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Show A-2 The Park Record Wednesday, September 18, 1996 Trio to visit Virginia Three representatives of the Park City School District are flying fly-ing to Virginia Beach, Virginia this afternoon, September 18, to pay an on-site visit to their leading lead-ing candidate for superintendent Dr. Nancy De Ford. De Ford, who is currently Curriculum Superintendent for the Virginia Beach School District, is the only one of the three finalists to whom Assistant Superintendent Burke Jolley and board members Colleen Bailey and David Chaplin are paying an on-site visit. "We will be talking to her superiors, her peers, her subordinates subor-dinates and the public," Jolley said. He noted the trio does not have a prepared script it plans to use. "I think we each have our own idea of what we want to find out." Jolley said the group plans to spend at least Thursday and Friday talking with people, and will return to Park City "over the weekend." "You will not hear any public comments about the superintendent superinten-dent search until our board meeting on September 24," Jolley said. "They may talk about it then, or they may not." Amoco sign put on hold Continued from A-1 an attempt to assuage the homeowners. home-owners. Bell Oil entered into a gentleman's agreement with Summit County to forgo the pole sign and construct a six-foot monument sign. However, if the monument sign did not generate enough business for the service station, Bell Oil could exercise their rights and construct the 40-foot 40-foot pole sign. Last month. Bell Oil alerted the county and Jeremy Ranch homeowners that they intended to move forward with plans to construct the sign. In a letter to Summit County Planner Lesley Burns, David Bell, secretary and treasurer of the Bell Oil Company, said the service station was not doing as well financially as they had hoped and they would need the sign to bring in more traffic. Some Jeremy Ranch homeowners home-owners were incensed by the decision, and held a meeting last Thursday, Sept. 12 to let the service ser-vice station know how they felt. At the meeting, discussion arose regarding safety concerns centered on increased traffic from the highway. The increased traffic, contended homeowners, would pose a safety hazard to the students from Jeremy Ranch Elementary School, located about a block away from the service ser-vice station. Additionally, homeowners were disconcerted by the absence of any Bell Oil Company or Amoco representatives. Bell, however, said he was unable to attend the meeting because no Amoco representatives were able to make it to Park City in time, and he was advised by the oil giant to not attend the meeting without Amoco representation. Thursday night, after much heated argument and comments from Summit County Commissioners Sheldon Richins and Jim Soter, homeowners presented pre-sented a 700-person petition against the Amoco sign. Comments from homeowners ranged from public safety concerns, con-cerns, to feelings that Amoco was telling Bell Oil what to do. "That 40-foot sign is not going to benefit Mr. Bell," said Jeremy Ranch resident Mike Silber. "I hope Mr. Bell is not listening to Corporate American and Mr. Amoco, because it's not good business sense." But, because Bell Oil was granted approval for the 40-foot sign, Burns said the property owner had a right to build it. They were, however, still required to obtain a sign permit from the department of planning. The permit could be awarded after a 30-day waiting period. That waiting period ended on Monday, Sept. 16, the day the commissioners decided tell Oil would wait another 60-days. According to Commissioner Jim Soter, Bell Oil is not contesting contest-ing the additional waiting period. rather, they are willing to sit down and talk to Jeremy Ranch homeowners to work things through. Additionally, Soter said, the commissioners have ordered a traffic study for Jeremy Ranch Elementary School to determine exactly how many students walk to school, and how much traffic is generated by the Amoco station. Regardless of the traffic study's outcome, however, Soter said the commissioners are against the pole sign. "(Bell Oil) has the right to do it, but we are using every possible means we have at the commission level to mitigate this out between the homeowners and Bell Oil." David Bell also said Bell Oil voluntarily agreed to the additional addi-tional waiting period. Bell hopes the service station and the community com-munity will work together to come up with a workable solution. solu-tion. "It's a winning situation when both parties want the same thing. We are as interested in the safety issues as anybody in the community." Bell added he understands that, because children are at risk, it has been an emotional situation. situa-tion. He does hope, however, that the community and the service station "bond together," and that the community, the school and the county will all work together in the