OCR Text |
Show As West Valley Eyes The Thursday, March THE GREEN SHEET Future 26, 1987 - Master Plan Will Help Create Image, Officials Hope by Paula Huff Green Sheet Staff Writer We changed commercial zoning laws because we were concerned about development along arterial streets, especially those with major intersections, said Moore. A residential ordinance adopted two years ago has already showed improvements in the city, according to Moore. -l WEST VALLEY. Image - thats what West Valley City is looking for. And over the past year city officials have made amendments to the master plan in order to create an image, according to Community Development Director Joe Moore. -- -l The ordinance requires C-- 2 Weve written a lot of ordinances in the last few years which will help create an image for West Valley City, month ago, is also tough. Cis now a neighborhood commercial zone. Businsses located there can not attract large numbers of patrons. Convenience stores, dry cleaners, pet and book stores are examples of possible trades. And only one C- zone can be located at an intersection. is now a general commercial zone. Regional attractions, such as a mall, can be built in these zones. Light industrial manufacturing is now a 3 zone. This zone cannot be located near residential areas and must be on arterial streets. With the new ordinance designations, landscaping is also a requirement. If landscaping standards are not met, misdemeanor charges can be filed by the city. Twenty percent of C-- l property must now be greenery, while 15 percent of and property must be landscaped. The City Planning Commission may also limit the hours of a businesses operation, the ordinance stipulates. If there is a detrimental impact, the commission may review the business and impose hours. developers to set houses back from the street, landscape and use several different house concepts. We adopted the residential ordinance about two years ago and you can really see a different between the subdivisions built before the ordinance and those built after, Moore said. C-- he said. Signs and commercial zones are two examples of ordinances which will give the city shape. The new sign ordinance restricts size and placement. It also eliminates the use of portable signs in the city and puts a restraint on flashing ones. C-- 2 We made this ordinance tough because signs tend to make a comsaid Moore. munity look cheap, This ordinance will brings signs in West Valley into scale. The commercial zoning ordinance, which was created just one At Redwood Center by Olga Milius Green Sheet Staff Writer We are trying to supply the needs of the people in the area to a point where we shall be open, even on Saturdays, from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., said Lynn Clark, every Planning REDWOOD. the commissioners are, by and large, in agreement on many issues. ThereTs one thing, though, she is a little impatient with, the lack of patience on the part of some of her fellow commissioners and also on the part of the City Council members. Some need to look more into the future, be more patient, she says. There seems to be a tendency to go for an immediate short term solution, rather than looking 20 years or so into the future. I think it is okay to leave some of these lots alone or in not too perfect shape and wait for the perfect project to come along. I have waited for as long as four years on some of the corners for the ideal project to come along, and then they have. She would like to see a little more patience from some other people at times. The future promises to be jsut as busy for the commission as the past has been. Peterson says city officials are drawing up a list of items they would like to have the commission look at in the coming year. There are, however, some things Peterson would like to be able to handle that arent in her jurisdiction or hasnt been asked to deal with. One of those is traffic. Its really become a problem, but theres not a tot "e , commissin) can do. Only as it relates to an individual nvliAA the Moore We would like to require more - assistant director at the Redwood e Center. Salt Lake County Recreation programs at local centers are booming as more and more people become involved in child care programs, summer day camps, sports, swimming and various classes. Multi-purpos- The playground area at the Red- wood Center is being remodeled this spring, with old equipment being replaced, she noted, and, if funding can be stretched far enough, personnel hope for the addition of outdoor volleyball and basketball courts. If not this year, then next, said Ms. Clark. 'fry back to the center. An extended summer program is in preparation, which will include a new half-dasports camp for ages 8 to 14, offered from 8 a.m. to noon, in which youngsters may develop skills in lifetime recreational sports. We are trying to offer something to meet the needs of working and parents alike, said Ms. Clark. mothers There are who do not need full care for their children, but the children would still like to be involved in some kind of summer activity. Kids with parents at home enjoy sports, swimming, programs, overnights and special events as much as she kids of working parents, remarked. I y g As year-roun- d school comes into the area, plans will be made to care become involved in year-roun- d programs and day camps, she added. The pool is in good shape, she noted, and the racquetball courts are in full use. .. We are hoping that the city and county will explore together the possibility of expanding this facility rather than building new ones, as has been suggested. This is a new activity, and it was a struggle to get people to use it at noted Ms. Clark. Now, first, Joint facilities would offer adhowever, we are turning people vantages to both city and county and We like most would evenings. away would open up more possibilities for to expand the program in the future the people in the area, she pointed as more and more people are showout. ing interest in it. We have a lot to offer, for people Full day care is offered children of all ages, families of all cirage 2 to 5 years, with before and cumstances, she concluded. after school care for those elemenEof more information regarding tary school age who can be dropped activities at the Redwood Center, to and school off at the center, bused those interested may call picked up after school and bused ... TATTING As a boy in Chile, Isaias Marticorena was taught to tat by his mother and sisters. Now he teoches the art to other senior citizens in learned. One example of this, to go in to effect within the next 30 days, is the movement of a long-tim- e teacher from the Redwood Road campus to the Jordan Technical Center. Thamer Hite will teach and