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Show ,. I. V r ? V W KSNT V for the rise in costs, said both contractors and lumber supply salesmen, is free enterprise, pure and simple. Lumber yards and suppliers are increasing their inventories, laying their bets on the table that housing starts will boom in the spring if interest rates hold, according to Steve Phipps, owner of Phipps Construction Co. in Farmington. wt If your budget for 1883 includes the cost of building a home, you bad better get your pencil bandy you may have some adjustments to make. , . The dost of lumber for framing that home took a 20 percent jump from Jan. 1 to Jan. 21, according to Richard Scadden, ... 'Vf i ,Thereason SCCnSRS HWlfW ;pvV; ' "U ' ' V1 M 4 V- ... 17' three years put together. Right business at his store increased now, we hve the buyer saying 37 percent during 1982. There lets sit back and see what will has been a sizable increase, happen. But in the spring the Scadden said. People are deitch will get too strong and they- ciding to buy a house before it gets too expensive. There is a re going to buy. inof activity. lot are suppliers Although Despite the activity, Scadden creasing their inventories, they still may not be able to meet the said he expects lumber prices to soften up in the next few predicted spring building boom, because the prices rose to Scadden. weeks, according too fast in too short a time. He said there are still 164 mills in the United States closed Phipps emphasized that it is and 253 are curtailing producjust the dimensional lumber, . A sy-- fc.l V ,1 yards have not taken any crease. in- Phipps said potential buyers should realize that $2,500 is not a huge increase for an owner to pay for lumber. But to the builder, $2,500 may be 50 percent of his profit. One local lumber yard owner, Ralph Lewis of R&R Builders' Supply in Kaysville, said he is not sure if the building industry is off to a flying start, and he I A j '',' ij t jl i Vi it buy a ton and let it sit here. It would kill me. Lewis attributed part of the increase to the warm weather earlier this month. People get excited and start getting price ' quotes on things. But Scadden said the recent lumber price increase is mostly the result of building activity in the East, Midwest and California. He said states such as Tex- managCr of'Boise Cascade as, which had 10 percent And from what Phipps has Building Material Center in (200,000) of the nations housing 2x6 studs and the for be still Cascade hasnt Boise tion. plywood LaytobThe increase will add observed, the suppliers may starts last year, affect the price is still buying cautiously. opened all its Idaho mills, he floors and roof, that increased approximately $2,000 to the right. Im the last three months more than Utah, with 6,000 move and to in it Ive in got The and get to me trim accord-talk more doors, said. price. people price of a $55,000 home, ' Ive had starts last year, would. to I afford he cant said. about homes than in the last idg to one local contractor. But, Scadden said, the hardware we buy from lumber it, : Bountiful, Centorville, Cloarfitld, Clinton, Farmington, Fruit Heights, Kaysville, Layton, Roy, South Weber, Sunset, Syracuse, West Point, West Bountiful, Woods Cross Serving 44,026 Families From Roy Through Bountiful Vol. 3 No. 23 Wednesday, February 2, 1983 HARD Helping T Authorized t (Lease Without Lawsuif fty SUSAN TANNIK HOIMIS Raviaw Carraapondant A resolution authorizing the sale of $550,000 in general obligation FARMINGTON bonds was passed by the City Council in special session last week. Bids will be opened Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. in the city offices. Hie pay back bonds will.be used to finance a new city complex that was approved by voters last November. By choosing a pay back, the city hopes to save thousands of dollars in interest. The bond sale will defray all or a portion of the cost of constructing a municipal complex. The sale will also fund part of a public safety building which will house the police and fire departments. Other monies for the building, it is hoped, will come from a community block grant..; . ; The project will be located in the area of 100 North Main. The council met in closed executive session to discuss bids for addi- $eAe By RON KNOWLTON Raviaw Staff The Bay BOUNTIFUL Area Refuse District (BARD) has dropped plans to file a lawsuit against Utah Power and .Light Co. 15-ye- ar BARD had planned to file action because of a land dispute involving UP&L, a Woods Cross man and a former county com-mission- 15-ye- ar Elmer Barlow, BARD manager, said UP&L officials told him they would like to settle the matter out of court. The dispute is over a complicated land leasing agreement between Leland Argyle of Woods Cross and Ernest Eberhard, former county com- mission chairman. BARD owns 94 acres of land adjacent to the BARD landfill. The land is held in trust by Davis County. Another which provides access is and water to the 94 acres owned by UP&L. ; ' tional property design and construction. The council expects to vote on these issues Feb. 2. The sale of the bonds will cap eight months of work and study by city fathers and a citizens committee on the needs of the city.' ; The new complex is expected to follow the master plan, retain the citys historical image, use existing facilities, allow for inexpensive expansion, when needed and be a minimum burden on the taxpayer, as recommended by the citizens committee. In other City Council action, E. Ute Knowlton, state representative, heard the citys views on proposed sales tax changes, and was asked to try to straighten out the organization of the water and sewer boards. gyle. But BARD officials contend that Eberhard knew that BARD needed to retian control of the land and that the commissioner wrote the letter despite the wishes of the BARD board. Also, Barlow said Eberhard wrote the letter to UP&L without consulting other county commissioners and without bringing the matter to the commission during an open public meeting. The 94 acres of BARD land was put out to bid in November, but the high bidder has since withdrawn his bid of $1,250 as a result of the dispute. Robert