| Show 14-- Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday March The 23 1986 1 i The question is in what direction Cache County communities should be allowed to grow Gracing cones were located in the major canyon areas of the cones were county property and the manufacturing-industriThe outlying established near Logan and areas along US 1 swing took in remote county areas in the mountains along the eastern side of the valley In 1964-6- 8 the swing ordinance was changed to include a wildland cone designation “This cone was established in response to the Stump Hollow (in Logan Canyw) being sold to private interests and the need for regulations to control building in the area” the reports states By Diane Browning staff writer al 89-9- In the late 19S0s Cache County’s first coning ordinance took shape under a equest by the then Logan City Planning Commission to address concerns about land uses that might be potentially incompatible with residential areas Through the 1960s and 1970s the coning ordinance and planning office both expanded reaching a peak of Influence in the late 1970s With the resignation of the county planner early this year the county staff consists the planner's former secretary Lorene Greenhalgh who has been appointed as coning administrator plan project A resulting part of the masterplan included recommendations for soring snd subdivision ordinances The Master Plan recommends: —concentrating urban growth within corporate limits —encouraging developments which will improve agricultural :owth and increase agricultural employment and income Last year County Planner Kenneth Sicemore saw his office's budget greatly reduced and late last year his position also was reduced from a county planner to Sicemore who had served as county planner 1979 left Cache Valley in January to assume community development —providing director for the Five County Association of Governments w and ly obvious valley’s floor was coned Aagriculture with a minimum lot sice the report states The valley’s eastern bench areas surrounding Providence Millville and North -l 10-ac- re 2 2-a- minimum lot sice No residen- those limiting lot sice to 10000 square feet were established Franklin declining prices for sugar and competition foreign Ar algamated closed the an thi plant all beets were shipped to Lewiston plant which clc led in 1972 - Utah Power ft Light wh ch op Co still has a substantial ration in the Franklin Co nty area moved its Idaho div sion’s headquarters from Pr ston to Rexburg in 1983 CORPORATE: AREAS f DECLARED County Commission The orgae innization can issue dustrial revenue bonds as a method of financing industrial development The Cache Valley Idaho Industrial Development Corporation was also formed Local businesses and individuals contributed $20000 into an account federal ecoand a nomic development grant of $75000 was obtained according to Williams tax-fre- Cwtinued from page IS The low-intere- st “The money is designed to be used as a revolving fund to help established buisnesses expand or new businesses begin" he AWMEXAT lOM AREAS together to actively pursue new industry the mayor added Dan Keller city councilman is working wifo Corrie Keller county clerk whd is compiling information that highlights Franklin County’s strongpoints for locating business there he said full-tim- Canning Co of Morgan Utah in foe early 1920s Del Monte purchased the plant from Morgan Canning in 1928 In 1935 the company added sauerkraut to other crops it However in 1980 processed sauerkraut was dropped Now only beans are processed During the packing season up early June to to 500 seasonal employees work sifts up to seven two days a week Community leaders recently hav'T put in place two different according to organisations Williams in an attempt to attract industry to foe area The Franklin County Industrial Development Corporation was organised by foe Franklin mid-Octob- er W Sharp Sylvania RCA My Hnf Miif jueeeeein wrmvi according to Sicemore because annexation does not mean land is immediately developed “but that huge amounts have been annexed into cities for development “There is a lot of pressure to develop We probably aren’t as successful as a planning program is intended to be because it’s generally the farmers that want to change foe land use Families feel foe land is their investment for retirement and if they can sell it for lots they feel they should be able to do Um Owdty NUttrWi Start Frwrts Admiral Tappan ShMNrOMra pihbi wibmb9 COUPON MILLERS GLASS I j 10 DISCOUNT ON STORM WINDOWS j Thru April 18 1986 553 N Main so" Logan 752-743- 0 "WHERE SERVICE COMES FIRST" Toshiba OVER 14 YEARS ELECTRONIC EXPERIENCE SALES & SERVICE HOME COMPUTERS BUSINESS COMPUTERS DISC DRIVES PRINTERS SOFTWARE corporation HOME AND BUSINESS ACCOUNTING Programming