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Show 11 ByTOMBUSSELBERG Action FARMINGTON on five lots in a nine-lo- t subdi- vision has been deferred a month while an agricultural parceling project has gained from the Davis the County Planning Commission. who would maintain it and assure it was filled and another questioned lack of planned fire division, Charles Black, commission member, said The Future of the w hole area kind rests sion." of hydrants. Noting he had a letter with Spring approving tie-i- n Creek Irrigation, Mr. Knighton said he had not requested MEMBER WALLY Miller showed apparent disgust at the issue being raised without sufficient backing of proposals by letters and intention to meet requirements. Its an gravel road. Does that meet standards? No. Are there fire hydrants planned? No. Why do these (proposals) come back (to the planning commission)? Its embarrassing, a pain for the people (proposing them) and for us." written okay from Wheeler Machinery for water-runointo their farm pond, but indicated he felt there would be no ff BOTH DECISIONS werent reached easily, however, with divided opinions among the commission. The agricultural parceling, asked by Chris Nielson for several acres at 1100 South, was West, 500 approved, while action on five lots in the nine-lKen Knighton subdivision at Burke Lane and 1525 West was put off another month. Mr. Nielson said he wanted to allow an agricultural subdivision on his property with five pieces already sold to various landowners. They would not build homes but might graze horses or grow crops, he told the commission. A REQUEST for a residen- tial subdivision was previously denied and an attempt to allow a barn was also rejected. ot problems. A MAJOR concern was raised by County Environ- mental Health Director Richard Harvey, who said a major concern is waste water disposal and adequate drinkin west Farmiing water ngton. Were to the point, we have enough experience, that we would have to oppose any buildings with septic tanks in that area due to failures and a very big likelihood it wont work, he said. WELLS DRILLED can generally meet standards but often pose a flavor and odor problem and sometimes has oxidized to cause clothes to go red. A lot of people out there have wells but dont use the water. All we can say is there are problems. CHAIRMAN Ray Hale said "to get on the road" letters shouldve been supplied from , Assistant County Planner Albert Cole resisted approval Its your choice. But the this time, as well, noting one problem isnt nearly as bad acre parcels were formerly rewith wells as it is with septic quired while this project would tanks, he noted. include acre pieces. Mr. Knighton said, howevPeople who buy intend to er, he will connect into sewers build. If this goes, we may get with pipe already purchased. another 100,000 (requests). BUT SOME other questions Were after developing propstill remained. Mr. Cole said The is it problem erly. always the county doesnt plan to gets okayed for agriculture and ; s asphalt the road leading to the tomorrow they come for buildsubdivision and while there is a I feel this is ing permits. dont 66-fo- ot y standard proper planning. It should be a the roadbase is "probably 0 large plat." feet, he added. in traversing two railSafety THE REQUEST passed with road crossings was also raised one opposed, under stipulatand costs for signal arms and ion the property be used for other improvements there are agricultural purposes. listed at about $80,000, he conIt wasnt a first try on the tinued. either. Knighton proposal, TWO WELLS are on the site Still troubling the group are a now and perhaps that will be lack of letters relating to fire sufficient, Mr. Cole said. But protection, water drainage, the property is within an area and water standards'. designated as floodplain by the COUNTY AND Farmington Army Corps of Engineers, it city fire chiefs indicated a was noted, although a federal n water proposed official reportedly said there tank to be furnished by Mr. would be no problems in allownothan was better Knighton ing the subdivision, the comMr. Cole said, but thing, mission was informed. even a plan to install a used Indicating the impact of a some tank raised 12,000 gallon decision on the Knighton sub- concern as members asked one-ha- lf right-of-wa- 18-2- SUNSET SILHOUETTE The last rays of daylight fade away near an old farmhouse in Sunset. on the Knighton deci- Wheeler Machinery, on fire protection and the board of health on wells. But Mr. Knighton said his attempts at getting letters from the county had been futile. We cant get a letter from the county on the road." IF HE GOES ahead and answers the objections and clears it all. then I can see giving it an OK. Mr. Hale said. Emphasizing that wasn't yet possible, Mr. Miller added. "We're not at the point we can OK it. PLANNING Commission Chairman Harold Tippetts said. "He's been wailing 30 days (it was tabled in February). The county is derelict in some things. I asked the county attorney to get a statement. Weve got 74 homes out there (West