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Show & Jo-WESTER!, AMERICA!! . Or .'lii-Kiiif THElNATIONAL w LISnASIES SMPK-13- c Business1 rieffiEr and commentary Residents want larger voice in neighborhood zoning; aesthetics are the issue If residents in the area just west of the University of Utah have their way, future development in Salt Lake City will be subject to examination of aesthetic value by a neighborhood design review board working in conjunction with the planning and zoning de- partment. That such a concept be studied was one of three requests made in a petition presented to the planning and zoning commission by representatives of the East Central Neighborhood Council. The petition also moratorium seeks a y on zone variances, building 90-da- permits, conditional use grants or demolition that might increase density in the area bounded by South Temple, 6th South, 11th East and University Street. The final request was for a public hearing on the issue of density in the area near the end of the moratorium period. Complete inventory comThe planning mission votedto approve the moratorium last week, but it cannot become effective until the city commission concurs. If the moratorium is finally approved, the Neighborhood Council will conduct a complete inventory of the buildings in the area during that period. According to Ray Kingston, an area resident and architect chosen to help represent the residents on this issue, the survey will examine the type of dwellings, number of family units, parking spaces, number of cars normally parked, enforcement of ordinances, and general condition of each property. One resident on each block will conduct surveys. - Request sparks interest Kingston explained area residents had held six to ten meetings on the issues of residential density and area aesthetics within the last month. Part of the interest was sparked by a VOLUME 7 NUMBER 10 building permit request to erect apartments with 16 residential units on Elizabeth Sreet between 3rd and 4th South on a spot where two single family houses had stood. Consequently, area residents packed the hearing room when the planning commission considered the permit request last week. Albert Funk, leader of the area residents, told the Enterprisehe has witnessed a steady degradation of in his the neighborhood nearly 20 years of residence there. Like him, residents were also concerned a 1974 development plan for the central city was not being followed. cqnjunction with the city planning staff, the plan lists types of usage and density goals for each part of the central city. Similar plans will eventually be published for the Avenues, northwest, and Capitol Hill areas. A west side plan has been completed also. Feds see error of their ways Rescission of a U.S. Agriculture Department ruling made last year could clear the way for Beehive Machinery to possibly triple employment at its Sandy plant. According to Ross Taylor, vice president and the Agriculture Department is close to finalizing a proposal which could reverse its position banning mechanically red meat from the U.S. market. (Mechanically deboned poultry is permit-edHe says the action means Beehive could add people to its present force of 100. co-own- er, de-bon- ed ). 150-20- 0 Shelve new machines chased machines. But two weeks ago, the department announced it was in favor of reinstituting the red meat deboning equipment in this country and was writing a proposal to that effect. According to Taylor, the department is stymied now by what mechmeat anically processed should be called. Theyre wondering whether it should just be called meat, or mechanically deboned meat' or what, Taylor said. When they resolve that question they will probably come out with a proposal. Actually nutritional after the Agriculture Department gave In 1976 Beehive, manufacturer of about 90 percent of the deboning equipment now on the market, was forced to stop selling the machines in this country last year and boost export activities. Taylor said about 70 American companies were also forced to shelve their newly pur Complement master plan Written by Williams and Mocine, a California planning consultant firm, in interim approval for U.S. meat processors to use deboning equipment, consumer groups obtained a court order against the department, and the government withdrew its plans for changing the federal (See BEEHIVE, page 13) Signs come down; controversy ends Salt Lake Citys bill- board controversy apparently ended in compromise last week as two sign companiesd dropped a suit against the city and airport authority, sign company representatives agreed to take down some controversial signs, and city commissioners adopted the report of a committeee assigned .to study the issue on amendments to ordinances regulation the signs. In conjunction with permission to keep the signs on city property. The companies claimed they had justifiably relied on renewal of their rights in contracts making long-terwith advertisers for those signs. According to Bill m ings, the phased removal agreed upon last week resulted from the companies (See BILLBOARDS, page 8) - the agreement to drop the suit, Galaxy Outdoor Advertising Corp. and National Advertising, Inc., agreed to remove four structures on the south side of North Temple near the airport as soon as possible, Thomas Billings, attorney for the companies said. Four or five will remain on city property, but all will be removed by Dec. 31, 1979. The suit was filed June 30 after the airport authority revoked the companies SEPTEMBER 7, 1977 UTAH EDITION 50 CENTS |