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Show Thursday, May 25, 2006 Pag2 OREM GENEVA TIMES U l W S A M D f J 0 T E 0 Orem updates city code on non-conforming uses Reva Bowen (Jrcrn uJated its city axle on nou -conforming uses and structures struc-tures 'I u-sday In preventing the issue to the Orem f'lty Oikk il, Steve Earl ol Hie tty's legal staff defined non onforrnwg uv-s and structures struc-tures as tfiose that were once in ( omli;in e with itw city's ordinances, ordi-nances, but (( ause of ( tongas to those laws, arc not currently compliant f ail gave a seven point summary sum-mary of the profiwd changes toOrem'suty rod', outlined as follows I l .xK-nsions and enlargements enlarge-ments of non-conforming struc-t struc-t nr-s can nw fx- done, where tlx- previous ordmarx e limit wl tlx- ability to do v t A non onlormirig use may now fx- -x tended within the same building, where the previ-(us previ-(us ordinance prohibited it. I A nonconforming structure or a structure busing a non- onforrning i can tie rebuilt if it is involuntarily destroyed by fire or other calamity. The previous ordinance allowed recon.strudiori only if less than 50 percent of l lie structure was destroyed I A nonconforming structure i annot fx- rebuilt or restored if it Ix-comes utniiliiibitable and is not repaired wit fun six months ol notK e Makes d-f mil torts conform to def trillions in state law t Stales that a non-conforming strudure l fiat is rebuilt must conform to current ordinance requirements to lf? greatest extent possible Stales that a strudure housing hous-ing a non-conforming use must fx- rebuilt on the same foot print and ( annot be increased in size I Jirl said the first five points on the list were designed to bring ( Bern's city code in compliance with slate law provisions pro-visions 'I tie final two points Schools Continued from t'ue 1 of Orem, for an Orem-bound ary school district, while at the same time, allowing for other interested and affected cities, su h as l.indon and Vineyard, to fx; m luded in the study if formal requests are made, I lie council listened to comments com-ments from the public for alxui 15 minutes before undertaking un-dertaking their own deliberations delibera-tions Orem resident Irtme fver- NorthCounty (iwt ) Kirk Parkinson 'X nut Marc Haddock mj !ji nil '.i mill 1 ijiHit tatrfi'l' iWwitWiiin (Mir i Cathy Allred rM llilll. 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Day). 1 year (outud Utah County) 1 year (m IMi County - Thurtday onfyl 1411711 'V fc('jMrt 'hdu if tmlr, 1;, I MaMhar: Ail M-,mmj'A TO KEEP YOU INFORMED A N D I N V 0 "D 7 ; V ; vi Hamster derby llitmhlerH hud I rouble making il ZtXKiut I'i'tcoinOrcm. urn not required, but are in harmony with the philosophy Ihiil non-conforming uses and strudures should be pfutsed otjt overtime, "lfAV much 'wiggle room' do we have?" &'kjtl Mayor Jerry WasfilHjrn, Iiiidting note of Ifa: fad thai the first five ctuinges are necessary to comply with state law. 'ftie council voted to approve all of the change outlined in the summary, CITY NOTES I Day cart facility get! conditional condi-tional um permit Th: Magic lxr, a day care facility for up to 52 children, will tx; fjjxming at son urged the council to make history by getting the feasibility feasibil-ity study underway, "Alpine (School f)istric1) is just too big," he said Alpine School Distrid Superintendent Su-perintendent Vern Hertshaw urged those present lo look at the efficiency and effectiveness effective-ness of district operations, and said there are constant challenges chal-lenges in meeting individual needs and wants and the common com-mon gcxxJ of all children. "We think ft's important that one is educated with all the information," flenshaw Phone: 7', 7M Fax: 'A W74 DAI LT BUILD ruiitiHivo oo. Jennette Esplin w-nm Ollice Miifihgtir Chm Peterson 344 Dv'iiyrtotCofty Fdiior Casey Rogers 344 vo DuwjfiwCow Editor Rachel Rybicki 344 Do;ignnrCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344740 ftiolrjgmpher ' fif tHIM M'IMI 'Mil i 'rfi A all the way through the truck at 10H hast Onter Street in Orem, after receiving approval Tuesday Tues-day from the Orem City Quncil for a conditional use permit. Area resident Michael Nielsen, South 1000 East, spoke against locating the day are in what was formerly a church building, Nielsen expressed concerns thiit an access to the facility on 1 000 l-.asl will allow numerous cars to come and go dropping drop-ping off children night and morning, shining headlights into his home, and parking in front of his house. This Is a commercial business busi-ness right next to my house," Nielsen said, Itie conditional day care use is allowed in a residential zone- said. Mike Harris, an Orem resident, resi-dent, said he supported having the feasibility study, noting that the Alpine School District was established when the population was much smaller. He said the distrid has been "struggling to keep up with diverse needs" brought on by "astronomical" growth, and expressed a belief that problems could be solved by dividing. Ryan Hess, who said he graduated from Alpine School District a year ago, stated that Kids have I t's graduation time. 1 , " I know because even ' though local high schooLs dm't I f hold their cfnmerw-menl un-j un-j f t til next Thursday, I've already j i, ,. sat through two graduation ! ceremonies. What a study in contrasts. One was like a baseball game boring bor-ing but punctuated with moments of excitement