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Show m m m p' Srtfay, April Tto Perk Record A-3 Andrew Volkman, Robert Powers grab seats but City Council drops Karri Hays by Jay Hamburgar OF THE RECOM) STAFF On April 26, the Park Gty Planning Commission meeting win include a couple of new faces. Thursday, the Park Gty Council appointed Andrew Volkman and Robert Powers to the Planning Commission. The Gty Council also reappointed commissioners Michael O'Hara and Chris Larson. Powers will fill the unexpired term that was vacated by Fred Jones when he was elected to the Gty Council. That term ends in 2002. The other three were appointed to four-year terms. Karri Hays, a first-term commissioner, com-missioner, did not retain her seat although she did apply to stay on the Planning Commission. There was little discussion of the appointments at Thursday's meeting. During recent interviews conducted by the Gty Council, though, the applicants offered their opinions on a few topics and the applicants answered questions as part of their applications. Volkman is an eight-year Partite who lives in Solamere and has a background in management. In his application, Volkman said the Planning Department has a reputation that it is arrogant and difficult to work with. He also wrote that he wants to improve the public perception of the Planning Department. Powers lives in Park Meadows. In his application. Powers says annexations might be important in the future. Park Qty borders might expand along S.R. 248, into the Round Valley area and behind the McPolin Farm, he wrote. The new commissioners will have little time for adjusting to the Planning Commission. Tentatively, Bodell challenges newspaper boxes City Councilwoman argues newspaper boxes should be thrown off Main Street by JayHaR&urgar Of TMt KSCOKO SEMV Although the city and local i papers are trying to compromise on ' what win be a new city bw to regu-. regu-. late newspaper boxes oa Main Street, one Park Gty Councilor wants even tighter restrictions. At a bearing on Thursday, Gty ; Councilwoman Peg Bodel blasted , the newspaper presence on the ' street, daiming the city must tightly regulate newsracks on Mam Street regardless of a new law impact oo the newspapers. Bodell suggested mat the city consider an ordinance that would . remove al newspapers from Mam Street The boxes, die said, should be moved to areas on side streets mat intersect with Mam Street The ramifications of the move oa newspapers, news-papers, she said, should not be of " concern to Qty Hal. ... "We're not here to make money far them," Bodell said. Bodell said the Qty Council should be more interested m making Mam Street a better place to visit The newsracks that are now on ' Main Street, she said, make it tough for pedestrians to enter businesses. "We're trying to make a nice ' experience for Main Street," Bodel ' said, adding. "It hard to get into ' stores." Bodel opinions came as the city and newspaper publishers ace looking look-ing for a compromise that would place some regulation oa newsracks April If Palm Sunday Services 9rt0aodi0:3Cm April 2tS Maundy Tkzrsdsy Communion Service Ar321tt ! Good Friday TcKtbrc Scrtict i h .- - ? , TXAVHi PCCC Easter Services III is Risen! Copy GTY EDITOR: the next Planning Commission meeting agenda includes several items that could spark debate, including the city skateboard park, changes to the city telecommunications telecom-munications ordinance and discussion discus-sion about the city's Land Management Code amendments. The Gty Council decided Hays should not continue. Kays, an upper Park Avenue resident, said she will remain active in the community. com-munity. "I'm not uptttt I'm not on the Planning Commission anymore," she said in an interview. "I know my voice will still be heard. If an issue comes up. 111 be there." Hays say she wants the Planning Commission to not ignore Old Town issues. During her term. Hays consistently questioned ques-tioned the impacts of Old Town development. I felt a voice for Old Town was still needed," she said about why she applied to remain on the Planning Commission. "I don't feel any of them would be a voice for Old Town." She adds that commissioners who dont live in a neighborhood do not understand that area concerns. con-cerns. "If you dont live in the area, you dont claim as much responsibility responsi-bility for it," she said. Hays also said she offered an alternative view oo the Planning Commission. "My ageuda was to provide the voice I felt was absent