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Show County Officials Compromise On New Development Code The Summit County Planning Commission and County Commissioners Commis-sioners resolved their remaining differences over the new County Development Code and Master-plan Master-plan last week, leading the way to swift passage of the two documents. The ordinance restricting the placement of mobile homes had been a stumbling block in previous discussions of the : Development Code, but the Commissioners arrived at a compromise solution last Wednesday Wed-nesday with only a few changes. Instead of restricting mobile homes to trailer parks and parcels of land larger than five acres, as originally proposed, the code will permit placement of the homes on lots as small as one acre if the property lies in a residental zone. Commissioner Dale Leavitt of Kamas had protested that the original mobile home ordinance discriminated against low-income families. The compromise agreement was adopted by the Planning Commission the following day, placing the Commission and Commissioners in "unanimous support" of the code, according to County Planner Max Green-halgh. Green-halgh. The County Commissioners set a June 28 date for a final public hearing on the Code. With the county officials all in agreement, the Planning Commission decided to postpone its own hearing on the Masterplan, scheduled for June 1, in order to hold both hearings at the same time. The Masterplan has been described as the "roadmap" for the Planning Commission to control growth in the County. The Development Code, which only the Commissioners can adopt, provides the ordinances for enforcing the Masterplan. Together, Toget-her, they will provide the guidelines for controlling growth in the county for the first time. The Code and Masterplan are of particular interest to the Park City area, since they would regulate development of property along U.S. Highway 224. The Planning Commission and County Commissioners also agreed last week to create a new Wilderness-Forestry zone in the Development Code. The new zone, which restricts building to parcels of land larger than 100 acres, would apply only to privately owned property within a National Forest area. County Planner Greenhalgh said that zoning along Highway 224 will be "very restrictive" under the new ordinances, restricting development to residential resi-dential buildings on lots larger than 40 acres. |