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Show Sun Advocate Friday, March , 10B3 Plateau lays off 20 more miners The Utah House of Representatives meets in a recent legislative session. The House will soon consider two bills on cable TV regulation that have just passed the Senate with little opposition. Photos by Rick Egan Sen. Omar Bunnell, participates in a debate on the Senate floor. Bunnell was one of the few senators to oppose legislation regulating cable TV. Carbon legislators balk at cable TV legislation SALT LAKE CITY Bills designed to regulate the type of programming shown on cable TV have passed the Utah Senate to go on to the House for a final vote despite opposition from Carbon County legislators. Two of the bills, SB309 and SB308, both sponsored by Sen. Paul Rogers, were approved Thursday by the Senate and sent on to the House. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the bills with only two and Sen. members, Sen. Omar Bunnell, Rex Black, Lake, voting against SB308 on its second reading Wednesday. Sen. Terry L. Williams, Lake City, joined them in opposing SB309. Thursday those opposing SB308 were joined by two more senators but it still passed by a wide margin In the afternoon session SB309 passed the Senate lt D-S- alt 21-- 4. 25-- 3. Entitled Cable Television Programming Decency Act, SB309 would regulate indecent material on cable TV and prohibit displaying such material with civil penalties for companies that do. The bill sets fines for violators at $1,000 for the first offense and $10,000 for each subsequent offense. so pattently unconstitutional that it had no way of getting through the courts, Bunnell said. Theyre bad bills, Bunnell said, referring to SB308 and SB309. Similar bills in other states have but they been struck down by the courts (legislators supporting the bills) seem to think these will be different. Its estimated that it will cost the state $500,000 to fight these in the courts, he said. said he would oppose Rep. Mike Dmitrich, the bills when they reach the House but he thinks he will be one of the few representitives to do so. Many of the legislators think the cable TV legislation will not be upheld by the courts but they will vote for it anyway because their constituency wants it, he SB308 amends current laws restricting the to children distribution of indecent material broadening the definition to include cable TV companies along with bookstores. It prohibits sending adult programming to private residences during certain hours to prevent viewing by children. Violation would constitute a Class A misdemeanor with a fine of not less than $500 or not less than 30 days in jail. A third bill, citizen initiative bill SB298, was struck down and replaced by Rogers two bills. SB298 was Helper ready to develop new subdivision By BRANDON FORD Staff Writer In a number of HELPER special meetings over the last two weeks, the Helper City Council and the Helper Planning and Zoning Commission has grappled with the question of what to zone a new subdivision east of town. The question was whether to zone the subdivision to allow twin homes or to restrict it to single family residences. The city council and the planning and zoning commission held five meetings over the past two weeks before deciding to allow twin homes. The subdivision, located next to the Helper City Cemetery, is being developed by Helper City using $162,000 of a $850,000 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The rest of the grant has gone to development projects in Helpers downtown district and for rehabilitation of some housing in parts of Helper. To qualify for this part of the grant the city must provide 18 units of housing in the subdivision, according to Cindy low-co- Acklin, st HUD grant ad- ministrator for Helper City. To meet the requirements of housing the providing the city will have to make sure that the 18 units are within reach of families, Acklin said. For families to qualify the income could not exceed certain limits, which would vary according to the number of people in the family. To meet the objective of housing providing Mick Bischoff, president of The Land Group, a Salt Lake City company that is serving as land low-co- st low-inco- low-inco- Larson said. There is some saving in construction costs in a twin home but most of the cost reduction over a single family home is in land, Larson said. The cost of the land with the improvements is about the twin home same for a as it is for a single family home. Larson said that there is usually $20,000 to $30,000 difference between a single family home and a twin home. Community Action Program will distribute free government surplus cheese and butter to persons under 60 years of age on Thursday, March 10, at the following locations: 2 Grassy Trail. Castle Dale: Community Center, 50 W. Center St. Emery City: Friendship Club. Ferron: American Legion Hall basement. Huntington: Community Center, 170 W. 100 North. The distribution will be from 9 a.m. to 4 :30 p.m. There will be no distribution of cheese and butter to those over 60 during the month of March. The next distribution for senior citizens will be in April. For further information, call for Carbon County and for Emery County. 637-34- 91 381-24- two-uni- t, other variations on the twin home concept that were presented by The Land Group were the twin home split and the Two Helper Mayor Robert Olsen studies a map of a proposed subdivision on the site. The subdivision, located east of Helper next to the cemetery, has been the subject of planners and construction managers in the project, recommended that the subdivision be zoned for twin homes. I think that we can meet the housing needs of this area best with twin homes, he said in a special meeting of the city council. The idea met with some resistance at first from the city council and the planning and zoning committee, but after grapling with the problem for two weeks the concept was much debate in the Helper City Council and Planning and Zoning Commission because of a proposal to zone the subdivision for twin homes. Photo by Steve Hetner accepted. In a straw poll taken at a special meeting Friday night, members of the city council voted unanimously to zone the subdivision for twin, as well as single family, homes. In a special meeting of the city council held Feb. 17, representatives of The Land Group brought slides of twin home developments in Salt Lake County to help answer questions about twin homes. One question that many members of the city council had was how a twin C&S ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION, INC. ANNOUNCES THE RECENT OPENING OF A BRANCH OFFICE AT 836 East First North, Suite 4 Price ENGINEERS CONSTRUCTORS Municipal Planning, Site Development, Subdivisions, Drafting, Pipelines, Roadways, Airports, Environmental, Mining, Oil Fields 637-011- 9 t like building two different houses and sliding them together, he said. Since each side of the twin home would have a different owner the common wall must be conof insulated, double-wa- ll struction. There must also be a fire wall in the attic space, home differed from a duplex. 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