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Show 2A Lakeside Review South, Wednesday, Mar. 23, 1983 Sant Wants Architect's Plans l&ounfiful's Downtown Listed is KIDA's ToipJPrioritfy By RON KNOWLTON Review Staff - . BOUNTIFUL The renovation of downtown Bountiful has been listed as the Bountiful Redevelopment Agencys top priority. Randy Sant, who was approved by the RDA board of directors as the the agencys new executive director during a March 16 meeting, gave the board members a list of projects that he asked the board to approve as the agencys top priority projects for the near future. At a January RDA meeting, the agency appointed a group of architects to come up with ideas for what could be done with the downtown area. The architects have prepared a set of plans. Sant asked the agency to set aside $5,000 for the architects to come up with a set of renderings. RDA Chairman Dean Stahle said the architects want to design downtown street lights and landscaping but the agency deferred action on the set for request until the agencys next meeting today at 6:15 p.m. RDA Board Member Paul Allen said he felt the plans werent far enough along yet for the agency to set aside the funds. Sant is also planning a trip to Seattle in mid- - April to look at a revitalization project in a small ty and the financing available. Sant said he feels the area will continue to city nearby that is similar to what Bountiful officials are considering. Sant will also attend a decline until the agency undertakes the initiameeting of the National American Planning As- tive to do something. He said a general facelift in Seattle. Sant of the area is not the solution. sociation Conference April estimated the trip would cost $800, which was Also, the agency needs to assist in the development of residential and office space in the downapproved by the board. Sant said a major tenant needs to be found for town area. I think Bountiful is right now lucky to the downtown area to bring people to the area to have a residential area surrounding a downtown area, Sant said. shop. He said it would not be the agencys policy to Also a part of the renovation, Sant said parking is a major concern. go downtown and take everyones property. Sant would like to work with the businessmen He suggested establishing an advisory committhere and together decide what should be done. tee of business people to work with the agency. Sant said he plans to meet with each individual We should make sure their goals are our goals. About 70 percent of the agencys time will be business owner in the downtown area. I feel the success of this project is dependent upon the input spent on the downtown revitalization project, and willingness of the businesses to participate. Sant said. The agency has also set development and imWe must work together as a team, and come up with a program that would be acceptable to them. provements to the Five 5 Points Mall, Colonial I feel it is Bountifuls downtown and not the Square, and development of a hotelmotel project agencys, he said in a prepared statement to the as top priorities. The agency should also seek RDA board. other development projects, Sant said. e He said the renovation is a Concerning the 5 Points Mall, Sant said a major project and will take up to five years to complete de- tenant should be found to help draw people to the mall. He said the mall has had a high vacancy pending on the attitude of the business communi 16-2- rate. As present there are about vacant stores 16 to?feel our commitment is to the downtown and the major tenant for the we must be careful that tenants of our the major not destroy mall will not occur, we to this for downtown area. In order Points Mall) leasing the (5 with must work closely 1 aHeadded that the agencys involvement should also suggestWith the hotelmotel project, Sant have should ed the agency He said the agency should assist in finding a suitable site for the project and in acquisition de-of should find a property I feel the agency him to attempt the project encourage and veloper on his own. ,, a future Sant said Colonial Square should be he felt the idea for said He at. look to thing Colonial Square is good, but that the design of the project is not very good. his list of projects for Sant said he established the agency to work on according to their importance, cost, need, agency staff time, and their developments. He said the potential for spin-of- f agency needed to prioritize its projects. long-rang- Woods CrOSS lking for Safer School Busing Elementary 'Surplus' BY KENT SOMERS Review Staff FARMINGTON Anyone interested in a surplus elementary school and seven acres? If 'so, contact the Davis County ' School District. The board of education last week to declare Woods Cross Elementary and its surrounding acreage as surplus in order to put the land on 1 de-cid- the market. The school is one of five old elementary schools the district plans to replace or remodel. Superintendent Lawrence E. Welling said that because the school is close to commercial property and a freeway inter- change, it might be beneficial for the district to put it up for sale and build a new school on other district property in the area. Welling said the school will continue to be used, but that the administration could now put it on the market to gain enough to make up the difference of building a new site on land we . already own in the community r farther north rather than spend the same amount of money to I; remodel our current facility. Welling said if the land and building were sold, the new school could be constructed on land the district owns at approximately 1300 South, between 800 in Woods Cross. West and That land, he said, is in the boundaries of the present school. Board President Sheryl Allen said the move is an exploratory one for the district and is made possible because of the I " present schools marketable lo- cation. Assistant Superintendant John . S. White said the district should know how marketable the elementary school is within six months. Welling said that if the district doesnt receive an acceptable offer on the site the board of education could retreat to remodeling rather than a more desirable new building. Study of Hazards Almost Complete By KENT SOMERS Review Staff The Davis FARMINGTON County School District will soon have a method to determine hazardous areas where buses a method should be provided which district officials hope will prevent previous situations in which those who made the most noise got transportation. A transportation committee established last fall and chaired by Dr. Richard Butler, director of the districts transportation department, is close to finishing a rating system, which will be used to determine hazardous areas. .Butler said the state reimburses the district for the cost of busing elementary school students who live 