on growth in the community," she said, adding, "I was definitely there voicing my opinion and being a devil advocate." advo-cate." Hays said the three biggest issues during her term were Old Town development, open-space preservation and the annexation of "on Main Street The city k leaning toward an ordinance that would have the dry buy multi-paper newsracks news-racks that would be rented for a smal fee to the newspapers. The new racks would eaminate the need for each paper to have its own news-racks news-racks on Main Street The city estimates eight fetch newsracks would cost at least $15,000 ptus mstaBatko costs. The city can only charge a small fee for newspapers to rent the space in the newsracks since newspapers are protected under the Constitutional clause of freedom of press. Under the proposed ordinance, the city would Km the number of newsracks a newspaper can occupy. That stipulation was questioned by Park Record Publisher Andy Bemhard, who did not attend the meeting but offered input to planner Ahm Kuhlow, and the agency that distributes papers in Park Qty such as The Salt Lake Tribune, The Deseret News, The Wall Street Journal and Investor Business Dafiy "There some concern about limitations . . . , said Robin Erickson, who represented the four out-of-town papers. "We would like to be in al of the racks available." Questions avre also raised about a proposed priority system for space m the newsracks that places newspapers newspa-pers published at least twice per week at top priorities. John Salt as, publisher of Mountain Times and Qty Weekly, in Tkzx Cm F Jrcrsnr Ja? Hamburg- 449-MI4 art. I 1 1 United Park Gty Mines' Flagstaff Mountain development. She expects that the Flagstaff project will continue to be challenged chal-lenged as it goes through the planning plan-ning process. "I think scrutiny will be coining from the community anyway. I'll be there. CARG will be there," she said about Flagstaff. She said she will remain active with other issues, too. "Ill always be an advocate for Old Town, ill always be a voice for open space ... If I feci strongly about something, 111 show up," she said. Hays remains a critic of the city's decision to build a transit center cen-ter in lower Swede; Alley, a project that she voted against She said the transit center wasnl conceived correctly. cor-rectly. "It's dot centralized. It not easy for people to get from the transit center to Main Street It was hastily hasti-ly planned," she said. Hays also said the city was motivated moti-vated to build the transit center by the availability of federal funding, which will pay for 80 percent of the building cost "We wanted a small transit center cen-ter and it still huge," she said. "We were being dictated to by a grunt and not what the community really needed." She says the city temporary skateboard park and the revisions to the Land Management Code and Park Gty General Plan, all of which were undertaken during her term, were successes. Hays said some in the city were critical of her because of her stands. "I think the reasoc people got frustrated with me is I didnl play by the rules," she said. About the Gty Council appointments, she said: "Maybe they feel like the Planning Commission is not a place for a caring passionate person." which are both weekly publications, said the priority system b flawed aod ' meant to assuage The Park Record, which pub&shes twice per. week. "It sounds kke wc wrote the ordinance ordi-nance for Andy," Sahas raid, refer-ringto refer-ringto The Park Record publisher. The Ory Counol did not vote on an ordinance at Thursday meeting and decided to continue the public bearing. Other Gty Councilors did not support Bodel call for more 'stringent 'strin-gent regulations. City Councilwoman Shauna Ken said people want to buy papers on Main Street and papers should be available avail-able on thfc street "I wouldn support taking them al off Main Street" Kerr said. As debated, the ordnvnct would only apply to the historic district Qty Councilman Fred Jones said be wanted to explore regulating aews-racks aews-racks in the rest of Park Qty. Kuhlow, though, cautioned that the city should experiment on Main Street first Td like to start in the historic district and see how it works," Kuhlow said. April 23rd Easier Sunday Sunrise Communion Service 7:30am Adtionat Services 9:00 and 10:30am Ik Gflr.cn U t i i - r. r 1 V T". ) r jig , 4 A Sampling of our famous Easter Sunday Brunch Buffet... 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