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Show Lr , -' wM w n I .. 1 . ' C i t r r s ' ' '2', ' i r ' p ' '1111 V i zA A LL 7 VOLUME 40 PAGES xx w rvqpWwVfyr v O NUMBER SEVEN Wuldl il y FIFTY-TW- X vo4 N4 ' By MARK D. MICKELSEN 1 " 'mJ? Jt V W y- J ?v j r: 7? - V "V v V 'IfvW V V fc " 4 . - &- -' 'T y 5t , V1 XYV trx j,.? yr,r vf s l7f I & Will the CLEARFIELD consolidation of three north Davis communities create a X4 ( 'i'77 larger, more expensive beauracracy? ? WILL CITY officials have as much time to listen to their citizens? Will now virgin agricultural lands have to be used for future residential growth? 7f 1 "'i 7 t .3 J. MW S' r7HS7 - The hotel promised to the people of Layton for the past months is still coming. This was the information a representative of the SPC Financial Corp. delivered to the Layton City Council at their April 16 meeting. BERNEY, SPC representative, appeared before the Layton City Council to ask for a 60 day extension on the time given to issue mdust-na- l bonds. He said the reason for this extended time period was the amount of paperwork and legal work necessary to prepare the bonds and the rapidly changing bond market. He said if things went according to his estimated timetable, ground would be broken for the five story 231 room Best Western Hotel by mid May. The hotel will house a restaurant and lounge, several meeting rooms and other facilities. BERNARD SPC FINANCIAL Corp. will not build a sports complex with the hotel. This is because of an IRS regulation that prohibits bonding for a capital in- - THE KAYSVILLE WEEKLY REFLEX 197 "B" North Main St, Layton, Utah 84041 Phone 376-913- 3 Published Weekly by CLIPPER PUBLISHING CO. , John Stahle, Jr , Publisher Second Class Postage Paid at Layton, Utah SUBSCRIPTION $4 50 per year Out of State $5 50 Subscription Oversees Subscription $15 00 (Payable in Advance) ' rSZ,, r5tTr: myriad of other questions must be answered before Clearfield, Sunset and West Point make a decision on whether or not to merge into one single city. JSSS.- - ''" MAYORS FROM the three communities met jointly last Tuesday in Clearfield and agreed to pursue a feasibility study aimed at uncovering the advantages and disadvantages of community consolidation. Clinton city, one of the original merger candidates has apparently dropped its name from the list of cities being considered, Mayor Keith Cisney and the council in agreement took Old Sol rose into the lower 70s last week as golfs;! No. 7 the at the to took ducks ponds and the to greens Golf Course in Fruit green of Davis County Park beautiful springlike temperature is exHeights. The the 70s after an Easter into rise to again pected weekend of showers. that the merger might encroach upon the city's valuable agricultural ground. CLEARFIELD Mayor Donat Townley assured his community Tuesday that the cities want only to explore the possibilities" of the merger. "This type of issue has to be put on the ballot," he said In a presentation to the other mayors. Sunset Mavor Norm Sant said the whole idea behind the merger study is to determine the cost of government, while protecting the quality of life in the communi- Sunset Names ft Tom Lightfoot Council Member mu By DONETA GATHERUM ,,,... " 4 These and an unknown .$&&' -- BEAUTIFUL SPRING Ini "" Z&:iZlZS ' ' :JSSfr'-"-, . - J""VJZ WILL NEW zoning laws be needed to regulate growth and development throughout the city 7 vyJ, , , y.WS" 7 vestment of over ten million dollars. The recreational facility to be built near the hotel will be developed by one of several interested companies that are now negotiating with SPC. ALTHOUGH THE city council was somewhat skeptical about the actual development of the hotel, they granted , the 60 day bond extension. This means SPC has until June 4, 1981 to complete the bonding negotiations. The proposed hotel site is located on the northeast comer of Hill Field Road and Antelope Drive. A PUBLIC hearing to rezone the comer lot located on the southeast corner of Gentile and Elm St. was set for May 2 at 7:30. This property was denied a rezone from RS to PB two weeks ago. Several resiLane dents of the Elm part of Layton attended the April 2 hearing to protest the property commercially. The council agreed with the residents and turned down the request fora commercial zone. 1 1 St.