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Show PAGE 4 .13 THE 2EPHYRNOVEMBER 1994 ' seen. Even before the October 13 meeting, the company found itself in disagreement with foe Planning Commission. Jeff Jonas, Nielson's partner had this to say in a memo to City Planner Rob Katzenson on September 19: "I was disappointed to hear that, on a preliminary basis, the Planning Commission was tat more sidewalk on one side), a real sense receptive to the idea of a P.U.D. With the smaller street (24' including with end is street created. a be a 5ff your typical subdivision-n- ot required, you up If of community can someone did nice in the real exciting proposition. And what Modb should be after. It's time something City. Nice for who? For the citizens of Moab? Or for American Housing Development? And a postscript: In 1991, the property about to be subdivided was offered for sale to the Qty by then owner Venice Denny for $125,000. Moab had an opportunity to save what Craig Nielson of American Housing calls "the last piece of really choice property in Moab." It could be a park right now, but foe Qty of Moab would have nothing to do with it No one would even make a motion. Denny eventually sold foe property to developers from northern Utah. It is reported that the pending sale of that parcel to American Housing is for a price exceeding $350,0001 Another...subdivision? As was already mentioned on Page Two, American Housing Development in Salt Lake Qty wants to develop six acres an 400 East across the street from Dave's Comer Market and adjacent to Mill Creek. It proposes a Planned Unit Development, consisting of 28 homes that will range in size from 1200 to 1600 square feet and will range in price from $100,000 to $135,000. But a P.U.Dis supposed to encourage foe clustering of homes while providing for open space and undeveloped acreage. Two of foe six acres lie within the flood plain and would be difficult and costly to build upon. Planning Commission member Will Petty told Qnig Nielson, the developer and spokesman for foe plait, that the P.U.D. ordinance is there to do something different with property like this. From herei, proposing a P.U.D. for this property seems like a way to increase housing density. The flood plain portion of foe pared can be counted as open space when trying to meet P.U.D. open space requirements. According to two other realtors, a regular subdivision on that pared of land could yield between 12 and 15 homes. The Plan as it was presented to the Qty Planning Commission Parks Visitation Leveling Off from Arches and Canyonlands National Parks indicate that visitation continues to Reports show signs of leveling off. Through September, tourism at Arches is running just .1 ahead of 1993 and was actually down 15 far the month. Total visitation is 690,000 tar foe year so for. At Canyonlands, foe park has seen 365,000 visitors in 1994 through September, a 13 increase over last year, and down 2 for the month over 1993. However, it's important to note that in 1984, one decade ago, visitation far the entire year at Arches was less than 400,000, a number foe park surpassed a few months ago. Future Planned Unit Development? In fact, as can be seen by foe firm's own architectural drawings, the P.U.D. lodes more like a compressed subdivision. The Qty Planning Commission noted that the plan failed to meet part of the P.U.D. requirements, and sent foe company back to foe drawing board to make revisions. Whether American Housing deddes to keep trying or to pullout of the project remains to be More Numbers... The Governor's Office of Planning and Budget recently completed a demographic JAILHOUSE OPEN DAILY Breakfast & Lunch 101 North Main Street 259-39- 00 nuamsaewcrrrv and economic analysis of the state and published its statistics in a report called Economic and Demographic Projections..l994. The report details the population and employment data for each ; |