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Show A, Page 4A South Edition f Lakeside Review December 12, 1984 Wednesday, Mrfah Editorial Roy Zone Action II 10 Foxglen is one of many new subdivisions sprouting in west 'v, Roy. A city slicker" invading '..u'hat used to be the country, it V"is home to people like teachers, policemen and Hill Field employ-ees. Like many Americans, they dont spend much time thinking ibout local government and they attend many city council "meetings. But lately things have Surveys are being Roy City councilmen have been invited for a visit and city hall is becoming a familiar place. '''dont circu-"late- Mf: d, t ,The reason for this change is that a lot of Foxglen residents are They are angry about a .mobile home park scheduled for near them next spring. And they are angry about what they perceive as indifference to the feelings of homeowners to., while developers receive what 6,;,, .they describe as red carpet cu.-ang- ry. -- '..treatment. They think their battle with the Roy City council over its decision to zone land adjacent to Foxglen for a mobile home park is a "Jrime example. While the council room was packed with people protesting the mobile home park, the council voted against zoning to permit it. Toward the end of the meeting when few people remained, the council voted to rescind its initial motion and table the issue for 60 days. The decision to table was partially in response to the developers request that he be given time to persuade Foxglen residents that the park was a good idea. ning stages. To underline their concern, they say that the motion to approve zoning for the park included mention of a bond, but no dollar amount was specified. Minutes from the meeting are not specific. They indicate details will be hammered out in planning commission meetings when for--' mal plans are presented. All this vague indecision serves to make Foxglen residents more insecure. Further clouding the issue is the Weber County Boundary Commissions position that there were questionable procedural methods used during the process of annexation and zoning for the park. Despite reservations, the commission apparently has upheld the Roy City Councils action. Although there does not seem to have been a deliberate attempt to deceive Foxglen residents, it certainly appears that the political process has been clumsily execut- Two months later, with no indication that the majority of Foxglen residents had changed their mind about not wanting the mobile home park, the council voted to zone for it. Foxglen residents say the councils actions were misleading and an indication of its insensitivity to the citizenry who left the meeting believing that the mobile home park issue was at least temporarily dead Because of what they perceive as the councils willingness to bend over backwards to ease the way for construction of the ed. It is not surprising that Foxglen park, they are concerned that residents feel politics and quickpromises made by the developer to post a bond insuring park sand have a lot in common. If maintenance and an agreement to youre not on the alert every seccreate a buffer zone, will be ond, things you thought were there disappear. watered down" during the plan Letter to The Editor waste it falls on deaf ears, because the commissioners only concern is pushing the garbage plant. You say that your city offi- Citizens Due jBig Surprise? r Review Editor: Does it pay to be apathetic? citizens of Davis County who dont know what the recovery plant is (garbage-buplant) or dont care to know :t! are in for a big surprise, A few of your elected city c? who feel they are acting in the best interest of their constituent ients by trying to solve our solid il'.'.v; waste problem may not actually be doing you much of a favor. Your cities voted to be in the special service district so they could work together as a county, 'but so far they have done nothing but listen to the Wasatch Regional Front push the burn plant on I. CThe m offi-cia- ls -- them. Your city is going to a paper saying they will be responsible for paying off the plant. Are you prepared to pay $50 a month for garbage, compared to $7 now? It will happen if you dont stop them. If your city spokesman does come up with other ideas on solid cials wont lead you astray? But the Wasatch Front and county commissioners have whitewashed this project so well that even your city officials cant read the fine print on the wall. Before your city signs, locking you into a $64 million debt, go to your city council and stop them. Layton and Clearfield dont want to be in on the debt and Im sure you dont either. You bet it pays to be apathetic, and youll be paying for it for a lot of years to come. Brett Simonsen Layton Questions Left Unanswered Review Editor Congratulations to the Ogden Standard for realizing just what kind of a snow job Davis County officials are trying to pull. The editorial on the Garbage Burn Plant proved once again the writer. Shorter letters are more likely to be published. Long the editor. Content of letters letters will be