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Show Letters Flag Theft Deplorable Dear Editor: It is a shame that in a city such as Park City that attempts to cater to our tourist friend's needs and provide a fine place to live for locals, as well; that a small segment would rather destroy than improve our surroundings. , At Park City Village, we have provided a large ice skating rink that will be open year round to service visitors and locals. We have adorned the rink with flags of various nations; plus two large flags at the resort entry way, including the American Flag. We also have placed three nation's flags on the beginning begin-ning ski hill. At various times, everyone of the flags have been stolen, including the large entry American Flag. We raised the cleats on the poles so that they cannot be taken without a ladder and replaced all the flags. This weekend, all the lines were cut and the flags stolen again. I do not believe that tourists have ladders with them. We would like to re-raise our flags and make the ice rink an exciting place to be - but we will not unless someone has the decency to return our flags. The costs of the flags have now reached a level of a felonious crime and if anyone is found with any of them a severe prison term could be imposed. But, more important, it certainly makes one wonder what the motivation motiva-tion is of certain of our local citizenry to steal' an American Ameri-can Flag, that is placed in a visable spot for everyone to enjoy. If anyone has any information regarding the missing 15 flags, to date, a reward will be offered. Robert H. Ziegler Park City Village Historic Suggestions Dear Editor: This memo is written in the hope that it will contribute constructively to the process of discussion and debate which will affect the outcome of HR-1 re-zoning. My associates and I currently own 13 lots in HR-1. We are completely in favor pf the proposal for single lot dwellings and wish to make the following points and suggestions. 1. After having discussions discus-sions with numerous people among whom are architects, builders, realtors, and members mem-bers of the Planning Commission Com-mission and Building Department, De-partment, we believe that the problem of mass and volume in HR-1 has not been adequately delineated for the purpose of solution. The current controversy over the proposed square footage limitation formula, as recently recent-ly seen in the The Newspaper Newspa-per and witnessed at the public hearing on December 9, ds clarification. The problem is not mass and volume, it is the appearance of mass and volume -- the view from Main Street. As a practical matter solution to apparent mass is one of design. Given the necessity for three foot side setbacks and the resulting maximum allowable al-lowable building width of 19 feet, human nature and common sense dictate the use of this maximum which, in fact, is what people see from Main Street. Square footage limitation will in no way affect the practical necessity to utilize all 19 feet of building width on 25 foot lots. 2. We would like to suggest as a solution to the problem of apparent mass, design limitation which has been successfully used in other communities with a similar problem. Front and rear facades (elevations) including the visible portions of roofs should be varied in line and material based on visible linear width. For example, a single horizontal portion of a 19-foot wide building might not exceed 11 or 12 feet in the same line or material. The result would be considerably less appearance of mass as well as a more interesting view and overall style potentially more consis-tent consis-tent with the scale and style of Main Street. Given the relatively unopposed unop-posed 10-foot front and rear setbacks,' the 3-foot side setbacks and the 28-foot height limitations, a square footage limitation should not be necessary. s 3. To further encourage the relief from visual mass, we suggest the provision of flexibility in the front and rear setbacks. Although a total combined setback of 20 feet might continue to be required, perhaps a mini- mum of 5 feet instead of 10 feet would help to break up n solid line-up of 19-foot wide . dwellings all in a row. This flexibility could also allow just a little bit more use of natural grade in many cases. 