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Show Thursday, June 14, 2007 Page 2 0 R E M TIMES mom 1 NEWS AND NOTES Sandhill Road may see Reva Bowen Sandhill Road residents may be getting the kind of neighboring developments they prefer for now, but there is some concern that changes to the city's planned residential ordinance by the Orem City Council Tuesday could open the flood gates for high density housing. Councilwoman Karen Mc-Candless, Mc-Candless, who, along with Councilwoman Shiree Thurston, Thur-ston, voted against the I'RD (planned residential development) develop-ment) changes, said the city could end up with "hundreds and hundreds" of high-density residential units along the entire en-tire Sandhill Road corridor. "I think it's bad public policy to do it this way," McCandless said. Paul Johnson, city attorney, acknowledged that it will be difficult for the City Council to deny future proposals in the area that may result from the ordinance change. The council voted to allow high-density I'RD developments develop-ments in the Sandhill Road area, at a density of Hi units per acre. Previously, the high-density high-density PRDs were allowed only horth of Center Street and between Interstate 15 and 1200 West. Summerfest Continued from Page 1 Delgrossos also served as parade pa-rade grand marshals. Saturday's grand parade began be-gan with Apache and AirMed helicopter fly -overs that created cre-ated a buzz of excitement in the crowds lining the parade route. The children's parade had youngsters, some wearing Tripp Continued from Page 1 a princess and they were excited ex-cited to see me." And Tripp isn't just any casual Disneyland fan. She estimates she's been to the fabled park at least a dozen times. Husband Chad Tripp said the couple honeymooned at the park three years ago when they were married and his wife has an entire room in their home dedicated to Disney memorabilia. NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS ' 399 E State St Pleasant Grove Marc Haddock 443 3268 North County Editor mhaddockheraldextra com I.NJ-MH.r SSSISSJ Cathy Allred 443 3262 Lehi, Saratoga Springs, PI. Grove callredheraldextra.com Barbara Christiansen 443 3264 American Fork. Alpine. Cedar Hills bchnstiansenheraldextra com Mike Rigert 443 3265 Orem, Vineyard mngertheraldextra com Beky Beaton 443 3267 Sports bbeatonheraldextra.com Josh Walker 443-3260 Advertising Account Executive jwalkerheraldextra.com Volume 134 Orem Tmes Daily Herald Edition, USPS 411-700 a weekly newspaper published al 399 E State St . Pleasant Grove Utah 84063 Periodicals postage paid dl Pleasant Grove Utah 84062 and at additional mailing ottces Poetmwtw: Send address changes to Orem Tmes. PO Bo 6b. Own, Utah 84059-0065 Published Thursdays by Lee Publications, which is a divisronot Lee Enterprises Inc Mambar. Audit Bureau ol Circulations TO KEEP YOU This is straight across'the street from my home. I like the residential idea better than the commercial. Alvin Witt OUt'M Rf SIDEN' The change opened the way for applicants Jay Henrie and Andy Davis to then get approval in a second council vote for Brampton Park, a Ill-unit condominium housing development. The 7.91 acres of property located at about 1700 South Sandhill Road were rezoned from a combination of the low -density residential R8 and highway services zones to the PR I J zone. A majority of neighbors seemed to prefer having residential resi-dential development, even at costumes and riding decorated bicycles, enthusiastically traveling trav-eling the junior parade route from 400 East to the Smith's parking lot near State Street. Wagon trains, pulled by mini-bike mini-bike riders, and filled with passengers, stuffed animals, umbrellas and balloons, were a colorful hit. Mayor Jerry Washburn, his wife, Betty, and members of the Orem City Council and Tripp penned a script for her audition video as JorDan-rella JorDan-rella in which she wore a prom dress she had altered into a Cinderella costume for a Disney Dis-ney cruise. With her husband on the video camera and her mom voicing the part of the evil stepmother in the background, back-ground, Tripp said it took several sev-eral takes to get her audition under the 45-second time limit. "By the time I was under the time, I had pixie dust all over the floor," she said. After submitting the video in February, Disneyland Web site Phone:756-7669 Fax:756-5274 DAILY HERALD PUBLISHING CO. Jennette Esplin 756-7669 Office Manager