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Show 00 j Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place To Live! Wednesday, December 28, 1994 Volume 92, No. 52 City council votes to l- 10 pages ' 1 ' c,-- ' suspend any Planned r: , , ' - ' - ' ", f, Single Copy Price 50tf jf r'str I Vt fi b Unit Development in city for six months By Myrna Trauntvein Times-New- s Correspondent Nephi City Council members voted on Tuesday to suspend any further action allowing planned unit developments in the city until the issue of the density of units can be considered by the city planning and zoning commission and by the council. months, said Jens Mickelson, council member. There will be others wanting to build planned unit developments in the future, said McKnight. The density issue needed to be determined so planned community growth could occur. Council members agreed they did not want to wake up later to discover all such units had been built and then problems from the haphazard growth were occurring. We should determine how much density we will allow, said Greenhalgh. Junior Baker, city attorney for Spanish Fork and for the Utah Municipal Power Agency, has been appointed as temporary prosecutor for Nephi City. We have a tentative temporaiy ap- - This will not affect the proposed units already in the planning process, said Glenn Greenhalgh, Nephi City Planning and Zoning Commission Chair. But the commission does recommend the suspension of any further action until the density of the units can be considered. Would six months be long enough to allow us to consider the density prob- pointment agreement with Junior lems of future planned unit develop- Baker, said Randy McKnight. He has ments? asked Chad Brough, council agreed to help us with our criminal prosecutions. For most of our civil actions member. we can rely on the League of Cities to Randy McKnight, city administrator, told council members the six month help us out. Don Eyre Jr., city attorney for the past moratorium would allow the planning, and zoning commission to study the 17 years, resigned recently to accept a problem. They have already been given judgeship in the Fourth District Court. At his last meeting, Eyre urged counother assignments which they must accil members to appoint a prosecutor to said. he as complish well, The commission,' By being granted the fill the position. A prosecutor must sign" moratorium, would have time all information so you need to designate to look at the solutions ofother commua prosecutor, said Eyre. Jens Mickelson, city council member, nities, to consider the traffic flow problems of city streets and to recommend said he thought the council should apcertain areas on a zoning map. point Baker as temporary prosecutor The planning would probably take six until the council could make the neces- . - six-mon- th I buzz word is bee Utah Department of Health will ready by January 1, 1995, be telling Utahns, when new when the Beehive State goes Utah Indoor Clean Air Act Thats what the mation kits will be sent to nearly infor-smoke-fr- V h&U . , ; i . rS.WZi jc r 4 mm ' SYS U'V f t " j v !.. is r r 'V . H ki -- (r? ; ' 1 SUBDIVISION GROUND This sage covered acreage south of Nephi will have to wait longer for development if Planned Unit Developments are proposed. The City Council put a 6 month freeze on such developments not already approved. e sary arrangements to hire a attorney. We need someone until we make that decision, said Mickelson. Nephi City Council members voted to reclaim all cemetery plots in the two city cemeteries where their has not been any action in the last 60 years. The list of those plots has been published in several newspapers and those heirs, whose addresses could be obtained, have also been contacted. Those 9,000 businesses, individuals and organizations. Utah will be the first state in the nation to prohibit smoking in publicly or privately owned, profit or businesses. it Dr. Richard Melton, acting executive director, reports that the information kit contains a colorful brochure which helps business owners bee aware of what the law requires. It tells who must comply, along with the exceptions, penalties and enforcement policies. Also included are a checklist to help non-prof- employers create worksite smoking policies, a copy of the new law, and examples of nosmoking signs. We hope to make the transition to the new law as easy as possible for businesses, employers, and the public, said Melton. The law prohibits smoking in public places except in private clubs, taverns, hotel and motel guest rooms, fraternal and religious organizations, and certain enclosed sections ofthe Salt Lake International Airport. In limited circumstances, the law allows certain employers to establish smoking-permitte- d areas. To qualify, the workplace must not be accessible to the public, and not a publicly-owne- d building or office. Melton says the law was based on numerous studies indicating that environmental tobacco smoke is harmful to especially children. ETS causes 53,000 cancer and heart disease-relate- d deaths each year in the United non-smoker- - S5 Smoke Free Utah arrives on January 1st The imJ "pi s, PUTTING UP THE SIGNS, PICKING UP THE ASH TRAYS States, making it the third Jens Mickelson, owner of Mickelsons Cafe is getting a jump on cause of preventable leading law that goes into effect on January 1st. Utahs new smoke-fre- e All public places except private clubs, taverns, hotel and motel See Smoke Free on page 6 rooms, fraternal and religious