Farmington) with substandard fire protection. Whats the big difference with his (Knighton proposal)? Is the county building substandard roads? I'm not in sympathy with this type of development but in fairness to the others maybe we should say OK, subject to getting the other things OKd fire and the county OK it. health, all have to 5,000-gallo- By NORMA PREECE An overflowing crowd jammed the Kaysville city chambers Tuesday evening to voice their views on the issue of cable TV in Kaysville. MAYOR ELISON told the crowd that the council would take no action to halt the installation of cable TV or to rescind franchise a granted owners.of a private cable firm. The city council will take no action until the state legislature votes a bill concerning obscenity on cable TV. With the franchise, the cable company is free to come into the city and show any legal programming that the citiznes are willing to buy. The mayor read a legal opinion of King & King (city attorneys) stating that cable TV is controlled by hpth FCC regulations and pronography laws which preempt any local reg- ulations. Senate Bill 301 addressed the showing of obscene material making it a class A misdemeanor, this bill is up for third reading and a possible vote by the end of this week. THE MAYOR said the council had nothing new to offer on the subject and questioned if there was any further information needed. : THE KAYSVILLE WEEKLY REFLEX 197 "B" North Main St., Layton, Utah 84041 Phone 376-913- 3 Published Weekly by .CUPPER PUBLISHING CO. John Stable, Jr., Publishr Second Crass Postage Paid at Layton, Utah SUBSCRIPTION $4. 50 per year r Out of State $5.50 Subscription Oversees Subscription $15.00 (Payable in Advance) Brian McDougall, attorney for Cable TV of Utah, stated he had been working with RepI Jones on Bill 301 and they had been forced to ammend the bill drastically on constitutional grounds. BLAINE GLANVILLE said he felt the people had waited to be heard and should be heard. He stated that he was in the direct communications business and objected to any censorship. That no law could cover what to one person may be of social value; to another valueless, and he found it offensive that anyone would take away his freedom to choose and set his own standards. He also cited the money already invested by the Cable TV company. ROBERT Buchanan questioned the revenue derived and the mayor stated there would be a 2 percent franchise tax on the gross receipts. Mr. Buchanan asked whether the city was involved in any other way with cable TV. Mayor Elison answered, no. Mr. Buchanan asked if residents could sue the city if something was declared pronographic under the law, to which Mayor Elison replied, no, unless the city was declared negligent. Roy Layton commented that it was his understanding that the best programming would come in the future including sports, news not on the standard stations. Mr. McDougall stated at all contracts provide that the companies are covered under the pornography laws and that it asked that the council regulate cable TV to prevent this type of material being brought into the community. She agreed that it is a personal choice whether you have it or not, but there is no way to stop it from affecting others around you. She cited the nine year old boy who robbed a bank as an example of the influence in our lives. She also quoted from a case, Miller vs California, which upheld the right of a community to agree on the moral standards of the CLARA SNELL said she didn't have any confidence in the rating system'used. Pat Hirschi stated that cable TV movies in does show other areas and many of the commercials are obscene and was an invalid assumption. He felt that additional sports available under cable TV would view any material he likes without any type of censor- RICHARD WAITE quoted the Bill of Rights and stated that restrictions would take his freedom of choice, that he wanted to go on record to this affect, that he wanted his freedom of choice and the opportunity to make decisions for his ship and felt he had the right to select the viewing for his family, but as a citizen he wanted the right to conduct his own affairs. REPLYING to the question on whether there were any lawsuits filed on poronogra-phy- , Mr. McDougall that the state laws community. NANCY MERRILL felt that if parents had control over their children they could also control what they saw on television and objected to being told by someone else what was best for her. Bryce Anderson felt that even with standard stations, parents had to use discretion on viewing by children. Under stated would preempt local laws and Mayor Elison stated this would have to be handled by the attorney general in a district court. Mr. McDougall said there had been some cases litigated. James Brown said he had watched HBO in other areas and had found no objection to it. As a businessman and father he felt the influence on the nine year old who robbed the bank as a result of TVs influence family. wanted higher standards for this communitv. THE MATTER was tabled n on recommendations of Carol