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Show i-'.IhH J ' K h S Ai'STK" AT ni 46 7 AST 30() ,;i)(?TH hLt lace city , ur o 4 .1 1 j 0DR 1H .TTDnffi 50? Vol. 1 1 0, No. 1 5 3 Sections, 38 Pages Thursday, May 1 8, 1 989 TTT 1 11 1 1 IJroLin IIS. Council approves Richards' plan to annex and develop pastureland by SENA TAYLOR Record staff writer The city council Thursday approved approv-ed a controversial request by Summit Sum-mit County Commissioner Franklin Richards to annex a portion of his pastureland into the city and develop 11 homes and an office building on it. The request faced an unruly public hearing last February when residents living near the proposed Thaynes Creek Ranch annexation complained that Richards should not be allowed to annex and "spot zone" only a portion of his 38 acres, instead of master-plannning the entire acreage. Some of those same residents returned to voice their concerns May 11, and left the meeting saying the council's approval of the annexation annexa-tion and development plan was an example that the public hearing system does not work. "I know the council has wrangled with this issue and Mr. Richards has worked hard on it too," said Paul Kirwin. "But two months ago at a public hearing serious questions were raised... and I still think the concerns are there. Why are we still looking at this, and do you really feel this is the best answer? " Kirwin asked ask-ed the council. Council member Ann MacQuoid, who lives in Thaynes Canyon, responded, "I think having 11 lots is appropriate. It has no affect on city services and sets the tone for the rest of the development." Richards originally proposed building 12 single-family dwellings along the north side of Payday Drive, which is a straight street on Mur phey ' ; - ;"! " " -4 A'.'mTj. J- : i 4 1 . rut . I Michael Martin Murphey is finalizing plans for his "West Fest" to be held at Deer Valley July 1-3. by SENA TAYLOR Record staff writer Country music singer Michael Martin Murphey, who with the Utah Symphony brought record crowds to Deer Valley last summer, will be back again this July for a three-day festival featuring a repeat performance perfor-mance with the symphony, and a celebration of western culture from crafts to cuisine. ' Michael Martin Murphey's West Fest will be held July 1 through 3, opening each day about 10 a.m. and closing after the last concert ends at 9:30 p.m. Eight bands are scheduled to attend the festivities, including Highway 101, Southern Pacific and New Grass Revival. The bands will start playing at 3 p.m. each day and go into the evening, even-ing, but the festival will begin at 10 a.m., opening up displays of Indian and mountain man villages, folk dancing, southwestern art and cowboy poetry by Baxter Black and Waddie Mitchell. The West Fest was originated by Murphey and first was held three years ago at Copper Mountain, Colo. ! To see it become a success has been ' a dream come true for the 44-year-old singer. ' "I have been a student of the West all of my life and I've always been a fan of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. My dream was to do a modern version ver-sion of that," said Murphey, who the north edge of Park City. He also proposed constructing an office building on the corner of the street where it intersects State Road 224. Richards said the lots would be divided into 10,000-square-foot parcels to the match the homes on the south side of the street, even though the city's present land-management land-management code now requires lot sizes to be at least 12,500 square feet in size. The request has been a topic of conversation for the city council and city planning commission since February, and the planning commission commis-sion unanimously approved a slightly slight-ly modified plan two weeks ago. The modified plan pared the number of residential lots to 11, and specified that the commercial lot be zoned as residential medium density which can support a building no larger than 1,800 square feet. That type of zoning is designed to ensure that the structure be used as a professional pro-fessional office building and not for retail space. Richards also changed the design of the lot sizes to make the lots wider but less deep. The lots will still be 10,000 square feet in size, but will have dimensions of 79 feet wide and 126 feet deep, instead of 73 feet wide and 137 feet deep. The council approved the request by a 3-1 vote, with MacQuoid, Ray Craig Johnson and Jim Santy in favor. (Council member Brad Olch did not attend the meeting.) Council member Kristin Rogers cast the only opposing vote and offered of-fered an emotional explanation for her actions. "This is one of those issues that has been painful, and everyone on the council has weighed to croon West Fest Sena Taylor was in Park City Monday to finalize the details of the upcoming festival. Murphey made a name for himself in the music world in 1972 with the hit singles "Geronimo's Cadillac" and "Calico Silver." He since has cut more than a dozen albums with hits such as "Wildfire" and "Carolina in the Pines" in 1975, "Cherokee Fiddle" in 1977, "Back Slider's Wine" in 1980 and "What's Forever For," in 1982. The singer has picked up more hits with each album, such as in 1983 when he gained fame with "Don't Count the Rainy Days," "Will it be Love by Morning" and "Disenchanted," "Disen-chanted," and last year's "River of Time" album that included the songs "I'm Gonna Miss You, Girl," and "Talkin' to the Wrong Man," which he performs with his son, Ryan, a member of his band. Murphey wants the upcoming festival to combine the culture of both cowboys and Indians, as they have been portrayed historically and contemporarily. "I don't want to be chauvenistic about the West," said Murphey. "We have got a fascinating array of really real-ly unique stuff.. .and we should should pay better attention to what our folk roots have produced. The idea for the West Fest is to develop a confab of food, western wildlife, western writers and everything about the West, not Just the cowboy hats and Indian feathers. very carefully the issue of how we best make Park City look good. "It's a tough call," she said, "but I feel that annexing the property isn't a good plan. To be perfectly honest, I think the only reason I would vote for this is because Frank Richards is a good county commissioner." Richards then broke in telling her, "then you should vote against it, Kristin." She responded, "For your -sake and mine that is what I have to do." Several comments from the audience au-dience were made before the vote was taken, even though the meeting was not designated as a public hearing. hear-ing. Payday Drive resident Alison Child said, "A fundamental broken law is spot zoning, and that office building is spot zoning. This will open the door for who knows what." Child said the city is getting nothing from Richards in return for annexing his land, and said council members "need to show some confidence" con-fidence" by denying the request. "We hold the cards," she said. An attorney for a homeowner who lives on the south side of Payday Drive also contested the annexation and land-use plan, saying he had driven "all around Park City and couldn't find a straight street with up to 11 homes on it. It's a poorly planned area," Brett Paulsen said. Richards defended his request, saying he spent $4,000 on a master plan of his entire acreage. He did not see RICHARDS on A2 I don't want to be chauvenistic about the West. We have got a fascinating array of really real-ly unique stufL.and we should pay better attention atten-tion to what our folk roots have produced. The idea for West Fest is to develop a con-fab...of con-fab...of everything about the West, not just the cowboy hats and Indian feathers.' Michael Martin Murphey "The contemporary artist Georgia O'Keefe is as much a part of the West as Russell or Remington. And having the Utah Symphony at this helps us get out of the mode of country coun-try music radio. We eventually want western rock and roll bands to be included. in-cluded. I feel that if you're based in the West, you can be in West Fest." Park City bookstore owner Norm Weiss was one of Murphey's first agents, and Weiss was integral in bringing br-inging West Fest to Utah. Murphey recalls that Weiss "was the finest agent I ever had, and we only parted because he retired. He was a successful manager, and he's underrated for what he really knows. He still gives me advice," Murphey laughed, "but now he doesn't charge." The West Fest will mark Murphey's Mur-phey's third year to perform with the Utah Symphony at Deer Valley. His good friend Christopher Wilkins will conduct the symphony on the opening evening of the festival July 1, and Murphey will perform on his own the following days. He also will give a symphony performance before the festival, on June 30 at Symphony Hall in Salt Lake City. "Christopher Wilkins and I have spent a lot of time talking about the program," said Murphey. "Our show has always been called 'A Night in the American West,' and this year we will stick to that theme and play the entire Grand Canyon Suite downtown and excerpts up here at Deer Valley. We will also have some Copeland." see MURPHEY on A2 r r t K Contested -i i, gets conditional city byTERIORR Record editor A second story deck being built as part of a new structure located between bet-ween the current Masonic and former City Hall buildings on Main Street was conditionally approved Thursday, but not before Police Chief Frank Bell raised concerns over safety and law enforcement issues surrounding it. "It is important," Bell told council members during their work session, "to look at this deck situation to determine not only what the street looks like, but what the street acts like. This is the first occupied deck to be built over Main Street in recent memory and the only other deck (The Club) has proved to be a problem." pro-blem." But Council Member Ann MacQuoid Mac-Quoid countered by saying the city had received a mandate to "make Main Street a happening place." She said she felt decks and outdoor dining din-ing helped create a lively ambiance on the street. Building owner David Kra jeski explained ex-plained the deck would be used by the Riverhorse Cafe for outdoor dining din-ing and he didn't expect it to create any law enf orecement problems. Bell said he also represented staff concerns about the design of the deck, pointing out the proposed footing would end up on a gas line that runs under the sidewalk. The columns might also prove a snow removal problem for city crews during dur-ing the winter. Contractor Charlie Wintzer pointed out a number of historic buildings along Main Street had decorative columns and the city mananged to plow around them anyway. As to the gas line, he said plans were underway to cantilever the deck so the columns would not be structurally needed and could be removed if the gas company