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Show A-2 The Park Record WedThursFri, May 12-14, 2004 Recreation complex hailed Lots of suggestions about what should be built at the site offered at open house By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff City Hall strolled through another anoth-er open house on Monday, hearing from Parkites that they generally like plans the government has to build a recreation complex at Quinn's Junction. Less than one week after the city's plans for a $7.8 million parking garage-town plaza received accolades, acco-lades, many people who attended Monday's open house appeared to favor the proposed recreation complex, com-plex, which could carry up to a $10.5 million price tag. The government took a straw poll of the approximately 50 people who attended the open house, held in the Park City Council's chambers at the Marsac Building, and found that nobody in the room at the time disliked dis-liked the concept. By 8:50 p.m., six comment sheets had been turned in and five of those who filled out the sheets said they "generally agree" with the plans, which were previously recommended recommend-ed by a task force. The person who did not agree with the plans indicated indicat-ed on the comment sheet that they were worried that an ice rink is not included in the current plans. Voters in Park City and the Snyderville Basin voted in favor of bonds to build an ice rink and the facility might be built at the proposed pro-posed recreation complex. That decision deci-sion has not yet been made, though. With the ice rink, the complex is expected to cost the full $10.5 million. mil-lion. If the ice rink is built somewhere some-where else, the complex would cost Ski Team mourns young athlete The U.S. Ski Team mourned the loss of one of its young athletes ath-letes Saturday. Shelley Glover, 17, a second-year member of the U.S. Ski Team's Development Team died Saturday at St. Charles Medical Center - Bend, following injuries suffered at an alpine training camp Wednesday at Mt. Bachelor Resort near Bend, Ore. "Shelley was a very talented and promising young athlete, and very much on track to become an Olympic ski racer," said U.S. Ski Team President and CEO Bill Marolt. 'It's obviously a great loss for her family and friends, and our prayers' go out to them. "It's also a great loss for our Team," added Marolt. "While our athletes are all competitive, we live and train as a team, working toward a common goal. Shelley was a great part of that Team!" Park City Continued from A-1 ment. Gillmor claims that the water rights are worth the $7 million sought in the lawsuit. "They snubbed their nose at me . . . the city people," Gillmor told The Park Record Monday. "I've tried and tried to work with them many, many years." The land in question is split between two parcels. One is described as the 'Clark Ranch' and Gillmor said it entails 210 acres running from the Solamere neighborhood east toward U.S. 40. The other is described as the '90' property and she said it is located off of S.R. 248 just east of the Park City limits. The land, she said, was under contract in 1999 for $7.75 million to a group that had proposed a resort project known as Country $6.5 million. The complex would be built on an 80-acre parcel owned by the city at the northwest corner of Quinn's Junction, nearby the National Ability Center campus. The city has eyed the land for recreation uses for some time. Under plans devised by the city, the complex would house four of five soccer fields, three softball diamonds, dia-monds, a playground and parking spots for people using the Rail Trail and trails in nearby Round Valley. As it considers City Manager Tom Bakah recommended budget, the Park City Council is currently deciding whether to earmark money for the complex. Bakaly has requested request-ed money for the complex. On Monday, lots of the input dealt with the ice rink even though it is not yet determined if the rink will be built in the complex. Some people brought up plan-ning-related issues concerning the ice rink and whether the complex is the right spot for the ice facility. Another person said the ice rink is overdue. Roger Strand, who lives in Park Meadows, noted that voters have supported the ice rink and he said he wanted the rink built at the location. "Long before we started talking about baseball diamonds and soccer fields, we already had the money set aside for a hockey rink," Strand said. Afterward, Strand questioned the amount of time it took for the city and Snyderville Basin officials to lean toward the Quinn's Junction site for the ice rink. Previously, the two were eyeing a parcel of land at The Glover, the 2002 Eastern Junior Olympic giant slalom champion who was in her second year with the development squad, was considered a rising star, enjoying her best season ever last winter. Born in Madison, Wis., she raced for Coach Pat Slattery at Tyrol Basin Ski Area near Madison, before heading east to Vermont to attend the Burke Mountain Academy and joined the U.S. Ski Team's Development Team in 2002. In her first year with the Ski Team this past winter, Glover worked her way to six top-five finishes' in international-level (FIS) races. She also finished in the top 15 all four days at the 2004 NorAm Cup Finals. She displayed dis-played continued success in the technical disciplines (slalom and giant slalom), finishing eighth in slalom at the U.S. Alpine Championships in Alaska in faces a $7M lawsuit Club Estates. The Country Club Estates developers wanted to annex the land into Park City but the government refused, she said. "To the extent that Park City has failed to allow annexation such that Nadine has been precluded pre-cluded from acquiring her economic eco-nomic benefit by way of development develop-ment ... the contract should be reformed to provide Nadine with the economic benefit foreseen by the parties in another fashion . . ." Scofield wrote in the 11 -page complaint. Scofield said Country Club Estates was unable to secure financing