organizations will have to be smoke free on that date. full-tim- who responded, said Don Eyre Jr., city the city. However, agreed council members, the attorney, as still wanting to keep the plots for use were noted. resulting reclaimed plots would allow Richard Paxman, city council member, many more burials in the cemeteries agreed with the, action. They city without adding more land. Ed Park, A citizen whose home is loshould reclaim' cemetery plots where there has been no action in 60 years'." cated on the lower end of the sewer sysWe dont expect a big rush of people tem west of Nephi, told council mem- coming into the office wanting to grab up the lots which have been reclaimed, See City Council on page 4 said Blair Painter, financial officer for Commissioners accept resignation of Water Conservancy Board Head By Myrna Trauntvein Times-New- s Correspondent Juab County Commissioners accepted the resignation of Randy Greenhalgh from the East Juab Water Conservancy Board. Greenhalgh wrote a letter to commissioners them of his decision to withdraw from the board. Commissioners agreed to accept the resignation and to then request the Nephi Irrigation Company submit two names to the commission for consideration as a replacement for Greenhalgh. "Randy Greenhalgh has recently been elected vice president of the Utah Association of Conservancy District," said Gordon Young, commissioner. His new position has put some strain on Greenhalgh, said Young, along with all the other work Greenhalgh does. "It has become very apparent that the Central Utah Water District Board and staff are pushing a water project upon the water users in East Juab County that is not in the best interests of water users," wrote Greenhalgh in his letter. Nevertheless, said Greenhalgh, he was pleased to have worked on the board and would be willing to work on it once again at a later date. Greenhalgh's resignation became effective January 1, 1995. use of public lands in the West. It was suggested the council could be an important group, a political action group, to protect the rights of public land and mining use, said Lunt. A copy of the letter will be sent to members of Utah's U.S. Congressional delegation, and to members of the Utah State Legislature. Members of the committee think the Federal Government is looking at land use issues in a way which would affect access to public use lands and use of the lands. The council hopes to shape changes in a more favorable way, said Lunt. "I think the council should also address the Wilderness problem," said Young. Juab County Commissioners are writing letters to those who supported a bid by Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake City School District to change the way airlines are taxed. Salt Lake City wanted the airlines taxed on the ground at Salt Lake Airport rather than to pay the taxes paid by airlines for the air space used over counties. The state tax commission recently rejected the plan by the two entities to get more tax money from the airlines. "We need to write to all the people and organizations who agreed to support Salt Lake in their bid, such as First Security Bank, Zion's Bank and First Interstate Bank and protest the support they gave Salt Lake City," said Gordon Young, county Members of the Ash Grove Community Council determined to send letters to public officials commissioner. who can have a positive influence on changes in "Rural counties will be hard hit and that needs the laws and regulations affecting public lands in to be understood," said Ike Lunt, commissioner. Utah. "They will be back. Salt Lake won't let it drop. Ike Lunt, commissioner and member ofthe coun- They will try again next year." "Commission Chairman Joseph Bernini agreed. cil, read the letter into the minutes and asked if Juab County Commissioners had any further con- "They won't give up," he said. cerns they would like added to the letter. Lunt said even the airlines did not support the Approximately three years ago, said Lunt, the idea of changing the way they are taxed. "It will Ash Grove Cement Company, located in Juab cost approximately $1.7 million more for the airCounty near Leamington, Millard County, invited lines." The rules will be looked into, said Randy representative leadership from Juab and Millard Counties to join in a community council to help Freston, county engineer and administrator. The deal with important issues in the areas surround- rules may be changed in an effort to make peace and find some middle ground. ing the plant. Since that time, the council spearheaded pro"We need to protest and keep up the united collect to tires from counties and the grams front," said Bernini. "Salt Lake City will not stop scrap to help organize a used oil collection program in working until they get the plan passed and get three counties Juab, Millard and Sanpete. the lion's share of the money from the airlines," This used oil collection program has become the Young said the airport already charges airlines model for used oil collection activities in other ar- fees, such as docking fees, which brings in mileas of the state, said Lunt. In addition, he said, lions of dollars in tax revenue each year. several other states have called to find out what Juab County Commissioners conducted interwe are doing that is working so well. views for a replacement for Don Eyre Jr., Juab When ideas from the council were sought to help the council move ahead, the most See County Commision on page 2 often suggested idea was to try to influence the 23-pers- |