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Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION 467 EAST 300 SOUTH SALT TRANSPLANT is to MAGNA LIBRARY: A young Hunter girl ready help her even younger sister, who is scheduled to receive a bone marrow transplant in a Magna. Volume 31, Number 26 Thursday, July American Lep and Kearns to in win league play, square ofl at South-ridg- e continuing park at 8 p.m. Monday. improvements if the district engineers and administers the approving the remaining 138.5 acres. The master plan changes and future - Im really pleased with the way this has worked out, board member Miriam Farnsworth noted as she moved for adoption of the agreement. Sidewalks were also invoked Tuesday in connection with another west side elementary school when PTA officers from Pioneer elementary Continued on page 4 PLEASED . . . Miriam Farnsworth tells fellow board members she is "pleased with the way things have worked out regarding an agreement between the Granite School Board and West Valley City to Install sidewalks near Valley Crest elementary. On West Valley Highway Roadbed VALLEY., Plans to con-- sn a portion of West Valley Highway between 2100 South and 2700 South have turned to stone. During its 6 oclock meeting tonight (Thursday) at City Hall at 2470 South Redwood Road the council is expected to reverse a decision it made on July 2 to build the highway with concrete instead of asphalt. In a work session Tuesday, Public Works Director Glen Weaver told the council that a financial partner in the construction project, the investment arm of the LDS church, Zions Security, has decided it doesnt want to spend so much money on the project. Zions owns property in the area and because it wanted to open the parcel for development, agreed verbally to fund 64 percent of a $504,000 ceiling. Weaver said the oral agreement had never been fully approved by WEST - 20-pl- struct a concrete-roadbe- Parade Starts At LDS officials and that it wants the ci- ty to accept a bid of $396,645 from Geneva Rock for an asphalt roadbed instead of the $571,000 bid it awarded to W W. & W.B. Gardner on July 2. Weaver told the council he recommends that the city now go with the asphalt roadbed and that recommendation is likely to be ratified by the council tonight. In other council action, several ordinances will be reviewed and considered for amendment. The council will review its fence ordinance, its temporary use ordinance and its flood control ordinance. It will also consider an ordinance concerning a foUr-wastop sign at 3800 South and 2200 West. Also on the agenda is a public hearing concerning an appeal by the Southland Corporation on a Planning Commmission decision which denied the company permission to build a 1 store at 6400 W'. 4100 South. City Manager John Newman told y 11 - Kearns To Celebrate KEARNS. Its Hometown Days in Kearns, with the annual parade and a carnival scheduled Saturday. The parade will begin at 11 a m. at Kearns high, wind down Cougar Lane and proceed East along 5400 South to 4000 West, before disbanding at Kearns junior high. County Fire Chief Shirl Maxfield will serve as grand marshal for the parade, which will also feature the Kearns high alumni band under the direction of Hal Rindlisbacher, Kennedy junior highs band, royalty from West Jordan, Magna and Murray, plus Little Miss Kearns, Kuuipo Afo, with attendants Stacie Dawn Evans and Brandie Elison. Numerous dignitaries are also expected to appear, along with many civic, business and community entries, dance groups, scouts, youth teams and clowns. Members of the Kearns Town Council will toss numbered whiffle balls to the crowd, which may be exchanged for prizes at the carnival. Carnival activities will begin immediately following the parade on the parking lot of the former John 36-l- 4 Holiday Deadlines sual, necessitating y. i Due to next weeks Pioneer Day oliday, all editions of the Green heet will be delivered on Wednes-ay- , July 24, a day earlier than earlier eadlines. Classified advertising dll be accepted until S p.m. Mon-adisplay advertising until 10 .m. Monday. Most news itiems will e accepted until noon Monday. y; I it Paras store at 4270 W. 5400 The event will include ' t A South. food and game booths, rides and a variety of activities, including a dunking booth which will offer participants a 'KM N T i 11 tdu Hrf.i- . T . - Bulkloy, along with neighbor Solomon Huffakor, practlca catching whiffle balls which will bo thrown along the parade route during the Kearns Hometown Days parade Saturday. Balls will be redeemable for prizes. CATCH IT I . will be re- review the redevelopment of phase one, said chairman Carroll Elford. The city and commission will consider the projects quality, the use of the materials, the design, the appearance and the maintenance management procedures in reviewing any future zoning or master plan changes, he explained. The commission approved zoning which would allow construction of the Country Clubhouse fitness center, 11 acres of high density housing (up to 20 units per acre) and commercialbusiness zoning on 12 5 Continued on page 5 - Council Reversal Expected Tonight SALT LAKE. This project is too she asked. Sharron Drive is only 50 feet dense, you have to minimize the Pat Holly told the commisMiller told the wide, Clyde housing, County Planning Commission