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Show Pleasant Grove Review - Thursday, December 30, 2004 - Page 8. Mayor Continued from front conclusion was it was better if he did not, White said. "It was our desire to have an independent person who was not beholden to two entities," he said. Besides the possible conflicts, con-flicts, the workload of a commissioner is huge in comparison to a mayor who serves part time, White said. At the first commisj sion meeting in January, the commissioners will decide which departments they will each oversee and what boards they will sit on. Lobbying the Legislature Legisla-ture is also just around the corner, which doesn't leave much time to be mayor, especially with the responsibility respon-sibility of overseeing a budget of more than $90 million, White said. "In our form of government, govern-ment, we have direct oversight over-sight over the budget unlike Orem or Provo where finance departments are responsible," responsi-ble," he said. "It's a full-time position, so full-time attention atten-tion is a good thing." Ellertson thinks it's a good thing as well, which is why he decided he would not hold both positions at once. "I just decided to start out on the right foot on this new venture," he said. , Lindon wrap-up In June the city celebrated celebrat-ed the safe return of the 1457th Combat Engineers, including about a half dozen from Lindon. The unit had some sickness and some injuries, but no fatalities. August brought Lindon Days, complete with a Dutch oven cookoff, animals, ani-mals, children fishing with hooks (then hands) at Creekside Park, concerts, a fair and a parade. Lindon lost some of its history this year, with the razing of the oldest house in town, across the street from the cemetery. To redo the sidewalk along State Street at 600 North, UDOT took out several trees which pioneers pio-neers had planted. The Historical Preservation Preserva-tion Committee preserved other parts of Lindon's history, his-tory, finishing Leaves from the Lindon Tree, a collection collec-tion of oral histories from residents who had been in town more than 40 years. The book is available at City Hall, and the committee commit-tee plans on raking up more leaves. Celebrations ended with a tradition revived 11 years ago as schoolchildren and other residents gathered under John Fugal's tree at 400 N. Mainto light the Christmas tree with song. Judged by what brings people out to public meetings, meet-ings, Lindon's biggest stories sto-ries of 2004 involved traffic, high-density housing, and other things that accompany accompa-ny development. In April, Lowbook Auto Sales began talking with Lindon's Planning Commission Com-mission about putting a dealership at 600 North State, across the street from Wal-Mart. 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Main Street didn't meet the warrants for reduced speed or another crosswalk, so Christensen recommended rec-ommended repainting the white walking stripe on each side of the street, mamtaining the sidewalks better, and putting put-ting in new oversized fluorescent fluores-cent yellow-green school advanced warning assemblies with two yellow beacons each. The year ended with Lindon buying two of four rights of way needed to extend 700 North from Geneva Road to the 1-15 interchange. The road will cross the railroad tracks, and Mayor Larry Ellertson continued to work on an agreement with UTA that will allow othen crossings. A crossing near 200 South is needed to take Lindon's trail system across the tracks, under the freeway and all the way from the mountain to the lake. A proposal pro-posal to realign Lakeview drive with, 100 North may also remove an obstacle to the trail system, creating a State Street crossing without with-out having to build a half-million-dollar tunnel. UTOPIA, the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency, which aims to build a highspeed high-speed fiberoptic telecommunications telecom-munications backbone down the 1-15 corridor, also attracted lots of comment. Though several cities pulled out of UTOPIA, Lindon Lin-don stayed. Center 7 in Lindon Lin-don will host UTOPIA. The year started and ended with discussions of high-density housing. In January, Jan-uary, the council passed an assisted living facilities ordinance, ordi-nance, prompted by Scott and Michele Farrer's proposal nine months earlier to build a large facility, 50 beds, then 40, then 32 on Locust Ave next to Green Valley Condominiums. Neighbors objected strenuously strenu-ously to a large facility in a residential area. There was enough intense feeling that in one hearing the public safety department's Capt. Cody Cullimore was present to establish order. 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