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Show ILaytn ?esidents Can Help Prmulate City Master Plan ' LAYTON Meeting times have been set for residents of Layton City to help develop a master plan for the entire city. The city has been divided into, eight areas and residents of each area will meet together to let the city planners know what they want in the way of development and capital improvements for each area, according to Scot Carter, city planner for Layton City. At each meeting, citizens will be selected to work in five areas The information gathered from those five groups will be compiled and presented to the city as a whole by another committee form ed of one or two of the people from each of the study groups. The five areas of study will include residential development, commercial development, transportation and circulation, which includes streets, bike paths, and mass transportation, public facilities ana services involving utilities and public schools, and parks, which includes not only city parks but open spaces and urban design. The committee which is selected to report all findings to the overall city planning meeting will offer long-terinput on every project that occurs in their district, said Carter, and they will act in the m Bountiful, Contorvillo, p.m. District 6 is considered the northwest district and includes the area west of the Hill Field Road and north of Gordon. Residents of Camelot, Vae View, Park West, Holt, Mala, Green Leaf, Marshall Neights, Robins Park, Pleasant Hills, and Ridgewood are in this district. The mall is also included in this district. They meet at North Layton Junior High on Oct. 20 at 7 north-centr- al Cloorfield, Clinton, Farmington, Serving Vol. 2 No. 8 Gordon, east of the freeway to Fairfield and south to the city boundaries. They will meet at the Layton City Hall on Oct. 21 at 7 District 3 includes mostly what capacity similar to that of a dewas within the old East Layton City partment head for input. District 1 is in the northeast end limits and they should meet at East of Layton and includes Oak Forest, Layton Elementary on Oct. 13 at 7 La Donna Mesa, Tri Oaks, Avion p.m. District 4 is the southeast diviVista, and some city land east of Highway 89 on Valley View Drive. sion. Residents south of Snow They will meet at the East Layton Creek and east of Fairfield to the Elementary tonight at 7 p.m. city boundaries near Mutton Hollow are in this district and will District 2 is the at the Layton City Hall on area of Layton and includes the meet 14 at 7 p.m. Oct. area due south of Hill Air Force District 5 is Layton's central Base to Gordon Avenue. It is mostly farm ground but does involve area, the area immediately around some mobile home parks and East City Hall and includes Wasatch Ridge Subdivision. They will meet Heights, Skyline, Mountain View, at Hill Top Elementary tonight at 8 Diamond Hills, Golden Acres, and all who live in the area south of p.m. p.m. District 7 is the downtown area including the Fort Lane Shopping Fruit Haightt, Kaysvillo, Layton, Roy, South Weber, Sunset, Syracuse, West Point, West Bountiful, Woods Cross 44,026 Families From Roy Through Bountiful Wednesday, Oct. 7, 1981 Plan Presented Fir Financing E?y Cofiy Hall 2 Parties Nominate Candidates By MAOOI HOLMES - Review Staff In an FRUIT HEIGHTS elementary school classroom cluttered with bright educational posters, Fruit Heights citizens held two party conventions last week to nominate candidates for the up- By EMILEE DOWELL Roviow Corrotpondont ROY Mayor Joseph Dawson presented his plan for financing a new municipal building last week at a special Roy City Council meeting. The plan calls for a coming municipal elections. With the informal air of a small town meeting, many of the participants decided which party to affiliate with at the last moment. 10-ye- ar four-ye- lease-purcha- se Ber-gol- two-yea- council term and Carol Stewart of 973 E. County Road was nominated for that position. . - Dean 0. Brand of 122 South Mountain Rd. was nominated for the mayors seat by the Sagebrush candiparty. The two four-yedates are Don Fraser of 389 S. East Oaks Drive and Ross M. Phillips of ar Mountain Rd. The nominee council position is for the two-yeLuci Beth Paulsen at 29 S. Mountain Road. 370 S. ar NOAL ROBINSON, Mrs. Les Robinson, son of Mr . and year-old was surprised to find the 11 3. Davis County residents can register until Oct. 13 at the courthouse in Farmington at State and Main. Several civic groups are holding their own private registrations outside of the courthouse. These include one that will be held Oct. 10 from 2 to 6 p.m. at Alpha Beta stores at 2400 S. Main, Bountiful, and at Parrish Lane and Main Street, Centerville. These registrations are sponsored by the South Davis League of Women Voters. Voters from any district in the county may register at the league tables and information will be for- warded to the county and distributed to the proper voting districts. There are other groups participating in the registration activities. Not as many this year as last year, however, said Sandra Anderson, the election clerk for Davis County. One of the reasons she gave for the drop in outside participation is familys apple 'tree hadn't given up hope. -- i bloomin' Tree Late or Early? By IYNMA GRAHAM Roviow Conwpondfnl LAYTON Fan is the time when thoughts turn to the boun- ties