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Show Decision Due By July - Two Section City Mulls New WEST VALLEY. Officials here to decide whether to the federal standards, Newman noted. The city manager said the federal directive will not speed up the citys decision on whether to build or renovate, but that the city will strive to meet the 1986 deadline one way or the other. In the meantime, Newman said West Valley will take measures to mitigate the accessibility problems faced by handicapped citizens. He said the council chambers will be relocated in the ground floor area to be vacated by the Fire Department this spring and that city employees will continue coming down stairs to meet with handicapped citizens in the buildings foyer. It wont meet the (federal funding) guidelines, but are expected build a new city hall or renovate the current facility by midsummer. That is the assessment of City Manager John Newman, who last week received a letter from the Federal Government describing guidelines municipalities must meet by October, 1986 to qualify for federal revenue sharing funds. The letter, which was sent to cities throughout the nation, according to Newman, warned city officials they must make their headquarters accessible to handicapped citizens by that date, or risk losing millions of dollars in funding. West Valley City Hall, which does not have an elevator, would not meet Hoi 11 it will sensibly meet the need weve always tried to meet, he said. The city manager explained that installing an elevator as a temporary measure is out of the question because of its $100,000 cost. The decision to build or renovate will probably not be made before July, Newman said, because the city is still gathering information on the matter. The decision will be predicated on our ability to sell this particular building, he explained, adding that revenue from that sale, plus about the same amount the city would likely spend to renovate the existing facility, would be used to construct a new City Hall. Were not hurrying (the decision), he said. "We want to make sure what we do is right. hold furnishings? Use a Green Sheet classified ad! Ask Bona Dalton, 5530 Kathleen Ave., if it works. Youll be told, We ran the ad one time and sold it right away! with bookcoia, DOUBLE bod, hoadboord and mottraita. The experience of the Kearns area resident isnt unusual. Green Sheet classified ads reach more than y homes where over 57.000 216.000 potential readers reside. 2 to place your ad. Dial Save money by paying before it runs. Ask us how. mid-valle- 262-668- ZONING HEARING . . . Vallay Park Partnarship representative, Fred Morris, asks the City Planning Commission to consider his rexon-in- g request at a hearing Thursday. At Thursday Morning Session If you fail to receive your Green Sheet on Thursday morning, please call the Circulation Department, 262 6682, before 10:30 a.m. SALT LAKE CITY 276-un- TMt voice OP UTAH USPS 656-38- reen Sheet Newspaper Published weekly at 155 E 4905 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84107 Second class postage paid at Salt Lake City, UT 84119 Subscrip tlon rate S12 00 per year POSTMASTER Send address changes to West Valley View, Box 7187, Salt Lake City, UT 84107 Volume 30, Number Thursday, Mar. 7 All 1, 1984 New Highway Plan Being Questioned By Residents WEST VALLEY. A public hearing on the proposed West Valley Highway here Tuesday night attracted about 100 people, most of them speaking against the road which has been in the planning stages since 1959. The meeting, held at Granger high, was called by Utah Department of Transportation officials to present the results of a $200,000 study of the highways potential environmental impact. Officials involved in the study, including Utah Transportation Commission vice chairman Wayne Winters, UDOT engineer Mark Musuris and George Ramjoue of the Wasatch Front Regional Council, opened the meeting with a one-hoexplanation of the highway and its alternatives which they said are inadequate to meet the future traffic needs of the area. Without the $24 million highway, they said, traffic demands in the western valley will exceed the two-yea- r, capacities of the existing roadway system by 125,000 trips per day in the year 2005. They explained that the only feasible alternative to the highway, improving existing roads at a cost of $6.6 million, would still force the system to operate at maximum capacity by that date, causing considerable delay and congestion at every major intersection. The citizens who spoke in Tuesdays hearing, most of whom live within a stones throw of the right of way reserved for the proposed highway, listened patiently to the presentation, but most blasted the highway plan when the officials opened the meeting for public input. While most conceded a need for some type of future road improvements, they said that another north-sout- h arterial was not the I have more trouble answer. traveling east and west right now, complained one man whos back yard would border the new road. I would propose you do something WEST VALLEY. Completed budget requests for the 1984-8- 5 fiscal year are expected to be submitted by West Valley City department heads beginning next week. The event marks the first step toward completion of the final budget the City Council will consider late this spring. City Manager John Newman and Finance Director Russ Sanderson will review the requests before presenting them to the council later next month, along with several of their recommendations. They said theyll recommend that increases over last years budgets be limited to 2.9 percent for all departments and that requests above that figure be relegated to a wish list for which funds will be To wit: In a vast majority of American marriages, one person is a keeper and the other thrower-awaa That y. last term isnt very scienticon- its descriptive. You can sub- stantiate this re- calling your own experi- some, no doubt, like this: One of the marriage partners has turned the house upside down looking for a July, 1976 National Geographic which had an article hed planned to read. He screams - money Kathy Wittkes conditional use application to operate a beauty salon in their home was approved. The com- mission stipulated all traffic generated by the new business must park off the street and stated the conditional use permit will be reviewed upon complaint by neighbors. Redwood Road, Lambert Florals conditional use request to build three greenhouses on 1.1 acres behind the existing business was continued for two weeks. 