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Show 6A Lakeside Review South, Wednesday, Mar. 23, 1983 Transient' Business By RON KNOWLTON Review Staff Bountiful CiBOUNTIFUL ty officials are considering a change in the business license fees to accommodate transient businesses, those that are only in the community for a short time. The owner of a snow cone business who wanted to set up a snow cone building at the 5 Points Mall for four months told city officials at a recent city council meeting he does not sell enough snow cones to make a profit under the present license fee. Presently, transient busines- .. ... ses are charged a $50 per day business license fee to operate in the city. The citys planning commission has come back with a recommendation that there be vC "vm shows are brought here to benefit the public and shouldnt be penalized. ' Id like to see our institutions do it without much bother., Id like to encourage them rather than discourage them. Stahle said the art shows that come to the 5 Points Mall are not making much money from the shows and the fees would discourage them also. We really dont, have much activity in our community and like to encourage it, Stahle feels the present transient Id said. license fees are too high. He Councilman Bob Linnell said said he would like to see more feels the business license he in and the community activity fees should not be used as a the fees may discourage that. He said it is hard for art revenue producer for the city shows and others to come to the but should be used as a control city if they are charged high mechanism. But charging high fees. He said activities that are fees, it signals that the city it brought to the community such only interested in revenue, Linas the University of Utahs art nell said. its ordinance is whether the business is located in a physical structure with a foundation of whether the business is housed in a temporary structure. Otherwise businesses may be able, to maneuver around the citys licensing fees. Councilman Paul Allen said that many businesses in the city for only one or two days would likely operate illegally rather than find the city hall and pay the business license fees. Mayor Dean Stahle said he two sets of fees for transient businesses. Those that are in the city for one day up to one month would be charged a $75 per year business license fee, Reed Boothe, city planning director said. Those that are in the city between one month and four months would pay $100 per . year. But Councilman Keith Barton said he felt the $50 per day fee should be retained. Barton said the city has problems with businesses that stay in the city one or two days and then are gone. He said those businesses need to be controlled so they are not drawing dollars off. Some are selling distressed merchan- dise. This is the type Studied (Fees of business that should be controlled, Barton said. But City Attorney Layne Forbes said the only distinction the city may be able to make in Owners Warned Challenge Protested Authority Foreclosure Threatened With Layton Mayors Disagree its By KENT SOMERS Review Staff MISS BOUNTIFUL AREA, Susan Jackson will pass on to new winner in April. wears crown she FARMINGTON Some Davis County mayors are unhappy about Layton Citys challenge of the allocation of $858,000 of community development block grant money, and they werent talking under their breath about it in a Davis County Council of Governments meeting last week. COG, which is composed of the three county commissioners and mayors from each city, awarded the money to six cities, in Orem was very exciting, not only from the competition the county and the county housstandpoint, but the chance to ing authority in late February. meet other young women from Layton has charged that the all over the state, she said. She applications, with the exception stated the encounter with these of the housing authoritys, were other girls has helped her to seriously flawed and did not plan and make goals to become comply with law. The Layton the kind of a person that she appeal is now being considered wants to be, which is a positive by state officials. The big winner in the grant influence for excellence among allocations was Farmington Ciher associates. Lastly, she expressed her ap- ty, which was awarded $200,000 preciation to the Bountiful Area by the COG for a public safety Chamber of Commerce, and the building, and Farmington Maybusinesses in the area, for spon- or Merrill Petty was less than soring the pageant. happy about Laytons appeal. Susan urges all eligible young Everyone (the mayors) did women of the area to consider the best to pick the most worthy seriously competing in the 1983 applications. No mayor had a pageant, which will be held Ap- gun to his head, Petty said. ril 29, at Viewmont High School. Im disappointed you made the Urges Participation Miss Bountiful Area Recalls Experiences Susan Jack-soBOUNTIFUL was crowned Miss Bountiful Area 1982 last April. Susan, who hails from Farmington, was a senior at Davis High School, and is now a freshman at Weber State College majoring in communications. Miss Jackson stated the experience of being part of the n Bountiful Area Scholarship pageant last year was one of the highlights of her life, and it will always be treasured as a significant event that enlarged her horizons and outlook on life. The opportunity to have represented the Bountiful Area, including Farmington, Centerville, West Bountiful, Woods Cross, Bountiful and North Salt Lake, at the Miss Utah Pageant sour grapes appeal. I think or sour apples. Petty also asked representatives from Layton if they had any personal interest that would benefit if the Layton downtown rehabilitation project, which was not funded by COG, was completed. Clark Adams, chairman of the Layton downtown Rehabilitation Committee, said he would be personally affected by the project, and it was pointed out that Councilwoman Ann Harris also owned a business on Gentile Street, not far from Main I spent 60 hours doing the study, Adams said. The Layton application was ranked ninth, and would be the first to receive funding if some of the applications were over- turned. COG Chairman Norm Sant said the review was well done and that the COG might be able to improve its allocation process. But, Sant said, he would hate to see any grant denied because of the findings of the technical review. Street. COG members agreed that Adams told the COG mem- last weeks meeting was infobers that Layton officials were rmational, and no decisions not trying to be irresponsible would be made until the state or obnoxious by submitting the rules on Laytons appeal. appeal. Rather, he said, Layton officials believed that some of the projects dont qualify for funding under the Housing and Community Development Act, By and that the method for disDanny J. Eggett, son tributing the money needs to be of Airman and JohnT. Joann Eggett, 816 improved. 950 East, Bountiful, has North The Layton appeal is partially based on a study of each of the been assigned to Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., after comsuccessful eight grant applicaAir Force basic pleting tions by Adams, who said he was shocked when the grant training. He is a 1979 graduate of Viewawards were announced and mont High School. them. not was among Layton Course Completed Bountiful Man 1 DEM CENTER The All Season Gift GARDEN and Garden Center On the way home I decided to prove myself right or wrong. MARCH Announcing: Demonstration .. r?rarra and Classes Reg. $40.00 95 9 a.m. Pruning Methods: Fruit Trees-Sma- ll Trees 0 A.M. 1 1 12 1 -- NOON-Gro- P.M. 2 P.M. Garden Chemicals-Fertilizatio- Containers Fruits-Sma- tremendous percentage. We are doing fairly well, but that doesnt mean were happy with the one, she said. The loans are made to home owners for home rehabilitation. But if owners fail to cooperate, the authority will foreclose. I think when were being ignored, we ought to take it (the loan) out and give it someone who deserves it, said Commissioner David Tayler.. low-inco- TS i FRAGRANT-laste- r ll Lillies 1983 ROSES ARE HERE of growing. Lofts GARDEN SEEDS Drip Irrigations systems. 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