next 60-days in an effective way that addresses all concerns, "real and emotional." VW Xtdb . If '"rWk -Pczf. SCOTT SINEB4RK RECORD A peaceful face-off Chuck Klingenstein (I), Paul Sincock and the rest of the Park City Council heard public comment Thursday, Sept. 12 regarding a proposed city ice rink and possible possi-ble skateboard park. The crowd at the council's work chambers in the Marsac Building was larger and slightly younger than usual, as area youth-league hockey players and skateboarders were well represented. Star Pointe talks go on Continued from A-1 reality, be affordable. These questions of affordable housing, along with concerns over compliance with county development develop-ment codes, are the issues the subcommittee sub-committee has been trying to tackle with cooperation from the developer. At last month's joint commission meeting, East Side Planning Commission Chairman Glen Brown expressed concern that the developers will not be able to effectively house a potential poten-tial horde of service-level employees employ-ees in their affordable housing. Brown added that he could not Montana speaker says citizens should get involved in politics by Adam Elggren OF THE RECORD STAFF There are too few politicians in America. That unlikely opinion came from a speech in Park City Monday afternoon by Dan Kemmis, a Montana politician and head of a Western think tank, who not only decried the lack of politicians in the U.S. but also a shortage of real citizens. "We live in a time now when there are very few people who would call themselves politicians," politi-cians," said Kemmis, a self-described "fan" of politics, to an audience of Leadership 2000 participants par-ticipants and two Park City Council members at the Park City Library Monday afternoon. At the same time, said Kemmis, "People no longer consider themselves 'citizens.' They call themselves 'taxpayers.' And if they do call themselves citizens, they say they're 'concerned citizens.'" Those cynical views of politicians and citizenship are unhealthy for American government, govern-ment, Kemmis said. "If we're serious about being a democracy, we're going to have to change our attitude toward politics." Kemmis, who was told just that morning that he was one of five winners of the National Endowment for the Arts Presidential Commendation and would be going to the White House to receive the honor, is the former mayor of Missoula, Mont, and new director of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West at the University of Montana. Kemmis is also author of Community and the Politics of Place and The Good City, the Good Life. He and Rick Silverman, director of the Mountain Film Festival in Telluride, Colo., were invited to discuss the politics of local leadership with the current Leadership 2000 class on Monday. "I've become convinced that so many of our towns in the Rockies have the same problems open space housing and such," said Kemmis. "The problems are the same, and the solutions are going to be... somewhat the same. "The answers won't come from the state capitol, they won't come from Washington, D.C., they're going to come from our communities." "What we tend to do is elect people who have no political politi-cal skills, thinking, the less you know about politics, the more likely you're going to do better in office. It doesn't make any sense. That's like choosing a symphony orchestra based on how little the musicians know about music. " Dan Kemmis Kemmis said the "highest levels of intelligence" intelli-gence" in each community need to be tapped to provide local leadership, and those who step forward need to be treated with a different level of respect. "Think about 'politician' alongside the word 'musician,'" said Kemmis. "I know, that's difficult, diffi-cult, but they do have certain traits in com mon a certain talent, a certain related, disciplined disci-plined set of skills... I've come to believe, quite strongly, that politics really is an art even though my degree is still in something called 'Political Science.'" Kemmis said that the phrase "good politician" politi-cian" should not be thought of as a contradiction contradic-tion in terms. He used Abraham Lincoln as an example of a politician who was not only a morally "good" politician, but also "good" as in skilled. "He wouldn't have accomplished anything simply by moral leadership," Kemmis said of Lincoln. He said it is an inherent contradiction for Americans to "generally believe in democracy, democ-racy, and disbelieve in politicians like we do. People need to teach themselves more about politics. "What we tend to do is elect people who have no political skills, thinking, the less you know about politics, the more likely you're going to do better in office. It doesn't make any sense. That's like choosing a symphony orchestra orches-tra based on how little the musicians know about music." Kemmis said that it takes skillful politicians to get things done in a democracy, despite