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Show Hearings on kiosk scheduled A proposed information center on . the outskirts of Park City will be a topic at two meetings this week. The Park City Council will hold a public hearing today at 5 p.m. on the kiosk, to be located on a leased half-7 acre parcel on the the west side of Utah Highway 224, about 1,500 feet north of Payday Drive. It is a project of the Park City Chamber of CommerceConvention Com-merceConvention & Visitors Bureau. The information center will be an open-air sign structure displaying a map and a directory concerning major ma-jor lodges in town, fire and police stations and other prominent features of Park City. The city has -provided funds to the v ChamberBureau for the project, - which is designed to orient tourists ' as they approach the town. t. The parcel is presently part of ' Summit County, but is contiguous to city boundaries. It will be submitted for annexation and zoning (Recreation (Recrea-tion Open Space designation) to the Park City Planning Commission at its Dec. 18 meeting. The session is set to begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Mar-sac Mar-sac Municipal Building. City officials also said the kiosk parcel is not being planned in isolation, isola-tion, but could be coordinated with future development there. The parcel, is" on property owned by Franklin Richards and is bounded on the north by Enoch Smith property. proper-ty. If those areas are developed later, said city planner Dave Boesch, the kiosk access also can serve those two areas as an access to the highway. It is likely there would be a need for an access there in the future. If Richards' property was , developed, he said, it would not be practical for it to access onto Payday Pay-day Drive. City planning director Bill Ligety also said the site could lend itself to a four-way intersection. The kiosk is across the highway from a road stub that is part of the MacLeod Creek property. Details of the kiosk were described describ-ed by Malcolm "Mac" MacQuoid, a member of the Chamber Bureau committee that is planning the pro-i pro-i ject.; The basic structure would be fouF( large timbers, with sides flar-uing flar-uing out at the front, and a shed-like ' (.roof. It will also include a telephone. ' A sign to direct motorists to the kiosk will be placed at the side of the road 500 feet before the cutoff to the structure, MacQuoid said. Some site work has already been done on the parcel, according to city engineer Eric DeHaan. This included includ-ed a deceleration lane approved by the Utah Department of Transportation Transporta-tion and parking spaces for six vehicles. The site work was approved by the Summit County Commission this October, Oc-tober, said county plannning direc-tor direc-tor Jerry Smith, with the understanding understan-ding that the city planned to annex the parcel. The site will be leased by the Chamber Bureau from Richards on a seven-year basis, said Boesch. |