Show Pyf r rfTrfriiwirruyitiri A10 Sanpete Wednesday December 29 2004 Valley Edition Messenger-Gunniso- Fairview making plans to renovate historic city hall By David Call S trill writer AIRVIIW- - An historic I uirsiew building that lias been used as a city hall home economies classroom school lunch library and a senior center is to become part ol the expanding airvicw Museum Mavoi ton Wo ley told the Lam ics ( ity Council that the city is ready to start raising money lor lestoiatiou ol its old kitchen city hall as an annex to the anv ices Museum Allan Roberts a icstoration has completed an iniarclutec tial rendei mg show mg how the rdd city hall would be annexed cia a bicccwuy to the mam building ol the lauview Museum to the north lie city has also contracted w h Branch Cox to teat down the old school building which lornis an “I" around the city hall Buck Irom the school will be used to restore the city hall and to add a decorative element m a memory wall" running In tween the city hall and museum ity manager Nancy Jane Woodsule say s the city may create a paik 01 grassy knoll where ( the school now stands he Old bairstew (’ity Hall has stood for more than a century The building was completed in 1901 but by 1916 the Committee on Public Grounds recommended that “there be a general clean up at city hall with special attention given to the closet (or outhouse) which was in a “very condition” Stores unsanitary to close at were encouraged on May 20 to accommopm date the cleanup project grounds” Meanwhile the nearby public school was running out room Two weeks after the cleanup project the city and the school district swapped properties and the city hall became part ol the junior high school Within a few years the building was serving as the home economics classroom But the adjacent school continued to expand Classrooms were added on at right foi tiling an shaped angles structure around the city hall he building was now “walled of oil” Irom the street A new junior high school was built in 1957 and elementary students took the place of junior high students m the old Because the building building had a gymnasium the students had many advantages to play doors and dance By 1981 the school district had built a new elementary school and the building was vacated once again to be utilized this time as an office for the Pairview Museum When the new museum was completed in 1995 the museum moved out and the Bookmobile moved in Most recently the old city hall served as the Pairview Senior Citizens’ Center When the new center was built in 2001 architects removed the front archway from the old city hall and incorporated it into the new senior center Besides losing the archway the building is also missing its bell tower which was removed m the mid-- 900s The city has hired contractor Craig Paulsen of Spring City to rebuild the bell tower The council anticipates that the old city hall will allow for more historic pieces to be put on display at the museum “The building will house exhibits the museum has been saving but for which it did not have space” Woodside said i : I r ' f v v- a® Xft’"-yw i mjpi4 H0 '" AA: i sv V v f ” i5 r fill 1 3 Isupst j at Tw b PHOTO COURTESY FAIRVIEW CITY (Above) Historical photo of first Fairview City Hall The building has since lost its bell tower front entryway arch and now is walled off from the street by a school building Restoration efforts will build a new bell tower and raze the adjacent school building After restoration Is complete the building will be annexed to the Fairview Museum with a breezeway walk (below) Ti Fairview City Council says no’ to billboards By Suzanne Dean Publisher AIRV IIAV an view has become the lust municipality in Sanpete Counts to take action to prevent a loiest of billboaids along IS 89 At a meeting Tuesday Dec 2 the city council uiiammously passed an oidmance banning signs" (signs advertising a business but not located on the business piopeity The pieainble to the says that "excessive and inadequately eonlinllcd signs endanger the uniqueness and scenic beauty ol at is lew (Tty " City manager Nancy Jane Woodsule said the city became concerned when Simmons ! Media a huge Wasatch 0 font billboaid company visited with laimew's planning commission Company ollicials said UiS 89 was the company’s next expansion atea Subsequently Simmons ofleied a large sum to a landowner lot pcnmssion to erect a billboaid but the owner tinned the company down The city hasn't heard Irom Simmons' mam competitor Reagan Outdooi Signs but says Woodside "wliete one goes the otliei goes ” (Tty ollicials wcie concerned S 89 started looking like that it the heritage tom ism experience along the highway which is proposed lor designation as the National Mormon Pioneer Heritage Atea would be degraded Woodside says Under state law the Utah of Transportation Depaitmcnt (I DOT) tegulates billboards along state highways unless a municipality through which a highway passes enacts an ordinance that is more resti ietivc than state law Woodside explains State law permits municipal to regulate signs not only along the highway frontage within the city limits but also for several hunched feet on the to town Billboards and other signs that aie already up may remain under the “grandfather" concept But the ordinance says that il an existing sign or is damaged to the point where the cost ol repair is more than 50 percent of the market value ol the sign “the city shall not grant any permits for repair or In other words the sign will have to come down At the Dec 21 council meet- Councilwoman Peggy ing Johnson expressed concern about a local company being forced to take down a sign because it has been damaged by weather “I don't want to penalize the few businesses we have" she said But Councilman Chad Johnson said "We don't want billboaids and signs all That’s the whole tent” (of the oidmance signs informa Brcezcway Museum CONCEPTUAL SKETCH BY ALLAN ROBERTS COURTESY Home Mortgages and Home Improvement Loans keep us Secure and Safe If you are BUYING OR WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CURRENT LOW INEREST RATES FOR A CHANGE W OR REMODEL GIVE US A CALL ' Fairview City Hall ordinances 'V'1'" Sunbrldge Growers V tion centers and other forms of media will still be allowed as the ordinance says they “offer local businesses ample opportunity to promote their goods and services " to residents and isitors alike FAIRVIEW We're your neighbors We can help you get or fix up your house today CITY fix-u- p Architectural representation of how the old Fairview ambulance shed will look after Sunbridge Growers a Fairview based agricultural company that provides organically grown herbs and vegetables to health food stores throughout the Intermountain West reno- vates the building The city has scheduled a public hearing for Tuesday Jan 18 to receive public input regarding the proposal SAM’fcTfc 528-722- Messenger com Ttiki 'Jiviiy t rwwj jr 1 f M ia£ POOR C |