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Show A-22 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 24-27, 2018 More dogs on Main By Tom Clyde TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM SNYDERVILLE BASIN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING AGENDA March 26, 2018 ** District Office** 5:00 p.m. I. CALL TO ORDER II. CONSENT AGENDA A. Approval of Board Meeting Minutes for February 12, 2018 B. Escrow Fund Reduction Approval 1. Canyons Golf Course Hole #11 Sewer Main Relocation – Retain 0 percent 2. Willow Draw Sewer Phase 1 – Retain 0 percent 3. Willow Draw Sewer Phase 2 – Retain 0 percent 4. SR-248 Pedestrian Tunnel – Retain 0 percent III. PUBLIC INPUT IV. APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURES – Bills in the Amount of $2,636,274.18 Including SCWRF Project Pay Request #23 for $1,213,680.11 V. SUBDIVISION PROJECTS A. Canyons Village Ski Patrol/Clinic – 0 REs B. Silver Creek Village Lots 13 & 15 – 84 REs C. The Colony at White Pine Canyon Phase 5G – 28 REs D. The Colony at White Pine Canyon Phase 5H – 30.33 REs Estimated LEA REs Year to Date: Above Splitter 0; ECWRF 129.33; SCWRF 201.17; Total 330.50 Proposed this Meeting: Above Splitter 0; ECWRF 58.33; SCWRF 84; Total 142.33 VI. DISTRICT MANAGER A. Action Items – 2017 Annual Infrastructure Asset Report B. Information Item 1. Financial Statement 2. Impact Fee Report VII. A. B. C. D. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS Projects Operations Finance Governmental Matters VIII. ADJOURN If you are planning to attend this public meeting and, due to a disability, require reasonable accommodation in understanding, participating in or attending the meeting, please notify the District twenty-four or more hours in advance of the meeting, and we will try to provide whatever assistance may be required. Board members may appear telephonically. Notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission will meet in regular session Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Location: Sheldon Richins Building (Library), 1885 West Ute Boulevard, Park City, UT 84098 AGENDA Agenda items may or may not be discussed in the order listed. 4:30 p.m. Regular Session 1. Public input for items not on the agenda or pending applications. DRC Updates Commission Comments Director Items Adjourn 2. Public hearing and possible action regarding a Conditional Use Permit to construct a natural gas regulator station; 4400 N S.R. 224; PP-105-A-X; Joseph D. Kesler, applicant .– Amir Caus, County Planner A majority of Snyderville Basin Planning Commission members may meet socially after the meeting. If so, the location will be announced by the Chair or Vice-Chair. County business will not be conducted. 3. Public hearing and possible action on two Final Subdivision Plats located at the Colony at White Pine Canyon; 314 White Pine Canyon Road; PP-12 and PP-15; John O’Connell, applicant .– Amir Caus, County Planner To view staff reports available after Friday, March 23, 2018 please visit: www.summitcounty.org 5:30 p.m. Work Session Individuals needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Melissa Hardy, Summit County Community Development Department, at (435) 6153157. 1. Discussion regarding a Plat Amendment to relocate limits of disturbance areas on Lot 3 of the Brookside Estates Subdivision.– Amir Caus, County Planner Posted: March 23, 2018 Published: March 24, 2018 – The Park Record 4. Approval of minutes: November 28, 2017 Utah women can soon buy birth control over counter Prescriptions no longer needed for contraceptives MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY – Women in conservative Utah will soon be able to get birth control directly from a pharmacist rather than visiting a doctor each time they want to obtain or renew a prescription, a move taken by only a few other states, many of them liberal. Republican Gov. Gary Herbert signed a measure into law Tuesday allowing those 18 and older to get pills, the patch and some other contraceptive devices, putting Utah in line with a handful of other states that have passed similar laws, including California, Colorado and Oregon. “I think five years ago, it wouldn’t have passed, but I think the world and Utah is changing,” Republican state Sen. Todd Weiler, who sponsored the measure, said Wednesday. “People are more accepting of the fact that these things make sense and they actually save the state money.” Public health officials say studies have shown that unplanned births can lead to more money being spent on social programs like Medicaid, which covers the costs of about onethird of all births in the state. Utah is a Republican-dominated state where most lawmakers and an estimated 60 percent of residents are members of the Mormon church. While the church generally opposes abortion, birth control is treated differently. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints encourages married couples to have children but says specific birth control decisions are private between a husband and wife. While the church is against elective abortions, there are some circumstances where it can be permissible. The new law, which unanimously passed the Legislature, takes effect May 8. It will require women to first fill out a form assessing their risks of taking birth control before getting the medication. They also will be required to check in with a doctor every two years to keep getting contraception. The measure allows pharmacists to issue the birth control under a standing prescription likely issued by a health department doctor _ similar to an order the state issued in 2016 allowing pharmacists to distribute an opioid anti-overdose drug over the counter. Because women will still technically be obtaining birth control under a prescription, insurers will need to cover it, said University of Utah pharmacy graduate student Wilson Pace, who drafted the measure as a school project. Weiler said he