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Show iyyIlim -pi 'B0MI)IKl. Vol.116 No. 34 3 sections 60 pages " M r,,,' ... n' 1 9', Park City, Utah Serving Summit County since 1880 O Oct. 21 , 1 994 Task Force volunteers needed The Domestic Peace Task Force is looking for volunteer advocates to do outreach with victims of domestic violence and their children. Training will be provided. If you are interested in volunteering your time, please call 647-9161. Emergency road to be closed An unimproved emergency access road connecting Silver Springs and Ranch Place is apparently being used by everyone from school bus drivers to the UPS man. On Monday, Oct. 17 residents of Ranch Place complained to the Summit County Commission that vehicles using the emergency road have become a hazard to children in the area. The road was originally built, they said, to offer a second access to ' Silver Springs. When it was approved residents were promised the route would only be used by emergency vehicles. Resident Ellen Rich said 130 of her neighbors in the area had signed a petition asking that the road be closed. According to Park City Fire Chief Kelly Gee, the route could decrease an emergency vehicle's response time by as much as three minutes. "It's the opinion of the fire district that the road should be open. It was platted as part of Ranch Place and it should be brought up to county engineering standards." But Summit County Commissioner Gene Moser said he felt they had an obligation to "keep faith" with what had been promised. He suggested that the county road department install a berm with a pedestrian path. Moser added that now that North Shore has been built there is an adequate second access to Silver Springs. The County Commissionersunanimously agreed to begin efforts to close the road with a dirt berm. County must seek settlement Because of a lawsuit filed against Summit County in Federal Court last year, the public hearing on Johnson International's Snyderville Basin General Plan Amendment request has been postponed indefinitely. A public hearing was scheduled before the Summit County Commission Oct. 18. On Oct. 13, U. S. District Court Judge Bruce Jenkins met with representatives from Johnson International and Summit County and ordered them to engage in "settlement negotiations." According to Summit County's attorney Jody Burnett, they will reappear before Judge Jenkins on Jan. 9, 1995. Until then, Burnett said, both parties will attempt to see whether there is "some middle ground." Johnson International's lawsuit centers on claims that the county's new Snyderville Basin General Plan attempts to reduce the property owner's vested development rights. Specifically, Johnson International is questioning the legality of the Tier System which defers development in certain areas for as long as 20 years. itvc. board hosts forum for by MATT OTT Record staff writer The five candidates running for Summit County Commission seats A and B fielded questions specifically related to funding and land acquisition for recreational facilities in the Snyderville Basin for about two hours Tuesday evening, Oct. 18 at Parley's Park Elementary School. The Snyderville Basin and Park City Recreation Board members drafted two major m Hoy smoke! : ' . , . ' " -,mi Vifesp.. 1 . .:-; -mm-Jt . , ,-. -, , w - - ' .. .. . Jr' . , . m i-"- - - . i r - . ' ' . "r X" - - - v w,,, , , - - - , , .f...., : Summit Park home by NAN CHALAT-NOAKER Record staff writer Of the 15 Snyderville Basin General Plan Amendment Requests which came before the Summit County Commission in four separate public hearings this month the largest, and loudest, outcry surrounded a proposed building permit lottery system in Summit Park. Tuesday night's public hearing which also included three other significant amendment proposals Summit County Commissioners consolidate ambulance service by NAN CHALAT-NOAKER Record staff writer Park City Fire District Chief Kelly Gee was momentarily speechless. He could not believe, after four years of pleading with the Summit County Commission to reorganize the county's three separate ambulance groups, that they had accepted every one of the committee's recommendations. Monday, Oct. 17, the recently formed Ambulance Service Task Snow Creek development may finally get under way by DIANA KINGSTON Record staff writer The Park , City Planning Commission voted Oct. 12 to allow an extension of the commercial portion of the conditional use permit for the Snow Creek master planned development surrounding the Top Stop at the intersection of state roads 224 and 248 allowing Dan's Foods to begin construction. Nothing has been done with the questions which were given to the candidates approximately two weeks before the fcrum, according to mediator and Park City Recreation Board Chairman Paul Sincock. The questions, which all of the candidates were asked to answer, were included in a large packet of information regarding recent recreation issues. The first question focused on the acquisition of a site for development into a recreational facility. "Site acquisition for a major park has been turned over to the community development director for negotiations with photo by Dwight Clet Full- and part-time firefighters recently completed a timed fitness test, which included dragging a fire hose about 100 feet across a parking lot. During the test firefighters wore full gear (which weighs about 50 pounds) and breathed through an oxygen mask. They had to complete the test successfully in order to maintain paid status with the fire district. was dominated entirely by property owners in Summit Park. The beleaguered subdivision has been plagued with water shortages for over a decade and for the last several years development there has been shut down by a state imposed building moratorium. But now that the water system has been improved, thanks in large part to thousands of dollars in special assessments on the property owners themselves, that moratorium may soon be lifted. That, however, has worried Force, made up of local physicians, fire district representatives and ambulance personnel presented a 15-page report to the Commission outlining a consolidated county-wide county-wide ambulance system. As proposed, and subsequently adopted by a unanimous vote of the commission, the three current EMT Associations in Park City, North and South Summit will be brought under one umbrella to be overseen by an Emergency Medical Services Director and a special advisory 52-acre parcel of land, despite a conditional use permit