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Show AUTQ5-D!0!- T 84101 FIRM UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION !KTl5&Sar?UT 94101-127- (Wi TNCBA106 Exp. 112005 7 IU..U...IIII Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place To Live! r- Volume 97, No 43 - ' Single Copy Price Wednesday, November 3, 1999 www.nephitimesnews.com Public hearing on growth held m Nephi last week By Myrna Tlrauntvein Times-New- s Correspondent use Juab County as an example of excellent planning for future growth? asked Michael D. Crane, AICP Planner with the Governors Office of Planning and Budget at a public hearing in Nephi held on Wednesday. Part way through the meeting. Crane said he was highly impressed with the planning which had been done by the county and by communities in the county. I have been to nine of these meetings in counties now, and I have never seen this. It is quite impressive," said Crane. In other counties we are told the county needs the state to enforce cooperative agreements. Here you have a number of those agreements which work very well and you dont want state interferMay we ence." We could use Nephi, in partic- ular, as an example, said Crane. Its been done before, said Chad Brough, mayor. ' Construction under way on new $8 million hospital and clinic The money for the facility is activicoming from ties, cash reserve and a revenue bond, he said. The new hospital was designed by Jensen Haslem, architects, and is being constructed by Lay-to- n Construction. We would also like to thank city government for contributing the land the new hospital will be built on, said Stoddard. He thanked the mayor, the council, and Randy McKnight, city administrator, for the work they had done to provide the property for the site. The construction would also not be possible, said Stoddard, if in 1985, Juab County Commissioners Clinn Morgan, Ross Gar- Crane and Cary Peterson, a member of the governors cabinet as Commissioner of Agricul-Jjlir- e for Utah, met with all interested area citizens in the meeting held to receive public on community needs in facing in-p- ut the future. We have been assigned by the Quality Growth Commission to hold a hearing in each county in the state," said Peterson. He said the commission wanted citizen on the best way to prepare for the growth which was predicted to come to the area in the near future. Since Utah was the second driest state in the Union, said Peterson, in his opinion watershed areas, protecting those watershed areas, and assuring future water sources should be of primary interest in planning for future growth. "It is a critical issue, said Peterson. We must not degrade water sources with excessive recreation and development." "The Quality Growth Act of 1999 was passed for the purposes of addressing growth issues throughout Utah," said Crane. profit organization to control the of the hospital had workings s Correspondent proved wise, he said. An $8 million hospital and clinStoddard also thanked Gayic facility came closer to lord Swim, a tireless member of the hospital board, who looked reality with a formal groundlocated at forward to the time when a new new the site breaking in north Nephi on the west side facility could be constructed and of Main Street. worked to bring the plan forMark Stoddard, CEO for Cenward. tral Valley Medical Center, told Without a doubt," said Stodthe crowd that the ceremony was dard, It has taken the work of not only quite gratifying but was many to make this day come also. conThe hospital board and about. Stoddard humbling ducted the ceremony and spoke the medical stafT should also be as well. thanked. Alan Kenison, offered the dedFor many years, said Stodicatory prayer for the site. dard, the hospital had been short-handeThe old facility, cost the counNow however, there was p strong medical stafT ty $540,000 to build and this hoswho were dedicated to the health pital and clinic will cost $8 million to build, said Stoddard. rett, and Joseph Bernini and care of the citizens of the area. But this facility will pay for it- county attorney, Donald Eyre Jr., First to address the crowd asself and will provide health care had not stepped out of the hospi- sembled for the Rapid population growth, lack for years to come. No taxes are tal business. was Duane Crutchfield, repre- of affordable housing, increased involved in its construction." The insight in allowing a non senting the hospital board of costs of providing trustees. infrastructure and the disap"A lot of people have been look-in- g pearance of farmland and open forward to this day," said space, has created the need for Crutchfield. That is especially the legislature to take action on true of the hospital board." these growth-relate- d problems, A great deal of compacting Crane said. work had already been done at ' The act, he said, mandates the site, he said. The site prepa- nothing. It does establish a A ration was