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Show Ret iv e Buzz Heralds Starting of Park Main Street OH Street Improvement prehensive downtown proposal pro-posal was brought before the City Council as a plan for a parking lot with storm and sanitary sewers, as is presently pres-ently under construction. The cost of the improvements improve-ments is assessed to the owners of property within the Main Street Improvement Improve-ment District. It was decided de-cided that properties facing constructed by a special improvement im-provement district cannot occur on private property, the acquisition of several pieces of privately owned land is now under investigation investiga-tion by the city attorney. It is generally believed that the parkinglot improvement improve-ment will lie a great asset to the Main Street area, and the cooperation of all property prop-erty owners and merchants in the area is urged. The question that is still, being asked is whether the current activities are the first phase of an on-going Main Street Improvement effort ef-fort or whether the parking lot represents a "peak-out" of improvement energies. The answer will be for the Main Street community to provide. Main Street between Heber Avenue and the south end of the district who are not required re-quired by the city to provide their ovn off-street parking, be assessed at a higher rate than other properties within with-in the district. The cooperation of the public utility companies has been greatly appreciated. The telephone company will place their lines underground under-ground from Fourth Street to Heber Avenue for a modest cost, and thus eliminate a row of unsightly poles. Utah Power and Light has agreed to shift at no cost to the district dis-trict all poles that would interfere with the improvements. improve-ments. Because improvements By Eugene E. Carr The buzz of activity currently cur-rently taking place along Swede Alley is the implementation im-plementation of what is officially of-ficially known as the Park City Main Street Off Street Parking Special Improvement Improve-ment District. The project, when completed com-pleted this fall, will provide paved parking for about 230 cars and improved access to it. The city will install new lighting for the area under separate arrangements. The parking lot project is the vestige of a larger Main Street Improvement project for which planning was begun in early 1972. The original concept of a complete downtown face lift was initiated under the guidance guid-ance of a Main Street Improvement Im-provement Committee composed com-posed of merchants and property owners. Chairman of the group was Don Millicam. At its first unveiling in the fall of 1972, the concept for preservation of the "historic "his-toric Park City MainStreet" featured proposals for improved im-proved sidewalks, street surfaces (including the side streets up to Park Avenue), restoration of the old street lights, street furniture and landscaping, a change to oneway one-way traffic up Main Street and angle parkingon the west side, and a sewer to serve properties on the west side of the street. The plan also included the proposal for the parking lot behind Main Street combined combin-ed with a landscaped green-belt green-belt along the creek bed, and storm and sanitary sewers. The objectives for the pro ject were developed by the Main Street Committee along with the planning consultants, consult-ants, ArchitectsPlanners Alliance. The objectives were essentially: es-sentially: (1) Protection of the mining town image; (2) Development of the economic vitality of the business district; dis-trict; (3) Creation of a unifying unify-ing and functional design concept for the district. (4) Development of convenient traffic circulation and additional ad-ditional parking space, and (5) Improvement of public utilities to accommodate anticipated growth and development. de-velopment. The planners pointed out that all of the space necessary neces-sary for future parking demand de-mand could not be provided in the narrow confines of the Main Street area, even with the development of the parking park-ing lot. It was recommended that alternate transportation modes eventually be developed. de-veloped. The cost of the complete improvement project was estimated at approximately $450,000. The proposal aroused considerable discussion dis-cussion and controversy particularly with respect to the overall cost and the inclusion in-clusion of the sanitary sewers. sew-ers. A series of meetings followed fol-lowed the presentation of the plan during which new points of view were considered, and alternatives discussed. Considerable efforts were expended to include all interested inter-ested property owners and businessmen. After several months of discussion, the once com- |