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Show Council refuses to deny approval for motor hotel ohnnt prime, traffic nnicn -..j develop the land. According to Citv Attorney Tom Clvde. the issue facing the council was not whether the hotel was an appropriate use for the land, but whether the planning comm.ss.on was acting within the city s ordinaces. j.c But a crowd of angry residents from Park Meadows. McLeod CreeK and Thavnes Canyon told the council they didn't care if the hotel met codes and uses set down in city zoning regulations. Citing concerns The city council has denied an appeal from 200 Park City residents to overturn planning commission approval of a 129-room hotel at the intersection of Utah Highway 224 and Holiday Ranch Loop Road. In denying the appeal, the council found that the planning commission was acting within the guidelines of the land management code. Further, the council determined that, although al-though the hotel was granted as a "conditional use," the developer, Mega Corp.. has a legal right to about crime, traffic, noise and aesthetics, the citizens told the council they didn't want it. The appeal was filed by James Hogle. a Windrift Condominium homeowner. Hogle maintained that the streets in the residential area west of Cemetery Hill will become conduits for hotel traffic. He argued that the land would be better used for residential projects. Resident Dick Andrews told the council. "The bottom line is that people who elected you don't want it." Another resident. Bob Powers, told the council. "If we don't want ii, its wrong. We have to live here." But planning commission chairman chair-man Cal Cowher told the group and the council that the project, known as the Park City Motor Hotel, had gone through the planning process. Implicit in Cowher' s statement is that the public had a chance for input before the commission approved the hotel. Gil Rand, the architect who designed the hotel for Mega Corp., told the restless audience that the company had gone "beyond requirements require-ments in materials for aesthetics." Further, he said that the hotel was designed with 70 percent open space instead of the required 30 percent. And Mega Corp will spend $1.50 on landscaping for every square foot of open space rather than the usual 80 cents, he added. But Park Meadows resident Jenny Smith told the council she was "upset with the hotel." She explained to the council that her family had moved to Park Meadows because it was a safe place for children. She maintains the hotel will end all of that. "I wish we hadn't fought the (UP&L) power station (proposed for the same site) because it would have been safer." The city council, however, found it impossible to agree with the residents. "We don't have a choice legally," said City Councilman Jim Doilney. The council denied the appeal but approved a condition that would reduce hotel traffic access on Holiday Ranch Loop Road. |