343? So. Redwood Road, Sun -- - 3910 So. - dance Mobile Homes conditional use application for a commercial mobile home dealership was approvsite in a 2 zone. ed for a half-acr- e - 6600 W. 4100 South, Don Parker received final plat approval for a subdivision on 9.7 acres in an 8 C-- 36-l- ot zone. - 5020 W. 3400 South, Brookhaven Limited Partnership received final subdivision plat approval for a 30-lzone. on seven acres in an 7 - 6800 W. 3800 South, Glen Thompson received preliminary approval subdivision on 1.2 acres for a five-lzone. in an 8 R-l-- ot R-l-- In other matters, the commission approved a plan governing developments abutting arterial streets. Planning staff member Craig Hinckley explained developers will now be encouraged to build wider sidewalks along arterials and construct any fence or barrier directly beside the sidewalk. He said that would eliminate the strip of land the city would have to maintain if the fence were built further back from the sidewalk. Developers will also be encouraged to plant trees and shrubs inside the fence, he said. TAYLORSVILLE. The seat of county government should be moved to 5400 So. Redwood Road, in the opinion of community representatives meeting here Thursday night. A motion to that effect was approved by members of the n Taylorsville-BennioCommunity Council following discussion that also explored the fate of the Building. The aging structure has been the center of controversy many months because of safety factors and the cost of renovating or replacing it. Contending there is no practicality y in the Building serving as a center for government offices, the Taylorsville-Bennio- n group voted 2 for the county to aggressively pursue a plan to sell the structure to an organization that would use it for historical purposes. The alternative to that, the council felt, would be to tear down the building. In proposing a new site for center of county government operations, the council designated a site that has had its own share of controversy. About 90 acres of land at the southeast corner of the 5400 South and Redwood Road intersection is being considered for development, but the fate of much of it is being delayed until a master plan is completed. From the standpoint of accessibiliand ty, it is a few blocks from as well as within two miles of being near the center of the county. A more central location in the county for government offices was cited two weeks ago as the preference of the Millcreek Community Council. Members of that body, in contrast to Taylorsville-Benniofavored preserving the y Building, but not for county office use. City-Count- y City-Count- available only if revenues top expected expenditures. The chances for most departments to receive funding for wish list projects deteriorate daily, however, with the condition of the citys roads. Newman has made no secret of the fact that repairing the roads is his first concern and that hell ask the council to consider repairing them first if there are any funds available. If there is any money left, anywhere, it will have to be put into the roads, he said. Its my top my second priority . . . priority my only priority. We have no choice. In addition to the budget requests, Newman has required department heads to put together an activity and ... service inventory report this year, which he says will give the council a better idea of what each department does with its money. The new report will require department heads to describe each activity performed, when it is performed and by whom, the level of service the activity should provide and at what cost. It will help us define our objectives and to determine the costs necessary to reach them, Newman said, adding the reports will also help us find out if certain things (the city does) are meaningless. Newman said the inventory report is only the third of four items which will be required in forming the fiscal year, budget by the 1985-8- 6 when the capital improvements pro- - gram will be added to the budget requests, annual department reports and inventory reports. Its the coup de gras, said Newman, who explained that money now funneled through other departments for capital improvements will instead go into the new program which will be budgeted five years in advance. The total package will make the budget process a much more intricate task than it was during the first couple of budget sessions, a fact Newman sees as a sign of the citys When we first started, maturity. we more or less just reacted (during Weve now the budget process). reached a level where more is needed, he said. n, City-Count- by Jim Cornwell in agony when his mate admits she threw it away three years ago. In our family, were the keeper. We save everything from used razor blades to worn-ou- t shoe laces, including empty prescription bottles, old valve caps, pencil stubs - you name it. - have now reached the point where we can reveal our findings. -- traffic st New Site Is Proposed For County Work Beginning On 8485 City Budget Weve conducted extensive research on the subject and ences flow before on something (north-sout- h traffic problems) that could happen in the future, if at all. I question the wisdom of building another highway when you cant even take care of the roads we have now, said another man, referring to potholes which have sprung up around the valley this winter. Other citizens expressed concerns about noise the new highway would generate, while some predicted the road would become nothing more than a new route for truck traffic. One woman said she worried about the safety of children living near the road and questioned the officials data concerning school attendance areas the highway would cross. It (the study) says the highway will only cross two attendance areas, but