wlwi Meghan, my daugh-j daugh-j ter who was graduating, received her I empty dipkma holder dipbma to come later and slvxk hands with the department chairs and tfie college deaa It was hit moment in the wvUxtr sun of Utah State University's Spectrum. Sfie's not sure what she'll do with her two degrees one in social work and (xie in speech communications, and I'D bet she's not much different from many of tier classmates. That wasn't the problem when Syear-oki I layden graduated from the Sunshine Square Pre-schor Pre-schor in Taylorsville last week. It was his moment in the sun of the Hymouth JJementary School auditorium. audi-torium. I le and his classmates knew exactly what they want to do with their lives. l-ach graduate stepped up to the mike after their name had been read and recited in a clear and sometimes very loud voir; "When I grow up, I'm going to be a ..." AU except for Matt, who wasn't sure what he wanted to be, "He's stili deciding," his teacher told the audience of beaming parents and grandparents. Others were much more definite. Here are some of my favorites; "When I grow up, I'm going to be a prince and a wrestler," said Jordan. Not bad, although il will probably be a juggling act . It takes very dif f erent skills to be a prince and a wrestler. True, a prince must wrestle with some very important dectsKjns, but wrestlers, as a rule, aren't a princely lot. "When I grow up, I'm going to be a paleontologist," paleontolo-gist," said Brandon. This one scored high because when I was Brandon's Bran-don's age, I wanted to dig for dinosaurs, too. Some shfxit very high. "When I grow up, I'm going to be Batman," said Tyler, But there's only one Batman, and Tyler will realize real-ize soon enough that he will never don the cowl and cape that are the traderntrk of the Dark Knight. L V E D 4 Sr MARIO RUIZDaily HmaM .Saturday's llumxter Bull Derby in Orem if the facility Is next to a collector or arterial street. Center Street is classified as a minor arterial street. Councilwoman Karen Mc-Candless Mc-Candless asked CHy Attorney Paul Johnson what the council can and cannot do with a conditional condi-tional use under state law. Johnson said the council cannot deny a conditional use "unless there Is no way to reasonably rea-sonably mitigate the anticipated adverse effects." All over the city, Johason said, residents live in similar situatioas across from elementary el-ementary schools, for example, and have to deal with traffic and headlights. Mayor Jerry Washburn asked if the application meets there is no evidence that a new school district would be any better, and the time and money a study would require could be used now to make improvements im-provements in the district. McCandless asked City Manager Jim Reams for verification verifi-cation that the feasibility study will go to an independent consultant, con-sultant, and that the time will be taken "to cover what needs to be covered without drawing (the process) out." "This is what we are looking at the impact on our children," chil-dren," said Washburn "mm u 7 the darndest dreams Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN all of the criteria for the conditional condi-tional use permit, and Johnson said it does. "In my opinion, you don't deny this," Johnson said. "I feel my hands are tied with the conditional use in this zone," said McCandless. Debbie Lemen, owner of The Magic Door, told Nielsen she is a reasonable person and will work with him in addressing any problems that might arise from having the facility at the approved location. I Code amended on wastewater control and treatment In what was largely a "housekeeping" "house-keeping" issue, the Orem City Council voted May 23 to approve ap-prove amending Chapter 20 of the Orem City Code a section dealing with wastewater control con-trol and treatment. Public Works Director Bruce Chesnut said limits on metals that commercial and industrial users might discharge into the sewer system are based on processes that occur at each different dif-ferent water reclamation facility, facil-ity, so the limits vary from one facility to another. A study begun in March of 2005 has shown that Orem needs additional limits on discharging dis-charging metals. City Manager Jim Reams asked Chesnut if other communities commu-nities receiving services from Orem are required to adopt the limits as well. Chesnut responded respond-ed in the affirmative. I Chesnut earns award The Utah Chapter of the American Ameri-can Public Works Association Associa-tion awarded Bruce Chesnut, Orem'g public works director, the Outstanding Public Works Employee of the Year, as part of the Association's Annual An-nual Awards Banquet, held at Thanksgiving Point. The banquet ban-quet is the culminating event for National Public Works Week in Utah. Should the feasibility study prove favorable, the City Council can vote to forward it to the county clerk. The county coun-ty clerk has 45 days to certify a request, then it is sent on to the County Commission. The commission does not vote on the request, but sends it back to the clerk for placement place-ment on the ballot at the next general or municipal election, and the measure is voted on by legal voters residing in the proposed district only, according accord-ing to background information provided in Tuesday's agenda. But it's nice to want to help people. Meghan, our college graduate, wants to help people, tqo. Her dual degrees are all about helping others. She remains