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Show Special district pondered for Old Ranch Road The Summit County Commission Com-mission will hold a public hearing May 29 in Snyder-ville Snyder-ville to consider forming a special improvement district that could spend some $1.8 million on improvements to Old Ranch Road. The upgrading is necessary, neces-sary, according to consultant Keith Snarr, before the Summit County Planning Commission will consider further development along the road. Snarr is working with the county on the proposal as a consultant for Environmental Planning Management Organization of Murray. Under current plans the district would issue a 10-year bond to pay for the improvements. improve-ments. Snarr said the impact of that proposal on individuals indivi-duals would result in an owner of a 2.2 acre lot paying $385 a year plus interest on the bond, or $3,850 plus interest inter-est over 10 years. Snarr said he expects some opposition to the district at next week's hearing. The proposed district is based on a 2.2-mile stretch of Old Ranch Road that goes east from Utah Highway 224 to the far edge of the Snyderville Basin, ending where the road turns north. It covers about 1,250 acres serviced by Old Ranch Road on either side, said Snarr. The county plans to upgrade up-grade the road as a standard collector highway, Snarr said, with a 70-foot-wide right-of-way and pavement for two 12-foot lanes plus a shoulder and median. The present width of the two paved lanes is 18 feet, according to Snarr. The proposed new roadway road-way would take most of its right-of-way from the southern side, primarily because Red Pine Canal runs along much of the north side. Snarr said also that some of the southern-side property owners own-ers are those who petitioned for the district. Proposed work will also include realignment and reshaping re-shaping of the two 90-degree turns in Old Ranch Road into an S-shaped curve, according to Snarr. The north-south portion of Treasure Mountain Ranch Road will also be paved, he said. Project costs will come from right-of-way purchase, grading and paving, and drainage work. The county may pay a portion of the cost. However, Snarr said that has not, as yet, been decided. If more than half of the property owners in the proposed district object at the May 29 hearing, Snarr said the county must drop the proposal. If objections are less than 50 percent the commission has the option to approve. It could also trim the planned construction goals or reduce the levies placed on property owners, he said. If the district is formed, the commission will hold a board of equalization hearing at a later date to hear any landowner who believes the district would cause him a hardship. The public hearing on the proposal to form the special district will begin at 6 p. m. in the Parley's Park Elementary Elemen-tary School. |