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Show Planners Talk Sewer and Fire gathering stage of the young group. Next, Greenhalgh said the planners will assimilate the data and establish policies and goals concerning land use planning. Following formulation of this theoretical planning, based on diverse public input, the Commission Com-mission will work on a Master Land Use Map of Summit County and begin devising appropriate zoning . to implement the plan. Representatives from the Sny-derville Sny-derville Basin Sewer Improvement Improve-ment District and the newly created Fire Protection District offered input to the Steering Committee of the County Planning Plan-ning Commission Tuesday at the Memorial Building. The sewer district, organized two years ago and encompassing Park City, the Snyderville Basin and Summit Park, has received a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency covering 75 per cent of the construction cost of the initial phase of a treatment facility to be located in Gorgoza. the additional 25 per cent, about one million dollars will be voted on by district residents in the next few months. If the issue is defeated, sewer officials envision the development will be greatly retarded in the Snyderville area, since the federal money is dependent de-pendent on local funds. mile east of the old highway. It will run past Kimball's Junction to the treatment plant at the low point of the valley. Another line will run from Summit Park, and county Planner Max Greenhalgh believes the sizeable system will be relatively easy for developers to connect to. He reported that the board feels it can handle basically any type of development. develop-ment. However, if the bond election does not pass, the availability of the system to provide services will be greatly slowed. Volunteer Fire Department Chief Tom Sullivan represented the fire district to planners and was asked for a zoning recommendation recom-mendation concerning building heights. He said the department is not able to adequately fight fires over two levels or 30 feet, to get decent fire insurance for high rise structures, Sullivan reported, According to the district board, consisting of Mel Flinders, Jan Wilking, and James Kilby, the new facilities will have a profound impact, probably greatly encouraging encour-aging development. As planned, the district will be able to handle the waste treatment needs of all development planned for years to come. Since January 15, about 15 developers have contacted the County Planning Commission on proposed development in the Snyderville Basin area. Mel Flinders reportedly believes a major reason for the sudden spurt is that now that the district is formed, developers can "see the light at the end of the tunnel", and find it worthwhile to proceed. The system's main trunk line will run from the city along the highway to the old county road where it will jog down to the old railroad bed about one-fourth the district would have to purchase a high-rise truck, equipment costing between $100,000 and $160,000. Sullivan also discouraged planners from allowing clustering of homes because of the potential for rapid fire spread. Sullivan claimed that most fires treated by his department are in condominiums and said he can't understand why most condos are built from wood. Greenhalgh mused, "This puts us in a paradox because we would like to encourage clustering to provide open space, but we want good fire protection too." Sullivan said the costs of other fire protection measures such as sprinkler systems or fire proof walls are formidable. The County Steering Committee Commit-tee will hold one more meeting, March 16, to receive input from farmers on land use priorities. This will end the information |