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Show (3 f&lm fmk fend I ' '- - ! ttu S. j - '-. 1 I 1- i. 11 ----- By Geoffrey Miller Any resident who hopes the city will sell or vacate land in its streets to him had better forget it at least for a while. This conclusion could be drawn from Thursday Thurs-day night's City Council meeting, in which the Council Coun-cil affirmed a tough stand on vacating city streets and made two decisions related to this policy. Mayor John Price said the policy, informally adopted in executive session, was twofold. First, he said, "While we are still in the process of planning the city, we will allow no vacation or selling of city streets." Once the planning is complete, com-plete, he added, the city may again allow this kind of private priv-ate use of its streets. In the first new business before the Council, a lawyer law-yer from James Larson asked ask-ed the city to vacate land in two of its streets occupied by property once owned by his client. The lawyer said that Mr. Mantegi, who bought the property from Larson, had filed suit against Larson Lar-son for $20,000 damages after learning that it encroached en-croached on two city streets. A survey showed that the house itself encroaches in back of his property the city plans to use as a parking park-ing lot. Willard had requested request-ed that the city deed him some adjacent land in exchange ex-change for the property to be used for the lot. Willard claims he owns the land in question, on which he has two garages, by virtue of a "boundry by acquies-cense". acquies-cense". City Attorney Carl Nemelka disputed Willard's claim, and said the city has a valid deed to the property formerly owned by United Park City Mines. The Council directed Mr. Nemelka to meet with Willard's Wil-lard's lawyer to try to work out an agreement. If no agreement is reached, the case is almost certain to end up in court. Mayor Price said later that in the case of city property prop-erty there is no such thing as ad ve rse possession, or "Squatter's rights." So, no matter how long a person maintains an encroachment on city land, he will hevei gain valid title to the property. prop-erty. However, the mayor said existing encroachments on city land are not likely to be disturbed "unless they are creating a nuisance." The policy affirmed Thursday pertains only to future use "Eyes right" seems members of the Park City Council Coun-cil are listening attentively from left, Jan Wilking, Mayor John Price. Leon Uriarte, and Mary C. Lehmer. Photo by Cassie town, since 20 or more truckloads of ore would be coming down from the mine daily. In other new business, the Council authorized purchase of a $9,341 'super adding machine" for the town and a new police car at $100 over cost. The Council also granted business licenses to Wallace Associates, a real estate corporation, Robert Charles Redding, an attorney, Data Phase Corporation, and the White Haus Restaurant. three feet onProspectStreet and five feet on Chambers Street. The porches of the house extend even further into the streets. Larson's lawyer requested request-ed that the city allow the encroachment for the life of the building. Councilman Jan Wilking, responded by calling for consistency with the Council's policy. " The Council passed a motion to deny Larson's request re-quest and also to void a previous pre-vious offer of the Council allowing the house to remain indefinitely, but protecting the porches for only five years. The vote was unanimous, un-animous, with the exception of Councilwoman Mary Lehmer, Leh-mer, who abstained because she had been professionally involved in the case. In another action involving involv-ing city property, the Council Coun-cil refused to compensate Dan Willard, owner of Kin-dersport Kin-dersport Ski Shop, for land of city streets. In a third piece of new business, Niles Andrus, Superintendent Su-perintendent of Park City Ventures, asked the city for a right-of-way to run a slime line from the concentrating plant to Richardson Flat. He also asked for an area in which to load concentrated ore from dump trucks onto railroad cars. Andrus said he needed a spot near the American Oil distributor opposite op-posite Mount Air Market, since this is the only place with a grade the railroad considers safe for the operation. op-eration. Finally, he wanted to use the Ontario loading station as a supply area for timber. Andrus was directed to go before the Master Plan Committee Com-mittee rather than take his request directly to the Council. Coun-cil. Price said granting Andrus' An-drus' request would result in a major impact on the |