necessary because Quality Growth Comwe want to make sure the hos- mission appointed to four-yea-r ,v ,NV pital stays where it is built i unpaid terms by the governor "It will bring a new vigor to our and approved by the state senV, t ' whole health care system" said ate. Crutchfield. "The East Juab Water EfficienI have been looking over the cy project, the installation of a history of the old hospital, said pressurized pipe system," said J ' Wm. Boyd Howarth, commission Brough, "is an example of a wachair. The first board of direc- ter conservancy plan which saves tors was formed in 1947 50 percent more water over the -- -method." open-ditc- h GROUND BREAKING FOR NSW HOSPITAL The official Tom Fowkes, who once served ground breaking for the New Central Valley Medical Center and Clinic ua$ held on Monday. The new facility will be operational See Hospital on page 3 as county assessor, said he had next fall, accord. ng to Layton Construction, contractor. By Myrna Trauntvrin fund-raisin- g Ttmes-Sew- one-ste- p in-p- d. ground-breakin- 0 ey." Road miles should be used in helping determine the money coming to a county, he said. Population is not the only factor that should be considered. The population of Juab County, on any given weekend, could increase from the 8,000 natives to 8,000 plus the 40,000 recreationists visiting the county, said Earl Andrews. We need some revenue sharing, said Andrews. Eagle Mountain was the example of a community where there were no shopping services. Nephi is just as short a drive away from the big shopping centers to the North," said LaDaun Ray, local realtor. Many people from our area work in Utah County and shop there. We need a mix of commercial and residential development. The county planning commission was assisting the preservation of farm land by the zoning ordinance enacted in the county, said Ray. before residential homes could be built on a property, said Steele, was that it was discriminatory toWard the farmer who wanted to sell his land. I still think the east bench is thf best place to put residential growth, said Steele. Locally, said Ray, new growth of communities was encouraged from within the community and on property located in and identified growth area on the edges of communities. This makes sense from the point-o- f view of infrastructure development because the infrastructure already exists inside the community. We dont want to annex property until we are ready to grow," said Brough. Nephi City wants to encourage growth inside the city limits. We are encouraging interior development." We also have a philosophy that those who benefit from the development are the ones who should pay for it. The burden should not all be on the taxpayers who already are established." The city has a master plan, a and a recrewater master-plan- , ation development master plan. Those who do develop subdivisions, for example, must extend the utility through the property so that those who come after can build on the extension. There have been a lot of fill- - ut g state-financ- & a concern about roads and the lack of money to maintain and rebuild those roads. The people from Salt Lake County use Juab as a recreation playground and put on more miles than any of the folks who live here but they. Salt Lake, dont want us to have any mon- ed PLANNING MEETING Michael D. Crane, AICP Planner with the Governor Office of Planning and Budget, left, and Cary Peterson, Utah Commissioner ofAgriculture held a public hearing on growth in Nephi last week. The acreage requirements are ins on empty lots in Nephi," said e 50 acres to Andrews. "As a result, new zones so that no one can build homes in the community are just anywhere. The land is just making the city a better place. not going to be chopped up into Exterior subdivisions are locathome sites here and there." ed within city limits. Development rights money Nephi has maintained some be an important issue in the control over annexation, said may future, said Robert Steele, com- Steele. One person wanted to missioner. It is a possibility, build a residential subdivision where the new county jail is now someday." There will never be enough located. The city did not want the money for that," said Peterson. annexation because it was not It may be necessary, instead, to ready to expand in that direction center the focus on critical land. at the time. Those located in the growth Perhaps a city would need to obtain a piece of ground where a area must build according to city park and a sump and filter to specifications," said Ken Ware. clean storm drainage water could Juab County developed a master share the land. plan, said Ware. When the counThe park would be used by tho ty was working on the plan, they citizens of the community," said went to each town and asked Peterson. them to identify future growth The one problem with having See Growth on page 10 limit land requirement a high 50-ac- re 150-acr- |