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Show 62 acre plot. Certain parcels of land have been acquired by the County along the Jordan River PRO J ECTS 0 F TH E PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT TASKFORCE tor future park development. Plans for the Redwood Center are being drawn. These plans will include a paik and recreation space and a much needed swimming pool. Zoning and Land Use. A major problem in some areas of the Model Neighborhood is the apparent encroachment of industrial land use on residential Multi-purpos- e neighborhoods. In some areas, the trend is irreversible. In other areas, however, citizen involvement and Cities Demonstrations Agency JORDAN RIVER WATER QUALITY STUDY neighborhood samples are taken, the sources of pollution identified and general water quality upgrading activities employed. As the Jordan River is cleaned up and the littering laws enforced along with the pioject, the community will recognize the river's potential as a recieational River has continually been waterway, dump. The Jordan River has long been a great liability to the area which is now the model because of its polluted waters and its blankets of trash covering its banks. As the result of neglect and misuse, the quality of water in the Jordan degraded until now it is not fit for any use and will not support most forms of its natural aquatic life. This project, therefore, an impact on protecting residential areas from this aimed at determining all sources of pollution found on or in the undesirable mixing of land use. This problem seems to be in river. Swede Town. Comprehensive planning will establish the agency policy for dealing with these problem areas. The State Division of Environmental Health will contract to administer the program and Templeton, Linke and Alsup Consulting Engineers will be conducting the river and gutters, and street lighting The NEEDS survey indicates pollution, sources, and violatros prosecuted for the same. streets, curb approximately Vs of the Model Neighborhood, between of the blocks 20 and 40 that The in not as a municipal TARGET AREA MASTER PLAN is pollution study. Project goals will be the identification of direct Paved community. Two adults, qualified sanitarians, will supervise the youth as watei (Model Cities) pressure can have its worst proportions in the People's Free Way area and in young people, 1 4 to 1 8 years old, and provide a meaningful and severly needed service to the study will add knowledge that can be part of a surveyed have inadequate first comprehensive step in controlling and undoing the pavement on at least one pollution conditions on the river. In the past when communities were spiouting out of nowhere, land was unfenced, unbricked and unpaved to the horizon. The swift crusade to gather up land was also practical Today, irrational, impractical and incompatible land development poses only chaos. This project views logical and rational land use as enhancing the immediate area of the model neighborhood and will set a prece dent for the rest of the valley. The project will refine and implement the exisitng master plan. Completion and implementation of such a master Decker Lake Park implementation of the model neighborhood master plan. In the first action year plans were directed at establishing a master The quality of life found along the river as it winds through the model neighborhood and many projects and developments which are constingent upon the frontage. This along with the completion ofthis study, extreme need for curb and gutter recreational, aesthetic and sewage treatment. In the Model Neighborhood indicates where much work needs to be done. JORDAN i.e., RIVER CLEAN The county portion of the Model Neighborhood continues UP to suffer from the Pollution of the waterways both visible and invisible. is Litter can be seen and taken lack of adequate street systems, curb and gutter, sidewalks, and street lighting. A continued effort on the part of Model Cities to correct these problems will be necessary in the future. Adequate street lighting is a problem throughout the Model Neighborhood. away, but the unhygenic congestion that is bred invisibly in garbage is just as important to get rid of, to say nothing of the degrading aesthetic appearance the community must live with. This project will employ 15 plan will prevent intrusion of bad land uses which lower property values and detract fromthe quality of life. Studies will provide guidelines for land use and controlling the development of industry near residential areas. Impact will also be felt in controlling health hazards as they apply to improper land use. The Salt Lake Planning plan for the Redwood The second action to 3500 South are being year plans will develop coordinated with the Master Plan Project and the Center Development project. Community. improvements for the westside, Central City, CHAT, Northwest and People's Free Way areas. The combined plans will be coordinated with each other as well as with the City and County master plans. URBAN BEAUTIFICATION Agency will be administering the program. That agency will be charged with the responsibility of This project centers around hiring a consultant to operate the recreational and aesthetic Funding sources and participating improvements at the Decker Lake Park including two picnic areas, determined one restroom, landscaping, project. agencies will be by the project in financing and constructing the improvements, and collecting land evaluation data that will be used to monitor the improvements have progessed at an excellent rate with some delay during poor weather. The Decker Lake Park and Jordan Park developments from 2100 South concrete walks and a lighted These lot. developments parking will be concentrated at the south end of the park. Multi-purpos- e The Salt Lake County Recreation and Parks Department will administer the project and fund future developments. Millions of dollars are planned for use in the overall Urban Beautification programs in the county portion of the model neighborhood. The attractive and useful areas to be developed will greatly improve the aesthetic and, indeed, the economic worth of the model neighborhood. The project will provide the much needed recreational facilities that are an important part of a community's plan for growth and prosperity. |