for stakes & wards Complete geneology packages 790 SOUTH MAIN MOM liUitu Mlmn “The city and county have jointly applied for a federal block grant for economic development If we’re successful in getting the money it will be used to attract new industry We’ve already got one firm interested” Williams conlost its div sion status a number of said “Everybody now un“Ritewood Eggs was tinued derstands we’ve got to attract em tloyees were transferred to a loan and expand granted and it was made into a district rebuild its Franklin operation new industry to foe county if we are going to survive economiration following their devastating fire We need industry to help cally Mountain Bell Telephone in December 1984” wifo the employment situation Ich had a main collection and City and county officials are and give added tax base to the office at foe corner of 100 Ea8t and Oneida in Preston currently working closely aroa doled foe facility under a e coippany-widreorganisation program only a few years easier than foe UP&L pullout HOOKER APPLIANCE CONTINUES Only two industrial firms reipain in the county Ritewood TO BRING YOU THE FASTEST Egg Company and Del Monte FRIENDLIEST SERVICE FOR THE Corporation’s canning plant are both located in foe Franklin PAST FIFTEEN YEARS area Ritewood has been in business (On All Whirlpool Appliances) since foe early 1960s and now e employs about 45 o SAME DAY DELIVERY workers at its Franklin facility SAME DAY INSTALLATION The egg farm houses about 370000 chickens which produce FULL LINE OF WHIRLPOOL 280000 eggs every day The APPLIANCES firm is currently expanding its another operation by building NAME BRAND NAME BRAND operation in APPLIANCES TV’s and VCR's Lewiston Del Monte Canning facilities Hitachi Whirlpool Speed Queen were constructed by Morgan Kelvinator Norae Pr ston operation UTAH GLASS agricultural land Annexa-tio- n has been very dramatic foe Annexation is not immediate- category outlying carrying no regulations At the time of the 1958 ordinance’s approval most of the minimum NORTHERN last 15 years" cone tial cones MILLER'S Logan to Smithfield Right now the priorities are to allow appropriate development that doesn’t conflict wifo agriculture” Sicemore said “But there definitely is an encroachment of development one A-- Residential Commercial Auto m With the 1958 ordinance seven cone categories were created: two agricultural one residential one commercial Logan were coned agriculture : with a See ZONING on page If - areas al 10-ac- re foe county’s population growth —preserving the unincorporated area outside foe urban areas for agricultural purposes —restricting foe strip of commercial development of US 91 to the existing nucleus areas where it may develop in foe future The area adjacent to it be com-fro- ing in Cache County Utah” prepared October 1985 According to this report the county's first coning ordinance originated with a request from the then Logan City Planning Commission to address concerns about land uses such as mink farming which may be incompatible with residential manufacturing-industri- county services provided Wifo foe implementation of the point system the minimum requirement to build in foe agricultural cone was eliminated Sicemore said in practice people were going out' 10 acres building a house w half an acres and leaving the rema nine and a naif acres to weeds The result was that land was going out of production Sicemore said The print system required building in agricultural cones to obtain conditional use permits that theoretically would be awarded based w foe point system Sicemore said Still in effect Sicemore said foe point system is basically a good system however he said it u “met wifo administrative difficulties locally’ “From 1980 to present" Sicemore said “there has been a trend pressure to ignore recomnendations of foe planning staff w foe point system area from Providence as foe urban growth area which should receive foe majority of ricultural land has been a priority Sicemore said He traced the coning history in a report “History of Planning and Zon- one guidance in making decisions regarding facilities and services is local based in St George In an interview with The Herald Journal late last year Sicemore discussed the trends of land use planning in Cache County Throughout the county's coning history preservation of ag- one gracing ' In 1978 the swing ordinance was revised to include a point system where land use requests were scored according to parcel sice relation to surrounding area road condition valid objections of adjacent landowners and municipalities-hazard- s sprawl and St tuitNlpjn V 543-320- 3400 N MAIN 12-ho- ur LOGAN eeker Bt'i V UTAH "Narlhani atSTVCMtar" UNITED SERVICE RND COMPUTER LOGAN UTAH PHONE: SALES: 753-370- 9 SERVICE: 753-370- 0 j |