-Fo- rt THIS TIME, owners of the .9 acre land parcel will request a R31 zone. This means multiple unit housing could be built on the site. At the April 2 hearmuling. residents stated that a tiple housing building would be acceptable to them. In a related matter, people living on south Fort Lane just south of the site up for rezone appeared before the council to ask for the creation of a special improvement district for the purpose of building a sidewalk to connect to the existing sidewalk north of the four houses involved and south of the homes. The council complied with this citizen request. SEVERAL residents of the Camelot subdivision section of Layton attended the city council meeting to ask for crossing guards and traffic lights at two points where children walking to North Layton Jr. High School and Lincoln Elementary School cross busy streets. The danger of crossing to attend the two schools will become more critical when the Antelope Dr. freeway interchange is completed. ROBERT FARRELL, the groups spokesman, stated he believed traffic lights and crossing guards would be needed at the on and off ramps of the freeway system. Sunset Tom Lightfoot, a long-tim- e SUNSET resident and Hill Air Force Base employee, was appointed to the city council Thursday by local officials. ties." HE SAID the disadvantages of the system, though indefinite, may or may not outweigh the advantages. The adisadvantages, as outlined by Mayor Sant, are that the merger would create some greater initial debts for the newly consolidated city; encourage a larger government entity; develop more beauracracy. OLD father of five graduated from THE Weber State College and received a master's degree in business administration from Auburn University, Ala. Born in Choteau, Mont., Mr. Lightfoot has been active with the Cub Scout organization and is currently commander of the Utah Military Reserve's 68th Aerial Port Squadron, responsible for overseeing the transport of military machinery and supplies. R ALSO, REDUCE city officials responsiveness to their citizens; require the establishment of more internal departments. department chiefs and work levels. The advantages are: Provisions could be made for a specific zoning ordinance to include commercial, industrial, agricultural and residential ground. THE larger agricultural areas could be protected from MR. LIGHTFOOT, and wife Eulalie have five children, including Mrs. Vicki Alan, Kiele Moore. Gayle Benzeley, and Vance and Kenna Lightfoot. and have resided in Sunset since 1956. Mr. Lightfoot currently works for Hill AFB as a section chief over air munitions. He replaces Councilman Bruce Watkins, who left the city recently to fill a banking position in Vernal, mdm Other residents of the area expressed concern over the safety of children who now pass by the freeway ramp construction site. They feel construction flag people are concerned with the movement and safety of vehicle traffic and not cautious about the children walking to and from school. MAYOR SHIELDS assigned Councilman Golden Sill, the council member assigned to public safety, to work with the citizens group, the state road people and the construction company. He will report suggestions and progress back to the city council. The council unanimously voted to rezone 10 acres of ground located south of Avon Vista subdivision R1A. The property had been zoned A. Developers hope to improve seven building lots on the top of the 10 acres and then some later on as adjacent areas are developed and as plans are approved for development of the steeper parts of the 10 acre parcel. Laytomi The council directed Rich- ard Hunt, city parks and recreation director and parks commission to gather more information before the council would act on a proposed bond election. THE BOND request made deby the parks and recreation conthe allow would partment struction of a recreation center in Layton. At the meeting, Mayor Lewis G. Shields and the three council members present asked Mr. Hunt and the parks commission to prepare more information for the public. THE MAYOR suggested the idea of a recreational center in Layton had not received enough publicity. The mayor future residential or commercial growth: commercial zones could be stabilized and regulated and kept out of existing residential areas. The cost of government might be reduced over a pei aid of time through centralization of departments, the larger, consolidated city might have a better chance at acquiring federal and state development grants. THE CITY would have greater bonding potential and be less dependent upon the county and state funding Mayor Sant suggested that the participating mayors return to their councils for a discussion on the merger, hear input from citizens committees and finally analyze the results already work cooperatively in their police and tire departments. "There is a cooperative he spirit between the cities." told the other mavors But. he added. "We still should be concerned about that (Clinton) 1 really agricultural land that we must look at those types of things." of those meetings and the proposed feasibility study. PENDING THE results of the feasibility study, the issue would then be placed on the ballot in Nov ember for each of the cities to decide. As pail of his presentation. Mayor Sant mlormed his audience that in an informal comparison of operational costs of other laiger Utah cities, there appeared to be very little actual cost savings. WOILD think there AOU would be more cost savings by combining." but the mayor said the evidence proves otherwise He said there might be some eventual savings on water, sewer