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Show PUBLIC HEARING FRIDAY Long-term objectives outlined in Master Plan for Cedar City posed as part of this comprehensive compre-hensive plan. This, program should be used primarily as a tool to facilitate the orderly construction of necessary public pub-lic facilities. The capital improvement-' program also designates de-signates the priority of need and possible source of funds with which to construct the facilities. Other capital improvements are recommended, such as road right-of-ways and improvements, im-provements, sewage treatment plant, airport facilities, storm sewers, firefighting equipment and a new city complex, to name some of the major ones needed. The League of Women Voters recommends that interested inter-ested citizens read a copy of the Comprehensive Plan on file at the City-County building build-ing and attend the hearings scheduled for Friday, June 16 at 2 p.m, and 7:30 p.m. Mr. Despain will be present to explain ex-plain all aspects of the plan and will invite public com. ment. Cedar City's master plan, up for public hearings on Friday, June 16 contains a number of recommendations for long-term long-term capital improvements. The 'plan lays out a program of orderly development that should take place in Cedar City between 1972 and 1992. One of these long-range capital cap-ital improvements programs covers the needs of a growing grow-ing city for open space and parks. The planner, I. Dale Despain, strongly recommends the city aquire the land in advance ad-vance of development; otherwise, other-wise, once development in the area occurs, acquisition becomes be-comes too expensive. A proposed site for a future multi-purpose city-wide park in the Ridgeland neighborhood neighbor-hood (Ridge Road) is on land available from the Bureau of Land Management contingent upon the development by the city of a recreational use plan, which is needed in order to qualify the city for the transfer trans-fer of the land. The planner sees the acquisition of this land as an immediate goal. Development of the park could come as the need increases in-creases and financing becomes be-comes available. New elementary school sites should also be obtained well in advance of need and should be coordinated with the city parks and playgrounds that will be needed. Common facilities facil-ities should be shared to make best use of tax money. A six-year capital improvement improve-ment program has been pro- |