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Show THE ZEPHYRNOVEMBER 1995 end of Williams Way where it junctions a half mile away with 500 West, there isn't one foot of sidewalk. To the west of the Drogins' land, there's nothing but fields and pastures. But the Drogins were required to post a $2600 bond until they had a 90 foot sidewalk constructed along their road frontage. It cost them $2500. Once the sidewalk was constructed, they were briefly told that they could not recover their bond until they had also built a retaining wall. Fortunately, City Manager Donna Metzler stepped in and allowed the bond to be returned to the Drogins so they, in turn, could pay the sidewalk contractor. Still, why did the sidewalk have to be built in the first place? Metzler says she's encouraging the Gty Council to take another look at the law and revise it. When the ordinance was passed a few years ago, there was no thought given to criteria. Now Metzler admits, "This regulation is ridiculous," and believes the city should establish some standard that requires businesses to make such expenditures based on monetary expenditure or square footage of the land. This would remove the burden from small businesses and especially residential land owners. It's too late for the Drogins. Still they have Moab's best known Sidewalk to Nowhere. Maybe they can charge money to tourists for a look at yet another Moab Oddity. Capitol Reef: America's First 'Cyberpark?' You can now "surf the Web" for information on Capitol Reef National Park. The Zephyr received a news release from the Park Service last week that just bubbled with excitement, announcing that the on-li"cyberpark" can be found on the World Wide Web. "The Capitol Reef Web site uses this graphical capability to offer a broad variety of useful information on the park, including dozens of hiking route descriptions (Oh Boy! Guidebooks on the Web!), maps, photos, as well as tutorials on the wildlife, geography, and prehistoric human history of the park." There's more. "Reluctant 'tourists' can enjoy the Internet version of an actual park visit by taking a 'virtual' road tour of one of the park's spectacular auto hike through the routes, such as the popular Scenic Drive, or enjoy an on-lihistoric fruit orchards and pioneer homesteads of Fruita, located near park ne ne PAGE 5 When Council members tax citizens for the costs of development. When the Council stops listening to the people who elected it, When citizens pay for growth that does not benefit them, IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE! will work to make development pay its own way. As a planning commissioner, I have voted to protect our neighborhoods from commercialism. I As a council member, I will work to keep our town affordable. ELECTA CANDIDATE WHO PLACES YOUR a 24 INTERESTS FIRST. ON NOVEMBER 7th, VOTE FOR A CHANGE. RICHARD COOKE For responsible city government headquarters." I'm not making this stuff up. But I did, a few months ago. Some of you may recall a fantasy editorial last spring that proposed Virtual Reality Trips for would-b- e visitors to Moab, people who didn't want to leave the comfort of their own homes. However, I suspect that's not the intention of the boneheads who came up with this winner. Park Superintendent Chuck Lundy, who this newspaper believes must have been dropped on his head at an early age, was downright giddy about the cyberparll "We are pretty excited about our new World Wide Web home page and plan on expanding it even further in the near future. Very soon, we'll use our Web page to offer electronic copies of important management documents such as our General Management Plan and issues briefing statements, as well as access to many of our scientific databases." providing on-liWhat most of that means is that you'll be able to learn faster than you did before that the NPS ignored public opinion and what's ultimately best for the park it is mandated to protect, and caved in to some special interest or the pressure of the local congressman. Since the Zephyr is not eager to promote this kind of madness, we will not include the Web "address" that was included in the press release. And if Super Lundy gets a copy of this issue, it may be our last press release from Capitol Reef as well. ne BBSS Cottonwood Condos CALL: KYLE & CARRIE BAILEY j i j Full kitchen units Away from noisy Main Street in a quiet atmosphere. 801-259-88- 97 Or write: 338 East 100 South Moab, UT 84532 NOTES FROM OUR CUSTOMERS... Dear Manager, We have happy time during staying here. We called to the Salt Lake City several times using this phone. If we need to pay, charge to our credit card, please! Thank you, Jaehee i |