here sion. Putting all of that burden on that one narrow street is a lot to ask. Tuesday.' The street will not handle the I care for the safety of my home and traffic, Miller reasoned in support I worry about the traffic. of his protest. Ive owned this property, since The issues of housing density and 1943. When I first settled there, there traffic congestion are often invoked was nothing west of me but the T. John before the Planning Commission, Oquirrh Mountains, but in most cases, the issues raised Labrum told the commission. concern multiple family housing in Labrum, the current owner of the units per acre range. the went on to explain, There property, Tuesday, though, a proposal to was nothing north of me until you got rezone a Bennion parcel to acto 5400 South, nothing south of me commodate single family homes until you got to 6200 South and only visualized at less than four units per two houses between me and Redacre brought storms of protest. wood Road. A petition by Frandensen and Ive watched as all those homes Shelby Real Estate and Development to change about 10 acres at Continued on page 5 2300 W. Sharron Dr. (5820 South) 8 from A-- l (agricultural) to 80-un- it was the residential) (single family eye of the storm. Developer Perry Frandensen told the commission of plans for subdividing the property into 36 single family lots, which gave an average of 3.72 units per acre. The average lot size, he noted, is 10,052 square feet. He explained meetings had been held with neighbors to find and meet their objections, with possible solutions found for most of them, including trimming the proposal from an earlier anticipated 38 lots to the density. present Pedestrian access to Calvin Sfcnith elementary had been an issue with the neighbors, he said, and developers were willing to dedicate property for a pedestrian walkway. These concessions, though, were not enough for the neighbors. Area resident Keith Fullmer presented a petition to the commission protesting the zone change. He reasoned the zone change should be denied because it had only one access which would put an excessive amount of traffic on Sharron that schools in the area Drive; are at maximum capacity; and the development would overload our fire protection. Susan Norman raised additional I realized questions of drainage. this is not going to be agricultural forever, but where will the runoff go from our (irrigated) property?, Mr zone changes evaluated after the city and commission have had the opportunity to When the vacant land over which much of the improvements will be installed is eventually developed, the board will be reimbursed for its estimated to be about expenses two years hence. FamilyProposal R-l-- 167-acr- right-of-wa- 'Too Dense' Label Placed On Single Green Sheet Publication WEST VALLEY. City master plan and zoning changes for a massive e subdivision plan received partial approval by the City Planning Commission here Thursday. GHB Enterprises requested multiple zoning for the entire site located on the west side of 5600 West and north of 3500 South. The commission, however, approved only 28 5 acres for a zoning change. Commission members said they wanted to view the completed test phase before Essentially, the sidewalks are going to be for the schools use only, and the School Board recognized that. I think this joint effort is commendable. The interlocal agreement accepted by the city June 6 and the board on Tuesday calls for splitting the costs of installing 690 feet of curb, gutter, sidewalk and other improvements - including covering an open canal - with the city providing the engineering, relocating all utility lines and acquiring the necessary Board member Lynn Davidson had earlier expressed concern over the appearance of the agreement, saying, I just dont want this to come back to haunt us later." In spite of Davidsons concerns, the district entered into a similar interlocal agreement Tuesday regarding installation of another sidewalk adjacent to the Valley Crest elementary, 5150 W. 3100 South in West Valley City. Regarding this issue in general, City Manager John Newman explained yesterday (Wednesday ) , West Valley City is in terrible need of sidewalks. We have a program which will eventually have sidewalks put in place in the residential areas, but in particular, this (Valley Crest) issue has been a difficult one, he noted. Because the school was not built in a residential area but built away from the homes, the gist of it is the Granite School Board acknowledged a need to participate with West Valley City in getting the sidewalks ), Bulk Of Project Is Tabled put in. y- (7-1- ) A 18, 1985 - The estimated cost to the district for engineering services will be about (8,000, with the remainder of the tab being picked up by the count- (11-1- See Green Sheet Sports Eduicatioe Board In Sidewalk Pact GRANITE PARK. I hope the public realizes this is only a temporary, supportive measure to get the project completed, but in fact, the district is not in the sidewalkbuilding business. Thats what J. Dale Christensen told fellow members of the Granite Board of Education here Tuesday night. His comments came prior to the boards acceptance of a bid to construct curb, gutter and sidewalk near one county elementary school and followed the boards acceptance of an interlocal agreement to install