and refuse collection costs, but the four cities be-ie- ACCORDING to Mavor Sant, the one big advantage to the merger would be the city's increased tax base. But some Clearfield citv councilmen were worried that Clearfield might end up paying more in taxes than anyone else being the largest city among the three. All three mayois agreed to bring the issue "tothe people" first, to find out if the merger would, indeed, save the cities money in the long run. WEST POINT Mayor Loy Blake said "We're doing some research and we're hoping to come up with the right answer." He. too. agreed that the residents must have the final say. 1 think it's the people's " choice A UTAH State University has offerred to complete the feasibility study for the merger at no cost to any of the cities "It seems to me that it (merger) has to be researched as far researcher CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Fatal Accident At Uintah UINTAH A Layton man on his wav home Irom work at McKav Dee Hospital in Ogden was one ol five per- sons killed in a gi inding headon collision on U S Highway 8y here last Wcdnesdav alteinoon I wo others remain ' in "verv critical condition at press time RLSSMI. Hailing. 33. ol 17f Last I 3() North. I avion, was alone in his vehicle He has reportedly left the Ogden hospital a lew minutes earlier where he had been emploved as a lab technician. A Utah Highwav Patrol spokesman, who invested the accident, said the other car which had six occupants, including three residents ol the Utah State Community Corrections Center in Ogden and a Hooper. Weber was traveling at County girl an "extremelv high rale ol speed ' as it entered U.S. Highwav 89 northbound from Intel state Highwav 81) in We ber Cans on HE SAID the vehicle tailed to negotiate the turn, skidded sidewavs acioss two lanes, crossed ovei a wide dividei. and collided headon with the southbound Hailing vehicle Paramedics and rescue squads tiom Weber and Davis counties responded to the mis hap I he accident occurred lust across the Weber Davis C ounty line into Count A v W ebei . LICENSH) practical nurse. Janice Priest Rock Springs. W vo 27. ol . hap- pened by gist minutes altei the mishap and assisted para- medics at the scene She a ' letter ol commendation" Irom the Uah Highwav Patrol lor her volunteei service It took a dozen paramedics and rescue woikers about 3() minutes to tree the two survi-v ors Irom the mang e d wreckage Sadies believes many citizens have not heard about the proposed center and many do not understand what the center could do for the people living in Layton and how much the center would cost in bonds and additional taxes. The council mem-ber- s concurred with the mayor. Layton's governing body also questioned the validity of a recent survey prepared and distributed by the parks and re- creation department. Six thousand surveys were printed. Six hundred were re- turned to the parks department. There is no way of knowing how many of the 6,000 surveys reached the homes of Layton residents. OF THE 600 surveys re- - turned, people responding favored building a recreation center by a 1 margin. The number stating they would support a bond election to build the center was The concern was w hether or not the 600 surveys returned was really representative of the people of Layton. 9-- 4-- MR. HUNT was asked to contact BYU and the other major college and universities to find out if they would be interested in conducting a more extensive survey in Layton to determine more accurately the feelings of Laytons residents regarding the bonding for a recreational center. The parks commission was further instructed to prepare and distribute information to the public about the proposed recreational center including size, location, number of people it would employ, what facilities would be included in the center and how the proposed center would effect property taxes in Layton. MR. HUNT reported to the council that the senior citizens of Layton had begun an activity program on each Tuesday afternoon in the East Layton city hall. He said the group was very enthusiastic about the program. Several people had been selected to oversee committees. The council cautioned Mr. Hunt about building the hopes of the senior citizens too high. There is a chance the East Layton city hall will be sold. Senior citizens must realize from the beginning that any programs for them at this location is on a trial and temporary basis. Mr. Hunt said the senior citizens were aware of this situation. THE COUNCIL was in- formed by Mr. Hunt that the grand opening of Phase II of the Layton Commons Park would be held May 15. Because of cutbacks in government spending, the parks and recreation dept, has lost six fulltime employees. The city is appealing to citizens of Layton to volunteer work in Laytons parks. Cleanup is one area where help is really needed. Anyone interested in assjst-in- g the parks dept, on a volunteer basis should contact Mr. Hunt, 376-345- |