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Show THE BEAVER (Utah) PRESS BEAVER CITY MASTER PLAN Thursday, August 5, 1971 library Library studies indicate that small, individual units cannot be as successful as larger, cooperating and consolidated programs. Board. Land Use Residential Beaver City's residential area is west sides of Main Street. the east and are fairly well consolidated, on evenly-divide- Recommendations for improvements to municipal water and sewerage systems for Beaver City were contained in the Beaver County Comprehensive Water and Sewerage Plan prepared by Mountain Area Planners in 1969. Many of these improvements have be conalready been undertaken and it is recommended that they tinued, with particular emphasis on the elimination of irrigation ditches in the central part of the city. Culinary water and water for lawns and gardens should be delivered in the same piped d While the homes the individual dwelling units of them equalling one acre generally occupy large lots, are vacant Numerous lots in area. interspersed with the occupied properties. planning perAny expected growth during the iod can easily be accommodated within the presently blocked-omany 20-ye- system. ar ut should be developed as a program with full cooperation of the County and the Present dumping and burning of solid wastes municipalities. will soon be prohibited under State regulations. Solid-wast- es residential districts. Most of the dwelling detached houses. It is community are units in the multi-fami- There are a few recommended that as new y structures. ly housing single-famil- Community Appearance and Amenity is developed it Beaver City and the other municipalities of the County are relatively attractive and in major areas of the residential districts. There are, however, evidences of deterioration in some residential and commercial structures and grounds. Buildings which have minor or major defects should be renovated, and those unfit for use should be demolished. A continuous should and fix-u- p paint-u- p program of clean-ube initiated. Individual properties which are run down, have yards which are unkempt or filled with debris, and business corners which are undeveloped or are hazards and lead to deterioration of the neighborhood. large lots near Main primarily Street, and particularly near the business district center at be rental units multi-fami- ly on well-maintain- streets. Main and Center Commercial Commercial uses have been scattered along the Main Street highway from the south city limits to the north limits and an area for new commercial expansion has been annexed along North Main Street. It is recommended that future ommercial Street to retail shopping outlets be centralized in the Center 2nd North area along Main Street but primarily between Main and First West streets. With the expansion of highway zoning along the interchanges north and south of Beaver the future of highway service businesses along Main Street is uncertain. Special poorly-maintain- ed The most serious problem for general appearance in the community is the excessive width and lack of improvement of many of the residential streets. Some proposals for modification of this situation will be made for the final master plan, but a detailed study should be made to determine which streets can be narrowed or closed; how curbs, gutters and sidewalks can best be obtained; and how to develop a street program. For this latter proposal, a shade tree commission for shade the municipality should be appointed, unless a County-wid- e to bring tourists and travelers into the community for support of these enterprises. High quality service with reasonable prices and attractive surroundings for the individual businesses and for the Main Street development as a whole will be required. In the preliminary plan, large areas are shown for future commercial development north of 600 North Street between the freeway and Main Street. Part of this area should possibly be reserved for industrial development rather than commercial. In this case the industrial area shown north and east of the north freeway interchange could be eliminated. be necessary tree-planti- tree created . odor-produci- closer Street, trails should become important recreational and circulation facilities in the area. It is recommended that a Beaver River Improvement Zone be developed along the Beaver River to include riding and hiking trails extending eastward into the Tushar Mountains and westward to Minersville and Milford, with connections at appropriate locations into Beaver City. Residents of the community should be encouraged to walk and ride bicycles whenever feasible. Riding stables should be encouraged, with facilities to centralize the keeping of horses in areas outside of municipal boundaries. Public Services and Facilities It has been proposed for the other municipalities in this report that many needed public facilities and earlier e be services should provided through an approved County-widwith organization, appropriate representation from municipalities and the unincorporated villages. Modification of pres- ent government could more economically and dtvelop programs for law enforcement, fire proeffectively and tection ct prevention, health planning, street and highway county-municip- al nce planning-constru- parks and recreaand code enforcement zoning , and elements of planning, tion. could also be more appropriately handler" Some by a county-wid- healw.i planning organization. It is believed that a be should area-wiout of ices developed de program. e and serv- planning recommended, however, that consideration be Streets, l Highways, and Riding and Hiking Trails Center Street (State Highway 130) is the major street through the center of Minersville. It is unfortunate that this traffic-wa- y is not located on the periphery of the town, but the