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Show Volume II , Issue IV Page 1 January 2000 The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS January 2000 BULK RATE POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 POSTAL PATRON EDEN - LIBERTY- 84310 HUNTSVILLE - 84317 OGDEN CANYON - 84401 HCR 843AO Your Community Newspaper The Impermanence Syndrome or, Where Oh Where has our Resource Land Gone? Inside This Edition: Utah Losing Its Land Page 3 Real Estate Investor? Page 4 Travel Tips Page 4 Compiled by Shanna Francis Utah Quality Growth Commission Page 5 Ogden Valley News Staff Signs of RSV Infection Page 6 Process and Procedure Page 6 Weather in Ogden Valley Page 7 Featured teachers from Valley Elementary: Kathy Anderson, Michelle Evans, Jane McVaugh and Pat Fuller. Local Teachers Honored By SHANNA FRANCIS Ogden Valley News Staff Calendar of Events Page 9 Local Cowboy Poet Page 10 Ice Fishing Tips Page 11 Review Your Future Page 12 Hello New Year! Page 13 Announcements Page 14 Student News Page 15 Sports News Page 16 Ogden Valley Pathways Committee Formed Page 17 Planning News Page 18 Learning to the Sound of Music Page 19 Students Invitation to Sports Events Page 19 Classifieds Page 21 Honor Roll Page 21 The “Teacher Feature” sponsored by KSL Radio and Strategic Staffing spotlights teachers who have gone the extra mile in Utah’s schools. Kindergarten teacher Pat Fuller, First Grade Teacher Kathy Anderson, Sixth Grade Teacher Michelle Evans, and Fourth Grade Teacher Jane McVaugh were selected by a panel of representatives from the state and business community as some of Utah’s most outstanding teachers. Students and parents nominated the teachers and their segment was featured on KSL News Radio. In recognition of this achievement each teacher was awarded a “Teacher Feature” plaque, a $200.00 gift certificate from Office Max (where the teachers were able to buy many classroom supplies), and an overnight stay at the Homestead Resort in Midway. A spring banquet at the Homestead Resort honors the nominated and featured teachers. Valley Intersections Still a Concern By SHANNA FRANCIS Ogden Valley News Staff of River Drive on the Liberty end is planned, in the future, to become a major artery and thoroughfare to carry increased traffic loads to the Wolf Creek developments and additional growth areas on the northeast slopes of the If you have made a trip over the North Ogden Divide in the last couple of months, you’ve noticed the placement of a three way stop at the intersection of River Drive and the highway near the old Liberty c h u r c h . According to Weber County Commissioner Glen Burton, a traffic study was undertaken during the previous year that determined the need for the three way stop. Drivers, unaware of the change, often c a u g h t t h e m s e l v e s New Stop signs at the three way intersection of River Drive and the highway running the new near the old Liberty church. stop signs. Sheriffs from Valley in Eden. Weber County patroled the area in the beginning, in an effort to enhance the Commissioner Burton explained transition. They were on hand to offer that eventually the intersection would, warnings instead of citations. most likely, revert back to a one stop sign intersection. Instead of a sharp Commissioner Burton indicated, corner, a distinct main road coming also, that traffic in the area was rapidly from Liberty would continue straight increasing, and would continue to do so through onto River Drive. Drivers with proposed developments that are would continue straight forward slated to occur, developments that will be accessed by River Drive. A portion Intersections cont. on page 5 Poor planning practices often lead to the development or premature development of valuable resource properties through pressures brought on by urban development in or near rural agricultural areas. Without proper planning practices in place, resource landowners often have little choice but to sell the family farm in the face of unchecked development. As urban development begins to invade rural areas, producers face a story that has been told and retold time and time again in one community after another—a story that has a predictable ending when local government fails to incorporate tools to protect and support resource lands. These resource lands can include forest, recreation, sensitive lands, or agricultural lands. Established planning policies, or lack of policies, that support urban sprawl and development threaten valuable resource lands by making such land less valuable for production or preservation, and more attractive for speculation. Policy may do so in several ways: · Regulations may be implemented that deem farming activities in the community as nuisances by non-farm residents. Policies may be implemented that regulate fertilizer use, manure disposal, smells, and slow-moving farm vehicles on commuter roads; limitations on the use of pesticides, and herbicides; restrictions on farm noises and hours of operation; restrictions on dust and glare; limitations on irrigation; and restrictions on other activities that may upset the lifestyle of urban households located in rural areas. Development may also impact placement of irrigation canals and their use, as is being seen in the attempt to reestablish the water-way and water usage in the Davis and Weber Counties Canal that failed last summer in Riverdale. Urban residents have hired an attorney and are threatening suit if water is turned back into the canal this spring. · Property taxes begin a steady upward increase to pay for new schools, roads, services, and facilities intended to serve the needs of urban households. Resource land operators pay for these new facilities and services on the basis of the amount and value of the land they own. Producers with large tracts of land carry a heavier and heavier burden with hefty tax increases if developers are not held proportionately liable for the cost of improved or expanded infrastructure development. Are developers paying the cost of widening connecting roads, or for improvements at intersections proportionately impacted by the development? Are they paying into an escrow for capital improvements that Syndrome cont. on page 2 |