that the town was becoming more of a commuter town for Salt Lake, but said "we're subsidizing sub-sidizing single-family residents" by providing services at less than they cost the city. As more and more single-family homes are built, she warned the impact would be that "property taxes, and especially school taxes, would go up." Lehmer files one more suit by SENA TAYLOR Record staff writer In a civil complaint filed by Mary Lehmer the week prior to her death, she alleged that a new road built in 1978 as part of the Snow Park Subdivision Sub-division was done incorrectly and resulted in flood damages to her property pro-perty on Deer Valley Loop Road. Named as defendants in the complaint, com-plaint, filed Oct. 13, are Stephen Schirf, Bonita Peretti and Harry Reed, who are part of the Snow Park Subdivision partnership, and Park City Municipal Corp. She asked for $34,229 in special damages, $25,000 for general damages, $50,000 for exemplary and punitive damages (only against the non-municipal defendants) and an order compelling the defendants to correct the conditions which make the area susceptible to flooding. Although attorney for the plaintiff, John Lehmer, says the complaint is active, it has not been served to the defendants. Reed, a defendant, said neither he nor his partners had seen the complaint, so declined comment, as did Park City Municipal Corp. Snow Park Subdivision is a development located uphill from Lehmer's residence at 570 Deer Valley Loop Rd. According to Lehmer, Snow Park built a road intersecting in-tersecting with Rossie Hill Road, the design, location and engineering of which was approved by the city. She explained that as a condition of the approval of the subdivision, Park City required the developers to provide access through the area in accordance with its requirements and standards. But Lehmer alleged that the "V" shape of the road, directly uphill and behind her house, "interfered with the natural flow of waters and channeled chan-neled them into and upon... her pro- perty and into her home." She alleged alleg-ed that the accumulated water deteriorated the subflooring and supports of her house, resulting in the damages. Lehmer said Park City approved the road's design Aug. 29, 1978, and she noticed the damages to her property pro-perty July 25, 1985, "when such flood waters rose above the surface of her floors when a rain storm ensued en-sued that day." Further, Lehmer said she petitioned petition-ed Park City for relief on July 17, 1986. But the city failed to answer that petition within 90 days, and its insurance carrier advised her by a letter on Oct. 22, 1986 that it rejected her claim. Lehmer alleged "the defendants negligently constructed and maintained main-tained the aforesaid road," which constituted a trespass and a nuisance to her. Simpson delayed The trial for a Park City resident resi-dent who has been accused of attempted at-tempted extortion, kidnap and murder has been delayed until Feb. 17, while a mental examination examina-tion is performed on him. Peter Keith Simpson, 47, will undergo the examination which will be completed within 30 days and its results given to prosecution prosecu-tion and defense counsels. Simpson was accused in October Oc-tober 1986 of allegedly attempting to extract $1 million from three local men, and in doing so, hiring a two hit men who would kidnap and kill the men and their families if they didn't cooperate. In a legal complaint filed in 3rd District Court in Coalville, the three local men named are Skip Schirf, Greg Schirf and Harry Reed. The state of Utah is the plaintiff in the case. Simpson has been a resident of Park City since 1979 and is self-employed self-employed as a property manager. Park City Police foiled his alleged extortion plot last fall after receiving a tip from the alleged hit men. After several weeks of investigation, a meeting was staged between Simpson and an undercover Salt Lake City police officer, who told Simpson he would assist him with his plan, instead of the other alleged hit men. That undercover cop was concealing con-cealing a bugging device on himself during that meeting, and was able to get a recording of the discussion, during which Simpson Simp-son was said to have told of his plan. Mountain Valley Maintenance Call us for your cleaning needs - Home - Office . Condo 'Security Inspection We are reliable 649-2370 Cash in on a great meal at a great deal... with quick lunchtime service! Feast on your choice of sandwich and soup, or soup and salad, or sandwich and salad, including beverage! Enjoy "fast" food at its finest! 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