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Show k1MaVi8U.atiR1BWQ)gMMTLAilCKyjI)i3Rtr9ttlar l 6Sf fire Stephen Lopez Heading down under. B4 Find out why on pg. B5 this? See pg. 20-fol- d Murphy Lane at Cedar Hills Drive to the table with no sketch plan or project proposal. Day pointed to other zone changes in Spanish Valley as evidence that a change on this parcel would be in character with county planning trends. Planning Commissioner Susie Harrington said a developer is free to give it a try in Interior Dept, funding for water study falls through the by Carrie Switzer Service Agency met last Thursday for the first time in a month and heard the disappointing announcement that $750,000 from the Interior Department for a valley-wid- e water study was not funded last week by the appropriations Business Directory: B9 Prof. Directory: A4 Classifieds: B8 Editorials, Letters: Historic Photo: Bf operating water tables and quality in committee. This is ugly, commented A6-- 7 agencys committee chair Gary Wilson. A couple of weeks ago we were assured of this funding. The line item on the Interior Departments budget was one of two tactics the agency has used to procure the necessary $2 million needed over three years for a comprehensive study of The Grand Water and Sewer Inside The Times Continued on Page A7 Notices: B4 Obituaries: A4 Public invited to SITLA board meetings in Moab this week Region Review: B1 Sports: B1 TV Guide: B2-- 3 The public is invited to sit in on a regular board meeting WEATHER FORECAST Thursday 4 Mostly Sunny High 94 Low 62 'Qt The June 15 session will include a hearing on gas and oil leases, petitions for adjudicative review of agency final action on Leasing Unit No. 33, Henry A. Alker; Unit Mostly Sunny High 95 Low 63 Saturday Mostly Sunny High 95 Low 63 Sunday Grand Junction office. LAST WEEK'S WEATHER 87 46 9 79 61 10 74 56 June 11 78 50 June 12 77 55 June 13 83 47 Tr. .19 , 91 49 To subscribe to Times-Independe- nt call subscribemoabtimes.com The nt This by Carrie Switzer news-pap- is tively approved an engineered solution to building in a flood plain. According to Marla chief executive officer of Allen Memorial Shelby-Drabne- r, Hospital, the flood plain issue that threatened to kill the plan to build on EPA Green Power Community er 7 X) vHy printed on recycled paper and is recyclable. 5. terms of asking for such a I dont think there change, but, is any justification for this zone change, she said. I have to say I am embarrassed and want to apologize that so many people had to take time to come down here this evening to object to this, Harrington said. Our general plan is very clear on this. This parcel is smack in the middle of rural residential zoning. Rural residential zoning allows for one residence or unit to be built per acre. The Multifamily Residential zone allows for 20 units per acre. Planning Commissioner Tom Shellen-berge- r pointed out that a developer could put 340 units on the 17 acres if a rezone were approved. A public hearing on the application drew nearly a dozen speakers to the council cham- bers, the large majority of whom were opposed to the change. Bill Love told commissioners that the countys zoning ordinance was updated in 1999 to match water and sewer availability. With a complete build out, based on current zoning, there is just enough water, he said. The school district should this pull things he said. Randy Da said planning decisions over the last six months indicate the zone change will be in line with whats going on in Grand County. The school district asked me to do this so they can use money from the sale of the lots to build another vocational building for our kids, Day said. Basically, this is a good idea. Continued oil Page A2 to new digs City getting ready forhasmove approval at the June City a list by Jeannine Wait contributing writer At Tuesdays City Council meeting, City Administrator Donna Metzler reminded citizens that city offices would be closed for business Friday, June 24 for moving day to the new city center, the renovated school on East Center Street. Phones will be answered and computers will be up and running at the new City offices on Monday, June 27. All emergency services will be fully operational during the move, she said. Metzler also reported that after interviewing for the position of administrator for the MARC, Janet Lowe has been hired for that position. Interviews are ongoing for the position of MARC administrative assistant and Teen Center Director. Ken Davey of the Moab Area Economic Development Office, made a presentation of the draft five- - year action plan to promote the economic vitality of Grand County and the City of Moab. The plan lays out nine major goals designed to help fulfill their mission to build a strong community sustainthrough a broad-basee and environmentally-sen-sitivable to as serve economy and busifor increased a catalyst ness retention, expansion and attraction, and to help create quality job growth in Grand d, of County. Each goal objectives and the actions and timetable suggested to achieve that goal. The plan contains mechanisms for assessing its own performance and accountability. It will be considered for 28 Council meeting. Copies of the draft can be obtained at the County Courthouse, at Davey s office at 125 East Center Street and can be seen on line at the Continued on Page A2 Tailings funding on track, energy secretary tells Governor Huntsman While attending a Western Governors Conference in Breckinridge, Colo., Utah Gov,. Jon Huntsman met privately with Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman. The top Energy Department official told Huntsman that funding to remove radioactive