Palmquist, BARD board chairman, said he discussed the. possibility of a lawsuit with the North Salt Lake city attorney and was advised BARD is in a very precarious In December, Eberhard . JUST LOOKING around for a little company, this pooch who lives in Clearfield has a great house with lots of privacy, but looks Staff phatoi by Rednav Wright a little lonesome as he waits for a friend. any friend, to visit. wrote a letter to UP&L suggesting that the county was not interested in exercising its first right of refusal on the property, should UP&L lease the property. The letter paved the way for UP&L to lease the land to Ar- - terchange. One request for re- on Hill Field Road at about 2400 zoning for that property was North. Another developer is bedenied recently after residents ing sought to assume that pro; protested a proposed conveni- ject. ence store as being hazardous to The Webb project now only students walking to schools in needs to obtain final site plan Webb Development proposed ceived preliminary approval the area. the project, to be called Layton from the Layton City Council to Intermountain Capital Man- approval and a building permit. Hills Inn, for a site on 1500 back $4 million in industrial re- agement Corp., also of Salt The development plans include Lake City, is now foreclosing on a facility with private North, north of Layton Hills venue bonds for that project. The site for the Mega developMall. The existing zoning for the. another developer who had club, spa, restaurant and swimAntelope In planned to build a hotel project ming pool. property would allow the hotel ment is at the LAYTON The Layton City Planning Commission has given preliminary approval to a plan for a hotel project in Layton, the third hotel plan to be proposed for this community. construction, putting this proposal a bit ahead of two others that require rezoning. Other projects include one proposed by Mega Inc. of Salt Lake which has already re- v , 150-roo- m 1-- . position. Palmquist said UP&L acted in good faith after receiving a letter from a county official in authority written on official county stationery. But Barlow said UP&L should have contacted BARD first, before completing the lease agreement. He said UP&L officials admitted to him that the matter was not handled in the proper way. Barlow said he was reassured by UP&L officials that the matter could be resolved with the company. UP&L officials said that the worst that could happen with the lease agreement is that BARD may need to let Argyle keep the land for one year, thus exhausting UP&Ls lease agreement with Argyle. I think were on pretty solid ground now, Barlow said.. The question is whether were going to let the ground stand idle for one year and lose $1,200. , . Trash Into Cash TW I th Uni ortkla hi a ari axplainina a rthm ntxary plant baina prapaaod m Davit County. flat nook. ioomm far btriMlnp Ilia plant, bockmund an Mw ptapnal and pntiUa maiiot for plant panatatad powot ora d loomed. Sub-- (MW Note m pwrn nmfiavit iv ipwiwwh tHat and outHno to anno for oppaoition to RON KNOWLTON KENT SOMiRS Raviaw Staff In the early spring city officials in Davis County will be asked to approve an agreement that may drastically change the way garbage is collected and handled in the county. - Instead of burying the cities trash in the ground, as has been the past, refuse may be steam and elec- fet$r0duce vPtoviding revenue wiQMiBsibeen discarded JV .advbu&3. 4 Tfce - pfppos v Altfematf ove tfe Landfill? u rise 5 V ' $ skcifcg Xty offi-- fir. District (NARD) landfill, which on the backburners. Salt Lake seemed to have many years of County and Salt Lake City found life .left. The two landfills a new site for a landfill that the though, were experiencing en- two have been operating jointly. For Davis County, however, vironmental problems, Jefseveral factors seemed to come feries said. The original proposal before together to make a resource reWFRC was to build a re- covery plant an attractive poslocation. the plants proposed The idea for the plant source recovery ! plant in Salt sibility, according to Jefferies. First, a resource recovery originated back in the early Lake County to anchor the southern part of the Wasatch plant seemed economically 1970s when Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County were in need Front and to build a resource competitive with a landfill. Secof a new landfill site, according recovery plant in Weber Coun- ond, through burning refuse, Wasatch to Wilbur Jefferies, ty, to anchor the north end, Jef- energy in the form of steam or Front Regional Council (WFRC) feries said. , electricity could be produced With new legislation, the fed- and sold which in effect could executive director. At that time Weber and Davis eral government was encourag- help to offset the costs of the Counties were also looking at ing municipalities to look at re- plant and in time provide a prosource recovery as an alterna- fit to the owner of the plant. alternative to their landfills. In Davis County, officials tive to landfills. And a federal Third, it could be done were concerned that the life of grant was given to the WFRC through private enterprise thus reducing the risks to the the Bay Area Refuse District for this purpose. withsouth end in later But Weber the landfill community of building and (BARD) County the county would soon be ex- drew, opting instead to proceed operating the plant, Jefferies hausted. Davis County officials, with plans for a garbage burn- said, would be through local regulations, the same as would be however, were not as concerned ing plant. Salt Lake County put its plant about the North Davis Refuse Cantinuod an Papa 2A build and operate a $35 million resource recovery plant which would turn garbage into marketable steam and electricity. The plant would likely be built in Clearfield, if city officials give their approval for the Weodv Polllokesidt Review Seeds Are Set Index Business . Classified i Home Living . . . ... 6C, 7C 2D, 3D School Sports .... . . IB, 2B 1D,4D 1C, 1C-3- C Wrestlers from regions one and four will meet tomorrow to decide placings for the state meet. The top seeds give an idea of 1C who to watch. f r s S ' ' "t |