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Show The Park Record D Section A Thursday, March 25, 1993 Page A3 I ' a tow A . - ' yft Hvis v Park City's Eric Schifferli wants to give something back to the community chri Eitenber8 Newest planner strives for 'vision' by CHRIS EISENBERG Record staff writer For Park City attorney Eric Schifferli, the decision to accept a seat on the Summit County Planning Commission was an easy one. "I'm a strong believer that everybody should give back to the community," he said in a recent interview. "And this is one area I have a lot of experience." Schifferli, 35, has specialized in land-use and real estate law since he graduated from New York City's Colombia Law School in 1985. He was appointed March 1 to fill a vacancy on the seven-member board created when Commissioner Susan Glasmann resigned. Glasmann, who had served on the commission for four years, said she no longer had the time the position required. As a specialist in land-use law, Schifferli feels prepared to tackle the complex issues now facing Summit County. Before he moved to Park City two years ago, he worked for approximately five years as an in-house attorney for 1 Prometheus Development, a large development firm based in San Mateo, Calif. While there, he handled a variety of legal issues relating to the company's single family housing, retail, office and apartment projects. Despite his work with a large-scale large-scale development company, Schifferli claims he is approaching the new position with an open mind. He plans to study all sides of the issues in Summit County's complex and often controversial debates over growth before making critical decisions. "I would tend to say that I'm a moderate by nature," he said. "I like to think I'm a good listener. I don't have an agenda. Instead, I'm looking to do what's fair." As a planning commissioner, Schifferli said he will look for a balance between competing interests. To find that balance, he said, commissioners need to listen Tm a strong believer that everybody should give back to the community." carefully to residents in order to understand the vision they have for their community. Problems arise, he said, when elected and appointed officials approve projects that do not fit that vision. An example, Schifferli said, is the disappointment felt by many members of the , community following the opening of the Kmart store at Kimball's Junction. "That was not the vision of people in the Snyderville Basin," he said. Community members, however, need to uphold their side of the bargain and make their wishes known. "If people have opinions and ideas in terms of the direction they want the community to go, they need to voice them," he said. Regardless of the issue, Schifferli said officials need to act carefully. Planning decisions often have big impacts on particular Rotary Club looking for 1 992 Citizen of the Year The Park City Rotary Club is accepting nominations for its annual Citizen of the Year Award. This year, in an effort to recognize the many contributions made to this community each year, two awards will be given. First, the traditional Rotary Citizen of the Year Award will be given to the person who best exemplifies the Rotary Motto of "Service Above Self," in recognition recog-nition of volunteer and community service work. The second award will be presented as a business and professional award exemplifying the Rotary principles of truth, fairness, and the building of goodwill and friendships in business busi-ness or professional enterprises. Letters of nomination for one or both of these awards should be mailed to the Park City Rotary Club, P.O. Box 1115, Park City, UT 84060 by Monday, April 4. Golf tourney advisory group forms Park Meadows residents are invited by the sponsors of the Seniors P.G.A. Franklin Quest Championship Golf Tournament to form an advisory committee. The Tournament is scheduled for Aug. 10-15. Residents will be able to voice concerns over traffic management, tresspassing the event. The meeting will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 27 in City Hall work session room. Park City's Newest Christian Church Wasatch Christian Community Invites you to participate in a Sunday Evening Bible Study . Contemporary worship Meet new people Teacher-Jim Schaedler Study from the Book of Revelation Sunday Nights 7pm Arabian unve vqtk meaaowsj For information call 645-7314 To the thinly I unU&fiom At fountain of tht ivaier tflife... Krvflation 114 areas, he said, and "mistakes are not easy to correct." Schifferli agreed to join the ( commission because he believes the county is now at a critical juncture following the adoption in January of the new Snyderville Basin Development Code. "I think a lot of the big political decisions have been made," he said. "Now, I think the trick is how do you implement them correctly." Two of Summit County's most pressing issues, the desire to preserve open space and the need for affordable housing, are tricky, he said, but not impossible to resolve. "There's no set answer one way or another," he explained; officials need to balance community desires with private property rights. While Schifferli, his wife Jill and his two young daughters moved to Park City just two years ago, he has seen first-hand the rapid growth in Summit County during the last few years. Schifferli has been skiing in the area since the late 1960s. Schifferli grew up in New Jersey but headed west for college attending the University of Colorado's Boulder campus. 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