tailings from a site along the Colorado River near Moab was on track. He said that funding for moving the old uranium mill tailings to Crescent Junction some 30 miles north is on track. Total cost is estimated at $400 million, with a final environmental impact statement expected this summer. It is projected that the project will take ten years to complete. In an separate action in Washington, D.C., a Senate subcommittee Tuesday approved a $28 million appropriation in this years budget to get the project started. This is another positive step forward in the effort to permanently move the tailings, said Sen. Bob Bennett, a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water who pushed for the Utah money. Im pleased with the continued support of the administration and my colleagues for this h, project. The full committee will vote on the 2005 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill on Thursday, but was the significant changes are not expected. The $28 million is just a start of the cost to move the tailings and remediate the groundwater. The Department of Energy announced earlier this year that moving the tailings to a nearby site alternative listed Environmental preferred in the Impact Statement. More than 11 million tons of tailings and the remains of the mill itself will be moved during the ten year time span. Flood plain issue at new hospital site resolved by architect m Tr. at In compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act, persons needing auxiliary communicative aids and services for this meeting should call Lynda Belnap at go-ahe- First in the Nation The McMichael Moab Valley Health Care received to begin conthe preliminary on struction its regional hospital and long-tercare unit when FEMA tenta- 8 June 14 2, Anderson Exploration Company; Unit No. 173, and Dollar Energy, LLC. On June 16, the agenda includes a proposal by Randy Day of Anasazi Realty, and a request for concurrence in pro HiLowPrecm. Date - at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday. More International Petroleum LLC; Unit No. 95, Weather forecast courtesy National Weather Service posed amendments to rule R850-5- 0 and the sale of trust ' v lands, There will be a notice of negotiated sale for Montezuma Creek properties, a surface report, an oil and gas group report and a minerals group report. Other agenda items include issues from around the state, including Trust Lands board elections and a discussion of board procedures. Dave Hebertson said the meeting is scheduled to close information may be obtained by calling Hebertson at or NormaLee No. 47, Mostly Sunny High 95 Low 62 June June June ofthe State Institutional Trust ... Lands when it assembles in the conference room at the Best Western Canyonlands Inn in Moab June 15, 4 p.m., and 16 beginning at 8:30 a.m. The Best Western Canyonlands Inn is located at 6 South Main, next to Pasta Jays restaurant. Friday Thursday, June 16, 2005 on county Proposal to increase density parcel rejected by planning commission Commissioners last Wednesday rejected an application for a zoning change that asked for multi-famil- y zoning in a rural residential zone. Randy Day and the Grand County School District brought the request to rezone 17 acres located on What kind of camp is y www.moabtimes.com by Carrie Switzer Grand County Planning Wearing ties. y MOAB, UTAH Volume 112 Number 24 50 M 12.23 acres adjacent to the new senior center and bordering Williams Way has been resolved. We have received a conditional letter of approval from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) as long as the floor elevation is above the flood plain, she said. We didnt know the property was in a flood plain when we purchased it. It didnt show up on any of the titles, and we did a title search all the way back to 1930. The reason it didnt show up, according to architect Eugene Vogl, was that until MVHC purchased the property, it was an agricultural zone. There were no flood plain restrictions in an agricultural zone, he said. We had two choices, Vogl said. We could run the project outside the flood plain, or we could design it above the flood plane. We did the latter; it is an engineered solution. MVHC ran into trouble when it was discovered the southwest portion of 28 acres it purchased from the Grand County Hospital Services District in the spring of 2001 couldnt meet FEMA requirements. The floor elevation had to be higher than 3,997.5 feet above sea level. The Williams Way property was just a said. fraction under that, Shelby-DrabnVogl has figured out how to raise the building, however, without allowing for any basement or storage area to fall under the flood plain. Although the red thermometer in front of Allen Memorial Hospital shows the Regional Health Center is millions of g dollars away from its goal, Shelby-Drabnsaid prep work for construction may begin this fall. Construction is slated to begin in March 2006. This took a lot of work, Shelby-Drabnsaid. We submitted a number of survey documents and design applications that showed an engineered solution. Thats why it was the architect who made it happen, because he had to show them the building would be safe, out of the flood plain. Drawings of the center show medical offices, a d nursing home to be operated independent of the hospital, and acute care hospital. MVHC has a d recruited two surgeons to Moab within the last year, including orthopedic surgeon Dr. Robert Kleopper and general surgeon, Dr. Kris Hayes. er fund-raisin- er er 28-be- 25-be- Moab Area Partnership for Seniors master plan shows relationship of senior center, currently nearing completion, planned new regional medical center, and other facilities. |