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Show Final Corridor tudy:Hearing duced a "very good report, overall, but that he did have : several problems related to ; the northeast . frontage road ' .': area. He said this area should ' " be zoned foi rhixeid uses as it has been in the past. And Mr. Greenhalgh added that much :, v of the property in the corridor is simply not suitable for development purposes. Mr. Snarr recommended in his study that the character of the natural terrain should be unaltered as much as possible. The Summit County Planning Plann-ing Commission is expected to -use the material in the recently-completed land " use corridor study to decide future zone changes and proposed ' developments. Commission members Mike Ivers ' and Donna Dearden agreed they needed more time to ;digest! the contents in the guide. And county commissioner Bill Wallin said following the public Jnput session, "I believe there's a lot of good in this document." -r : '.:.v t Admitting he has "an axe to grind' because of the proposed pro-posed lumber yard on his property; Mr. Kilby said he was deeply concerned about "the plight of the individual land owner' He added he has had a difficult time communicating communi-cating with the county planning plann-ing commission because he feels the commission favors big developers. jCommission Chairman Lamar Pace took exception to Mr. Kilby's statement, saying the commission commi-ssion attempts to treat individual indivi-dual land owners and developers develop-ers alike.; , Property owner, Mel Flinders Flin-ders objected to the study's recommendation of zoning some of the open space in the corridor to residential, further indicating that development in general should slow down somewhat. , "I hop we're riot trying to eat the elephant all in one bite;" said Mr. Flinders. . Max Greenhalgh, planning consultant for Bagley Real Estate, said Mr. Snarr pro- the present time at Kimball's Junction, Landmark Plaza, developed by Hy Saunders. Kent Holland, an attorney representing Valley Lumber proposed to be located on Mr. Kilby's property, said the land use guide favors the big developer more than individual individ-ual land owners. "The plan should be for you. as citizens, not for big developers," he said at the meeting. Mr. Holland said the study conflicts with recommendations recommenda-tions made by ' the Utah Department of Transportation regarding the location of commercial developments. UDOY, Mr. Holland pointed out; recommended commercial commer-cial zones not be concentrated at the interchanges, yet the' guide suggest just the opposite The final draft of a policy guide for commercial and industrial development in the Parley's Park; Corridor was presented Tuesday night during dur-ing a special public meeting oi the Summit County Planning Commission held in the multi-purpose room at Park City High School. The broad-sweeping land use study, conducted by Keith , Snarr of The Environmental Management Planning Organization Organ-ization in Salt Lake, could have a significant impact on future, developments in the corridor area. The twenty-mile area, itself spreads across Interstate 80 from Parley's Summit, to Silver Creek Junction, Utah Highway 224 from Kimball's Junction to Park City, state highway 248 from Park City to the Heber cut-off, and U.S. Highway 40 from Silver Creek Junction to Keetley Junction. The corridor is also referred to as' the Snyderville Basin. Several county resident present at the meeting voiced ' sharp criticism regarding the land use guide; while others saw it as a useful tool for future" developments. Following Follow-ing the public input session, the county planning commission commiss-ion decided it needed more time to study Mr. Snarr' s land use guide before making any final decisions. The guide covers a number of general areas of concern , ' probably the most important being how land sites in the corridor should be zoned. For example, Mr. Snarr recommended recom-mended that commercial zones be Tocated ' primarily at the intersections on 1-80 Kimball's Junction, Silver ; Creek -Junction, Keetley 's Junction ( and Gorgoza Exit). Commercial activities outside these interchanges should be discouraged, Mr. Snarr fu .' . . ther recommended, adding strip commercial development should be avoided. The guide states that proposals for commercial developments de-velopments should address several vital land use concerns, con-cerns, including traffic, parking, park-ing, impact on local economy, and present needs for such a project. Contract zoning, a means to control speculative developing by encouraging the developer to develop his land within a certain length of time, or have the zone resort back to its original designation, was also recommended. Park City Justice of the Peace James Kilby, who owns a parcel of land between Kimball's Junction and Jeremy Jere-my Exit on the east side of 1-80 which is the site of a proposed lumber yard, raised several objections to the land use study, saying it was incomplete incom-plete in that it concentrates only on the east frontage road. Reading from a three-and-a-half page document, Mr. Kilby said "overinflated fig-res" fig-res" were used throughout the study. He expressed particular concern about zoning zon-ing large parcels of land Commercial before needs for such a zone is established. "We object to the attempt to pre-designate large projects, pro-jects, especially large commercial com-mercial and residential areas based on unrealistic and inflated projections; that may never come to fruitation or may take 50 years to reach any substantial potential," said Mr. Kilby, "thereby closing off any future opportunity for other or smaller landowners because a glut of approvals will already exist even though the .need at the time of approval was not apparent. " ; One .such" large commercial .; . project is bin g proposed at a , - "- ..V' t ' |
