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Show Page 2 The Ogden Valley news Volume XIV Issue XIV April 15, 2007 The Ogden Valley news Staff: Shanna Francis Tel: 745-2688 Fax: 745-0062 Cell: 791-4387 E-Mail: slfrancis@att.net Jeannie Wendell Tel: 745-2879 Fax: 745-2879 E-Mail: crwendell@att.net crwendell@msn.com Opinions expressed by advertisers, columnists or letters to the editor are not necessarily the opinions of the owners and staff of The Ogden Valley news. guidelines for Letters to the Editor Letters should be 300 words or less. Letters must be signed and the address of the writer submitted. The Ogden Valley news reserves the right to edit or decline printing of any submissions. Announcements Sought As a community service, The Ogden V alley n ews will print local birth, wedding, obituary, anniversary and missionary farewell & homecoming and Eagle Scout announcements free of charge. 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Note: The contents of The Ogden Valley News are copyrighted. To protect this publication and its contributors from unlawful copying, written permission is required before any individual or company engages in the reproduction or distribution of its contents, by any means, without first obtaining written permission from the owners of this publication. The deadline for the OVN May 1 issue is April 18. Guest Commentaries Community Asked to Support Proposed Ordinances by Contacting Weber County Commissioners and Encouraging their Adoption new units are granted to one developer, in additional property right. It allows them all likelihood, they would be granted to all. to take needed cash out of their property They enable building unit rights granted by without having to sell it and move out of current zoning to be sold, purchased, and the Valley—as is often the case today. transferred from one parcel of property to another so that higher density can be TDR’s are affordable for buyers buying achieved by resort development projects second homes in a recreation community. without increasing the overall unit density in Amortized into the buyers mortgage, TDR’ Ogden Valley. TDR’s are a resource designated are a component of the purchase that in our Ogden Valley General Plan and the helps ensure for the buyer that the resort Recreation Element of it. They’re used to help community they invest and live in today ensure prosperous smart growth, jobs, and a will still be present 20 or 30 years from now viable economic engine that also maintains and when their purchase is paid for. WEBER COUNTY COMMISSION OFFICE establishes a unique rural/resort community that 2. RESORT ZONE 2380 WASHINGTON BLVD SUITE 360 respects Ogden Valley’s historic heritage. Resort development, done correctly, OGDEN UT 84401 Current zoning in Ogden Valley allows for can help Ogden Valley maintain a rural You can also contact them by calling between 16,000 and 18,000 units (estimated /recreational community and help (801) 399-8401. 36,000 to 40,000 people) depending on prevent just another typical Wasatch Following are arguments for supporting cluster bonus density. The Ogden Valley front suburban bedroom community. and adopting the newly proposed ordinances. General Plan calculated the maximum unit carrying capacity of the Valley as Resorts, when executed in conformation to Reasons for Adopting the Three a rural/resort area at 6,700 (estimated the general plan, provide local jobs, a strong 18,000 to 20,000 people). TDRs create a tax base, and recreational opportunities for Proposed Ordinances cap on the number of housing units so our locals and tourists. Resorts could actually The following three new ordinances need problems don’t increase. Dangers from a enhance our Valley’s recreational and rural to be adopted by our commissioner to ensure build out above 6,700 units include: extreme attributes without the negative impacts created the vision of the Ogden Valley General Plan, traffic congestion, air and ground water by other industrial based businesses. which was overwhelmingly adopted by pollution (including Pineview), and ground water, stream, and wetlands contamination Resort clustering requires that 60% of Ogden Valley residents, is implemented. and depletion. It is simple common sense the development stays in open space— • Transfer of Development Rights that recreation enthusiasts will no longer open space that is a major factor in (TDR) Ordinance the rural/recreational desire to come to Ogden Valley to recreate maintaining • Resort Zone Ordinance under these conditions. And the residents of environment in Ogden Valley. • Sensitive Lands Ordinance the Valley will lose the livable community they have today and the future community Resorts are the driving element for the 1. TRANSFER OF DEVELOPMENT described in the development parameters TDR market. Resorts will need additional RIGHTS (TDR’s) Why TDR’s? TDR’s provide a legal contained in the Ogden Valley General Plan. density, and TDR’s are a fair and equitable TDR COMMENTARY cont. on page 7 mechanism to grant housing density TDR’s provide landowners with an fairly and equitably to the existing resorts that need higher density housing for increased skier visits, as well as new resorts that will be proposed in Ogden Valley in the future. Without TDR’s, granting the additional units the resorts and others developers need would destroy the rural/resort growth opportunity by creating an overcrowded urban like environment. If The Eden Park Board is soliciting the submission of bids from The Weber County Commissioners will be holding a public hearing on April 24 in regard to three newly proposed ordinances—a Transfer of Development (TDR), Resort Zone, and Sensitive Lands ordinance. Please contact our Weber County Commissioners before the meeting—either by phone or by letter—and let them know you support these ordinances. Deciding on the ordinances are Weber County Commissioners Jan M. Zogmaister, Craig L. Dearden, and Ken A. Bischoff. They can be reached at: Eden Park Board Soliciting Bids for Construction of Community Center Inspirational Thought “We are what we repeatedly do . . . Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” -Aristotle licensed contractors for the development of a community center. Bids need to be completed by April 21, 2007. Contact Rodney Peterson @ 801-745-3942 for all necessary details. |