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Show II Saturday, October 10, 1998 The Park Record A-5. ounty Seat COUNTY EDITOR: Kevin M. Schultz 649-90 1 4 ext 1 1 2 Election '98: election preview by Kevin M. Schultz OF THE RECORD STAFF . With the November election only four weeks away, The Park Record will begin its formal election elec-tion coverage in its next edition. This week, we present a brief introduction to both the issues and the candidates up for county elections. Candidates' answers to specific question concerning these issues will be presented in each subsequent edition of The Park Record, right up to the November 3 election. ' ' Mi: ;l'j.lif ; ...11 This November, four candidates candi-dates are vying for the two available avail-able spots on the Summit County (Commission. Pat Cone (D-fflakley) (D-fflakley) is seeking the seat of !E I T' r . Tt tr incumDeni Jim soier iK-is.amas;, nd Richard Kohler (D-Park ity) seeks to oust Commissioner Eric Schifferli (R- Hark City). Also up for election is the seat f Summit County Sheriff, being fbught for. by Bill Judd (R-(Eoalville) (R-(Eoalville) and incumbent Fred Eley (D-Park City). The seat of Summit County Auditor is also rjeing contested by Rod Maxfield (jR-Woodland), who seeks to remove incumbent Blake Frazier (b-Oakley) from office. Candidates for commissioner ! The Summit County Commission is the highest board in the county and oversees all the ; official county business, including includ-ing finances and policy. There ar e three commissioners (two are presently up for election) who sprve a four-year term. ' Briefly, a short background on each of the candidates for county commissioner: Challenger Pat Cone is a journalist jour-nalist and photographer for several sev-eral local and national magazines and the Salt Lake Tribune. He has lived in Summit County his entire life, is married and is the father of four-year old twins. Incumbent Jim Soter is completing com-pleting his second non-consecu tive term as commissioner. He served from 1986-90 and 1994-present. 1994-present. He lives with his wife of 45 years in Kamas. Challenger Richard Kohler is a Park City architect who has lived in the area for almost 20 years. He has raised his family here and worked on the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission for three years. Incumbent Eric Schifferli was appointed to the county commission commis-sion two-years ago and is now seeking his first full term. He worked on the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission-before his appointment. He has lived in Park City for nearly 10 years, worked in the area as an attorney and is currently sending his children chil-dren to Park City schools. The issues Certainly one of the most discussed dis-cussed issues in this year's election elec-tion will be growth in the Snyderville Basin. As property values in the Basin continue to rise, several developers have approached the county with multi-faceted proposals pro-posals to develop their parcels. Some want low-density "trophy homes," others want high-density residential developments mixed with commercial properties, proper-ties, while still others want some blend of the two. Over the past six years, the county commissioners and the Snyderville Basin planners have developed several codes to mitigate miti-gate and regulate this growth, somehow searching for ways to require developers to pay for the impacts their developments will have on the area's infrastructure. The result was the Snyderville Basin General Plan, adopted earlier ear-lier this year, that requires extremely low densities unless developers can "bargain" their way to greater densities with various var-ious community amenities. Now the commissioners are confronted by several developers who claim to have rights to high-density high-density development that origi- Correction IWednesdavWarfl' Record incorrectly reiorted that aHenefer man's taxes uuu gime W4W.'W4oJAWy1!Wc..u muuucia icy"-. resent the marker value of his property, not his taxes.; We apologize .for any inconvenience this error may have caused. : nated before the code was adopted. adopt-ed. County commissioners will have to decide how to handle these "vested rights," either by litigation, consent agreements with the developers, orsome other presently unknown tool. Other issues include somehow preserving the agricultural heritage her-itage of the county in coordination coordina-tion with all the growth taking place, relations with the existing municipalities in the county and, of course, planning for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Candidates will also face questions about the quickly-growing quickly-growing Park City School District and the fact that state legislatures have passed laws making it illegal for school districts dis-tricts to demand impact fees from developers. Furthermore, questions exist as to how to manage the county's limited water supply, how to handle han-dle the relationship between the divergent east and west sides of the county, and how to handle relationships between the county's coun-ty's Hispanic and Anglo communities. commu-nities. Questions of leadership will also be brought up during this year's campaign. The candidates will answer questions about issues such as these in upcoming editibns of The Park Record. The first set of answers will appear in the Oct. 14 edition. Candidates for sheriff The seat of Summit County Sheriff is also being contested. The Summit County Sheriff oversees all law enforcement in the county except for those matters mat-ters that occur inside the incorporated incorpo-rated Park City and Kamas limits. lim-its. Challenger Bill Judd currently works as a deputy in the sheriff's department. He lives in Hoytsville with his wife and children. chil-dren. Incumbent Fred Eley has been the county sheriff for 16 years. (He lives with his wife in the Park City area, where he raised his three children. He has been in law enforcement for 27 years. ;, f jThe;isuesaea by the sheriff Please see Election '98, A-6 rr s rr Summit County is demanding responsible growth and accountability by our leadership, We need visionary leadership willing to take responsibility for their actions, not place blame. County integrity, ethics, and responsibility are jeopardized by the pressures of big money. It's the responsibility of county leadership to stand firm when enforcing concurrency. 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