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Show County Commissioners Meet PANGUITCH The Garfield County Commission meeting for Dec. 8 filled the entire day with all three commissioners Chair Louise Liston, Clare Ramsay and Maloy Dodds along with ClerkAuditor Camille Moore and County Attorney Attor-ney Wallace Lee in attendance. Mark Minchey, owner and developer de-veloper of the Prospector Inn and Ponderosa Restaurant in Escalante was early on the day's agenda to discuss, his latest project with county commissioners. Minchey explained his proposed new subdivision subdi-vision east of Escalante near the airport on Highway 12. He had secured se-cured Jones & DeMille Engineering to plan and design this project and liad given that firm all materials, both the subdivision and zoning books, he had obtained from Garfield Gar-field County. Minchey has had perc testing conducted and is working work-ing with the state on proper permits for the 43-acre parcel. County Recorder Les Barker was also on hand and stated that the property is presently zoned agricultural agricul-tural and will need to be changed to allow smaller lots. Minchey was planning his next meeting with the planning and zoning committee to petition for zone change. His engineers engi-neers are presently dealing with the environmental impact statements required. Minchey has been working on (See COMMISSION Page 5B) Commission Meets From Front Page the project over a year now, first approaching Escalante City to annex an-nex his property but was declined. The old road through his property is actually a county road and Minchey has built a new, better road. He would like to go through whatever procedure needs to take place to ask the county to abandon the old road and have it replaced by this new one. County Engineer Brian Bremner Brem-ner was on hand to further discuss that proposition. He will make an on-site visit and review the condition condi-tion of both roads which also lead to the municipal airport. In the public works portion of the agenda Bremner reported to commissioners on the hearing held the previous week in Salt Lake City concerning the Burr Trail. The Federal government had been requesting an extension of time stating they had some 30,000 pages of documents they1 are endeavoring to copy and send to the county. The judge outlined the schedule with discovery in the case to be completed by the end of February. Dispositive motions must be completed com-pleted by the end of March and the pre-trial conference has been scheduled sched-uled for May 11, 1998. At that conference the judge will announce the issues he will rule on. Bremner reported that the county dumpster clean-up contract which had been awarded to JCL Clean-up expires at the end of December. The contract' had been a mutually agreed-upon three-month trail with an option to the county to extend the contract as needed. Aftef brief discussion where it was expressed that the county is pleased with the progress made under that contract, it was noted that the county is in the process of putting together an educational edu-cational package for the public which it hopes will assist in the success of the dumpster program. The educational effort will consist of 2-4 weekends where individuals stay at the dumpsite to had out fliers fli-ers which state which materials can and cannot be placed in dumpsters. Also, possibly on the cable network net-work a program is slated for 2nd and 4th graders to train young people. peo-ple. The contract with JCL was extended ex-tended for one month at the rate of $167 per month. It is hoped at the end of that time further clean-up will not be required and can be phased out. A public hearing was conducted on an application to change zoning from agricultural to commercial on property owned by Al Foster on Hwy. 12. The application was reviewed re-viewed and approved by the Planning Plan-ning and Zoning Commission. After Af-ter review of the committee's recommendation, rec-ommendation, the commission approved ap-proved the zone change. |