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Show Commission Hears Depot Plans pers' request as: "One HCB (historic commercial commer-cial business zoning) without a plan." Wright has indicated he would like to have the same flexibility in Park City he had developing the nationally known Trolley Square project, since he plans to use recycled materials. Citing complaints he had received from nearby homeowners, homeow-ners, Planning Commission Co-chairman Co-chairman Burnis Watts questioned question-ed the project, particularly its effect on the Park Avenue residential area. "Residential people don't particularly par-ticularly like nightly rentals in their neighborhood," he said. Watts, who lives in the Park Avenue area himself, also objected objec-ted to the Coalition lift. "I don't want my neighborhood mucked up with it," he said. The developers have filed a petition with the Planning Com mission for the zoning change, and the Board has 30 days to act on the request. The developers have scheduled a public meeting with the Commission for March 28 to get public input on their plans. "We started this project because we were afraid of what would happen to the old part of town," said developer Harry Reed. Reed said the Coalition building build-ing was in danger of being torn down if the project falls through. Watts told Reed and Bill Coleman that the Commission needs a "more definitive plan," including specific proposed uses and plans for parking and access to housing. At press time, developers Reed and Coleman were scheduled to meet with Main Street merchants Wednesday morning to discuss their plans. Developers of the proposed Norfolk Avenue, Union Depot, . Coalition rennovation project presented a general description of their plans for the 13 acre depot area to the Planning Commission last Wednesday. The plans include: a train car motel on tracks directly surrounding the depot. a 100 room hotel in the center of the property 10,000 square feet of commercial com-mercial space for Trolley Squarelike Square-like development between the hotel and depot three housing areas for possible nightly rentals, scattered throughout the property and two rear parking areas a recreation area featuring racquet ball, handball or tennis courts, and a city park along the proposed extension of highway 248. a possible convention center on the site of the Park Avenue Pressure Vessels building According to Planner Jack Johnson, who made the presentation, presenta-tion, initial plans call for a trolley car to run on existing Union Pacific track through the middle of the area, separating the commercial part of the development develop-ment from parking and housing along Park Avenue. Johnson said the developers would initially install the trolley from the Union Depot, through the project, and extending to the Mount Air Mall area. The trolley could later be extended up Main Street, with a possible spur to the proposed Deer ValleyLake Flat resort complex, he said. The plans are the brainchild of Trolley Square developer Wally Wright (see related story in the People section), who has tentatively tenta-tively called the area "Union Depot." Wright was unable to attend the meeting because of prior commitments in St. Louis, where he is working on a 60-acre Union Square redevelopment project. The depot area is part of a larger plan, which also includes renovation of the Coalition building, a chairlift from the Coalition to the top of Park City resort's Payday ski run, and a 49 lot subdivision along a proposed extension of Norfolk Avenue above Main Street. It is being developed by Wright, Salt Lake investors John Prince and Jack Sweeney and local realtors Harry Reed and Bill Coleman. Developers are asking the Planning Commission for a zoning change of the Union Depot area, which is now zoned Estate, before the project can proceed. Admitting that plans for the depot area are still sketchy, Johnson summed up the develo- |