for the project because the annexation did not proceed. In late 2000, Country Club Estates filed pre-annexation papers at City Hall. The submittals submit-tals outlined a sizable golf-course golf-course development on 473 Open for Dinner & Sushi Tuesday thru Saturday Nightly dinner specials 6pm until close We Will be Opening for Lunch starting June 1st Canyons. "Why has it taken so long to get to this conclusion," he said, adding, "They should put it right there and done it a long time ago." Other comments about the ice rink included that it should be built in a manner that does not scar the landscape, that, perhaps, part of it should be built below ground to reduce its height and whether it should cost the $4 million that is predicted. pre-dicted. "It just scares me to have more buildings," said Shirin Spangenberg, a Prospector resident who said she supports building an ice rink but is unsure about the location within the recreation complex. KC Boutiette, an Olympic speed skater who lives in Jeremy Ranch, offered an alternative to the proposed pro-posed ice rink, saying that a natural ice rink could be placed at the site each winter just by freezing water. "Build a berm, fill it with water, let it freeze," he said. Others questioned that idea, though, indicating that Park City's sunny wintertime weather would make it difficult to keep a natural ice rink. Other comments about the recreation recre-ation complex included: That the city is exploring options to run a bus route to the complex. That the complex would enable the city to hold more athletic tournaments. tourna-ments. "I am very strongly in favor of this," Prospector resident Sally Elliott said, praising the opportunities opportuni-ties to hold tourneys. "This is a good place for these kinds of things." That both lacrosse and rugby players like the idea of adding more fields to Park City and that there could be rugby tournaments held at the complex if it is built March and winning a pair of FIS races in Waterville Valley, N.H., at the end of January. She finished fin-ished the 2004 season ranked sixth in the NorAm Cup slalom standings. "Shelley was one of the top junior athletes on the Team," said Alpine Program Director Jesse Hunt. "She had proven herself in the technical disciplines among her peers by achieving top 10 in her age group in slalom in the world. In addition to achieving top results, she was a great athlete ath-lete off the slopes and was one of our top prospects for the future." In lieu of flowers, the Glover family has asked that donations be made to either Burke Mountain Academy or to the Shelley Glover Fund, U.S. Ski Team Foundation. Services were pending and were expected to be held in Madison and at Burke Mountain Academy. acres. It envisioned more than 800 condominiums, 52 single-family single-family lots and a 250-unit time-share-condo hotel. The developers' application also called for a series of amenities ameni-ties and perks for the city like a 17,500-square-foot cultural center, cen-ter, endowments for an artist-in-residency program and an open-space open-space program. They also were willing to help City Hall pay costs associated with the 2002 Winter Olympics. However, the application did not proceed far through the government's gov-ernment's annexation process, which requires votes by both the Planning Commission and City Council. Park City Attorney Mark Harrington said on Tuesday the government had not been served with the complaint and declined further comment. Technicians sent to repair pipe Continued from A-1 are the places where the water will hit ... and it will have a tendency ten-dency then to blow those sections apart," he adds. The main was still closed Tuesday while technicians repaired the pipe. Martin said Summit Water, a private water company, and Summit County's Mountain Regional Water Special Service District own most of the water rights in Spring Creek springs, however, the nearby Murnin family and the owners of the Park City Nursery property, also own rights in the stream. Though they're not Summit Water customers, cus-tomers, Martin said the company has recently assisted them with water delivery. "We have been graciously providing them with water that meets state standard, out of that system, and because of this failure fail-ure in our piping we have then had to discontinue that water to them and we've been providing them with bottled water since last Sunday," Martin said. The state requested that the parties connect to Summit Water's system for spring water rather than pump it directly from the stream as the Murnins and Park City Nursery have done in the past, Martin said. "The Summit Water board of directors has said that we want to be good neighbors to them Politicians head to Continued from A-1 said, about talk of a right-wing takeover. About half of the delegates at the GOP convention had never been delegates in the past, Karras said. "I don't think there was a lot of heavy influence by one group or another, whether it was ideologically ideological-ly more right or whatever. It was a pretty good cross-section of people," peo-ple," Karras said. "I think that the Republican Party has rejuvenated itself ... I know that we've recruited numerous people who have not been before and got them to become delegates for us." "While I know that the Democrats want to play this as a, 'ha ha, the right wing threw out the governor,' I think there's a lot of reasons why the. governor would ( have struggled besides just this non- sense about : right-wing people," Karras added. Walker didn't enter the race until March and some of her potential poten-tial supporters were already supporting sup-porting him, Karras said. "Some of her friends are my friends," he said. "She left herself with fewer supporters, that if she had been six months earlier she would have had a much better chance of having some of those people sign on ... I probably wouldn't would-n't have run if I had known she was going to run." "Leavitt fatigue" also hurt Walker, Karras said. "People