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Show a Volume 32, Number 28 izw Thursday, July Community Effort Aims At Lighting v A A GRANGER. Gridders at Granger high wont have to run uphill any more. The football field has been built up from south to north - actually its been built up on the north end and taken down a little in the south - to make it level, Bill Leiter explained. Its really quite an improvement, the Granite districts assi-- stant superintendent of ad- ministrative services added. Well start it this week and the new running track has already been installed, he pointed out. When its all done, it should be a very, very nice facility. Leiters comments concerned improvements to Grangers football field which the district hopes to complete within the next few weeks. The field was off level by about three to five feet, noted director of school facilities Ross Wentworth. Rain in the spring held up the grading process because the sloppy conditions would have mired down the equipment. We had to wait for dry weather before tearing up the asphalt and we had to put in the asphalt before the sod. Its slowed us down about a week. While admitting the project is a little slow, youve got to realize weve been on an extremely tight cellent price for the new Atlas rubberized asphalt track. The entire project, he said, will cost about $130,000 when it is completed. Dr. Leiter said the new facility will enhance the Granger park complex next door. There is a lot of reciprocal use between the two facilities, he noted. When theres a game, some patrons use Granger park parking, and when there are more cars than the park can handle, many will park on the school lot. Parking at Granger high, he said, was reconstructed last year and because of scheduling differences, in general the students dont need to use the park for parking purposes. We plan to open the new facility with the Homecoming game Sept. 19 against Taylorsville, commented Ken Griener, Granger high principal. It all depends on whether we get the sod in this week or not. c C! I - Wentworth noted. schedule, Thats a lot of construction to do in one summer and such a tight schedule is hard to meet. While sodding begins this week, the grounds department says it would be better to wait about eight weeks before the field is used. We probably wont make it in time for the first few (football) games, but it shouldn't really affect the schedule very much. Wentworth pointed out that Granger's new running track "is the last one in the district to get a metric rubberized surface. The district, he said, bid directly with the manufacturer and we got an ex- - At Magna - Center Operation Defined . - ' MAGNA. The high cost of utilities and liability insurance has brought about a change in the operation of the Magna Council Center, 3041 So. 8560 West. However the change in management will in no way affect the programs being offered there, according to LaRee Pehrson, Magna Council president. Mrs. Pehrson said that since 1974 all expenses for the cost of renting and maintaining the facility have been borne by the Magna Community Council, using funds provided by Kennecott Copper. Now, however, it will be a reciprocal maintenance program, with the Community Action Program being responsible for upkeep and maintenance of the building and grounds, with the council paying half of the utilities as long as there are funds available. With the exception of the public health clinic, all other services formerly located in the building will still be maintained, she explained. The health department chose not to use the building anymore, she said, which is fine with us. Our only concern is that the health services Continued on page 6 . . . "Wo plan to tho now facility with tho opon Homocoming gamo Sopt. 19 againit Taylorsville Granger Principal Ken Griener said. OPTIMISTIC 9 & WEST VALLEY. We have a need for some small lots. Id hate to see them eliminated entirely, Carroll Elford told about three dozen people attending the first of a series of master plan update sessions here Tuesday night. The small lot vs. large lot discussion was only one of a number of issues of city-wid- e concern to surface during what planning commission chairman Margaret Peterson termed the ongoing process of refining our master plan. Items of specific concern to plannand ing district one (east of north of 35th South) were also discussed. West Valley has a lot of opportunity going for it, long range planner John Janson said near the beginning of the meeting. We have about 90,000 people and 27 square miles, an emerging industrial and employment base and good access to the rest of the valley. Were a city with potential. Some of those potentials were explored during Tuesdays first for city brainstorming session residents. West Valley, most agreed, Green Sheet Publication kIVikmU .Uhd be considered during a meeting of Communithe Taylorsville-Bennioty Council here tonight (Thursday). Along with the and running track, there is a possibility of lighting for night games at some future date. When the School Board approved the project last spring, on J. Dale n rt Christensens suggestion, The 7 p.m. session will be held in the Presidents Room at the College Center on the campus of Utah Technical College. the district also agreed to install electrical conduits. Its a small cost to do it now while were the rest of the field rather than having to tear everything up again to do it sometime in the future, Wentworth noted. Electrical conduits, however, are as far as the district has gone to light it the field. Community was assumed, would provide money to complete the project, a process which has been used for installing similar projects at other district schools. Both Granite and Cyprus have installed field lighting in this manner, and Skyline is currently in the process of doing the same thing, Leiter pointed out. Weve met with the Skyline committee to see what theyre doing and how their doing it, noted Harold Coombs, chairman of a Granger-base- d committee to install lighting at the school. We have an electrical contractor gathering specs and estimates of what it will cost and we hope to have that information by the end of the week, unless theres been some problem because of the (July 24th) holiday, he said. Gov. (Norm) Bangerter has promised to help us get a letter of credit from a bank, and as soon as we have the information and the letter of credit, well ask for some time on the Continued on page 6 County Traffic Kano is expected '. - HP, ' Engineer Tosh to review with council members his findings in a study of traffic congestion in the vicinity of 2600 W. 4700 South. A previous proposal calls for installation of a traffic signal there, with construction of traffic islands being considered to accommodate such a project. - fund-raisin- is to currently a bedroom community Salt Lake, but could become the crossroads of the valley within the next 5 years. Needs for additional parks, a golf course, green areas, amusement areas and perhaps even a civic center were expressed, while support for a fairly tight band of commercial development along 35th South, a preference of professional office complexes on major arterial routes, rather than convenience stores, and the need for a hotel somewhere in the city were also mentioned as possibilities. 