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Show of the public. Luckily, whether through a lack of accurate legal advice or through no legal advice at all, they appear ap-pear to have failed in these attempts. I feel that the public interest is being disserved greatly by this council compounding com-pounding the errors of its predecessors and ignoring the legitimate and enforceable enfor-ceable rights it is sworn to protect. I admit that the recent council has the power to vacate this street at any time when it finds that the vacation is in the public interest. However, I resent any attempts by this council to hide its actions behind the history of earlier administrations. If this council feels that the public interest is served by closing this street and letting Krajeski construct his building, then the council members should publicly state their positions and pay the political price. If the council feels that the street is an important public asset, then it should take steps to protect and enforce the public rights which, in my view, still exist. I urge you to use your influence with the council to help it make the right choice. Very truly yours, John R. Lehmer We believe this letter speaks for itself. it-self. We urge you again to take immediate im-mediate steps to eject Mr. Krajeski's planters and obstacles and to maintain intact the city's established street between City Hall and the Masonic Lodge. Vote taken and carried by the mar-jority mar-jority of the senior citizens of Park City. Very truly yours, Park City Senior Citizens Afton B. Williams, President The streets belong to the people Editor's note: .Reprinted below is a copy of a letter to the Park City Council and City Attorney At-torney Tom Clyde regarding the decision to abandon the "street" between bet-ween the Masonic building and City Hall. Dear ladies and gentlemen: Thank you for your response to our letter requesting that you take immediate im-mediate action to prevent present owner Dave Krajeski from stealing the city's street out from under us. We note from your reply and Attorney Attor-ney Clyde's letter and interview in the Park Record that Mr. Clyde appears to be mistaken about the law (and we don't think Mr. Clyde is ignorant of the law) or else he is abdicating his responsibility as our City Attorney and is parroting the sham reasons the City Council is using in its avid attempt to give away a city asset which each member of the council swore to preserve and protect. You, the City Council, and Mr. Clyde attempt to justify your ill-founded position by blaming city councils of 1943 and 1977 for giving the public street back to its former owners by way of deeds of waiver. It was our information in-formation that those waivers are null and void because Utah State law provides that the only way a city may divest itself of a public street is to publish notice of a public hearing to be held concerning whether such street shall be vacated, and that at such public hearing the city must find as a fact that vacating such street will not be against the interest of the general public. We conferred with local counsel to see if we were right in our thinking. We were happy to learn that said attorney, as a public-spirited citizen, was already in communication with Mr. Clyde on the same subject. He has given us a copy of his latest communication, com-munication, which has not yet been answered an-swered and is as follows : Dear Tom : Thanh you for sending me copies of the documents and minutes concerning concer-ning the street next to City Hall. Unfortunately, Unfor-tunately, I fail to see how any of these affect the rights of the public. I am still of the opinion that the only way to terminate the public's interest in a street is through having the governing gover-ning body enact a vacating ordinance that, regardless of any "official" acts taken by this or prior city councils, all public rights which have ever accrued in or to the property remain unaltered until the proper steps to terminate them, as required by State law, have been taken. It may be true that prior city councils coun-cils attempted to give away the rights |