granted by the Planning Commission on Sept. 22, 1993, because the ownership of the land was in dispute. The permit was issued to a company named Pyramid Construction, although Pyramid did not then own the land. The parcel had been held in trust by the Resolution Trust Company (RTC) when Western Savings and Loan, which owned it, got into continued on A2 landowners, Johnson International, Jack Jarman and Property Reserve Inc., one year ago. What will you do as a County Commissioner to assure a site is acquired by Spring of 1995?," asked Sincock. Sally Elliott, a Park City resident running for Seat A. responded to the question first, promising to deliver a site by Spring 1995. Elliott said she would "negotiate with all major landowners" in the Tier One area. "If it's necessary to transfer some continued on A2 Si f i i ' -, V ' ' ' . owners hotly dispute lottery representatives from the Summit Park Homeowners Association who fear that as soon as the moratorium is lifted all those lot owners who have been waiting will rush to build there, previous hearing before the Summit County Planning Commission those homeowners pointed out that the subdivision is currently only 50 percent built out and is already suffering from infrastructure inadequacies and ongoing water shortages. If the rest of the lots, about 450 of them. board. While maintaining some local autonomy all three groups will work under a county-held license and use one resource hospital. Previously Park City and North Summit used Holy Cross Hospital as its medical resource while South Summit used Wasatch County Hospital. According to the Commission the county will open new negotiations for a resource hospital. Since the sale of Holy Cross to Health Trust it has been unclear whether that hospital wanted to continue its relationship with Summit County. Other significant changes brought about by the consolidation will be that the previously all-volunteer all-volunteer South Summit EMTs will become paid personnel. The North Summit EMTs will be recertified at levels which conform to the rest of the county and the Park City Ambulance Service will be taken over by the fire district. According to Chief Gee, bringing the Park City ambulances in under the fire district's auspices will give them a much-needed infusion of capital. "I think the service will be improved," Gee said continued on A2 county candidates St ' " I w A f ' i, t d are built on before those problems are addressed, they claimed, there will be serious health, safety and welfare problems. As a way to resolve that problem they proposed limiting growth in the subdivision by establishing a lottery system to award one building permit per month. They also asked to be moved out of the General Plan's Tier One in which development can occur before other outlying areas. That proposal, however, enraged Council considers stipend increases by DIANA HTNGSTON Record staff writer Following a discussion of compensation for city commissions and expense reimbursement for the City Council, during its Oct. 13 meeting the Park City Council did not vote on increasing stipends for several city commissions, and changing how Council members are reimbursed, but agreed that such alterations were warranted. Council members decided to make a decision in March or April of 1995, when they will vote on next year's budget. The discussion was initiated by Council Member Leslie Miller who asked for information on how other resort communities compensated their governing bodies. "I asked to see how compensation for our Council compared with other resort towns with a view to making it more equitable for lower income people to serve on the Council," Miller said. "As members of the Council, we are expected to attend a lot of events and fundraisers. The price of PTO to host forum The Parley's Park Parent Teacher Organization is hosting a Summit County Commissioners candidate forum dealing with educational issues on Monday Oct. 24 at Parley's Park. The forum is open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the multipurpose room. KPCW survey says... Races too close to call "The A seat is a dead heat.. .the undecided will decide that race," says KPCW Station Manager Blair Feulner of this year's election survey results. While cautioning that the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus five percent, Feulner added that in the past the polls have been "incredibly accurate." For last year's City Council election, he said, the results "weren't off by even a percent." Earlier this month. 35 KPCW volunteers polled 401 potential voters county-wide and asked, "If the election were held tomorrow how would you vote?" The results are as follows for the two local county commission races, the two local referendums and the state and U.S. House of Representative and Senate races. It is important to note that there are still a significant number of undecided votes which could drastically affect the results of local races. continued on A2 a number of property owners who have been waiting years to build homes on their lots in Summit Park. Tuesday night, Oct. 1 8, they were out in force and they told County Commissioners the proposed lottery system is unacceptable. They say it would be unfair to those who have been paying assessments to fix the water system and who have, because of the moratorium, seen their property values plummet. One property owner told the continued on A2 tickets to these are becoming more and more prohibitive." Since August, Personnel Director Bob Stephens has been gathering information on reimbursement policies of other Wasatch Front cities and the three Colorado ski resorts the Council visited on the summer tour. Stephens' research showed that Park City's mayor and council received more annual income ($16,032 for Mayor Brad Olch and $9,444 for each council member) than their counterparts in Aspen ($13,800 for the mayor and $6,600 for each council member), Breckenridge ($9,600 for the mayor and $6,000 for each council member) and Vail ($6,000 for the mayor and $2,400 for each council member). However, the Colorado cities all budgeted more for reimbursing expenses incurred by governing officers attending business and educational functions. Vail's expense budget is $25,000 per year. Breckenridge's is $18,000 and Aspen's is $10,000. continued on A2 Index: Classifieds C14 Crossword C1 3 U Agendas A4 Editorial A1 6 U Education AW U Street Beat B5 Columns A1 4 Business C7 Tube Times CI 2 When & Where B2 V iMmtitHiilini itiiMi4ii.ii(fc,.4 hit i itit i)t r 'iir f f-ittffttnrlrUff- |