just felt like that Governor Leavitt and his administration adminis-tration had been there and frankly you can look into her administration administra-tion and it's really the Leavitt team," Karras said. "She had to bear that burden." Prior to the convention, Karras reported spending $298,257 on his campaign. "I think there's a limit to how much we can spend, because there's a limit to how much we can raise," Karras said Tuesday, adding that he is not sure how much the primary will cost. Last week, Huntsman reported spending about $750,000 in his bid to be governor. Jason Chaffetz, Huntsman's campaign manager, said Huntsman was the first choice of almost 29 GRAYSON WESTRARC RECORD A lake in Silver Springs was muddy this week as a result of a water pipe that broke Sunday morning near Sun Peak. and,, until we, get the problems completely resolvecT in' relationship relation-ship to the spring we want to handle those people as nicely as we possibly can," Martin said. Disputes have arisen among some who hold water rights in Spring Creek in the past, as to who gets how much water and when. Martin expected the pipe to be fixed Tuesday and said Summit Water would continue providing bottled water to the nursery and Murnins until it's repaired. "It's the sort of thing that Summit Water has done time and time again and they don't seem to get any credit for it, percent of the delegates at the convention. con-vention. "It's not going to matter how much it costs if you dont have the right message. We pride ourselves on the fact that Huntsman has not just written out a check, we've had over 500 donors donate to our campaign cam-paign . . . from $10 checks to $25,000 checks," Chaffetz said. "There's no doubt it's expensive trying to communicate com-municate with a couple million people peo-ple here in Utah ... television's expensive, newspaper's expensive, direct mail's expensive." Chaffetz discussed reasons for Karras' survival as a candidate. "Karras is part of the old guard. He's got a lot of connections and has been involved in the process for a long, long time," he said, about the former state House speaker. "It's a new race ... that chatlges the whole dynamicH " . ' "Your universe used to be 3,500 delegates and now the universe are literally hundreds of thousands of people." Chaffetz rejects claims that Utah's ultra-conservative right wing chose the GOP gubernatorial candidates. can-didates. "I wouldn't try to put some excuse or label on that ... it's a tactic the Democrats are already trying to do because they're obviously obvi-ously concerned about the prospect of running against Huntsman," Chaffetz said. Walker went out in the sixth round of runoff voting Saturday, just before business executive Fred Lampropoulos, who finished third in the race after spending more than $2.2 million - a pre-convention spending record in Utah. Dave Hansen, Lampropoulos' campaign manager dismissed notions that last-minute gossip launched against his candidate was the reason for his loss. "Nobody gave Lampropoulos much of a chance ... the amazing thing is how well he did," Hansen said. "He finished ahead of a sitting governor, a former congressman, a speaker of the House, member of the state senate. "I dont think that we're saying that not making it was due to any one thing, it was just that we didn't get enough votes ... if he hadn't spent the money he would have i it ii because nobody beats that drum," Martin said. He adds that most water systems sys-tems experience pipe breaks. "We had it shut off in about an hour," Fuller said. Summit Water officials were notified by the system when the pipe broke. Martin said, when the level of Summit Water tanks lower to a certain level, operators opera-tors are contacted. "If it happens in proximity to people's homes, you almost know it instantly ... if it happens in an out-of-the-way place where you don't have any damage or any problems to peoples property you also don't typically see it early," Martin said. a primary never been anywhere in the ball-game." ball-game." Gary Benson was dropped in the first round of runoff voting, and during dur-ing his stump speech, the candidate endorsed former First Congressional District Rep. Jim Hansen for governor. gover-nor. State Sen. Parley Hellewell was dropped in the second round after receiving the fewest votes. GOP delegates cast one ballot on which they rank their eight candidate choices. Hansen lost in the third round and after his votes were redistributed 33 votes separated Karras from Huntsman. But when Utah Speaker of the House Marty Stephens lost in the next round, 179 of his votes gave Lampropoulos a seven-vote lead over Karras for second place. Then Walker fell, and Karras received 328 of her 549 ' votes Lathpf opoulos received cnfy 48. Following ! redistribution of Lampropoulos ' votes, Huntsman had 51 percent and Karras 49 percent per-cent had one candidate received 60 percent of the 3,428 delegates' votes, a primary election would have been avoided. Meanwhile, in Salt Lake City on Saturday, state Democrats nominated nominat-ed Scott M. Matheson Jr., as their candidate to take on the Republicans for the governor's post. Here are some other convention developments relevant to Summit County: Logan resident Steve Thompson, a Democrat, was nominated to challenge chal-lenge 1st Congressional District Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, in November. Salt Lake City resident Paul Van Dam was nominated by the Democrats to take on U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah. Utah Senate District 19 includes much of eastern Summit County, and Weber County residents Allen Christensen and Gage Froerer will compete in a GOP primary for a chance to challenge Democrat Jim Hasenyager, of Weber County, for that Senate seat. Seat 25 in the Utah House of Representatives serves portions of western Summit County and Democrat Ross Romero, of Salt Lake City, was nominated to challenge chal-lenge Republican Martine Smith, of Salt Lake City, in November. it si SUSHI |