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Show 4C THE GREEN SHEET Thursday, February 28, 1985 As County Ventures Into 'Boot Strap' Program - Downtown Magna Ready For Redevelopment Process by Ralph Goff The reason for the shift, he explained, is the first part of the program involves the blight survey and master planning projections as a basis for redevelopment. They (the Administrative Services personnel) are just not capable of handling it within the staff. While transferring redevelopment responsibilities between county departments has slowed efforts since October, county officials met with the local citizen advisory council Thursday to help get things moving on a community level. Officer elections were held and Dr. Clark was named chairman, Mrs. McDermaid vice chairman and Mrs. Norcross secretary. The redevelopment process was explained, the direction county officials would like to see the agency take overviewed, a time frame postulated and responsibilites of the council confirmed. The council also decided on a regular meeting schedule to facilitate their work, and the third Thursday of each month was chosen for the groups meetings. The next council meeting will be held March MAGNA. The blight Is there, Clair Hardman noted, ask anyone driving through the area and theyll tell you they realize a blighted area exists. While it might sound at first like a n of Magna, Hardmans comments were far from it. Rather, they reflected his positive assessment of the posibilities for economic redevelopment in the area. Hardmans responsibilities in the countys planning department have put him in intimate contact with redevelopment efforts in Magna. He explained that legally documenting blight is one of the steps involved in the redevelopment process - a process which began in earnest with a public hearing in September. put-dow- Starting The Process The redevelopment hearing, conducted by County Commission members, was held Sept. 6 to receive citizen input regarding a proposal to establish a redevelopment agency here. The commission explored the redevelopment proposal in depth to determine if it was in the best interest of Magna, and citizens were provided an opportunity to ask questions and make comments either in favor or against the proposal. Establishing of a redevelopment agency - with specific focus of 'Renewal of downtown Magna could attract and keep California-boun- d 21. MAIN STREET . . . After decades as part of the main street" scene at Magna, building yields to wrecking equipment in an area where redevelop revitalizing downdown Magna -received unanimous support at that hearing. With the support shown then, an agency was created emphasizing development and economic tourists in Utah a few days longer.' - Mike Stewart Chairman County Commission revitalization by making low cost loans available to landowners and, in some cases, purchasing blighted areas outright in an effort to attract developers. Describing Magna as Utahs best kept secret, commission chairman Mike Stewart said at the time renewing Magnas downtown area, with its old mill town atmosphere similar to Park City, could attract both ment program Is getting under way. Citizen advisory council has been formed to assist county officials with the task. business and tourism to the area. Magnas redevelopment was proatd posed as part of a traction for the northwest quadrant of the county, along with future development of beaches and marinas, Saltair, Kennecotts mine overlook and Indian archaeological sites in the Oquirrh Mountains. Renewal of downtown Magna could attract and keep California-boun- d tourists in Utah a few days longer, Stewart explained. multi-facete- Local Community Input Since that meeting, a citizen advisory council has been formed. Eight Magna residents McDermaid, Marlene Chick - Laura Jo Norcross, Paris, Frank Falvo, Tom Dyches, Dr. C. D. Clark, W. G. (Bill) Larson and Jeanine Rokich - were appointed members of that council. Creating the agency and appointing the council to advise that agency were merely the first steps in the procomplicated redevelopment cedure, Hardman noted, and the county is currently in the process of shifting responsibilities of the agency from Administrative Services to the Public Works Serving Your Total Health Care Needs... Discovering Blight Based on the Utah Neighborhood Development Act, the law specifies a redevelopment agency has seven years to use its powers of eminent domain on any redevelopment survey area (RSA). Timing is of the essence, Hardman noted. We have to act when an area is ready for development. An RSA can consist of no more than 100 acres, which must meet certain criteria. To set aside property as an RSA, it has to be blighted, and to do this, the proposed RSA must meet at least three of the following legal stipulations. It must have: defective design and character of physical construction; faulty interior arrangement and exterior spacing; high density population and overcrowding; inadequate provision for ventilation, light, sanitation, open spaces and recreation facilities; age, obsolescence, deterioration, dilapidation, mixed character, or shifting of uses; economic dislocation, deterioration, or disuse, resulting from faulty planning; subdividing and sale of lots of ir- - regular form and shape and inade- quate size for proper usefulness and development; existence of lots or other areas which are subject to being submerged by water. laying out of lots in disregard of the contours and other physical characteristics of the ground and surrounding conditions ; existence of inadequate streets, open spaces and utilities; and existence of lots or other areas which are subject to being submerged by water. Additionally, all redevelopment agencies in the state are legally limited in that they may have no more than 15 percent of the value of their overall jurisdiction, in RSAs at any one time. Coordinated Planning We need to update the master plan for the Magna area in connection with the blight survey, Hardman said, and to coordinate both planning and activities with Community Council and citizen advisory council. Action by the County Commission in January gave legal status to the Magna Community Council, along with other similar community councils functioning throughout the unincorporated areas of Salt Lake County. The council receives information on development in Magna - whether or not that development might be proposed within the redevelopment area boundaries - and the council gives input to the county through various means, including testimony at county planning and zoning hearings. But because the county will be dealing with two legal entities in the process, redevelopment three members of the Magna Community Council were also named to the citizen advisory council - Mrs. McDermaid, Mrs. Norcross and Paris. By having crossover representation on both bodies and coordinating redevelopment proposals through both councils, this way, any plan for the Redevelopment Agency would also have endorsement of the Community Council, Hardman explained. After reassessing the countys master plan for Magna and completing the blight survey, the final proposal will be presented to the County Commission for formal adoption, Hardman said. The coordinated effort will probably involve specific project identification, he explained, and in the process, put together a comprehensive redevelopment survey. 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