needed access to its line. The majority of the proposed deck will actually be on Krajeski's property pro-perty and only two feet of deck will extend over the city sidewalk. The building is expected to house Brumby's bakery on the first floor and on the second floor it will share space with the Riverhorse Cafe and the White Wolf art gallery. The building its expected to be completed com-pleted in September. Bell told council members he was concerned that during holidays and special events decks become overcrowded over-crowded and "things and people have the possibility of going over the side." Bell said he was concerned Police make drug arrests Six people were arrested early this week on charges of distribution distribu-tion of a controlled substance following several months of undercover work, according to' Park City Police Chief Frank Bell. Five of those individuals were arrested at different locations throughout the Park City area Monday, and they were arraigned arraign-ed Tuesday before 3rd Circuit Judge Maurice Jones. The individuals in-dividuals include Bountiful resident resi-dent Sandra Thain, 22, and Park City residents Chad Herbts, 21; Matthew Date, 27; Daniel Montgomery, Mon-tgomery, 45; and Brian Ber-mudez, Ber-mudez, 22. They will face preliminary hearings on the second-degree felony charges May 30. Chief Bell said he had a total of 11 arrest warrants which had accumulated ac-cumulated throughout the winter, and he's expecting to serve five riiiEinnnnnnhniitj ppiiniipuaiiijuciii wimum MAM STREET ELEVATION scale tr-v-r serond-stnrv Herk -J" l : "i ( Jy'A OB 1 ti C smm : am n iaia d; ear , I. Construction is underway and Krajeski's new building should be completed by September. that approval of this deck would set a precedent along Main Street where there are a number of businesses with unoccupied historic second-story second-story decks "from the Red Banjo to Mr. Hunan's" that may come in and want approval as well. And while he admitted there were a number of street-level decks from Ciscero's to the proposed deck at the Brew Pub, he said those decks didn't pose the same sorts of safety or enforcement en-forcement problems. Wintzer told council members the open space on the street from Cafe Terigo to Mileti's was all important in "how you want Main Street to look Mayor suffers stroke Park City Mayor Hal Taylor suffered a stroke at his home early ear-ly Saturday morning, according to Mayor Pro Tem, Ann MacQuoid. Mac-Quoid. Taylor is at Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City and is "progressing very nicely," she said. Visitors are being limited, but cards can be sent to the Mayor's Post Office Box 804, Park City. "Hal called City Hall this week to make certain somebody would shoot off the gun for the start of more warrants in the next several days. An additional suspect, Jennifer Johnson, 22, of Centerville, turned herself in to officials Tuesday. "All of the suspects are charged charg-ed with at least one count of distribution of a controlled substance for value," said Bell, noting that Montgomery and Ber-mudez Ber-mudez were each charged with two counts. Each arrest involves different controlled substances, including cocaine, marijuana and hallucinogens. Park City Police Det. Pat Pir-raglio Pir-raglio said the arrests took place "at different bars" around Park City, noting that some of the arrests ar-rests are tied to an April arrest in Florida of a Park City man and two others. Park City resident Glen Hodges, 26, was arrested April 14 in Miami by FBI agents and undercover officials of the Salt i . .. 1 .- approval &sWw t &im. -Til - .- - ' and act," and he saw the addition of the deck as a symbol of the economic viability of the historic district. In regular session, the council asked ask-ed Kra jeski to work out the gas line issue and to work with the Historic District Commission and the city on the columns on the front of the building. Though Bell had requested that the council ask Krajeski to move his deck to the rear of his building extending over Swede Alley as other recent deck additions, such as the Irish Camel had done, the council chose to grant an easement to Krajeski to permit the deck to extend ex-tend over the city sidewalk. 5K race on Saturday and to be sure there were no weddings he was going to miss performing this weekend," said MacQuoid with a laugh. "While no one can replace Hal we'll make certain all his duties are carried out in what we hope is his short absence. Our prayers are with him and we expect he'll be back in the saddle soon." Those not wanting to send traditional "get well" greetings can send birthday cards Mayor ' Taylor will be 59 years old May 29! Lake Metro Narcotics Task Force. Danny L. Kerr, 25, of Anchorage, An-chorage, and John Tegzes, 27, of Miami, also were arrested in Florida. Officials said the trio is believed to be responsible for major ma-jor cocaine trafficking into Salt Lake and Park City. Chief Bell characterized the arrests ar-rests as "street level, minor cases." He said "this is another undercover investigation that has been going on since the first of the year, and no one place was identified iden-tified as the center of activity. Some of the information went to the case against Hodges in Miami." Bell said the arrests shouldn't be labeled as a "sweep" of the area; "they have just kind of accumulated ac-cumulated over the winter and we elected not to move on them until things slowed down," he said. J |