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Show Livestock Association Seeks New Hearing On Show Land Zoning It is understood that the City Council in regular meeting this evening, Thursday, will hear protests from the Southern Utah Livestock Show Association, concerning con-cerning the amount of land re-zoned re-zoned at the last meeting of the council permitting the development develop-ment of livestock show facilities on North Main Street. Upon request of the show asso ciation, an area east of Main Street adjacent to the Bureau of Land Management yards, was re-zoned to permit the erection of a show pavilion, and provide parking space for the facility. However, association officials claimed that inadequate land was re-zoned, and have asked for reconsideration. The association request . was for much more land than was re-zoned, re-zoned, and provided areas for fair exhibit buildings, a carnival carni-val site, picnic grounds, and stadium sta-dium for football, rodeos and other such events. The city ad-1 ministration re-zoning only for the livestock show part of the! request and indicated that con- sideration would be given the! other proposals when there was1 Indication that the projects would be undertaken. Show Manager C. L. Ewing announces, an-nounces, however, that regard less of the action of the coun-tcil coun-tcil on the re-zoning request, the final decision of the association assoc-iation on whether or not to locate the show facilitites at this site, the 1957 show will be held on the previously announced dates, Sept. 5, 6 and 7. If obstacles ob-stacles can be overcome and the show barn erected in time for the show it will be held at the North Main Street site, he says, but if this is not possible, a temporary tem-porary site will be selected for this year's show. Final decision on this matter will not be made until the re-zoning hearings are completed. In the meantime preparations for the show are going forward as usual. Committees have been working for some time, rules and regulations are being checked and revised where necessary, and will be published as soon as possible pos-sible Th premium list la also nearing completion and will be released soon. The show will definitely be held, with the only question unanswered un-answered at this date, that of lo-cation lo-cation of the 1957 show. |