Page. That the city attorneys recommendations be followed. Off In Weber - Davis SOUTH WEBER County Sheriffs Office has called off a search for a light plane which reportedly crashed in the mountains east of here last Saturday morning. MORE THAN 25 persons, including a construction crew working on U.S. Highway 89 (Mountain Road) adjacent to the mountain range, reported seeing a plane fly behind a ridge and seconds later of hearing an exptosion. Lt. Bob Peters said two heli- - copters searched a small area where the crash was reported but could fine no trace of wreckage or burn area where a plane might have crashed. By TOM BUSSELBERG Cheryl DeDecker cited a study from Standford University that indicated crime is increased by violence shown on TV. That it does affect the behavior of some. While it may not affect your own family, it might affect a sick mind in your neighborhood which in turn would affect your family. She miles." LT. PETERS said theft are no reports of planes missing and there were no reports of planes in trouble or disappearing from the radar screens. ITS A mystery to us," he said. But we had an extensive Sgt. K.D. Simpson, who search of the area and can find no clues of a crash. He noted that several persons reported the incident which pretty well pinpointed the possible crash site. "We were looking in an area probably less than three square participated in the search, said the alleged crash site is in a remote area of the mountain range. Ground search crews are not scheduled to go into the area because of extreme danger of avalanches unless the plane is located, he said, grb be received from all concerned areas with four voting for the action, one against and two chooQ Lmumelhi 51l ir Ewsin or help youth. Plane Search will not be shown on cable sys- tems. cable TV there might be more programs geared for children, more spots, etc. He also cited the use of home video recorders which allows a person to THE MATTER was tabled for 30 days until letters can FARMINGTON If President Reagan gets his way, most Davis parents could be faced with forking out $ I $ . 0 a day for each child's school -- 1 1 lunch. SCHOOL FOODS Service Supervisor Maxine Reeves said if such hatchet proposals become part of the Presidents economy plans and pass through Congress the lunch prices could be hiked 30 cents each, on all grade levels. Current federal funding provides 14 cents in commodities, or various food stuffs, on the dollar, and the basic subsidy is 16 cents, she said, in an interview late last week, noting those two amounts were reduced by about five cents Jan. I. OF THE districts 39,053 students, 26,480 are participating in school lunch a drop of about 2,000 since the last price raise in August. Some 3,800 receive reduced lunch while another 3,000 are on free lunch. Those students would be unaffected by planned federal cuts, she said. That would affect only a minority of students in many states but only 25 percent are on the reduced program in Utah, Mrs. Reeves continued. "The cutback in January was $528 million and that was supposed to have been for just one year. Now they want to wipe out 35 years of program. SHE SUGGESTED rather than cut only those states where less than 60 percent are on reduced programs a percentage cut should be formulated based on participants. We know weve got to cut but to just wipe it out... The reason it was started was in World War II they realized how ma- lnourished they (military cruits) re- were. Current prices of 60 cents for elementary, 70 for junior high and 80 for high school were set last August. They have remained constant while other Wasatch Front districts effected an increase in January. PRICE INCREASES will further, reduction in those participating and that mean a could mean additional increases when bulk food purch- - ases must be made for fewer students, she said, adding that unemployment could result for some of the 400 food service and related employees businesses. The district could drop out of the federal program, as some districts have done in the past, but that would elimina ties to nutrition guidelines, Mrs. Reeves said. Lunches might be served ala carte but youngsters would be "on their own" as far as choosing nutritious foods. AND youngsters might not be able to afford meals under an ala carte program where each item would be sold separately. LOW-INCOM- E Kaysville Positions Kaysville city will be accepting applications for the planning commission, recreation committee, board of ad- - justment and tree committee from interested citizens until Monday, March 23 at 5 p.m. All interested persons are urged to apply. Dog License Time SOUTH WEBER Citizens are reminded to purchase dog licenses before the end of the month to avoid paying a penalty. THEY MAY BE obtained at the city hall, 7355 S. 1375 E., on Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The fee, before April 1, is $5 for neutered dogs and $10 for unaltered dogs. After that time, an additional $5 will be charged. The vaccination certificate should accompany the animal when purchasing a license, lw |