1.5 miles from the school and secondary stu - Review Staff BOUNTIFUL Bountiful City may become the first city in the state to try a new water treatment method. City officials are planning to begin a pilot study to determine if the method can be used in the city. As part of the pilot study, a pilot water treatment plant will be built at the top of Mueller Park and will be used to treat water from Millcreek and Barton Creek, Jack Balling, city engineer, said. Mayor Dean Stahle said the new method will be easier and cheaper to operate than the usual forms of treatment being used in the state. Balling said the state health department restrictions were so strict in the past it was too expensive for the city to use water for drinking water in the city from the two creeks. But recently those restrictions have been made less tight. The treatment system will meet the new standards, Balling said. About 15 years ago the city purchased the water rights to both creeks, but the city has not been able to put either to use for culinary (drinking) water usage, Balling said. In the pilot study; the water will be tested for quality, Bal Butler said his committee is close to finishing the rating of hazardous areas in the district. The districts policy in the past has been quite liberal, Butler said, but the new system should give the district an objective way of determining which students should be transported, possibly saving the district also benefit financially from wording in the appropriations bill passed by the Utah Legislature. The new language states that the state will reimburse the district for transporting ineligible students who would walk through hazardous areas otherwise. But the bill does not increase funding for transporting students. Board members expressed Superintendent Lawrence E. their satisfaction with .the com- - Welling said he hopes the public mittees preliminary report. Our biggest criticism last year was we didnt have a system, money. By KENT SOMERS case $50 an hour for future help on the case. FARMINGTON Davis Although no official vote was County commissioners have de- taken on the matter, commisclined to pay a second attorney sioners also denied a request for legal work performed in the from Oda to change the policy of murder trial of Victor Ray having County Attorney Rodney Bradley. Page review the public offenders bills. However, the commissioners Page, who had denied Odas did agree to pay Steven Major, to pay Major, obtains request who is assisting Public Defenan unfair advantage by reviewthe with Oda der Stephan case, the bills because he can tell ing $35 an hour up to a maximum of of defense strategy what type in the will be $1,200 for future work used, according to Oda. case. Review Staff The commissioners declined to pay the request for approximately $1,300 in fees for work Major has already performed because there was no prior authorization for his assistance from the county, said Commission Chairman Glen E. Saun- understands that every walking route to school is hazardous, but that some are more hazardous than others. A portion of the districts ans- the rating system wer should be completed by the end of the year. Board President Sheryl Allen said the district hopes to let parents know by the of the school year whether or not their children will be bused next year. end Lakeside Review said board member, Dee Forbes,, and Butler agreed. Published weekly and distributed FREE by carrier every Wednesday morning from Roy through North Salt Lake. A Subsidiary of the Standard Corporation Parents would come to me in a group and say Why cant we be hauled? I had a hard time knowing where to place my feet. Butler said the district could MARILYN L. KARRAS G. LAMAR BOTT EDITOR Commissioners Refuse Pay for 'Unauthorized Fees' ADVERTISING DIRECTOR MEMBER Two Locations To 2146 Serve You N. MAIN, LAYTON, PHONE or 776-49- UTAH 51 298-89- 145 N. MAIN, BOUNTIFUL, UTAH gave Oda the freedom to make his bills more general if he believes his case could be com-- i promised. When asked why Oda didnt use one of the countys two other public defenders to help with the case, commissioners said Major had recently joined Odas firm. Major is not listed on the countys public defender NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ADVERTISING PUBLISHERS PHONE 298-11- 03 5 3 an e Bradley is charged with murder in the death of a first-degre- Clearfield girl last Commissioners agreed to March. He has been granted a maintain the present policy, but new trial. L ders. . Oda requested several weeks ago that Major be paid the $1,300 for his past work on the Bountiful to Test New Water Treatment By RON KNOWLTON dents living two miles from school. But the district had to use $158,000 from its general fund to bus ineligible students who are affected by hazardous conditions while walking to and from school. The main goal of the new rating system is to find an objective way to determine a students eligibility to ride the bus if he lives within the 1.5 or boundaries, said Butler. The system allots points for certain hazard problems such as traffic density, speed limits, number of pedestrian students, and the age of those students to determine if an area is hazardous. The average of these ratings is then multiplied by the number of hazardous areas a student encounters on the walk to and from school. ling said. The new method will cost between $700 and $800 per week to operate, Balling said. The manufacturer of the treatment equipment the city will use for the testing will bear the costs for the first week, he said. The city will need to bear the cost for the remainder of the study. Balling said the study will likely last two or three weeks, but may take longer. The city will also purchase equipment which will help to determine high flow and low flow periods on the streams. Balling said it will cost $10,000 for the study. The money can be taken from fees the city has charged developers of new subdivisions, he added. The pilot plant will produce three to five gallons of water per minute, Balling said. If the tests prove favorable, Balling said the city will probably design a plant that can treat 500 gallons of water per minute. Stahle said the city has a need for water in the bench areas of the city that are higher up. Balling said he met with the U.S. Forest Service and they-- ' re all for it. Councilman Dean Hill said the method is new to Utah, but has been used for many years in other parts of the country. WITH NUTRISYSTEM AND LOST WEIGHT EVERY SINGLE WEEK! Regaining my size 7 models figure was a great accomplishment Doing it with the NutriSystem weight-los- s program was simple. I was able to travel and take my foods with me. They tasted great and I was never hungry. In fact, I have more energy and feel healthier than ever before. 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