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Show FACTS CONCERNING THE DISCONNECTION OF UTAH-IDAHO SUGAR COMPANY AND ADJACENT AREA: The purpose of municipal incorporation is to insure through cooperative effort community improvement and protection. After the majority of citizens of West Jordan had voted an improvement general obligation bond for a sewer sanitation sanita-tion system, Utah-Idaho Sugar Company and a small minority min-ority group of property owners petitioned the court for disconnection. dis-connection. This, if allowed, is a precedent that would virtually destroy de-stroy any community as a corporate entity. What does this do to West Jordan? This moves in from a narrow boundary on a narrow strip of land and scours the center of town isolating the Western area and virtually cuts the town in half, completely destroying destroy-ing the town as a geographic unit. It reduces the assessed valuation to where further extension of the sewer i3 impossible impos-sible in the forseeable future. This in turn affects property value and stifles development as no FHA monies can be obtained ob-tained without sewer service. The twelve (12) mills for sewer construction is not an over burden to the property owners in light of assessed valuation val-uation and increased property value. The tax level in West Jordan is lower than any other corporate area in the county that has a sewer service. Utah-Idaho Sugar Company could not retain their factory fac-tory anywhere in the county with gas, water, rail, and other services on as cheap a property tax rate as presently exists in West Jordan Town. The sewer was never intended to take care of industrial waste. The purpose is health and sanitation in regards to human sewerage. In this regard the affluent from the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho septic tanks from the lavatories of the .workers and all personnel runs into an open ditch, through our community, creating a health hazard. Analysis shows that septic tank processes merely disolve the solids and the affluent is just as contaminated as raw sewerage. This health and contamination contamin-ation hazard to a growing community is justification enough for sewer service to the Utah-Idaho factory. It is paradoxical that in an age of space exploration and modern scientific achievements for the benefit of mankind, that some cannot visualize the importance of community health and sanitation. It is further paradoxical that in light of the dominant religious philosophy of Eternalism and continuing con-tinuing progression that eclesiastical administration would , allow their industry to destroy a corporate entity's progressive progres-sive endeavor for sanitary growth and development. The status of this case after having been adjuticated by the district court in favor of the Town has been reversed by the Supreme Court and referred back to the district court for re-hearing. DON PARR, former West Jordan Town Board President The above article is being published in the interest of the community of West Jordan-on behalf of civic groups and interested citizens who are endeavoring to bring to the people of Weat Jordan pertinent information regarding the above issue. Any vital facts pro and con by interested parties are invited and welcome to submit their views in the form of letters to the editor, as the above article. This issue of the Bulletin is being distributed dis-tributed to all homes in West Jordan to familiarize them with local affairs. |
