Show New SL Roadway Slated for Fo Trucks A new road will be constructed construct construct- ed through the middle of the Orchard area south of North Salt Lake by Gibbons and Reed Company as per demands of the Committee Committe for Enforcing Residential Zoning Regulations it was agreed Tuesday evening I ITilE TilE THE GIBBONS and Reed Ree Company Compan will also be allowed the right to continue planned excavation at angles for building This will be doneas done doneas as per pel previously submitted map and in accordance accordance ac ac- ac with the present city ordinance in the thc R R-l area Mr Kemp reported This is to the advantage of or the city inasmuch inasmuch inas inas- much as it will prepare the area for future subdividing and at the same time give the excavation excavation excavation ex ex- company the necessary necessary sary material for Cor its ib new Meeting 1 with North Salt Lake cit city council members and Ivon Wall and Melvin 1 of the Committee for Zoning Enforcement Enforcement Enforce Enforce- ment ware were Richard Reed Recd and Dick McGahn McGann owner and project project project manager of the Gibbons and Reed Company After much discussion dis discussion dis- dis Mr Kemp councilman council council- councilman man assured the construction company compan that he questioned that the city would ever consider consider con con- sider having a gravel products plant on its doorstep as this company has hoped to build The cit city has no intention to rezone rezone re re- zone this area from R R-l R 1 to F l F-l 1 he further contended Company asked the council in August Augus 1961 and at intervals since to have th the orchard ground in question south of oC the rezoned from residential to Forest This was to permit the company compan to build a large gravel products product plant on the highway level to facilitate loading loading loading load load- ing operations etc This company company com com- pany has ow owned ed and used gravel grayel grav gray el cl at al intervals from its pits above this area since 1940 The orchard ground in question was sold to the Gibbons and Reed Company Compan by Lauren Gibbs last year under the stipulation that if the city would not allow the ground to be rezoned to F l F-l i then the ground would revert re back to Mr 1 Gibbs A group of or citizens from the Hillside Gardens and surrounding surround surround- ing area met with the city council Monday 1 evening to hear hearan an answer to their request for legal ega advice ice from Crom the city at at- torney Rawlings and West Protesting the use of or huge trucks on the thc road ruru running ng si six feet reet within their childrens children's play area the group present c d many reasons i for r demanding a cessation of the trucking operations operations opera opera- until some agreement could be arranged ATTORNEY WEST conveyed the opinion that the city had ample reasons to declare the trucks a nuisance inasmuch as there have never been operations operations operations opera opera- to this this' exten extent in the area before such as running carry carr carryall all trucks every 30 O seconds and continuing all aU d day y He lie al also o commented that the company had extended their operations far past the toe area used in the past as well as jeopardizing the safety safely and nd welfare of the fhe citizens living along side the dirt d Dick McGahn McGann project manager mana nana g ger r for Gibbons and nd Reed countered w with th the lie explanation that his firms firm's ef excavation and use use of roadway was by prior rights He further explained that the company hesitated moving the road lest it lose its rights to the present one in use He further explained that the company was moving fill nil material material ma maw each day totaling value Curtailing this operation even for one on-e day would seriously seriously ser sere a affect the thc project IN TILL TilE conclusion of the See Sec R ROAD RD D on page 3 Road Continued front front page Monday evening meeting the group proposed that the council ask the Gibbons and Reed Company Company Com pany to abandon the road now being used and construct one several sever l hundred feet to the south cutting through the middIe middle mid mid- dIe dle of or the orchard area or 01 to demand that the company close closedown closedown i down operations The council agreed to arrange a meeting with Mr Reed or his representative the following evening In the following meeting Tuesday evening in connection with the new road agreement it was further advised that the people in the area be notified that while the present city excavation excavation excavation ex ex- ex- ex ordinance prohibits excavation between the hours of 6 pm to 6 am a.m. the city will allow exception to this for forthe forthe forthe the next three weeks time Mr 1 Reed explained that since his yards of or material per day and curtailing operations would seriously seriously seriously ser ser- affect them they ask for permission to construct the new newly 1 proposed road aft aCt e r 1 working hours o 0 ore r e heavy equipment will be operating operating operating oper oper- during the night on this new road project It was further advised that the remainder of or the orchard area would be left alone for future designing rw |