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Show JANUARY PARK DESIGN CITY Swaner REPORT 1996 The perimeter of the park will be planted to reflect a foothills habitat, with bigtooth maple, game oak, sage and manzanita. The perimeter area not only will serve as nesting habitat, providing food sources, but also will act as a buffer to nearby housing and commercial developments. An education component of the park will help visitors better view its Nev Gro nim ent, waner explained. It will include observation towers, strategically placed around the wetlands, to give visitors a birds-eye view of the complex environment. Additionally, four observation blinds, Snyderville Basin looking toward Wasatch Mountains. located in various ural ecology. The first step will be to habitats, will give visitors a close-up take Spring Creek out of agricultural look at wildlife. diversion ditches and culverts and Not least, a trails system will allow restore the waterway to its natural recreation in the park, Swaner noted. It channel. will include pedestrian, equestrian and Once the creek is re-established, a bicycle paths. These trails will provide community planting effort will begin to access to the park and will connect to , restore the riparian corridor with cotother trail systems. They will allow walktonwoods, willows and shrubs - similar ing, jogging, riding and wildlife watching. to its condition before the land was Winter uses will include crosscountry skicleared for agriculture, Swaner said. ing and snowshoeing. @ Park Nature Preserve ADVERTISING TMI CUS CUM INTC direct mail ¢ print advertisements © posters « books « catalogs signage design © product imaging & packaging eC M ICRU CTT MAUR eve MAC CMR ete Ce CALL: 801.262.6565 825 EAST 4800 SOUTH - SUITE 133- SALT LAKE CITY HiTs Main Street Photographer Park City’s Fastest Finest, Quality Photofinishing 523 Main Street * One-hour Photo * Two-hour Slide Processing (E-6) * KODAK Create-A-Print™ * Black & White Processing * Custom Enlarging, Negatives or Slides * Portrait & Commercial Studio * Passport Photos * Unique Photo Frames & Accessories 649-6465 “The sunbeams stream forward, dawn boys, with shimmering shoes of yellow.” Mescalaro Apache Song A Message from RUTH DRAPKIN 801-649-9200 / 1-800-999-7355 a Wardley Better Homes & Gardens THE LOCALS Hearty Home Lunches Baked Awesome Private FAVORITE Breakfasts Mountain Pastries Desserts Parties - Catering 801-649-5686 Open 268 Everyday Main St., at Park 7 A.M. City — The huge project undertaken by the Swaner family to save 680 acres of Snyderville Basin as a nature preserve came A step closer to reality in December, as the park grew by 340 acres. The Summit County Commission approved land transfers in and around Ranch Place, the Mountain Meadows development and part of the East Canyon Creek corridor. Future plans for the park include 40 miles of trails, observation blinds, trout spawning beds, a visitor's center and picnic area. The Swaner family brings to the project 190 acres of its Spring Creek Ranch. The park, as conceived, will be a nature preserve, where residents and visitors can take a close-up look at natural vegetation and animal life, according to Sumner Swaner. In order to make that possible, the land will have to be restored to its nat- nO Grows by 340 Acres SNYDERVILLE Put Off by Park City Newspaper Summit Commissioners PARK CITY — If you live in Summit County, you got one in the mail. On the cover, it says: “Summit County; The Last, Best Place to Live, How Can We Save it.” The authors: Summit County Commissioners Jim Soter, Tom Flinders and Sheldon Richins. The county commissioners, believing they have been vilified by The Park Record, Park City’s weekly newspaper, mailed the “newsletter? to their constituents in an effort to get around what they consider to be biases at the newspaper. The newsletter cost about $5,000 to print and mail. ‘We haven't been able to get the proper message out to the people,” said Jim Soter, one of two new commissioners elected in November 1994. “We had to get a message out to all the people.” But Record editor Sena Flanders sees the newsletter as little more than a public relations piece. “This is an attempt to make themselves look better... . ” Flanders admits that relations between the paper and the county commission are strained. But she doesn’t think it’s all the fault of the Record. “It’s their attitude of working with us that is the problem. . . . It's a non-working relationship, really.” Things are so strained between the editor and commissioners, in fact, that commisioners willl not return her telephone calls, Flanders noted. As an example, Soter cited negative publicity in The Park Record on a proposed $7.5 million jail to be built at the Silver Creek industrial park, located on US 40, about five miles from Park City. PAGE Go ‘Direct Mail’ “We've tried to explain, over and over again, that the jail is within the RDA boundaries over there. And RDA money will help build the infrastructure for the jail. But that never comes out,” he said in a Mountain Times interview. The Summit County Commission will mail newsletters quarterly to their constituents, Soter said. One segment of the newsletter touches on the Snyderville Basin General Plan and the “tier” development system that delineates development areas over periods of time. Many critics have wondered aloud if Soter and the other new commissioner, Tom Flinders, would attempt to dismantle the plan following the ‘94 election. A section of the newsletter could give those critics food for thought: “Additional work must be done to supplement the Snyderville Basin General Plan, in order to better address the issues of development quality... ” But Soter explained that the commission does not intend to undo the tier system, but may modify it a little. Part of the modification would be to settle a law suit with developer George Johnson, who has proposed developing 6,000 housing units east of US 40. Johnson’s land is located in tier II, meaning he could not develop for 20 years, according to the general plan. “We haven't talked about breaking the tier system . . . But we haven't been able to get the proper message out,” Soter said. “I hate to see the tier system govern everything we do, whether it’s right or wrong.” The commissioner explained that 14 some things have been left undone. For example, he said, no architectural guidelines have been adopted for the Kimball Junction area. “We want to look like a mountain city environment . . . All the Kimball Junction area will come under temporary guidelines until we get them in the code.” According to the newsletter, the commissioners want residents of Summit County to agree upon a “vision” for the future of the county. “Zoning restrictions, growth management regulations and other planning tools are crucial,” the newsletter says. “However, there is not a single mechanism more_important to the future of Summit County than a_ well-defined vision for our future, one that residents . actually desire.” Soter admits, however, that Park City and the western reaches of the county are inhabited by people who view things much differently than the traditional agricultural communities of the county’s eastern end. That is why the commission recently established two separate planning commissions — one for each end of the county, the commissioner explained. So far, he said, the dual system is working quite well. Soter noted that Summit County has not approved any new development during the last year. However, approvals given during the 1970s and ‘80s number in the thousands. And according to the newsletter, the county is willing to work with developers as long as they are willing to meet the new “vision” the community adopts. @ |
