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Show Plans sufoiratted for Mayflower development by Teri Gomes A group of Dutch investors this week submitted to Wasatch County a set of plans for Mayflower Properties, a project which will include more than 2,000 dwelling units, cost in excess of $300 million and will be located on the east side of Bald Mountain. According to Clark Mower, project coordinator with the Salt Lake firm of Bingham Engineering, the group hopes to enter into an agreement with Deer Valley to build and operate ski lifts on the Mayflower property. "We are primarily interested in land development in this project, said Mower. "We don't want to be in the ski business. We have a great deal of confidence in John Miiller and Edgar Stern (of Deer Valley) to produce a great ski area." Deer Valley currently leases land from the Mayflower group for some of its upper Bald Mountain runs. The project has been prepared with two sets of plans, contingent upon the development of the Jordanelle Reservoir Reser-voir project. If Jordanelle is approved, U.S. Highway 40 would be rerouted through the project and reduce the number of dwelling units from 2,536 to 2,072. The dwellings will be comprised of hotel condo units, single family homes and employee housing. There will be between four and seven "neighborhoods," or separate villages, built depending upon the reservoir approval, Mower said. Wasatch County Planner, Bob Math-is Math-is has found the group of Dutch investors good to work with. "We believe the developers have in mind a tasteful, efficient resort. We have enjoyed working with them even J with our many disagreements. We will try and review these plans as soon as possible, I hope by May of 1984." If the plans are approved next spring, Mower feels the project will begin construction next summer on the 320 dwelling units planned in the first phase. Those units would consist of 170 hotel condo units, 100 single-family dwelling units and 50 units of employee housing. "After those units are constructed it would then make sense to build the proposed four-person ski chair (lift) originating in the Neighborhood I area of the Mayflower project and terminating in the Silver Lake area of Deer Valley," said Mower. - While the plans state there are 789 acres "suitable for development," the total land involved in the project, including the ski runs, is over 4,500 acres. Once the entire Mayflower Development Develop-ment is complete it will offer a conference center, a 300- to 500-person amphitheatre, a number of parks, groomed cross country trails with a trailhead and warming shelter, 17 outdoor tennis courts and a 20-stall horse barn. If the Jordanelle Reservoir is created, Mayflower will have five miles of shoreline with a developed beach, mooring slips, picnicking and boat launch facilities and campgrounds camp-grounds in proximity to the Mayflower development. The plans state the area will be governed by a master homeowners association with special service districts dis-tricts to provide police and fire protection and maintenance operations. opera-tions. Mower said the plans submitted this Mayflower to A5 I (DdDimitniniiinedl ffpqpimn . . Mayflower from 1 week are the culmination of two years of work on the project. "We have spent two years with the review team for Wasatch County and with the County planner himself. We hope to receive our density determination determina-tion based on these plans." In Wasatch County, density determination determi-nation approval would, in one motion, give the developer's master plan approval, zoning approval and density approval. However, Mathis said the project is not without its share of problems still. Acquiring water rights for the property has been a long struggle nearly complete now, according to Mathis. Then there is still the needed approval of a sewer hook-up with the special service district in Heber. The name of the Mayflower project has appeared recently in the news because of land fraud charges filed against three men in connection with the sale of this and a number of other properties. According to Mower, the sale of the Mayflower property came under false pretenses; the Dutch investors were misled about what approvals had already been given on the project. Charges have been filed in the case against Ed Vetter, Bernard Whitney, and Rienk Kamar. "The Dutch investors have divorced themselves from any involvement with (that group)," said Mower. "The fact that one of the men involved in the fraud is also Dutch is just an unfortunate coincidence." Mathis said the Mayflower group has come up with the necessary monies needed for filing to date, just over $40,000. And the group has maintained a $25,000 revolving account for the county to draw various fees from. In addition, Mower points out there is around $10,000 currently posted with the special service district in Heber. Assuming the project is approved next spring and plans are set in motion for the first phase of the project, estimated to cost about $100 million, the investors will need to show equity of approximately one fourth that amount, says Mathis. "And we understand they will be able to come up with those kinds of dollars." Mower admits the process has been long, with a great many disagreements, disagree-ments, but he thinks that is overall a healthy sign. "We are tied together wanting something that is aesthetically and economically pleasing, and still meets the requirements of the developer. There have been compromises on both sides." |