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Show Committee Formed to Study Eauestrian Center change their plans. "Save some money for yourselves." he said. "Shrink it down,' Commissioners Vance, Greg Lawson and Dean Bcrrett volunteered to form a committee to meet with Banbcrry planners with the hope of devising a workable plan for the center. The Park City Planning Commission has formed a committee to study the impact of a indoor horse arena and boarding stables which developers propose to build within the Solamere subdivision. Representatives of Banberry Corp., developers of the subdivision in Deer Valley, asked the commissioners to consider the equestrian center at their April 8 meeting. But when commissioners saw the plans for the center, several members voiced ill feelings alleging developers "changed the original concept" of their plans. Assistant City Planner Kevin Hooper said the developers originally presented plans to the planning staff for a "private center" for use of residents of the Solamere development. But the drawings of the center indicate developers will use if for "commercial purposes." Commissioner Burnis Watts said when the plans for1 the Solamere subdivision were first introduced to the commission, members envisioned a different "concept" of an equestrian center. City Planner Bill Ligety agreed. He said he imagined "white fences along the road with some pasture area." Banberry Corp.'s Mike Barnes said the center, which includes an indoor arena and 16 boarding stables, would be operated "at a profit" to provide an area in which people could board horses and hold shows. Watts said Banberry's plans "negates" the purpose it was originally proposed to serve. The original plans, he said, was to provide an area for people in the Solamere subdivision to keep horses. Though the majority of commissioners who expressed any opinion concerning the center said they did not object to the center's "pay for play" concept, many of the eight members present said they had "envisioned something different". Many of the commissioners were concerned with the size of the center. Commission Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman Mike Vance suggested developers |