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Show Tfondur, September DAILY NEIA1D 2004 Elk Ridge rejects new development yr Mayor says city hasrunoutof sewer capacity ,' Caleb WamoA DAILY It V.;4. JOSHUA Reed Thompson, BROWNOaily Herald a volunteer firefighter for the American Fork Fire Department, checks an oxygen bottle during inspections. first-com- first-serv- Fire station "This helps us because now we will have the highest level of Continued from Cl The new digs were not built overnight. The cty first started studies to relocate the station in 1996, and in 1999 plans for the design finally began. Voters approved a $2.5 million bond for the building in 2000, but there was a lot of discussion about whether the city should keep the building in the same place. The new station was built on the same site as the existing fire station, which shared space with the city's police station and courts building. The police and court offices were relocated to a new building last year. For parking spaces for the new Fire and Rescue building, American Fork bought the property between the building and the Harrington School from Dr. Carl BeD more than three years ago, but Bell put a provision in the sale that the design of the building must be approved by the city's Historic Preservation Commission. The commission rejected early exterior emergency medical patient care available to the citizens." Jay Christensen emergency medical services captain design proposals for the building, and asked that the builders use brick to match the historic City Hall and school Both Chadwick and Christensen are nappy with the exterior, especially with highlighted green lines running around the building that break up the brick. An added benefit from the new building is that American Fork is about to get upgraded emergency medical care as well. The city may soon be the fifth city in medicaUtah County to provide tion on its emergency calls if the state's life-savi- Emergency Medical Services Board grants the city a paramedic license variance. The variance allows paramedics to give patients certain drugs and perform certain procedures that medical technicians can- -' not. Christensen also wants to have two paramedics on duty at the station from 6 am untfl 10 p.ni daily, meaning the city will be hiring eight more paramedics. paramedics and Bringing on part-tim- e upgrading services coukl not happen without the new station, Christensen said. "There would have been no way because there would have been no facility for them to stay here," he said. This helps us because now we will have the highest level of emergency medical patient care available to the citizens." For the added paramedics, the dty budgeted an extra $120,000 this year, because Christensen believes the variance should be granted within a month, he said. I Elisabeth Nardl high-densit- high-densit- y can be reached at Open house to be." Fritz said he win ask for an c committee of residents to study the city's master plan for growth and make recommendations about what kind of housing should be allowed in the city.' The state is requesting that each city make some ' plan to accommodate the need for low income housing. The state does have the ability to exert pressure on us," he said. There is an ongoing attempt to convince cities to provide affordable housing. They have not put the hammer down cm us yet." Councilman Gary Prestwich said he received a petition against the development signed by 112 people. "Pretty much everyone here is against it," he said. Fritz said it wiU likely be4 more than two years before the city can expand its capacity. The city had been working toward an agreement with Payson and Woodland Hills to build a $2.5 million joint sewer system that would allow for the development of an additional 3,000 acres between the three cities. Payson City Council members recently voted to table the negotiations for a year, to give the city more time to study the issue. New home owners in the three cities that hook into the system could pay as much as $38 a month for the service, Fritz said about $18 more a month than existing residents pay. Existing Elk Ridge residents get their sewer service from Salem. ad-ho- -- . Former judge avoids jail in poaching case at Wasatch Elementary, said THE ASSOCIATED V v y FRANK BOTTDaily Herald to Pmw School's Director of Student Services Greg Hudnall on Wednesday evening at Provo High School Bramble and several other parents showed up to talk and listen to school officials about some important changes to the district, including the possibility of closing schools. Although some parents found the meeting helpful and informative, some complained that it was information overload, and another said he was just cynical about the whole process. Catharine Bramble, right, along with Erik Christensen, a parent with students at Timpanogos Ek ementary, helped answer questions from parents who attended the open house and said he was impressed with the interest visitors showed. The questions we've had have just been fantastic," he said. "Intelligent people trying to make intelligent decisions. Shannon Poulson, a member . her daughter Madeline, Do You Expcricnco Noises Ringing In Your Ears? , Ringing, buzzing, crickets, frying sounds, sirens in the night These and other annoy- ing sounds in , the head describe what more than 40 million Americans complain of, according to the American Tinnitus Assoc', iation. ' - Those who Suffer from tin--, ntos are often told mat "ooth- ing can be done', or worse,' ,' Usten of the Provo school board, said despite cynicism from some parents, she and the rest of the .. school board are interested in the public's input on the changes in the district. "We have kept ourselves apart from the process so ... we can make a more impartial decision," she said. This has been the most open process that Provo School District has ever had." ? ELITE Utah Valley 's Preferred Hearing Clink Anssoui Hums Am Aatocuns t ttfcipi Aaste Hm Ml Apim J ' 0 Harding had initially been charged with three felony counts of wanton destruction This offer is exclusive Affordable Price to our locations this only, so call Invisible! Virtually ' You can't afford to miss life's moments, but you can afford these hearing aids! Good 91604 Rexton Arena Better nn wr "x. Offer Ends Jasterboff PJLD. of die University of Maryland. 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Ray Harding, a former 4th District judge, entered his pleas Tuesday in 8th District Court to two misdemeanors for unlawful tagging of elk. He was fined $800 and received a suspended six month jail sentence for each count. Harding also was ordered to pay $7,500 restitution to the Uah Division of Wildlife Resources, and was placed on six months probation. The state also did not contest the return of Harding's ri- " g, e, e. 50-ac- re Continued from Cl she also hopes more than numbers go into the district's decisions. 'This room to me is all about, dollars and what happens in the district is all about children," she said. The presentations were things swimming in statistics like how many students would attend a target school, how much each construction would cost down to the dollar, the fixed cost at each school and the current and projected enrollments. Some found the information abundance an overload. "Ifs not helpfuL This is a very process," said Lance Long, a parent with children at Wasatch Elementary. "Charts and graphs are meaningless to 90 percent of the people." Long said he felt the district should have mailed out the information earlier so parents could get a better grasp on the issues before craning to the open house and filling out a survey on their prefer ences. Long, however, admitted he is already cynical of the disafter trict's decision-makinthe announced closure and then retraction in 2002 regarding Edgemont Elementary. "You come here with cynicism to begin with," he said. "I'm more concerned that they are using the whole process as a facade to make it look like they're doing what everyone wants." HERALD FJk Ridge City Council members have refused a housing development that would have doubled the population of the city and announced the city will accept no new applications for development. The city has runout of sewer capacity, said FJk Ridge Mayor Vernon Fritz. City staff have now determined that the city sewer system can accommodate fewer than 10 new connections. "We have a waiting list for those," he said. The people who have the first claim are those who have approved lots, and then developers are This is not a moratorium, we are just out of capacity." At a regular meeting of the City Council on Aug. 25, council members voted unanimousy ly to reject a housing project, saying the city could not provide sewunits er for the proposed. The development would have doubled the population of the city. About 50 residents spoke out at a public hearing to consider the proposed development, all of them speaking against it. "My wife and I came here and looked around and thought Elk Ridge is a slice of heaven," said resident Richard White. "We moved here because we dont want to be around housing." Resident Kelsey King said she was concerned about the quality of the proposed r - "The interest the developer has in this project is profitability," she said. 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