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Show -Saturday, April 26, 1997 The Park Record County Seat Looking Residents are given a chance to survey tneir economic future by Kirsta H. Bleyle OF THE RECORD STAFF Determining the future of economic eco-nomic growth in the eastern part of Summit County is the goal of a survey that should start hitting ' random homes on the east side this weekend. With questions designed to .solicit opinions about everything from tourism to agriculture, the survey has been created through a combined effort of the Mountainlands Association of ; Governments and the Summit County Board of Commissioners, and will be used to develop an "'economic element within the Eastern Summit Countv General Plan. County Planning Two new projects get planning commission recommendations by Kirsta H. Bleyle OF THE RECORD STAFF Goshawk subdivision looking at SPA The 184.4-acre, Goshawk subdivision sub-division scheduled for development develop-ment east of the Silver Springs neighborhood passed through the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission preliminary site plan process on Tuesday, April 22. According to county planning staff. Goshawk developer Ian Dowie has effectively addressed all of the concerns raised at last months public hearing concerning concern-ing the project, including the proposed pro-posed paving of Old Bitner Road. Planning commission members, mem-bers, however, would not grant Dowie's request for increased density consideration under the Specially Planned Area (SPA) ordinance passed in conjunction with the controversial Star Pointe Ranch development. But the SPA. which could allow increased density-if a project meets certain criteria, actual implementation of the SPA ordinance will not occur until the revised Snyderville Basin General Plan is approved later this spring. Citing reasons of "precedence." "prece-dence." planning commission chairman Max Greenhalgh told Dowie that he could not rationalize rational-ize granting Goshawk nine lots instead the eight lots it is allowed under existing zoning standards because "current projects need to follow exiting zoning regulations until the general plan is approved." Deputy County Attorney Dave Thomas suggested the planning plan-ning commission make a dual rec 1 1 I v ESI rm m : : : : 11 JUL STREET U OPEN For Mud Season and offering 2 for 1 Dinner Entrees Monday - Saturday and Plenty of parking underground Marriott Summit Watch Building Open for Lunch & Dinner Monday-Saturday 738 Main Street, Park City 649-0888 (Buy one entree & receive the second entree ol equal or lesser value tree -not valid with any other offer. Must present this ad.) Expires 5797 at tourism for the Specific survey questions were developed by the East Summit County Action Team, which is comprised of 12 people appointed appoint-ed by the county commissioners. According to Mountainlands planner Shawn Seeger, the team included a number of county government gov-ernment department heads, a few area mayors, representatives from the soil conservation and forest services, and a couple of private business owners. Charged with creating a survey sur-vey that would accurately gauge the sentiments of eastern Summit County residents toward economic eco-nomic growth, the team worked with a consultant appointed by Mountainlands to determine what type of commercial devel- ommendation on Goshawk to the Summit County Commission, which recommends the project with eight lots under the existing code, while also providing a positive posi-tive recommendation for nine lots in the event that the SPA provision provi-sion of the general plan is enacted. enact-ed. Other concerns the planning commissioners discussed with Dowie concerning Goshawk's lots, which range in size between seven and 28 acres, dealt with the designation of on-site horse corrals. cor-rals. Newly appointed planning commissioner David Allen pointed point-ed out that allowing an acre for corral use on each lot might be excessive, and suggested Dowie cut the corral size on each lot in half on his preliminary site plan. Allen further suggested that, after Dowie researches exactly how much corral space horses need, he might increase the approved corral cor-ral size on each lot later on in the planning process. Design concerns over Pinebrook Pointe It was the color and design of condominium buildings proposed for the Pinebrook Pointe development devel-opment that caused the biggest concern among planning commission commis-sion members when discussing the 160-unit, 35-acre project on Tuesday. While county planning staff requested a positive recommendation recommen-dation on the 20-building development, devel-opment, however. Greenhalgh criticized specific design points on the buildings which he deemed unsuitable for the Snyderville Please see County, A-6 -B" O D TVjr opnienl if any would be considered con-sidered appropriate for the primarily pri-marily agricultural region of the county, Seeger said. One of the more interesting potential growth areas for the east side that the team stumbled upon, he added, was tourism. "The area has abundant tourism opportunities." Seeger said, "and with the adjacent activities in Park Citv. it seemed obvious to ask the residents if they want to tap into them." He noted that the team recognized the need for a "differentiation" between the type of tourism appropriate for a bustling area like Park City, and the more slow-moving, rural areas of eastern east-ern Summit County. Seeger said the team suggested suggest-ed certain areas of tourism the east side could potentially develop devel-op into more viable sources of commercial income include snowmobile tours, heavy use of forest serv ice properties, and day trips into the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. He also pointed out that residents on the east side who see a lot of cars pass through on the way to other destinations should trv to get those travellers to stop and "leave their money as they go through the town." Tourism, however, is not the only area of possible economic growth addressed In the study. Seeger said there exist appropriate appropri-ate types of agriculturally-driven commercial uses that could benefit bene-fit the east side, while also preserving pre-serving the area's inherently rural nature. Identifying these types of uses, he added, will hopefully he fleshed out by the open-ended questions included in the survey. An example of commercial agriculture is the Deer Garden Dairy in Kamas. which is an on-site on-site dairy manufacturing business that also retails its product on its property. Seeger said Mountainlands will henin to see results from the I . ' turn Jftfl. 'KA f H -jr i '-T I ". j ' W BP. IT AmWifc n.il .niMli Til Tin , ifnii i, ,. 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After the action team discerns the economic wants and needs of the east side, the information will be passed on to the county planning plan-ning staff, and will then be formed into what Seeger refers to as an "economic element" for the Eastern Summit County General Plan. He said that the economic element will most likely include a list of projects for the county to implement in various areas of the county that were identified through the survey. The mechanism mecha-nism necessary to move forward with the projects, Seeger added, will be formulated through the creation of a "natural resource conservation district." The natural resource conservation conser-vation district will be a special service district. Seeger said, similar simi-lar to the existing soil conservation conserva-tion district. But the natural resource conservation district will not be a taxing entity, rather, it will be guided bv a board of professionals that help implement imple-ment the list of projects identified identi-fied by the economic element and will make them a reality, he said. The district board. Seeger said, "will let areas of the county know what they have to do to make (the projects) happen, and (the district) will have the abililv to sav the population supports this type of use." The survey is being sent to a randomly selected group of primary pri-mary homeowners in eastern Summit County, and is similar to a study recently used in Wasatch Countv for similar exploration of potential economic growth. Seeder said. Be Surrounded By Big Trees This is Cedar Draw Estates. Discover this pristine setting, located adjacent to the Utah Winter Sports Park and Bobsled and Luge facilities. 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