Erin Stewart 344 2558 Project Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Julia Fullmer 344 2570 DesignerCopy Editor Jeremy Harmon 344-2585 Photographer Issue 75 INFORMED AND high - density housing growth spurt the high density, over any commercial development that would be allowed in the highway high-way services zone. "This is straight across the street from my home," said resident Alvin Witt. "I like the residential idea better than the commercial." Resident Marion Baxter said she had spoken with many of the neighbors across the street from the proposed development who said they would rather "take on the burden of high-density residential" resi-dential" development than face the unknown potential of highway services commercial development. Another resident, Teresa Pond, said she did not want to live by commercial development. develop-ment. "This (condominium) development devel-opment is going to be beautiful," beauti-ful," she said. "We're for it." However, resident Mary Johnson said she respects "everything "ev-erything the developers are trying to do aesthetically", but opposes the density, and worries wor-ries that the units might be used for student housing. Henrie said his team did not feel that reducing the density was an option. The commercial value of the land sets it apart, it is a difficult property to develop, and there are unique challenges such as relocating a storm drain and obtaining insulation barriers. their spouses rode in classic automobiles at the head of the parade. Nine local junior high school students, selected as student marshals to represent their schools, rode on a fire truck. The students are: Cierra Gunn, Paige Gunn, and Shinano Mi-yazawa, Mi-yazawa, Orem Jr. High; Jarett Taumalolo and Lindsay Olsen, Canyon View; Kirt Manwaring and Alfa Martinez, Lakeridge; visitors voted for their favorites favor-ites and Tripp learned in April she'd been selected as for the dream Disney job. "I started crying and screaming and running around," she said upon receiving receiv-ing the news. Along with four other Disney Dis-ney honorary princesses in waiting, Tripp donned exquisite exqui-site $4,000 princess gowns complete with Swaorvski crystals crys-tals to meet and greet children at Princess Fantasy Land. "They don't go cheap," she said of the dress's fine tailoring Getting it We went to the rodeo Saturday night. It wasn't my first rodeo, but it may be my last. After all, I grew up in a small Idaho town where sometimes the rodeo was the only entertainment around, if you'd already seen the movie at the drive-in. Since then I've gone to the Round-Up Round-Up in Lehi a time or two, so I kind of know what to look for when the calf makes a run for it or when the saddle bronc comes out of the chute. And I have great admiration for rodeo ro-deo athletes. Nothing could induce me to get on the back of one of those bulls. But Saturday night at the Great American West Rodeo in Logan, much of the noise had nothing to do with the rodeo itself. Our visit was related to my wife's work. She was there to see a local bull fighter do his thing. That mainly consisted of waving his arms and jumping around as he tried to get the attention of 2,000 pounds of angry bull so the bull would chase him and not the poor cowboy who had fallen into the muddiest arena I'd ever seen. The bull is already plenty mad. He's been cinched up and sat on, and the bull adrenaline must be pumping pretty fast through that big bull body. Anyone who would want to get the attention of that must be deranged. We arrived early to watch the bull fighter work with the 8- to 14-year-olds who rode smaller bulls as part of the rodeo's pre-show entertainment. Then I thought we were pretty much done. But Sharon wanted to watch the real bull riding. rid-ing. "What time do they do that?" she asked. "It's toward the end, I think," I told her. And I was right. Bull riding is the main event in modern mod-ern rodeos the most dangerous, most spectacular spec-tacular part of the evening. They save it for the last so no one goes home early. So we waited, and Sharon rooted for the livestock, live-stock, which annoyed some of the people sitting near us wearing cowboy hats and boots. In addition to watching the rodeo, we were treated to an evening of pandering to the rodeo ft INVOLVED he said. If the PRD changes were voted down, his group would pursue highway services ser-vices development options, Henrie said. "We feel confident we do have