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Show The National Enterprise, August 17, 1977 Page sixteen Annexation The corridor canyon road. would bypass the majority of canyon residents who might oppose the plan. According to Hogle, the land is owned by Leo who had agreed to sell or lease it to Bert-agnol- Bowers-Sor-enso- e, n. Didn't recognize description Both Bertagnole and J. Douglas Bowers, president of Bowers-Sorensosaid they didnt recognize those descriptions of their plans. Bertagnole said he only owned about 45 acres in the canyon, although his family did own most of the canyon. He said he had considered developing the area, but at this point it was just a He had not discussed hope. n, Continued from page one plans with Bowers-Sorensohe said, but was talking to the city about trading watershed land. Bowers acknowledged his company owned about 400 acres there, but development plans were really not definite. He denied his company had been considering condominiums and a gas station, but did say principals were n, about building houses, the thinking single-famil- y number depending on what zoning restrictions would allow. Bowers said he did sup- port annexation, although he wasnt the prime mover behind the petitions being circulated. He said he wasn't familiar with the details of those petitions, but enough of Timber Lakes levels complaint malicious." These ordinances has Timber Lakes Corp. filed a complaint in U.S. District Court against the Wasatch County planning commission and county com- missioners, claiming $30 million in damages. Owner of about 9,600 acres near Heber City since 1972, Timber Lakes is objecting, in the complaint, to zoning ordinances passed by the county in 1972 and 1976. Veigh Cummings, president of Timber Lakes Corp., claims in the suit that ordinances passed in 1972 have substantial new provisions designed to prevent further development" of his land. Such requirements include the necessity to provide culinary water for each lot in excess of amount reasonably necessary," to install sewer lines to all lots and to establish minimum size lots of 20 acres, the complaint states. In December, 1973, the complaint continues, Timber Lakes submitted a master plan to Wasatch County, prepared by Coon, King, Knowl-ton- , engineers. The county officials refused to approve the plan. In September, 1976, further ordinances were passed, which Cummings refers to in the complaint as willful and further restrict his ability to subdivide Timber Lakes property, the complaint states. In response to the suit, Wasatch County attorney Harold Call says Cummings first filed a suit in Wasatch County objecting to the ordinances passed in 1972. That suit lay dormant for years, but. Call says, was reinstituted in 1976, when the 1972 ordinances were revised. Cummings wanted to divide the 9,600 acres into 4,000 lots, Call says, but the ordinance restricted the subdivision to about 2,000 lots, required water and sewer hook-up- s and restricted development on steep slopes. Although the county answered Cummings 1976 lawsuit, Cummings did not answer the accompanying interrogatories, Call says. Then, two weeks ago, he filed the suit in federal court. The suit he has filed, now claims the ordinances take away his property without due process of law, and he cant use it the way he Therewants," Call says. fore, he is claiming the county should pay for the land. the residents and property owners in the area supported them to ensure success in receiving city consideration. State law' required a majority of residents and owners d of the of at least assessed valuation of the property of an area sign petitions requesting annexation before such annexation can be considered by a city. A petition wras submitted to the city about two weeks ago, Bow'ers said, and a public hearing w'ould be held on the matter. According to Bowers, one of the petition drives was spearheaded by Jack Dunlop, president of Bonneville Associates, a political consulting firm. Bonneville was hired by n to advise it on the matter of annexation, but Bowers indicated Dunlop wasnt acting solely under the direction of his company in the matter. Dunlop last week denied that he was heading up a petition drive. He said his firm was involved" as an advisor to Bowers-Sorensoand that he had advised his client to sign one of the annexation petitions, since other residents seemed to be supporting the drive. Dunlop said he didnt know how much of the canyon could be annexed because different groups in the canyon were trying to bring different areas in. He also said he didn't know as yet whether sufficient signatures had been gathered, or when a petition might be filed with the city, if at all. Dunlop also said he thought Bowers plan was to sell parcels of land to third-part- y developers. one-thir- Bowers-Sorenso- to be a benefit to the people within the canyon." He said some day the entire canyon might be an- nexed, but careful planning, with a program beneficial to one, was needed. The developers' would create a traffic well-round- ed every- plans bottle- neck in the lower part of the canyon since more residents wrould be moving into that e plot than currently live in the entire canyon, he 400-acr- said. Hogle questioned whether the additional tax base to the city would offset the costs of improvements These w'ould inrequired. clude storm sew'ers, garbage collection, a water system, and widening of the canyon road. DflDDDS 9 9 (LQDDDSQflg 9 n, Singular designs in plants and cut flowers. Issues are serious Regardless of who's doing what, the issues are serious. The opposition committee's head, Hogle, said he mainly opposed the proposed spot type" annexation and said annexation is not going 1314 Foothill Drive 583 - 3113 Delivery Service V. Take a friend to lunch. Cummings wras not available for comment. w master The latter could be prohibitively expensive, Hogle said, since much of the road is bounded by cliff on the north and residences on the south. Widening would require condemnation of the front and side yards of many residents of the county. Hogle added, Development will cause a considerable amount more water runoff and major storm sew'ers would have to be constructed. Emigration Creek could not be used to absorb that runoff, he said, because that could cause flooding at the base of the canyon. Hogle also pointed out that with many homes close to the road, increased traffic could be dangerous for children if it weren't controlled properly. One month free rent with lease. 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