unsure how she will do that; her expectations expecta-tions remain high yet realistic. Some of the preschoolers had noble goals, too. "When I grow up, I'm going to be a doctor of little kids," said Jacob. Some were traditional, but hold a new meaning in today's society. Michael "A firefighter," Ethan; "A police officer," Daniel "A soldier." Andrew; "A hero." Some sounded more fun than others. Olivia "When I grow up, I'm going to be a cheerleader." Hannah; "A swimming teacher." Alexander: "A cowboy." And some didn't sound so fun, at least not to me. Austin; "When I grew up, I'm going to be a dentist." den-tist." William; "A construction worker." Joseph: "A banker." The most popular answer was predictable. "When I grow up, I'm going to be a mom," said Emily, Every mom in the audience and there were a kjt of them sighed. So Justin struck back: "When I grow up, I'm going go-ing to be a dad" Madison, like Meghan, had a dual goal in mind. "When I grow up, I'm going to be a vet and a rock star," said Madison. I thought that was impressive. Madison wants to help dogs in the day and sing rock and roll ail night. Both require hard work, long hours, and both involve in-volve working with animals. Personally, I hope she gets to be a vet, I think the prospects for happiness are much better in that line of work. Hayden, my grandson, came up with one of the best jobs, "When I grow up," he said, "I'm going to be a chef." You have to admire a 5-year-old who aspires to creating culinary delights in his adult years. Of course, by the time Hayden makes that walk again in, say, 2024, as Meghan did a few weeks ago, who knows what he will hope to become. be-come. But wouldn't It be nice if we could carry the certainty of our 5-year-old hearts into adulthood? adult-hood? , Walkers Continued from Page 1 Teachers were awarded "double steps" for activities they participated in with their students steps that had to be tracked separately from the regular ones logged on the pedometer. Administrators Adminis-trators were not eligible for the bonus steps. A teacher also earned 5,280 bonus steps at the end of the competition if he or she went the "extra mile" by working with the class to develop and implement a healthy classroom plan. Those competing were required re-quired to report their weekly steps online on Mondays under an honor system, and the top 10 "steppers" were posted on the Web site each week. Grand prizes of $500 for school use, plus a retreat to the Zermatt Resort and Spa in Midway, were given for "Utah's Most Active Teacher," Jocelyn Kawa of Jennie P. Stewart Elementary Elemen-tary in Centerville, who had 1,247,725 steps, and "Utah's Most Active Administrator," Burke Staheli of Washington Elementary in Washington, who had 1,004,314 steps. Walker said her class focused on four areas in making their award-winning health plan exercising, eating properly, maintaining cleanliness, and "using their brains." The students utilized their journals to write a plan for the summer covering all four areas. "We looked at junk food consumption, and talked about television watching," Walker said. "In their journals, jour-nals, one of them summed up by writing, 'I think I'm going to be healthier this summer.' Now we'll see whether or not they follow through." Walker said she made a "coascientious effort" to increase in-crease her activity walking walk-ing around the track by Mountain View High School, with her students at recess and during the lunch hour, and with her husband at the soccer fields by the Orem Cemetery after school. During spring break, the Walkers took a trip to Hawaii, and Lynn said she walked every night. "I felt better. 1 just felt a whole lot better," she said. Nada Payne, a third-grade teacher at SCERA Park Elementary, El-ementary, said she decided to participate in the contest because she is "a pretty active ac-tive person" and thought it would be fun to compete and to motivate her students. stu-dents. "I already knew that when I exercise I have a lot more energy and am a happier person," Payne said. " 'Walk the Walk' helped me get motivated mo-tivated in exercising more." Payne said she increased her exercising from an ev-ery-other-day schedule of step aerobics and walking to "almost every day." Each recess, she was out with her students to earn double points, doing jump rope, kick ball, and quarter-mile laps around the grounds. Windsor Elementary principal Mark Pew had 20 educators from his school sign up for the contest. The main feedback he got from participants was surprise at how much the steps added up during a normal daily routine. "I think it brought a better bet-ter awareness for people," Pew said, "The awareness factor is important. We may think we are not exercising, but we are, and then we can look at other ways to incorporate incor-porate more exercise." Missing Continued from Page 1 which then caused another person to report the emergency emer-gency to police. Saban's and Torres's parents par-ents left last night to pick up their daughters. When text messages from Saban's phone surfaced Monday Mon-day suggesting the girls had been abducted, police began treating this case as a possible pos-sible kidnapping. "If she doesn't want to be mine, she's not going to be anyone's," read one of the messages Edwards said. But several witnesses said they had seen the girls in the Orem area Monday and one girl said the two were at her house when the text messages messag-es were sent, Edwards said. POOR |