proposed the legislation at Pace’s suggestion. Pace said Wednesday that if you told him six months ago the proposal would sail through the Utah Legislature, he would have been shocked. “For our state especially,” he said. “We haven’t historically always been the most progressive state.” Medical groups, including the Utah Medical Association and Utah Nurses Association, spoke in support of the birth control measure. Kathleen Kaufman with the nurses association told lawmakers that nurse practitioners said the legislation would particularly help women living in rural areas who may not be able to easily visit doctors. On a national level, U.S. Rep. Mia Love, a Utah Republican, has introduced legislation in Congress that would allow women to get birth control over the counter. Love has said her proposal, which has not yet had a hearing, gives women more access and more choices when it comes to family planning. Utah’s birth control measure got the governor’s approval the same day he signed another proposal that could cover the costs of intrauterine devices and other family planning assistance for low-income women. Republican Rep. Ray Ward, who sponsored that measure, said the state was one of seven that didn’t offer family planning coverage for the poor. Managing Bonanza Flat The snow was good enough a few days back that some friends and I decided to go wild and ski areas we hadn’t ventured into all season. We hiked up the high west traverse in Jupiter, and went all the way out, and down the Puma Bowl side of Jupiter Peak to McConkey’s. It was the best run of the season. As we made the hike, we stopped to look out over Bonanza Flat. Everybody is interested in the property now that the City owns it. All of us knew little pieces of the details, but nobody had any real expertise in it. Looking down at it, the boundaries are not obvious. While it would be nice to look at that basin and assume the City owns from ridgeline to ridgeline, that’s not what they bought. The property lines are based on mining claims, and those are based on where the mining engineers thought the veins of ore went. So the boundaries don’t have any relationship to the topography or the location of surface features like roads. While the boundaries make perfect sense if you are hundreds of feet underground trying to project the twists and turns of a vein of ore, they make no sense at all on the surface. There are gaps and little in-holdings of other owners. Third parties own bigger pieces. Then there are the Girl Scouts. They have had a camp facility up there for decades. For a long time, it was leased from United Park City Mines Company. That was several owners ago, back in the days when United Park was a responsible corporate citizen of the community. They were not willing to evict the Girl Scouts, despite the obvious development value of the land they were camping on. So they gave the Girl Scouts the deed to a whole bunch of land up there. And there is Brighton Estates, a subdivision platted in the 1960’s with about 400 lots. Most of them are still vacant because there isn’t either water or sewer service available, and the roads aren’t plowed in winter. But the lots are there, and someday, they will find the means to finance water and sewer, and there could be 400 houses. Park City is terrified about that because of the traffic impact on Marsac Avenue, which is a State Highway managed by UDOT, not the City. While 400 houses at Brighton Estates could provide a lot of affordable housing, it would put about 4,000 additional vehicle trips a day on Marsac Avenue, Park City really needs to annex the land into the City so it has jurisdiction, adopt its management plan by ordinance and hire a platoon of park rangers to enforce it.” which doesn’t work now. Through the years, the City has done whatever it can to obstruct access to Brighton Estates. When you ride up the Ruby lift at Deer Valley, the nice paved road you cross over is the private road to the Empire Pass development. The narrow, snow-packed road is the state highway, with limited winter maintenance. That presents a real dilemma to the City — how to provide reasonable access to the new public recreation facility without converting Brighton Estates from a remote backcountry outpost into a busy Old Town neighborhood. Management of Bonanza Flat will be very difficult. There are competing recreation demands and long-established users. The snowmobilers have been there for as long as there have been snowmobiles. People have bought lots and built cabins based on riding their snowmobiles up there. They aren’t going to pack up and go away quietly. At the same time, it’s hard to imagine Park City embracing a form of recreation that it considers déclassé. Maybe if the ‘bilers wore lycra suits and filled their thermoses with artisanal coffee? The land is in Wasatch County, and has not been annexed into the City. So any regulations Park City adopts will have the same legal significance as rules you might post in your back yard concerning use of your hot tub. They plan on relying on the Wasatch County Sheriff for enforcement. But by the time Wasatch County gets up there, on a snowmobile, to cite somebody for trespassing/snowmobiling on the City’s property, it kind of doesn’t matter any more. In the summer, Wasatch County can’t enforce private land use rules even if they wanted to. By eliminating the development potential there, Wasatch County lost a lot of potential revenue. It’s a stretch to assume Wasatch will happily absorb the management costs. Park City really needs to annex the land into the City so it has jurisdiction, adopt its management plan by ordinance and hire a platoon of park rangers to enforce it. A 1,300 acre public park doesn’t manage itself. United Park’s management approach was to close it off and try to keep the public off their property as best they could. That’s the easiest management approach. But when you open it up, it’s going to