the idea most Americans seem to favor that anti-politicians anti-politicians make the best lawmakers. But he said that doesnt preclude ordinary citizens from becoming skillful politicians, and forming an "entrepreneurship of power. "I guess if I'm making a pitch here it's... a plea to you to be open to thinking of your citizenship cit-izenship as it relates to politics; look for those people who have a genuine instinct for the common good, and don't ask them to be bad politicians." imagine "someone making $15,000 or $20,000 a year buying a $150,000 house," and said he is afraid the new service employees will add an additional housing strain to the east side of the county. coun-ty. Brown said the east side cannot can-not be expected to accommodate these workers, while maintaining its rural character. He further predicted the burden bur-den of housing the resort's employees will fall on areas like Oakley, Coalville, and Kamas, reducing available open space and forcing long-time residents to consider con-sider moving elsewhere. "We've already got hamburger-flipping, hamburger-flipping, bed-making jobs by the hundreds, and these workers do have not place to live. The economics eco-nomics of Park City is driving us out of our communities," Brown said. Because the proposed development develop-ment straddles both the Snyderville Basin and Eastern Summit County, concerns facing Star Pointe developers from both planning commissions vary widely. wide-ly. According to Dotson, the Snyderville Planning Commission is concerned about whether the new development complies with their new idea of "neighborhoods" "neighbor-hoods" within the Basin, as outlined out-lined in the newly proposed Snyderville Basin General Plan. Star Pointe falls within the newly designated "East Basin" neighborhood. The neighborhood neighbor-hood goal of this area includes making sure the Highway 40 corridor cor-ridor of the county is able to include "an appropriate diversity and amount of uses and activities that are complimentary to the Kimball Junction Community Center and the resort nature of the Snyderville Basin." The goal further states the East Basin neighborhood should provide a balance of commercial and residential resi-dential development, both of which need to preserve the mountainresort moun-tainresort character of the basin. Dotson also said Snyderville Basin residents will be concerned with the construction and financial finan-cial impacts of the development. Because of perceived community concerns, the planning commissions commis-sions have scheduled another joint session, and public hearing for tonight,Wednesday, Sept. 18. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the courtroom of the Summit County Courthouse on N. Main Street in Coalville, and Dotson hopes residents will take the time to attend and voice their opinions on the subject. The hearing will begin with a presentation by the developers, which is intended to familiarize residents with the project. The planning commissions will then voice their concerns. And the public will be invited to offer further fur-ther input. Stoplight nixed Continued from A-1 reasons of liability, but also from a practical standpoint. "We don't have the pedestrian traffic compared to what you see in big cities," said DeHaan. "I think what UDOT is saying say-ing is, that's a good intersection," said DeHaan. "Accidents are normal. They're not good, but they're normal. "People think a signaled intersection inter-section is a safe intersection," the engineer continued, "and that's a dangerous assumption. There's no such thing as a safe intersection." intersec-tion." DeHaan did add, however, that a traffic light would be much more likely to get approval some time after the upcoming Island Outpost project is completed and' traffic in the area increases. "In the meantime, gridlock will get bad on its own let's not help it out too much," said DeHaan. "After all, they're stop lights, they're not go lights." Public outcry for a traffic light followed the fatal June 26 traffic accident which killed Beverly Neff, 72 of Park City, at the intersection, inter-section, which joins Park City's main entryway with residential Thaynes Canyon to the south and Snow Creek Drive to the north. That accident prompted city officials offi-cials to look into the possibility of installing the light. On Main Street... In Upper Deer Valley.. Mercato Mediterraneo di Nonna Maria i Park City's Authentic European Ristorante & Market i Olive M Barrel Open 7 days a week for lunch & dinner 647-0030 Food Compan) Serving authentic Italian cuisine since 1992. Throughout Autumn enjoy our 0pen for dinner Nightly Chefs Selections. wed.-Sun. In addition to our regular menu, inauire about our throughout Sept. 3 course dinner for $25.00 (Including starter, entree, and dessert) Reservations Appreciated 647-7777 Yes, it's street legal. Yes, it will go through the bank. drive-through. 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