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Show Open letter October Vieivpoint Opinion in favor of land use act Written by the Plus Committee (PROTECT LAND IN UTAH SENSIBLY) The Utah Land Use Act was passed to begin planning for the increased economic development and rapid growth which Utah faces. In just the last three years over 33,000 people have moved into the state. The energy developments which are being proposed could greatly increase the current trend, and rural areas would receive the largest impact. The Kaparowits project alone would create a new community of over 15,000 people. Although it is not probably that all the proposed energy projects will materialize involving coal, oil, natural gas, tar sands, geothermal, oil shale, coal gasification, hydrothermal, solar it is probably that there will be a significant increase of development in this area. The areas of recreation, industry tourism, etc. are continually growing too. There is, however, no planning process at a state level which can deal with the imminent growth. Orderly and sensible planning has yet to be implemented at the state level. In response to this need, the 1974 Utah Legislature passed the Utah Land Use Act with substantial majorities in both houses. The bill had the strong support of most elected officials throughout the state, including formal support of 28 of the states 29 county commissions, the Utah Association of Counties, and the Utah League of Cities and Towns. The Attorney General and the Governor signed the Act Since that time a referendum petition has put the bill on the ballot of the Nov. general election. This has prompted a great deal of discussion on Utahs growth and the need for planning. The planning process formulated in the Utah Land Use Act consists of four stages, First, the county commissioners evalute their county as areas of greater than local concern. These include areas or activities having significant impact upon natural, or environmental resurces. Local zoning is inadequate to handle problems such as this which extend beyond county boundaries. Second, public hearings are required before the county plans are finalized to encourage interested citizens to participate in the planning process. Third, the bill estabished the county plans. The real authority remains on the local government level. The Commission cannot tell county officals what areas of their county are important to all the citizens of the state and should be designated as areas of greater than local concern. The Commission cannot tell an individual what to do with his property. Members of the Commission represent the people of Utah. Environmental interest, agriculture, officials, developers OFFICIAL rural and industry industry urban land and LIST OF the If federal legislation providing citizenry at large will be with the critical areas of enforcement, (b) represented on the Commission. Nor more than five members proposed methods to provide can be of the same political protection ot private property rights, and ( c) recomparty. The fourth stage of the Utah mendations concerning the Land Use Acts planning process continusance of the Commission. The Utah Land Use Act would is to submit the state plan to the Utah Legislature for approval. provide several other benefits in addition to this planning process The final plan will be a composite of the county plans and articulate a state policy on land will identify critical areas of use. This could minimize conand more than local concern. flicting guidelines The Commissions report to procedures. A Land Use Commission the Legislature will also include (a) proposed standards to deal would simplify the procedures of land use projects. Currently, there are 16 state agencies which have significant authority affecting land use and no central clearing house to provide technical assistance, direct citizens to the proper agency for their specific needs help eliminate duplication, and enunciate Utahs policy on land use. The bill would also minimize the possibility of federal land use intervention. If Utah already has an effective program there will be no need for federal planning. funds Linda Hardy is seen putting to practice the skill of how to change a tire. This came about from the instructions at their last meeting on learning minor repair of auto mechanics. is passed for Page Eleven mmm By David Rosier The beautiful mums, the last of them, are frozen now. Their gray heads, hanging on brittle , necks, emit a certain sadness. Their intense brightness. their layered pedals, their joy spreading gone, turned dull, and stiff and sad by a night's frost and a mornings sun. the flowers But allow animation. Is it sad on its death morning? It did not try defense; it made no preparation. It was ready. It is not sad. Quietly the flower went away. It seems part of a universal one that excludes harmony men. but includes plants and seasons and animals and earth itself. Each essense in the approved its historical The Mt. Pleasant Pyramid 31, 1974 state planning, there would be a mechanism to utilize the funds for technical assistance to county officials or some other phase of implementing state land use policy. It is probably sone kind of federal land use legislation will be passed in the next few years. Congress considered two major bills dealing with land use this year. If Utah has no land use program, there will probably be a federal land use program to fill the void. The Utah Land Use Act can provide a state planning process, so growth will be channelled into orderly and sensible development rather than haphazard horrors. Without this kind of precaution, Utah will face serious consequences in the near future. harmony is a player who knows its cue, and comes on stage, and plays its part. When its role ends, it does not resent. Silently, gracefully, it allows the next players entrance. So it is that the flower, who is a gracious player, exits for the frost. How is it, year after year, that the flower is ready to exit? Simply wisdom the lower has spent its life grow tall and lovely and bloom and have seeds. And that is what it has done, industriously, from the beginning. Because the flower has done what it wanted, it is fulfilled. It has known its purpose done. When the frost comes, the flower does not cling desperately for time to reach completion. It goes, in readiness, undemandingly, with tranquility. unim-posingl- y, A flower has a simple and predestined goal, but it wants that goal. If a man should want a of comparable degree fulfillment, neednt he spend his time doing what he truly wants to do, what he alone was made to do? Each human has an expanse of mind that only he can explore. Each is an individual who has needs an abilities different from anyone else in society. He ought search his mind, then, until he knows what he wants, and then pursue that desire. That way he can reach fulfillment. Men should be like the flower; know direction and seek it, unaltered. Perhaps he, like the flower, will then be ready when time has passed. The frost, when it is not untimely on the flower, is not sad. SAMPLE BALLOT NOMINATIONS NON-PARTISA- N Justice of Supreme Court Ten Year Term Vote for One mJ judge E. R. CALLISTER, Jr. (incumbent) RICHARD J. MAUGHAN District Judge District No 6, Six Year Term Vote Shall Judge DON V. TIBBS (incumbent, unopposed) be retained in the office of District Judge of the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District? y. for One I u II 7 mjl Proposition No. UTAH LAND USE ACT REFERENDUM act providing for development of a planned land use policy for Utah A Land Commission, Use appointed by the Governor, is authorized to formulate a comwith local governments in publishing use plan; land state prehensive in and local use land for designating critical areas of greater than plans guidelines local concern; allocate federal funds received for state land use purposes; and. assure that all agency programs are consistent with state land use programs. The Commission shall provide the legislature, for its consideration, a final statewide plan of critical land use areas An appropriation of $306,000 is provided EXECUTIVE ARTICLE REVISION An For Against Shall Article VII of the State Constitution be revised to provide for a Lieutenant Governor; to delete the Secretary of State as a constitutional officer; to allow the State Auditor and State Treasurer to run for reelection to their respective offices; to permit the legislature to act on bills vetoed by the governor after adjournment; to place the State Auditor in lieu of the Secretary of State on the Board of Examirers; to require the Board of Examiners to examine only unliquidated claims; and to make other changes in the executive article. (The present law and the proposed revisions are on cards in the polling place and booth ) Against SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICTS For Non-partis- an DOUGLAS Against Q Douglas A. Jorgensen, County Clerk, Sanpete County, State of Utah, certify that the above sample ballot is a true and correct copy of the ballot to be voted upon in Fountain Green, Wales, Chester, Fairview Indianola, Milbum, Spring City, Moroni and Mt. Pleasant on November 5 section of the ballot effecting 1974, noting changes in the School the respetive Local Representative Precincts. I, do hereby Proposition No. 4 Shall Article XI V of the State Constitution be amended by adding a new section to dispermit the legislature to authorize any county, city, town to establish special tricts to provide water, sewerage, drainage, flood control, garbage, hospital, transportation, recreation, and fire protection services, and to levy taxes and issue bonds for acquiring, constructing, and equipping any of these facilities, conditioned upon the assent of a majority of the qualified voters of the district. 1 A. JORGENSEN Sanpete County Clerk I |