the best project that fits the land there," he said. TOWN HALL BRIEFS I Northgate development changes Orem's large, mixed-use commercial and residential development Northgate evolved a bit more after changes to the project were approved by the City Council Tuesday. Through a rezone, property was added to the residential portion, and the line separating separat-ing the residential from the commercial was moved 165 feet. This was to offset the cost of incorporating a detention area within the open space of the development's Sorrento Village a request made by the city. Development Services director di-rector Stan Sainsbury said residential units were not being be-ing added, but some were being be-ing shifted from area to area. Thirty-four units were moved from the mixed-use to the residential resi-dential area. The concept plan was also amended to show an access on and Michael Luebke and Shae Hunsaker, Oak Canyon. Baby contest winners and their parents were featured in the parade as well. The contest winners were: 04 months, Cohen Co-hen Larsen, Elionwy Castillo; 5-9 months, Carter Olsen and Bree Kimball; 10-14 months, Ezekial Galarza and Reagan Beckstead; 15-19 months, Izak Gerhring and Kali Kirkland; 20-24 months, Peyton Kenning- and quality. "It weighed about 10 pounds." She also got plenty of time to rub shoulders with regular Disneyland Dis-neyland cast members and icons like Mickey Mouse and Pluto. So who's Tripp's favorite Disney character? Belle from "Beauty and Beast," she said. Her favorite Disneyland ride or attraction? Tripp couldn't pick just one but said Splash Mountain was way up there. "Except I got soaked on it this weekend," she said. "It wasn't very princess-like walking wrong at Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN V if - ill. 900 West between 800 North and 880 North and a cell tower was listed in the site-specific PD-22 zone as a permitted use if the tower matches the architectural archi-tectural style of the development. 1 800 North Reconstruction update Plans to install left-turns left-turns at State Street, Main Street and 400 East last week were delayed by adverse weather conditions until this week pending additional work on the 1600 North project, according to public project coordinator co-ordinator Justin Smart. UDOT and Orem City are trying to coordinate between projects to ensure these close facilities can share the area traffic load as necessary. Access to 800 East at 800 North was scheduled to be reopen re-open temporarily last Friday, however Questar Gas crews will need to close 800 East once more when the gas line is extended across the intersection intersec-tion later this month. UDOT crews will continue excavation and trenching operation op-eration from 400 West to 400 East in preparation for storm drain installation north of 800 North. Storm drain installation has been east of State Street headed east. Crews will close 100 West for one week for excavation and utility installation. instal-lation. ton and Brinsley Young; 25-29 months, Christian Behunin and Halle Bayles; and 30-36 months, Mikey Moore and Kai-tlyn Kai-tlyn Jenkins. The city float, featuring Miss Orem Khristen Millecam and attendants Krystal Millard, Rachel Jones, Cathy Crowder, and Naomi Bridges, won the "Mayor's Award" with a lighthouse light-house portrayal of "Beacon of Hope." around in drenched clothing." Chad Tripp, who accompanied accompa-nied his wife on her experience of a lifetime, said he was proud of Tripp. "I was just in awe of everything every-thing she was doing and how beautiful she was," he said. To view Tripp's audition and Disney dream job experience videos, log on to www.ca-reerbuilder.comdisneydream-jobshome.asp and click on the group photo. Next scroll down to the Honorary Princess-in-Waiting title and click on Jor-Danrella. Jor-Danrella. the rodeo audience, and this is what got to me. I just don't think a joke about assassinating Pres. Hillary Clinton in 2009 is funny under any circumstances, circum-stances, no matter how red-necked one is. Heck, I dont think that kind of humor is in good taste even in Utah County. We heard the cowboy's prayer, which included a line about not being found in church, because the cowboy is always on the go. And we praised our Constitution and the four freedoms it guarantees us: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Sharon and I did a double take. "Did he just leave of f freedom of the press?" I asked. As working