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Show Commission Faces Numerous Requests The Planning Commission's work session this week was bombarded bom-barded with developers presenting pre-senting plans for a multitude of projects all requiring "immediate "im-mediate approval." The amount of material coming before the Commission was so great that a special continuation of Wednesday's Wed-nesday's meeting will be held and Commissioners discussed closing the agenda several days prior to a meeting eliminating a constant barrage of last minute min-ute business. Gordon Sloan of Western Woodlands, Wood-lands, the marketing arm of the Prospector Square development, presented the Commission with proposed plans for a 16 lane bowling alley, two mini malls, and a general store to be built in the Prospector Square commercial com-mercial area this year. The four commercial buildings will total nearly 50,000 square feet. The bowling alley alone will JL approval. Marv Steadman, also associated assoc-iated with Western Woodlands, presented the Commission with preliminary plans for "Prospector "Pros-pector Village Phase II." The proposed 32.5 acre development calls for 208 residential dwellings dwell-ings to be located in 70 separate sep-arate multiple family units. Construction Con-struction of the 24 duplexes, 24 triplexes, and 22 fourplexes would create an overall density of about 6.4 units per acre. Again the Commission expressed ex-pressed concern over the project's pro-ject's size, but declined to take definitive action. After a brief encounter with attorney Alan Frandson over a conditional use permit problem, in walks Elwood Nielsen, (after obtaining a temporary injunction halting all master plan meetings for ten days), with plans for a 29 unit subdivision. The pro- comprise 15,543 square feet, boasting 16 alleys, a large game room, lockers, and other amenities. The proposed mini malls will provide a number of small commercial com-mercial spaces, hopefully to be occupied by artisans, craftsmen, crafts-men, and small retail shops. The General Store, is the largest of "the proposed commercial com-mercial buildings, with approximately approx-imately 18,900 feet split into two levels. Because Wednesday's meeting meet-ing was a work session, the commission took no decisive action with respect to the proposals. pro-posals. The Commission did, however, express the concern over the sheer size or trie developments de-velopments and reacted with seeming displeasure over the architectural design of the bowling bowl-ing alley and one of the two malls. The other mini mall and the general store's design seemed to meet with their posed subdivision will be composed com-posed of single family dwellings, located in the draw at the entrance en-trance of the Masonic Hill road. The "Highland Hills" development develop-ment seemed to meet with a relatively favorable response, but the Commission was concerned con-cerned over the steep 12 percent per-cent grade of Nielson's proposed pro-posed access road. Newly appointed City Justice Brent Gold was on hand to another presentation of his plans for a series of four- fourplexes to be located on Daly Avenue. The Commission reacted somewhat some-what negatively to the development develop-ment expressing concern about the local firefighting capabilities with respect to the 35 foot heighth of the buildings. The Commission also discussed dis-cussed City right-of-ways pertaining per-taining to the recently approved 87 lot "Park Meadows" subdivision subdi-vision with representative Jack Johnson. |