of nature and backyard orchards provide families with a variety of fruits. This time of year there is nothing quite like biting into a crisp and juicy apple, fresh from the tree. However, the Les Robinson family, 1140 W. 1240 N., Layton, Voter Registration Days, Locations Set Residents of FARMINGTON any area city who were not registered for the last presidential election or the last municipal election must register in order to vote in the upcoming municipal election Nov. lease-purcha- se 10-ye- ar would work out best for Roy. A plan does not and alfund the balances, obligate lows for continued fund investment ar This party also had fewer residents in attendance at its two hour meeting. Both of the classrooms used for this event were full, leaving standing room only. Mer- rill Lynch. Other plans were considered such as paying cash out of an unappropriated general fund and retained earnings in the utility enterprise fund or selling properties owned by the city, but the mayor felt the plan council seats they nominated David A. Packer, 1152 E. County d Road and Lt.Col. Fredrick M. of 605 S. Cherry Lane. The r other position open is for a With a few more opinions that required airing, the Sagebrush party took almost twice as long as the Pine Cone party to complete the conventions purpose. plan through lease-purcha- se The Pine Cone party, which quickly completed its nomination duties, has as candidate for mayor, Lynn H. Benson, 245 S. Village :Way. As candidates for the two Center, and is considered a commercial renovation area. It also involves those residents who live in the mobile home parks along Main and people who live in Cook, King, East View, and Brookhurst. District 8 is mainly an agricultural area west of the Rio Grande tracks to the Great Salt Lake and includes people who are now in unincorporated areas there. They will meet at Layton Elementary on Oct. 14 at 8 p.m. Carter said that he hopes as many residents of each district as possible will attend the district meetings to help formulate goals and policies for each area of the city. a change in the way she handles those activities. Last year it was set up so that the groups could just hand out the forms. Then the voter was responsible for getting the form filled out correctly and returned to the courthouse by Oct. 13. Many of the residents either didnt get it done or returned them too late. Ms. Anderson said that this year the group members are required to remain with the resident and to take the form with them when it is completed. Ms. Anderson said that this would hopefully eliminate some problems. One problem that still remains is lease-purcha- se may be waiting a while for that first bite of apple. In the spring, the Robinsons apple tree produced leaves, then blossomed, and they waited for the little green fruits to appear. None came iand the promise of fall harvest was forgotten. Of pensate them for its spring blunder and last week blossoms on several of the branches. A little mixed up, the tree may have to suffer early winter frost, rather than the usual late spring weather fruit trees encounter. disappointed. But, now it seems almost that the tree decided to try to com- - ruary the Robinsons will be out course they were all Who knows, possibly The process would involve next Feb- Temmfts Cara Stfeay would have something besides a handful of rent receipts. ' Tenants have been concerned that the prices would be extremely high for the small lots, that they might be evicted if they chose not to buy, or that their rent might be raised because of their opposition to the changes Hansen desired. They had sent a letter and a petition to the City Council asking be a classic case of misunderstanding between tenants and landlord has culminated in the withdrawal of a request for a zoning change by the owner of Lake View Mobile Estates in Layton. More than 80 residents of the mobile home park were in attendance at the Layton City Council meeting last week when Don Hansen, owner of the park, said he had no idea I was going to stir up a hornets nest when he asked for permission from the city to sell the mobile home lots to the tenants. I thought I was doing them a favor, he said at the meeting. He had flown in from his California home to attend, he said. Hansen is developing plans for a second phase of the park which will only include lots for sale to mobile home owners and had hoped to be able to offer the lots in phase one as either rentals or sale units. that the proposed changes be Borrowers Benefit . Since opening of the f lease-purcha- se using plans to finance large pieces of equipment for many yers. The new concept is applying it to a municipal building, At the end of the public hearing they said. they adjourned to the police deIt will take 50 to 60 days for the partment basement where they met to try to work out the misplan to be finalized. that time the tax exempt understandings and conflicting re- During ports between the owner and the status of the issues of participation will be verified, credit rating of the renters. - city will be verified, the interest Phase 2 plans were not affected rate fixed and the exact issue cost by the decision to withdraw the will be determined. At that time the plan will be request for changes in Phase I. lease-purcha- se lease-purcha- se Layton Mall. C Section .... V lease-purcha- se Since Hansen withdrew