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Show Commission denies appeal on hotelbowling alley Summit County Commissioners Commis-sioners agreed with their planning commission, and voted unanimously Tuesday to deny a hotel and bowling alley proposed for the Silver Springs development. They also ruled, however, that developer Richard Kimball was allowed by the county to develop commercial projects pro-jects there,," T. 'vxf L r. i - The County Planning Com-' mission denied the proposal on June 14, after Silver Springs residents said it would cause too severe an impact on the area. Citizens argued the developers had promised to bring in "neighborhood "neigh-borhood commercial" to serve Silver Springs itself. Kimball appealed to the County Commission, arguing his proposed site was zoned commercial last year with no other restrictions attached. at-tached. The commissioners said their planning department should say more clearly what is allowed under the Commercial label. Said Assistant As-sistant County Attorney Terry Christiansen, "Our code doesn't define Residential-Commercial, and it would help if you gave an idea what that is." Dick Kohler, planner for Silver Springs, said the developers would like a list of uses broken down into "Yes," "No," and "Maybe." Kimball said he would attempt to find a compromise compro-mise with the planning commission. He suggested putting in a better access to the site, and eliminating the bowling alley. |