10-1- - v:V - .tv? , g, ' 4 ' v--, v t,v TAYLORSVILLE. It seems to ' equilibrium with more people back on the freeway and fewer on the side streets, Kevin Beckstrom said of traffic patterns yesterday (Wednesday) due to road repairs near 72nd South on Beckstrom, a public information officer for the Utah Dept, of Transportation, explained that while Tuesdays reports showed State Street heavily used as an alternate route, so too were 1300 and 900 East. Traffic is especially concentrated area at certain times of the day due to several factors, including a shopping center, an off ramp of and the presence, just to the north of large employers, American Express and the Utah Department of Transportation. in that z. W v ,. The council is scheduled to consider a proposal of Joe Olschiewski to establish a car wash near 3500 W. 6200 South, as well as one of David Hardle, who is seeking a conditional use permit for operation of a day care center at 5218 So. Redwood Road. A report is also anticipated from a council committee assigned to look into a proposal that calls for Taylorsville park to become a shopping center, with the developer financing construction of a new park facility just to the south, the corner of 4800 South and Redwood Road. MORE TO COME . . . Whilt crowi work on now surfoce of gridiron form in foreground at Granger high, conduit poking up from concrete gives hint of the future - like night football. Among other items, truck routes, sidewalks, street lighting, flood control and a lack of low income housing in some areas were mentioned as potential areas for development, as were a halfway house for transients, a soup kitchen and other types of low income assistance. Five more district meetings remain in this years master plan update process. Tonight (Thursday) residents of district two (south of 35th and east of will meet at e the Redwood Center, 3060 So. 1585 West. Multi-purpos- Districts Granger 3 and high, 4 will meet at 3500 So. 3600 West with district three (north of 35th and 4800 West) South, between scheduled Tuesday and district four (south of 35th between the freeway and 48th) Aug. 7. Planning districts five and six on the citys west side are scheduled to meet at Hunter junior high, 6131 W. 3780 South, Aug. 12 (district five north of 35th) and Aug. 14 (south). All future master plan meetings are scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. Motorists Adjust To Interstate Work have moved more toward Traffic, Business On Slate business operations and park development are among matters to field newly-levele- d - TAYLORSVILLE. Traffic control, .... Citizens At Master Plan Update Are Told We're A City With Potential by Ralph 11. Goff Green Sheet Staff Writer 25c Parks, Too - Even if sodding is completed this week, however, we need to have cool weather and rain or it might not be ready to play on in six to eight weeks, he said. Cool weather and rain are essential, he explained because the grass will not root fast enough in hot weather. state-of-the-a- Copy A 31, 1986 School Project Is 'Oo The Level' by Ralph H. Goff Green Sheef Staff Writer Single Traffic on those same streets yesterday, he said, had slacked off a bit, while traffic picked up. Everything seems to be moving pretty smooth, although we do have a little backing on Redwood Road, he explained, but thats partly because we have some crews doing work there. Motorists have been bombarded in recent weeks with requests to find an alternate route to work during freeway construction. UDOT spent about $70,000 on a media blitz with At Kearns, West Valley one main message for commuters to some other way than get to work. They apparently got the message. So far weve had pretty good cooperation from the public, Beckstrom said. There were a few problems, but in time we should get all the bugs worked out and it should be better for everybody. We really had good coordination with the community and the media getting the word out about it and we feel really Continued on page 6 Alagna Board - Project Is Near Conclusion MAGNA. Widening of the road and installation of curb, gutter and sidewalk at the intersection of 2700 South and 8400 West is nearing com-pletio- according to John McDonald, project engineer. Work at the site began on March 31 using money that was part state, part Community Development and part Safe Sidewalk funds. Total cost of the project is $189,583. In addition, a storm drain system was also installed and construction of a black topped parking lot completed in the area where the curve in the road was taken out. Three adjacent roads have also been closed, with two sections of the original road that came into Magna during pioneer days being made into hammer heads. This, according to Joe McBride, District Two traffic engineer, has greatly enhanced safety in that area. McBride also noted that for now there will be striping applied to the road, with a left hand turn lane. He is also requesting a traffic signal warrant study for the site, since the three other accesses have been closed, leaving only one access at 2700 South. McBride noted that three years ago the traffic warrant study was marginal. However with the closure of the other three roads there should Continued on page 6 - Postal Structures Nearly Finished KEARNS. Initial operations are just weeks away at a pair of new postal facilities on the west side of the valley. That was the word yesterday (Wednesday) from Beverly Burge, with the U. S. Postal Service in Salt Lake. The new structure housing the Kearns branch, she said, is expected to open by mid to late August at 5515 So. 4015 West. Following closely behind, the West Valley branch is anticipating opening its doors by mid to late October on the northwest corner of 4400 West and 3500 South. Considered about 90 percent complete, the Kearns structure, which boasts more than 13,000 square feet of floor space, will replace a building at 5361 So. 4220 West. Home delivery emanating from the Kearns branch extends from Redwood Road to 7200 West, between 4700 and 6200 South. The new West Valley branch, with 21,000 square feet of floor space, will Geometric maze enhances entryway of new West Valley Post Office, which is scheduled to begin operation by late October. ENTRY . . . provide delivery service between 2100 and 4700 South, from the Jordan River to 7200 West. OPEN SOON . . . Commarciol and residential 4015 West are reflected in gloss on areas along front of new Kearns Post Office at 5515 South. Operations are expected to begin next month. |