his request to change Phase I, the city had no need to take any action but Mayor Lewis G. Shields said that he knew there was great concern with the subject and that Hansen should spend some time with the people gaining back their confidence. Index Business Classified Home living Layton Hills Mall, banks and lending institutions have multi13C plied in Layton. de- nied. that the groups must have the forms returned by Oct. 13. If the groups do not get the forms turned in, residents may think they are registered and they are not. It may be better for anyone really interested in the vote to register at the courthouse to assure proper registration, she said. Registration can also take place on Oct. 27 or Oct. 28. Registration on those days will take place at the homes of the neighborhood agents He said that he had planned to from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. offer 12 percent interest to buyers Information about candidates with very low or possibly no down and registration is available payment to those who desired to through each citys clerk. buy their lots so in 20 years they the general working figure of 1 million for the new facility with an 11 Vi percent issue rate, the payment would be about $270,000 a year. This payment could be made from the interest that is now being earned on the unappropriated general fund and the retained earnings in the utility enterprise fund. In addition, this plan would allow the unused portion of construction funds, during the construction period, to be reinvested and credited at 12 percent or more, bring down the effective rate of financing from 11 percent to aps proximately 10 percent. As the mayors plan stands, when the new municipal building was completed, the current building and site would be sold ahd the money would be used to pay off the agreement. Auditors were present at the meeting and were asked their opinion of the plan. They felt that it was a sound financial tool and didnt have any reservations about the city going ahead with it. Cities have been With Mobile Home Problem Resolved By LYNMA GRAHAM Mer- rill Lynch finding investors who would put up money at a specified rate, estimated at between 10 and 12 percent and issuing certificates of participation. A payment schedule would then be worked out for the city. in 10 inches of snow collecting their crop. Rwisw Coimpondwit LAYTON What may with current interest earnings which in some cases is as high as 18 percent, he said. It would also allow the city to keep its fund balances for an emergency. The plan would also give the city the flexibility of deciding the best time to liquidate its assets and not be forced to sell in a depressed market. Roy Nelson, a representative of Merrill Lynch said the plan does not constitute a general obligation to the city but would be subject to annual appropriations by the council. . ID, 2D 2D, 3D 7A-10- A t Obituaries School . 8C, Sports 2D 12A-14- B A Section presented before the council and it will have a chance to approve or disapprove with no repercussions. If the plan does not suit the council it will simply be discarded. The city has no obligation until the certificates of participation are issued. Merrill Lynch would receive no fees or make no charges unless the plan is approved and the issues go through. Some council members had concerns and reservations about the program but the mayor stressed that they were only approving the concept at this time and were not obligating one dollar of the taxpayers money. The city will be putting out some money to do a feasibility study. Each department head in the city will be asked to determine whether the present location or a proposed location on 1900 West suits their operations best. Then the city manager will do a cost analysis on the options of building a new facility in the parking lot behind the present building and raising the present building or remodeling and expanding the present building versus building a completely new facility on 1900 West. The mayor pointed out again that the main question is not whether the city should build a new facility, because the need has already been determined, but should be where it will be built and the best way to finance it. The plan was approved in concept by the council and the council also approved the selection of Eugene Bemson from Templeton, Ldnke and Associates to provide all architectural services up to the point of construction. Sets Zone Hearing The Bountiful BOUNTIFUL city council will hold a zoning hearing Oct. 14 at 7:30 p.m. to consider rezoning part of northwest Bountiful for light and medium industrial use. The property is presently zoned R2 and C2 and is used for residential, commercial and agricultural use. The zoning change would al- low for light and medium industry to come into the area and help to broaden the tax base, Mayor Elmer Barlow said, taking some of the tax burden off of city property owners. He said the city has drawn up a complete new zoning ordinance for the area. The council has been working on the ordinance for about a year, he added. Businesses desiring to use property in the area for industrial use would still need to come before the planning commission to receive ap proval, if the ordinance is put intc force, Barlow said. No Joy for Lancers homecoming last weekend, but the Lancers are determined to bounce back today. ib |