effect upon local traffic can be modified by stringent enforcement of limited automobile speed allowed and by adequate cautionary signing. The municipality is too small for division into more than one neighborhood so that the ordinary planning standards to major streets and traffic relating residential areas cannot be attained. An alternative to through this location would be to carry the highway along Fourth West and past the milk barns to State Highway 21. This would remove considerable traffic from the center of town but leave the road to local existing lead through the business district. First South Street is connect the east side of the community and a west sidestreet street shown on Fourth West. A collector street should collector be only two lanes of traffic but should have stop from signs intersecting streets and should provide the principal east-west traffic-wa- y through the community. A proposed new collector street is shown from State Highway 21 leading into the milk barn area at the north side of town, and another circling the southeast quadrant. These are recommended to permit truck traffic to in and out of the industrial areas without using residential get streets. While the shown as a collector to traffic patterns will carry the highest numbers of automobiles within the community through the populated areas and past the elementary school, is believed that the amount of traffic generated will not be so it serious as to cause exceptional dangers or difficulties. above-propos- ed Th remaining residential streets are wider than needed to handle the traffic generated and could in some cases be narrowed for and economy traffic Asafety, sixty-fo- surfaces are improved. as curbs and gutters and paving street with forty between curbs should be the maximum needed to two provide lanes of driving traffic, two parking lanes, and sidewalk adequate and tree-plantispace on each side. Any right-of-wwidth abandoned would belong to the owners. feet ot right-of-w- ay ay present park and recreation facilities in the be retained and improved as local facilities, or recreational programming. subject to county-wid- e It is recommended that the Beaver Library be consol- best nay could be idated in to form It is ng The city The proposed commercial center is located along Main Center Street and First South, to include the existing off-stre- circling Riding and hiking of the municipality. given to reducing the size of the business area if it would be over the years to centralize the commercial district practical more in limited acreage. Adequate space should be provided for et parking and landscaping, and all new businesses proposed to locate within the town should be required to find space in this area. Collector streets are shown as 600 North Street extending past the cemetery on the east and as a new section areas to the north. ed, ng than one mile from the boundaries businesses. ks around the eastern portion of the city, crossing State Highway 153, extending south and west to connect with 300 South Street and then dropping westward to the frontage road along the freeway, and then back to 600 North Street. With the continuation of 200 North Street east of Main Street and Center Street west of Main Street as major streets, it is believed that these are the only major and collector streets required for adeStreet quate traffic service to thj community, except for Main commercial-industriaand the freeway and additional collector streets in the PLAN re-locat- Streets, Highways, and Riding and Hiking Trails Beaver City's existing gridiron street pattern an exorbitant amount of the city area, with blocks occupies approximately 400 feet square and streets 100 feet wide. Through traffic can pass in front of almost every residence in the community. It is recommended that, where possible, super-bloc- MASTER the northwest sector for industrial use is primarily for possible expansion of the community milk barns. There is also an industrial area shown in the southeast sector where it is proposed the be existing milk barns located on First North Street which may be needed along with any other industrial developments recommended that agricultural during the planning period. It is businesses be located not feed yards and similar required to locate. sections be closed, and approved and appointed. It is recommended that the present general pattern of land use in Minersville be continued, with any new development of housing occurring on existing vacant lots as nearly in the central part of the community as possible. The area shown in There are few industrial uses either within Beaver City or in the unincorporated area surrounding it. It is recommended that the area east of the freeway and either north or south of the north interchange be established as an industrial district into which all new industries should be be narrowed, is ng Land Use Industrial streets commission MINERSVILLE Present businesses are concentrated along Main Street with the exception of a few individual units in the residence districts. It is recommended that no new businesses be allowed outside the central commercial zone. minor ed p, -- efforts will management County-wid- e a some manner with the Milford and Minersville libraries library system, with the use of all availand other assistance from the Utah State Library county-wid- able financial e abutting property Providing bicycle trails and horseback or hiking within the gridiron street pattern already riding is Lt is PrP8ed tht an improvement developed ' ; zone varying in t AlCXt acquired along the Beaver River so that riding and could be developed along the river, with trails hiking facilities and other and hiking centers being established somewhere between riding Minersville and Minersville Reservoir, d in trails horse-keepi- preferably the County-owne- land east of town. ng These |