subject to editing at should address issues of interest the discretion of Lakeside Review to our readership throughout Da- editorial staff. vis County and in Roy. Letters will also be edited, if Letters should be typed, necessary, to meet journalistic and must include the standards of good taste. Libelous name and telephone number of material will be deleted. With few double-s- paced, p ; .. CATCHING HIMSELF in mid-fa- ll is David Inkley who, with Robert Cazier, was shoveling the seasons snowfall off the roof of the new Far- mington 4th, 9th and 11th LDS Ward meeting house. Neither fell beyond losing traction since they wore boards attached to their boots with cut cement nails pounded through to give the workers a grip on the plywood. Viewpoint Kaysville Council Action Ruins Dream of New County Library ize it, seeking other less accessible, more expensive ways of Psychologists tell us that its fulfilling my growing familys good for people to daydream. needs for books. Thus, I began to daydream of Fantasies, they say, tell you what you really need or desire. If one the convenience and reliability of pays attention to his daydreams, a truly good library system within our community. In my fantasy, I they could come true. Twelve years ago my husband can envision a building with new and I moved to Kaysville with shining tables and chairs, shelves three preschoolers. As soon as we filled with fine reference materiwere settled, I took my three chilals, card catalogs showing thoudren to the Kaysville Library. I sands of books available. was hopeful wed find a good vaThere is an inviting childrens riety of childrens books and thus section with tiny chairs waiting to could introduce them to the be filled with inquisitive youngsters. I see an auditorium, a reworld of literature.I was very discord library and smell the appointed. I found a small, inadequate wonderful odor of books. Im town library with few, if any, of breathless! After 12 years of a the truly good pieces of childrens closet of a library, my daydream literature. Books checked out and knows no bounds. Several weeks ago, Mayor Gerbrought home were in poor condition. Some were scribbled on ald Purdy and the Kaysville City and others old and sticky, some Council received an invitation to even having pages stuck together join the Davis County Library with chewed pieces of gum. System. The letter they received As years passed and my chil- explained that the county desired dren grew older, they found it dif- to build a libarary for Layton, and ficult to find needed reference Kaysville. Hopefully, both cities material for school reports. Since would unite and the library the librarys hours were limited, it would be centralized on Fairfield was often not open when we Road. needed it. After several frustratThe library would be built in ing years, I decided the library three or four years and would e the main collection of the syswas insufficient for my familys needs and thus ceased to patron tem. SYDNEY GOFF how many unanswered questions there are. The reasons that these questions aire left unanswered are that half are unanswerable and the rest arent good answers, so theyd rather not say. Davis County is buying 64 million dollars in bonds for a garbage burn plant that needs 400 tons per day of garbag to even run. At this point they have 150 tons, because Layton and Clearfield are smart enough to stay out of their manipulative Special Service District. How is this thing going to run, you ask? They dont know, and at this point dont care. All they care about is pushing everything through before the end of the year when bond money runs out. If it fails the taxpayers of Davis County pick up the tab anyway. Is it right that hard working citizens should have to pay legal help to defend what is rightfully theirs? If there is one thing Ive learned from all the meetings on this project, is that our county of--. ficials dont know what is right from what is wrong. Sharon Smith Layton Lakeside Review Letter Policy Outlined The Lakeside Review encourages readers to submit letters to 6$ Review Guest Columnist . . ho-u- The county would levy the same property tax in Kaysville and Layton as is now levied throughout the county for library services. It would increase taxes by approximately $3.53 per family per year. The county library would be open 45'2 hours per week, serving communities which are now without good library facilities. It would save Kaysville residents the $25 a year fee they now must pay for county library card. (While at the same time paying Kaysville library tax, a situation of double taxation.) When Mayor Purdy and the Kaysville City Council and the Kaysville Library Board said no to the countys proposal, I felt they rained on my parade, burst the illusive bubble, ruined the daydream and set the wheels of progress rolling backwards. I believe the county could offer library services superior to any major improvements the Kaysville City Library Board may plan for their own library in the future. Kaysville has 10,500 people. 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