journalists, we think that one is particularly important. The freedom to assemble ranks pretty high, too. These are things that government can promise, prom-ise, and usually deliver on. But freedom from want? Where does the Constitution Con-stitution guarantee that? And even if it did, how could the government provide it, without setting up so many welfare programs the United States would look like western Europe. Freedom from fear? Right now, about all we can guarantee is the freedom to fear. When they marched about 20 kids into the mud at intermission to induct them into the Army, I'd pretty much had enough. I'm all for the Army, mind you, but using these kids and their swearing in to whip the crowd into a frenzy so they would cheer louder for the team ropers seemed inappropriate. The Army should be ashamed For my part, I was happy to get away. I was happy for the cowboys who won, especially espe-cially those from Lehi and Eagle Mountain. We have our fair share of great rodeo athletes here at home. But for myself, I'll take my patriotism where it doesn't come in packages designed to pander pan-der to the local audience, and where the Bill of Rights remains as our forefathers wrote it. And I couldn't find that at the rodeo. Budget Continued from Page 1 paramedics to staff a fourth ambulance crew. The Cultural Cul-tural Arts and Recreation Enrichment (CARE) tax will partially fund a part-time part-time librarian to assist with cultural arts and library outreach out-reach programs. Two other library employees will have their work time increased from one-half to three-quarters time. Two technicians will be added to the street and concrete crews, one to the water distribution crew, and two to the storm sewer crew to monitor and inspect compliance com-pliance with storm sewer regulations on construction sites. Salaried employees will receive a 4.5 percent average aver-age wage increase, and the minimum wage for most part-time, non-benefitted employees em-ployees will be increased to $7 per hour. Some proposed one-time capital improvement projects proj-ects were postponed to free up funds to install traffic signals at 800 South400 West, 800 SouthMain Street, and 400 North400 West. The postponed projects proj-ects included re-carpeting the north wing of the library li-brary and more streetlights. Money for new sidewalks and roadside landscape improvements im-provements was cut from $250,000 in each category, to $125,000. As you are all aware, economic conditions are very strong as compared to three or four years ago," said Jim Reams, city manager. Jim Reams CITY MANAGER Two other traffic signals, sig-nals, at a cost of $250,000 each, will be installed at 400 South 1200 West and 980 West800 North. Other projects in the onetime one-time funds category include the renovation of Fire Station Sta-tion 2, with seismic upgrades, up-grades, $650,000; cemetery building, road, and sprinkler sprin-kler upgrades, $175,000; park fence upgrades and replacements, $100,000; parking lot maintenance at parks, $80,000; and miscellaneous miscel-laneous recreation facility repairs and equipment, $62,000. Property taxes were not increased in the budget, and the franchise tax, and municipal energy sales and use tax remain at 6 percent. There is a water rate increase in-crease of $1 per month for a 34-inch meter service, and proportionate increases for other meter sizes, along with an increase of five cents per 1,000 gallons of water used. The water rate increases are to cover the debt service cost of a $4 million revenue bond, and Jordanelle water assessment assess-ment charges. The $4 million revenue bond will be used to replace aging water lines in areas where the city is already doing road reconstruction to avoid having to tear up and patch the new roads to work on the lines at a later date. Sewer rates are also going go-ing up, with a seven-cent per month inflationary increase and a one-cent increase per 1,000 gallons to provide more funding for the Sewer Capital Improvement Master Plan. After an education campaign cam-paign targeting businesses facing permit violations, the city will implement new sewage pre-treatment charges charg-es beginning Jan. 1. In its role as the governing govern-ing board of the organizations, organi-zations, the City Council also approved budgets for the Redevelopment Agency ($2,652,000); Municipal Mu-nicipal Building Authority ($1,432,000); and Special Services Lighting District ($1,345,000). I (fo |