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Show Meadows Plans Raise Questions ; proposed Quarry Mountain Road : through Treasure Hills. The study also said parking may have to be restricted on the three roads, which would function as "collector" streets even though they travel through residential areas. City Traffic Engineer Wayne VanWagoner reported at Wednesday's Wed-nesday's meeting that he had reviewed Stone's report and could find "no criticism" of it. "The roads will accommodate the traffic," he said, "but there will be an increase to the point that the city will have to be concerned with school crossings and visibilty at driveways." Johnson presented an additional addi-tional report from Stone prepared in response to questions raised by the commission regarding traffic generated by . the Racquet Club and proposed golf course, pedestrian pede-strian safety on Monitor Drive and length of cul-de-sacs. The report maintains that Racquet Club and golf course traffic should be "negligible" compared to traffic generated by the remainder of the area and that proposed cul-de-sacs should be no problem. Stone recommends that "special "spe-cial attention" should be paid to enforcing a low speed limit, however, to avoid safety hazards to pedestrians. He also recommends recom-mends that sidewalks be provided. pro-vided. The report notes that Monitor Drive will produce an average daily traffic of 4400 vehicles, compared to a 7500 automobile average on Park Avenue near the Kimball Art Center, according to -a traffic count taken in December. Johnson also presented a cost benefit study of the two proposed subdivisions, which concludes they "would better than carry themselves" in relation to tax revenues collected by the city. The Park City planning commission com-mission continued discussion last week of two proposed 45-lot and 109-lot Park Meadows subdivisions. subdivi-sions. The plans for the subdivisions, presented last month, produced a wealth of questions, objections and comments from the city engineer and several adjoining property owners, which were considered at length Wednesday. A decision on whether to grant preliminary approval to the plans was tabled until the questions can be resolved. Property owners D.A. Osgu-thorpe, Osgu-thorpe, Mary Lehmer and representatives repre-sentatives of the North Park City Company, developers of the proposed Treasure Hills subdivision, subdivi-sion, appeared at the meeting to protest a lack of plans for a storm drainage system in the original presentation and to question plans for traffic flow. Osguthorpe maintained that he had originally given permission to the Park Meadows Co. to drain storm run-off through his property, prop-erty, which lies between Park Meadows and state highway 248, in return for the eventual installation of a road through his property connecting Park Meadows Mea-dows with the highway. Under a revised Park Meadows materplan, however, the road has been eliminated, along with the originally planned "loop road" through the residential area. "If I had known that at the beginning, I would never have given permission to let them drain through my property," he said. Osguthorpe also said the proposed development would have a serious effect on storm drainage downstream, already a problem. He said a drainge culvert on his property has overflowed its banks several times since Park Meadows construction cut down on the amount of water soaked into the ground. "They're going to have to plan for run off and drainage," he said "So far, it's been poorly handled." Attorney Grant Orton, representing repre-senting North Park City Co., summerized the concerns as "drainage and circulation." "Their drainage plan would drain water right onto our property," he said. Orton also complained that a stub road, shown on the Park Meadows masterplan as a connection con-nection to a major new entrance road through the proposed Treasure Hills subdivision, is not included in the specific subdivision subdivi-sion now under construction, where the masterplan indicates it . will be. Orton later said several attempts at-tempts to contact Park Meadows developer Dick Smith to discuss the problem have been unsuccessful. unsuc-cessful. "The plan hasn't given adequate ade-quate concern to the whole area, ' ' he said. Engineer Jack Johnson, representing repre-senting Park Meadows, answered that a master drainage system for the area, although not required under local ordinance, is now being developed. He denied that any commitment had been made to build a road through Osgu-thorpe's Osgu-thorpe's property. "It is not our intention to flood adjacent property owners," he said. Johnson was scheduled to meet last week with City Engineer John Probasco to discuss the drainage system. Johnson declined to comment on the stub road problem, maintaining it was something that "has to be dealt with between developer and developer." Also discussed was a memo from City Planner David Preece that listed nearly 20 points, many of them raised by the city engineer, that were "either missing or are not as clear as. ..they should be" in the original presentation of the two subdivisions and Park Meadows masterplan. The points included items of information not included on the preliminary plats, a lack of plans for drainage and pedestrian safety problems, traffic cirula-tion, cirula-tion, water supply and impact on city services. Johnson answered the points individually in a lengthy memo of his own, concluding that "most of the information asked for. ..is premature" and should be considered under final, not preliminary approval. Johnson added that drainage problems were now being considered consi-dered and that traffic circulation problems had been answered by a study presented last month by University of Utah professor Thomas Stone. The study concluded that at ultimate development, Park Meadows streets will be sometimes some-times crowded, but not overloaded, overload-ed, and that traffic lights may eventually have to be installed at the intersections of highways 224 and 248 with three proposed main access roads Monitor Drive, Holiday Ranch Road and the |