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Show Planner returns to Park City Joel Paterson is the newest planner in the Park City Planning Department. But he's been there before. As a University of Utah student, he interned for the city from October 1980 to May, 1981. In those days, the planning offices were in the bottom floor of the Memorial Building. The ceiling throbbed with the noise of basketball games being played in the gym overhead. And on one occasion part of the ceiling fell on a secretary's desk. His job then, Joel recalled, was to help the city organize information on development. He gathered data, reorganized files and surveyed building permits. Since then, the city has changed, and Paterson has put more professional profes-sional experience under his belt. His interest in planning began, he said, when he was growing up in Salt lake and watching the city grow at a , phenomenal rate. He started at the ! University of Utah as a disgruntled business major, then changed horses. He graduated from the University in June, 1981 with a B.S. in Urban Planning and an emphasis in regional and environmental planning. recycling and environmental education. educa-tion. Last September, he began six months of work in the Ogden City planning department. While he was there, he recalled, a major planning issue concerned a central part of town called the Jefferson area. The land was zoned high-density residential, residen-tial, he said, and had the potential for commercial encroachment. But, paradoxically, the neighborhood has a good portion of low moderate income residences. "The residents felt the city hadn't represented them well." Before he left, he said, the Ogden government rezoned the area to call for greater city review of commercial development there. He moved briefly to Glenwood Springs, Colorado, then heard there was a vacancy in Park City. Since his wife went to school in Utah and he wanted a job in a mountain town, the decision was easy to make. ! The current Park City building ? season is slow, he said, but there is still work for the planners. Paterson said he will be the staff liaison to the city's Board of Adjustments. He will also work on the city's ordinances for hillsides and sensitive lands. Joel Paterson From there,' he went to Western Washington University in Belling-ham, Belling-ham, Washington and graduated last summer with a Masters Degree. He also got married in 1984. His wife, he said, is involved with |