4. We believe that the goal of the building department to reduce the scale of HR-1 building is admirable and will eventually make Park City an even more visually attractive place., We also agree that there can be long-term economies such as energy efficiency effected by smaller buildings. Therefore, There-fore, instead of imposing impractical and illogical square footage limitation on buildings, why not provide genuine incentives for building build-ing smaller? Perhaps if a sliding scale of disapportionate reductions reduc-tions in building permit fees was implemented, architects, archi-tects, owners and builders would seek design solutions to the problems of. small dwellings. For example, why not waive water andor sewer connection charges for ' dwellings which do not exceed 1400 square counterproductive counter-productive limitations. Richard S. Mates Thomas Kirkbride Thank You Dear Editor: Many thanks to the Park City Senior Citizens, my relatives and dear friends for their gifts of flowers, beautiful beauti-ful cards and kind encouraging encourag-ing wishes received during my ten weeks in a Salt Lake hospital for surgery. Also my thanks to the Police Dept., kind neighbors and friends for watching and caring for my home. Marie "Lil" Fountain Bausman Gala Gratitude Dear Editor, What a night! Once again the people of Park City showed how they are willing and able to give to' a good cause and enjoy a great party. "Opening Night '83", the gala fund raiser for the Egyptian Theatre held last " Friday night at the Rusty Nail at the Park City Ski Area was just such an example. The evening turned out to be the most successful fund raiser ever for the Egyptian and was the result of dozens Please turn to page 11 A the keepsake programs and the romantic sounds of Jerry 71 yf j - , Floor's orchestra was pro- 1VIOT6 LiGttGVS vided for by Miners Automo tive. The dessert table was Continued from Page 2A of people spending long hours making sure the evening would be a grand success. First and foremost we would like to thank and recognize Mac and Ann MacQuoid, chairmen of the Supporting Cast group of volunteers for masterminding mastermind-ing the , event. The never ending support continues to ' inspire us all to do great things. The committee who met worked, and then met some more was comprised of Nancy Nipkow, Madeline 1 Smith and Jerry Howells. Honorary member Hal Linden Lin-den choose to volunteer his talents to the evening lending lend-ing the "Class Act" that was the highlight of the night. (Nice touch Hal to introduce your very talented daughter to sing a number that night.) With the numerous requests Mr. Linden gets to perform at charity benefits we are grateful he feels so strongly about supporting the Egyptian. Egyp-tian. The evening's success was due in a large part to the many underwriters who chose to sponsor portions of the event. Special thanks to Summit Savings for printing of the invitations and to 505 Woodside for the printing of posters. Silver King Management Man-agement underwrote the lovely brass bells to ring the New Year and the terrific party hats as well. Chuck Sellier provided both the red and white wine for dinner and the MacQuoid Company along with Brighton and Assoc. supplied the nearly endless stream of champagne cham-pagne all night. Cole Sport arranged for the printing of underwritten by two of Park City favorite sweet tooth locations-The Cookie Bear and Pistacchios. And final at midnight the spectacular firework display was arranged arrang-ed for by parttime Parkites, Frank and Donna O'Bryan. As a souvenior of the evening each person received receiv-ed an etched champagne glass from the folks at the Park City Ski Area who generously gave hours of staff time to insure the success of the evening. The room was transformed to bit of art deco Egypt by the creative hands of Marilyn Nelson and staff of Imaigio. And the wonderful buffet from the carved ice sculpture to the steamship of beef was provided by Ogden Foods under the tireless direction of Jim Simms. 5 The raffle drawing was made possible by local merchants who were willing to donate to the cause. Our warm thanks to Dick Doty, The Park City Ski Area, Park West, Deer Valley, Sutton Jewelers, Stein Erikson Lodge, Family Jewels, the Holiday Inn, Holiday Rent a Car, Pure Gold and the Claimjumper, Philippes, Mi-leti's, Mi-leti's, Janeaux's and the Park City Yacht Cub for their generous donations. Thanks to our own talented talent-ed group of performers, Val Thurnell, Jackie Craigle, Deborah Rapp, Gary Cole and Ren Anderton for donating their talents for the evening. There were dozens of volunteers who helped the evening run smoothly and numbers of people who helped in big and little ways for months to insure the successful night. We thank you. But mostly we thank the people of Park City who spent New Year's Eve with us and helped us ring in the year on strong footing for the Egyptian Theatre. It is your support and faith in us that keeps us going. It's already a Happy New Year. Don Gomes Executive Director Bruce Beers Business Manager Teri Gomes Public RelationsFund Raising Director |