similar improvements for another school in West Valley City. The bid, awarded to Moulton Excavating for $99,169 on the south side of 6200 South from Westbrook elementary to about 3790 South, was the result of a cooperative agreement with Salt Lake County approved by the board on June 4. According to the agreement, the district will ultimately have only a minor financial role in the project. In essence, the agreement states the county will pay for installation of the hnMig Neighboring baseball teams Taylorsville See Story Page 5 See Story Page 5B pah 84111 SPORTS: The County Recreation Board has been asked to consider donating park property on which to locate a new library in Seattle hospital. For Bennion, Hunter Areas LAKE CITY UTAH . . Jacob, Jod and Darcy chance to dunk local leaders, including Town Council chairman Candy Probert and State Senator Brent Overson. The days activities will conclude with a dance, from 8 to 11:30 p.m. at the skating rink. Admission will be $1. Were inviting everyone in the community to come out and have a good time, said council member Troy Huffaker. the council the commission was ,way off tr.se in its decision, stating that Southland had filed a conditional use request for gasoline pumps at the site. The commission denied the request on the basis that they didnt feel like they wanted a convenience store on this corner, That wasnt the said Newman. issue; convenience stores are a permitted use (in that zoning area), he added. The council will also issue a resolution granting Reliable Waste Systems a 3 8 percent rate increase and consider a detention pond maintenance agreement at Revella park It will also dedicate several streets and consider three subdivision approvals: Powderwood Estates at 6000 West 4100 South, Williams Estates in the Chesterfield area and the Hpkins Meadows sub- division. The council will also discuss groundbreaking ceremonies for the new West Valley City park (set for 5 p.m. on July 30), be introduced to new employees and honor a citizen of the month and an employee of the month. Funds Are Yanked From Pleasant Green Park Project MAGNA. Although $193,000 was allocated for improvements at Pleasant Green park out of tenth year Community Development funds, a change in the guidelines has resulted in the money being rescinded, according to Don Davis, County Recreation official. Davis explained to the Magna Community Council that the tenth year funding would have paid for a play area, a ball diamond, grass and sprinkling system in the park, but it was taken away in the spring because of a restructuring of the CD program. The 11th year funds were not allocated for the same reason, but had it been allocated, there would have been enough money to finish the park on the west end from the existing grass to where tenth year funds would have been spent. Davis went on to say that earlier this year the county had done a separate program for picnic tables and trees on the east end of the park. Ninth year funds are still being held to complete a parking lot that will tie in the $93,000 restroom with the rest of the developed area. The ditch between the park and private property is now being surveyed. If the ditch is covered, the county may have to negotiate for it if it is not all on park property. Davis said the county has overhauled the engineering department which now has a new administrator who has promised that projects will be brought on line sooner. He added that the CD staff has to hire a consultant to do a survey on the income of people in the immediate area around the perimeter of the park to determine if they qualify as a low Income area. Although Davis claimed the decision to rescind the funds came from Denver, Joe Ribotto, who spent five years on the CD advisory board, said, I think that the decision was made on a county level. For a number of years, Denver would tell you if a project was not eligible and they would take back future funds, but not those that had already been allocated. As far as whether the parking lot would be worthwhile, he added, all you have to do is talk to the people around the park. In answer to a question from LaRee Pehrson concerning long range plans for further park development in case the CD funds are not reinstated, Davis said the council would have to put in a request for capital improvement funds for 1986. The county has an obligation to this community, Mrs. Pehrson said. There has never been a county-owne- d park in this community, and aside from regular maintenance, no capital improvement funds have been spent here for park improvements. Had it not been for Kennecott, she added, we would never have had one park, let alone two. In the 18 years that Pleasant Green park has been in existence, only six of the 26 acres has been developed. She went on to say that all of the improvements to both parks had come from Community Development funds from the federal government, not from Salt Lake County. As a result of the discussion, a meeting with the three county commissioners will be set up to discuss the park situation, as well as redeveloment for the old part of town. Win A VCR! Green Sheet readers have an opportunity to win a VCR. Just fill out the entry blanks found on full page ads of area automobile dealers in this weeks classified advertising section. Be sure to turn them in by 4 p.m. on Aug. 3. |