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Show City Planners Explain Zoning To Citizens and Solicit Input About 40 Park City residents resid-ents attended Monday night's public meeting, designed to review previously determined determin-ed community goals and objectives, ob-jectives, and to hear how proposed zoning ordinances will aid in achieving these. City Planner Van Martin began by presenting a capsule cap-sule history of planning accomplished ac-complished up until now. He reminded those present that although the 1967 Master Plan has been revamped, the zoning associated with that plan is still in effect. Goals and policies were determined determin-ed after several public surveys sur-veys and these were incorporated incor-porated in the Development Guide and Comprehensive Plan Update, drawn up by Architects Planners Alliance Al-liance in 1973, a conceptual scheme whose main author is Planner Gene Carr. This master plan, however, cannot can-not be implemented until proposed zoning is passed control over retaining old buildings. As a Historic District, Dis-trict, this part of town is given a particular identity and designation. All uses in this area are conditional which allows the Planning Commission to review proposed pro-posed building according to criteria established for its architectural character. Jack Green challenged this idea, stating, "I have trouble convincing myself that we need a historical zone." He said he fears lack of incentive incen-tive to build in the Main Street area because of possible pos-sible property devaluation. Jan Wilking, chairman of the City Council Master Plan committee claimed that usually us-ually land value is enhanced by historical voning. He predicted pre-dicted that in the long run the more attractive appearance appear-ance of the Historical District Dis-trict will raise property values. II Prospector Square and Ellwood Nielson developers present at the meeting expressed ex-pressed concerns that densities den-sities and lot si?es allowed under RM, RD, and C zones may hurt them. Wilking and Carr countered with the "built-in flexibility of the plan which allows for higher high-er density cluster-type development, de-velopment, provided that an open-space provision is met. Wilking explained that "if you come up with a more creative cre-ative solution, you will be allowed more density." Thus, if developers meet community space requirements, require-ments, according to proposed propos-ed new zoning, they can get around strict density requirements re-quirements in some areas. Tuesday's open meeting involved public discussion concerning the goals, policies, pol-icies, and proposed zoning ordinance as explained Monday Mon-day night. which will enforce ideas presented. pre-sented. Martin reminded interested interest-ed citizens that followingthe public meeting, a 15-day public pub-lic notice will be issued. Following publication, a final public hearing will be held which will offer the City Council citizen input prior to a final vote on the proposed zoning ordinance. Martin invited Parkites to "look at the ordinance and scrutinize it with usinorder to decide if it is in accord with your desires." Gene Carr then summarized summar-ized the recommendations of the Update, emphasizingthat essential aspects of the plan were carried over from the 1967 document and "express goals from way back." The most central of these goals involves the preservation of Park City's small town scale and lifestyle, and t h e preservation or re-creation of the mining town atmosphere. atmos-phere. The desire to maintain main-tain the historic visual qual- ity of the town was cited as a central part of the master plan and proposed zoning. Also, Carr said, the overall over-all preservation of the natural nat-ural setting and determination determina-tion of natural limitations to development are important. He said that the update was necessary because rapid growth and development has occurred in new areas. The present zoning ordinance is now inadequate in many respects res-pects because allowed density den-sity would be too great in some environmentally delicate del-icate areas. Although the plan urges Park City to preserve pre-serve a certain character or quality, only zoning gives city officials the criteria on which to judge HOW to preserve pre-serve such a character. Carr spoke in detail about the Historic District which encompasses most of the old part of town. He justified the creation of such a district by citing the need for the Planning Plan-ning Commission to have |