oversee students from the Jordan School District in their senior year who are interested in a barbering and Eventually, advnced students from this program will be encouraged to take the last part of that prostudent gram at SLCC on a full-tim- Multi-purpos- Center. e VIDEO THEATER is Easy! Save Time and Save Gas. Till all Your KEARNS i Shopping Needs Here! 8 1 FREE i MOVIE i FREE COUPON Coupon St. Georges Famous o Pleasure Of Ice Cream Without The Calories." too Sami SOLAR NAILS MEMBERSHIP ! New Members Only j COUPON- V FREE 10 TANNING with a Rental Movie SESSIONS (Of equal or less value) Mon. thru Thurs. Only With Noil Purchoie 3843 W. 5400 WESTPOINT CENTER - (Next to Peter Piper 964-255- to1 0 Open Mon. thru Thurs., , Fri. & Sat., $29 95 WESTPOINT CENTER WESTPOINT CENTER 3835 W. 5400 S. SOUTH KEARNS, UTAH Pina) 3879 W. 5400 South By Appointment 964-196- 8 Offer ends 43087 5 967-976- 9 BUT ONE MINI TOGURT GET ONE MINI YOGURT Good Thru FREE April 15, 1987 RESTAURANT A bAKCRY CV Specif breaKfast SpecigJ P&0 Ittee Jej I 2 And Two X-Ra- ys With This Ad LIMIT OF 2 e tek ivrlnf hrefeit hew, rUfl,ch. Specig. CHICKEN FRIED STEAK and EGGS Includes: Your Choice Hashbrowns Biscuits and Gravy or 2 Buttermilk Hot cakes. Pinner Special Dinotr Mine itertt ct 4:30 p.B. TOP SIRLOINS 7-O- Ze Ltroy Etsnson, D.D.S. WESTPOINTCENTER 3167 Wart 5400 South loams, 969-223- 3 Utah Soup or Salad Choice of Potato Garlic Cheese or Corn Bread Cut of Pie 11-- 7 10-- -- NOW OPEN AT - MOVIE Free Neil Art All Frozen Yogurt Doesn't Taste The Same Come In And Taste The Difference! ! COUPON $29 95 e basis. The colleges Institutional Council has officially approved permanent continuance of the Bruin intercollegiate basketball program. In the inaugural year just concluded, the club recorded an enviable 23-winning season, under the leadership of head coach Jim Eakins, with Dave Osborn and Bob Iverson as assistant coaches. Other intercollegiate athletics may be approved by the council in the future. Utah Technical College will undergo the metamorphosis into Salt Lake Community College during the next 12 months. Its character, school officials feel, will refine into the most desirable of all two-yecolleges in Utah. COUPON with r. cosmetology. a craft class at the Redwood Spring Special Continued from page 4 activities. electronic The computerized mail system is virutally a reality in most offices across the Redwood Road campus, reducing delay in getting messages to individuals and cutting down some paperwork and secretarial labor. It should be an established fact in life everywhere at SLCC by Articulation between vocational programs in the high schools and those offered at SLCC are constantly being strengthened so that students entering the college will not have to repeat lessons they have already career g image-changin- COUPON in Throughout the year, meetings in city districts. From these meetings, the Planning Commission gathers proposals for land use changes Then in June, the master plan is altered to reflect the land use changes Moore said the city is working toward making major revisions in the master plan every five years. But these annual updates really keep the master plan a fresh and due document," Moore said. are conducted reorient Street to pedestrian, he said The city will apply for a grant from the National Endowment of Humanities and Arts to do that Other plans for this next year include creating a noise impact ordinance, seismic study, economic development plan, West Valley Highway and mobile home ordinance. A city improvement program will be started and the professional office ordinance Where the Shopping MThc Utech masterplan. that area and the area along Market in landscaping Commission meeting because applications are continuing to come in for development on that street, Peterson says. Divergency of opinion is one thing city officials like to see in departments and panels. It offers the ability to provide many different points of view, hopefully all directed toward reaching a mutual decision or plan. Such divergency is seen on the Planning Commission of West Valley, especially when it comes to land use. However, Peterson says u ill be rewritten, Moore said. According to City Mananger John Newman, West Valley is one of the few cities tiiat strictly follows its in Planning Commission has some projects scheduled that will enhance the image of West Valley City more. In this next year we will be doing a study on 4100 South which will determine impacts of commercial Moore said. strip development. Most all the cities in the county will be interested in that. Land use, zoning, transportation, improvements, market demands and corner problems will be studied, Moore said. Cities will find the study inmost experience teresting since changing land uses along arterial streets, Moore said. Another image improving project More Programs Mean More Hours C-- 3 Planning Commission Continued from page 4 between the two bodies, she says, but this one wasnt as public as some of the others. The commission felt the plant should not be located at the proposed site because it did not fit in with the area, but the council overturned that decision and directed the commission to set conditions for development. There were a few meetings between the commission and council on the issue. I think they made a mistake and realized that, but were boxed in, she said. With West Valley growing as it has over the past year, and continuing to do so, planning decisions havent become any easier, in fact they are getting more difficult, she said. It used to be that we had a difficult issue or meeting every other month. Now it seems like we have a difficult issue almost every week, Peterson says. Theres a lot of different feelings on lot sizes and zoning that make some applications very difficult to deal with and resolve. When it comes to zoning, one of the big questions being wrestled with by the commission is a proposed mobile home park in the area of 3200 West and 3200 South. There are seven parks within a one and a half mile area of this site. SomfiJeel this will be a good one, some feel it wont and isnt needed. What to do is a difficult question. Continuing to present many difficulties for both the commissioners and residents is 3200 West. There are a lot of people getting involved in these questions, but there are also a lot of residents getting burned out. They have to come to just about the next year v ill be rejuvenating area between Interstate 215 and 3200 West along 3500 South, said And throughout the next year, the MESQUITE MARINATED CHICKEN BREAST SANDWICH With Swiss Cheese and French Fries A Bacon 30 DIFFERENT KINDS" Of Pies Baked Fresh Daily 3815 W. 5400 So. (WESTPOINT CENTER) Kearns 969-898- 9 Couoon t xpres430'8? |