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Show WASATCH COUNTY COURIER DECEMBER 13, 2000 B11 js LO) 6h)0 CALLS build affordable hous___ ing,” said Leon Harper, a about five years ago and is being fueled by a generation of empty-nesters their previous said Barry Broden, 07, a CPA and professor of accounting and taxation at the University of Hartford. “This is the time in your life when you want all the luxuries.” Much of the increased spending shift is attributed to a change in attitude. Industry observers say today’s The result in the real estate market both in Connecticut and nation-— wide is a. growing demand for | _ upscale housing. Local developers tease jumped in on the trend, constructing luxury, single-family developments targeted toward “active a Wdults” age<55 and older in towns like Farmington, Avon, West Hartford, Glastonbury wenty-three. national con- _ me ce and’ environmental: , organizations and dozens of citi- House to block a proposed dump in Chart: Nears Construction of Camp I church is near- ing construction of. a “multi- million dollar camp. in the moun- tains east of Heber City. _ When completed by the summer of 2002, the facility will cater exclusively to members of The Church of _ Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints along the Wasatch Front and can handle nearly people 6,000 at one time, spread across 13 main camp sites. The timbered setting encompasses lakes and streams and rises in elevation to more than 9,900 feet. It bor_ ders a private1,600-lot mountain subdivision, Timber Lakes. _ Nearly 3,000 acres of the property was donated to the church by Veigh Cummings, oper. _ Snowmobiles and ATVs will not be allowed at the camp. “We are being very sensitive to the - environment,” said Steve Trammell, _ project manager. Buses are being snaderddl in transporting the thousands of daily the Timber Lakes devel- ? “Tf there is anything iin the world we need today, it is to create better youth and leadership programs,” he said. “I believe in the project. It will definitely complerient the mountain.” tain. “What we don't want to have is a congregation of 1,000 vehicles with sunlight shining off their windshields all summer,” he said. _ Each of the 13 camp sites will have nine pods, each featuring a fire pit with a gas-powered barbecue, tent _ pads and cabins. There also will be shower and restroom facilities and picnic pavilions. : Each camp site will have an amphitheater for skits, plays, orientation meetings and church testimonial gatherings. Construction of a neved eight-mile road is expected to begin in April, and work on infrastructure, including natural gas and sewer lines, will commence in May. Trammell said the site may rods. for as The coalition sent a oe Tuesday : to President Clinton emphasizing the _ dangers of transporting nuclear waste users who will converge on the moun- The 8,400-acre tract, known as the Lake Creek Camp, will primarily be used as a girl's camp, but stakes, - wards and Mormon families also will - be able to use the site. i desert be - open during the winter months for the Boy Scouts. . The site also will house three care| taker dwellings, a lodge, day-use camps and a ios:for medical emergencies. experts mate safety concerns of citizens,” the letter to Clinton said. Opponents want the president to” sign an executive order preventing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from Baga i ae nh wt ; WASATCH COUNTY . Wasatch County’s. Source for Neus eT ie Rep. Jim reviewuated the storage © sions, aircraft crashes and earth-, _ quakes. be ill-prepared to handle a wreck. A consortium of eight electric util‘ities known as Private Fuel Storage is _ _ seeking federal approval to store up to 44,000 tons of nuclear fuel rods © aboveground at the Skull Valley ~ reservation 45 miles southwest of Salt “It is clearly inaecepiiile to allow PFS to proceed with this flawed pro- — posal, which places the economic interests of the nuclear industry above the democratic process and the legiti- Leavitt, casks! radiation protection from explo- across the country. People living along the route will risk radiation exposure, _ it said, and emergency workers may _ Lake City. Mike NRC is expected to release its final environmental impact statement next spring. Then the agency will hear arguments from state and environ- mental officials and dissident Goshutes. The agency plans to make a final decision sometime in 2002. It still needs the approval of three other fed- . eral agencies. The Surface i detain Board needs to decide if building a railroad spur to the site will damage the environment. The. Bureau of Land. Management needs to agree to the construction of a railroad land, and the Bureau © Affairsneeds to approve between the Goshutes and j he Mormon west Gov. Brwaabtantintentdntieitett | ~ Utah's . Hansen, R-Utah, and other Utah politicians are leading the fight. Hansen has . emphasized. the dangers of a radioactive waste site in a barren desert that sees military. emule flights and bombing exercises. | Military officials, however, say the chances of a jet crash at the site are extremely low. In an October | iat the NRC declared the proposed waste site could be safely operated. It said ‘ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS : licensing the waste site. zens’ groups have asked the White Mormon ee | President Chis heed to Block Radioactive Dump— oh aT than 7 more expensive home. “We eel In a - $560,000 home in Muirfield Village in are more willing to spend what they _. Avon. Their new, single-family home is have earned or take out mortgages 500 square feet larger and $220,000 _ and run up credit card bills to get it. on federal of Indian the lease PFS. Government is like a big baby— an -alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of respon_ sibility at the other—Ronald Reagan. mm to _ “They are buying new carpet and new’appliances and spending a lot of © money decorating these homes,” he said. “That hasa huge impact on the - economy, much more so than households on the lower end of the market.” with the AARP. Harper said the trend toward upsizing began- summer from a four-bedroom, 2,700- the Connecticut’s economy, he said. _. senior housing specialist With their two children grown; Barry and Ellyn Broden moved this | have ee doing so well that. it is houses and pending retirement. who and they do have money for renovations,” she said. Ron Van Winkle, a . West Hartford economist, agreed. Both sets of buyers are dumping more money into hard to entice people to The number of luxury ieee is _ expected to get larger as America’s 76 million Baby Boomers face empty Avon “Younger families new construc- ability to move-up but can’t afford new construction are buying these homes, expensive homes. for low- and middie-income retirees.. . _ “The economy is estimate 1990s. in of less cannot a 3 | TTL age that at least 10 percent of emptynesters are actually upgrading their housing as they move into their retirement years, a number they said has been growing since the mid home -ers who tion. struction, of luxury hous- | ing will resultin a short- Call it upsizing. Many empty nesters now dace more.money to spend on retirement — square-foot housing experts who. fear the shift toward the con- retirement. Industry analysts some TONIC among retirees to take a new approach to. housing. Simsbury, said the increase in luxury buyers is opening up a category of housing for first- and second-time buy- But. this trend i is causing ‘concern rein? ment means years of penny-pinching while living in a small home. They . they . some esa. es edacdind earn tates i prompting increasingly Born: after he. Vice are eschewing the idea that retire- who are often. f <& strong real estate market is _ - tions. prices F and a with TT any J Sag ey salaries and have more discretionary exceeding $400, 000. The multibed-— _ funds than their parents and Stand par. | | room homes come with amenities e _ like marble floors, three-car garages, Sharon Cie a real eae agent home theaters and customized with Prudential Connecticut Realty in kitchens. ; 4 booming | oi 4 : empty-nesters don’ t view retirement the same was as previous Srnete « | PRESS ee THE ASSOCIATED Ce The eaaty Nesters Moving Into Bigger Nests |