require active management. It’s not going to be easy or cheap. Tom Clyde practiced law in Park City for many years. He lives on a working ranch in Woodland and has been writing this column since 1986. sunday in the Park By Teri Orr So very close... I was talking to a deeply connected soul friend visiting here the other night about a place we both hold dear — the red cliffs in the mountains of northern New Mexico. The burnt oranges and coral and cream and slight chocolaty brown rocks that look like sundaes melting. Those unimaginable shapes and colors that surround the land where Georgia O’Keeffe had a place called Ghost Ranch. My friend spends a lot of time there and he said the folks who run the Presbyterian camp in the valley call the space — “a thin place.” I had an idea what he meant but I asked anyway. He said it was a place where the veil between heaven and earth was so close — it was thin. And I knew exactly what he meant and where some of those places exist for me — the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington state but just three water miles from Canada. Where old growth forests tumble into the sea and whales spout and eagles nest and the water lapping on the side of the boat creates a rhythm meant to alter time and space. The river bed of the Escalante in the shadow of the Grand Staircase rock formation. Where one night with my son and his wife and their two teenagers we saw every single star in the constellations in the ink black sky on a clear cold Thanksgiving night. Oliver’s Camp in Tanzania last summer where new friends were really old soul lost friends reunited and the warm days allowed us time to stare in utter and complete wonder at seeing the most magnificent creatures on the planet run and walk and swim — free of fear of poachers. And each time our vehicle stopped to observe — our previously chatty car silenced — in awe of being in the space between the space in the circle of life. It happens here often — especially in the summer when day quietly becomes what the Scottish call — the gloaming — where twilight is creeping in and you start to make out the first stars as the veil between light and dark reveals the shapes randomly and then the patterns. Sometimes I think I can feel the thin place when I am with dear friends. Where the laughter and heartstrings are so close the words are just extra. The wordless shoulder hug, the shared grade school giggle at an inappropriate time, the tissue for the tear. My visiting friend shared a story I needed to hear last night at dinner. I was frustrated in the lack of progression with a work problem I was trying to solve. And he told me a story... And when I think about mysteries of the universe, flowers often rank right up there with the stuff Stephen Hawking tried to explain.” He had sent a new young staff member to interview an elderly donor and try to get an oral history about a deceased artist. She returned after a few hours dismayed. There had been martinis and the much, much older woman was hard to understand. After hours of conversation she had returned with only a couple of paragraphs of actual history about the subject. My friend laughed and told she done great — considering the woman she was interviewing was “105 years old and drunk.” It is a matter sometimes of perspective. So this week when the rains came with the wind and it blew tree branches across the yard and gravel-like drops pelted the windows and it reminded us of Seattle or a tiny coastal town near San Francisco or Boston. I sat with a dear friend together in the late afternoon and we watched rain puddles. It looked like invisible hands were skipping invisible rocks over them. And the rain made noise. It dripped on the deck railing. It bounced and pattered off the wet wooden porch. It made the tree trunks dark and strange faces emerge in the bark. On a gray cloudy rainy day when we have to work and can’t just curl up with a book by the fire — it is a different kind of frustration and longing. Remembering that rainy time on the docked boat when there was no place to go and nothing to do but read and be rocked and be grateful for the brownie mix with nuts (!) you found in a cupboard to bake. Yesterday too I saw green skinny shoots, in the tiny rock garden, on the edge of the yard, quite by accident. I was in the car backing out of my driveway and another car drove past — very slowly on the street — so I couldn’t do my customary peel and roll maneuver. I looked down next to my car and there they were in my tiny rock garden ... if memory serves me right — the shape of crocus and tulips and hyacinth leaves starting their journey back. And when I think about mysteries of the universe, flowers often rank right up there with the stuff Stephen Hawking tried to explain. I mean how do tulips know to pop up again with straight shoots and still produce a pink flower? Or the purple hyacinth? Or the bachelor buttons? What is the coding that tells them how to make a flower and not say — a potato or grass or a tree? And maybe there is a thin place there too — between the science and the logic and the amazing illusion of normalcy of nature that should remind mere mortals to treat each spring with the complete and utter wonder it deserves. Renewal. Spring promises after the snow melts away the months of monochromatic whiteness all will be replaced with shouts of color. That vibrant spring green that takes naked trees and dresses them all producing leafy figures. The yellow of the columbine — the sage blue and the purple thyme ground cover. You cannot not be hopeful and joyful and amazed at spring and the hope it brings unbidden. Sometimes remembering we live in a thin place is enough to make me grateful — especially this Sunday in the Park... Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record. She is the director of the Park City Institute, which provides programming for the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. |