there are three in this area alone, I have children she challenged. that will have to walk across that (See Page 4, Col. 5) about east-weyou spend By Council - Increases To Be Greatly Limited- - here's a point theory by 262 6682 7-- - probably departments Concerns Surface At Hearing - weeks because the proposed density of the project was too high. Commission Chairman Carroll Elford recommended the continuation, explaining that Garbett risked denial of the project if the density werent lowered. Garbett agreed to the continuation but said his agreement with his bank would not allow him to lower his request below 36 units. - 2200 So. 4000 West, the commission denied DBD Managements request for an exclusion from flood control requirements imposed by the county in 1979. - 3658 Bishop St., Victor and mini-storag- fic, we cede, but 84111 YYSST VALLKY CITY WVC Planning Commission Denies Proposal To Relocate Arcade, Pool Hall Operation In Hunter WEST VALLEY. The City Planning Commission vetped a plan to relocate an arcade and billiards hall here Thursday because of the possibility a similar business would move into the vacated building. Del Ray and Errol Bevan had applied for conditional use approval to move the existing West Valley Billiards and Hunter Auto Stores at 4669 W. 3500 South to a new structure just west of the site. The commission denied the request after receiving confirmation from West Valley City attorneys that the conditional use permission to operate a billiards parlor would remain with the vacated building regardless of who owned it in the future. West Valley police had expressed concern at the prospect of having two billiards halls within 300 feet of each other because of the extra patrols they said the situation would require. In other matters, the commission reached decisions affecting property at the following locations: 3651 W. 2100 South, Thomas V. Rasmussens conditional use ape it plication for a facility was approved subject to submission of a revised site plan with added landscaping. The applicant had proposed an 8 landscaped strip along the front of the project, but commission member Budd Rich, in his motion for approval, increased the width to 10 feet. He said the percentage of proposed landscaping barely met minimum requirements and that the appearance of the project could be improved with the added green space. 4850 W. 4700 South, Bryson Garbetts application for a it apartment complex on 1.6 acres in zone was continued for two an R-- UTAH We&WoSi&f Sold Right A way! Whats the best way to find a housebuyer for U7AH PRESS ASSOCIATION 467 EAST 300 SOUTH Bette, in some desperation, not long ago challenged us to go through our boxes and drawers and see what sort of keeper we really are. We accepted the challenge and tried our desk drawer at the office first. Well leave it to you to decide the relative worth of the priceless materials found therein. More business cards than you can count without a hand-hel- d computer. No way of telling the vintage of a business card, but some of 'em have telephone numbers like EM and AM Ones from a salesman named Harry Trasky. He the Amalgamated Buggy Whip Co. of Ashtabula, OH. Wonder what ever happened to Harry? Keys by the dozen. Unidentified. We keep 'em on hand because every now and then a key is lost to one of the doors at the plant and an emergency call goes out for us. We reach the scene of the problem, methodically begin testing the keys -and sooner or later (usually later) the door is opened. Once we vowed to mark all the keys so we knew what they fit -but that was probably a New Years resolution because we never got it done. We keep ball point pens. Most of 'em no longer write, but its interesting to read the advertising on em. They also provide a sense of security just knowing theyre available in case the pen were using runs dry. Dont ask why theres a sense of security in mostly-useles- s its there, pens represented - There's a French curve we picked up at a printing trade show. It has such a unique shape we have to hide it from the guys in the plant. The shape is the profile view youd get if a shapely Hollywood starlet was standing nude behind a flimsy curtain with lighting behind her. The same sort of a view, in fact, that you get in most of today's movies and on cable TV. Theres also a slide rule which converts our perfectly understandable system of measurement to that extremely difficult metric system. It reads, - but not. theyre Secluded among papers in the drawer is a pamphlet we were handed years ago by a street vendor in Copenhagen. Its the sort of thing you wouldnt want them to find in your possessions after Metrics Made Easy - all about a sex spa the Danes operate over on the Swedish coast. Why in Sweden? we recall asking the guy. Its illegal in Denmark, he replied. Not very concealed in the drawer are two checks totalling $640 which were written nearly 20 years ago. Theyre reminders of business venture in an which we engaged with two old friends whove now gone on to their reward. Thats a nice way of saying theyve died. When we paid off our creditors and closed the doors, we were $640 short - so youre gone thats all I can tell you. our two checks, periodic payments from the profits, were rendered null and void. When we think of investing in another business, the checks re- mind us to think again. Nestled among the business cards are other cards which are definitely not business like. Theyre designed only for a laugh. One reads, The problem in the Garden of Eden wasnt the apple on the tree - it was the pair on the ground. Others worth reprinting: -Im not an under-achievmy boss is an All I am today -- 1 owe. Pro is the opposite of Con. For example, Progress and Congress. the Dont be too optimistic light you see at the end of the tunnel could be from another train. After all is said and done -more is said than done. The man who can smile when things go wrong has probably thought of someone he can blame it on. And, warningly, "Before you foul things up - Thimk ! So there you have it - a quick glance into our desk drawer. You be the judge of whether its better to be a keeper or a thrower-away- . over-expect- - |