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Show ( Draper postpones Traverse vote 5 HvMAKCIIADIXX K t I " ' 4 HvMAKCIIADIXX K ' Draper City postponed a vole to annexing 4 000 j acres of Utah County land for the proposed ! Traverse Mountain development at its Thursday . city Council meeting after some city worker's ! t rajse(j questions with the development, t The delay came as a surprise to Dennis Wall $ who represents the Arizona-based Estes Corp., (he company proposing to build the develop' j ment, and to some city council members. ! i Traverse Ridge is a planned community ; development which eventually will consist of 6000 residential units, a resort 600-room hotel, an 18 hole golf course and compatible industry on 5 1 Traverse Mountain. ; Estes representatives and the city council had i I spent several hours the previous Tuesday night going over the details on the annexation and i : development agreement - and had reached an accord at the close of the meeting. In the two-day interim between the meetings, three letters of concern were given to the city, i one by the city's planning coordinator, one by an economic development advisor and a third by a Planning consultant. addreTs -r ('0uncil members waited to D er PI rUVTSe Moun,:,in issll(' W;'" nd nvolv, H lln( 0,rC,in;,lor Tom SP were CerCi;vlralld,stussi,m in ,he - r udIS w,ne (LsC'U1Ssion was oyer. an obviously E he J entCCd 'he C0Until chambers t0 "car ro S,5 d?C,Jsion n annexin8 the Property would be postponed two weeks Mayor Charles L. Hoffman made the an-lZ7uTt: an-lZ7uTt: 7he CUncil is -decided as to riSh no y d 'right- If we g over this thing Hoffman said the city was not ready to vote on ession o n n' Prp0Sed another work schedld ?CC (i' WitH 3 Vte n the annexation meeting regU'ar DeC' 3 cil coundl "What distresses me most is coming to a meeting th.nking that we are in accord," Wall said. "In the past !H) days we have made 20 alterations and some people haven't paid attention at-tention to it." Wall said that the issues raised in all three letters had already been addressed by Estes Corp. and the City -- and said the last minute nature of the letters was unprofessional. "I think there's something wrong with the administration and how they deal with projects like these." Wall said. Utah County Commissioner Gary Anderson who attended the meeting said he too was disappointed at the postponement of action for annexation of Estes' Corporation Traverse Mountain development. "We've a vested interest." Anderson said after the meeting. 'We've been fighting hard for that hotel. There's 600 jobs there during the construction con-struction phase and more jobs plus the transient and room taxes later on there, with no expenses to Utah County. "I don't know what their problem is tonight but there can't be very substantive problems. They ( Draper) said they'd give it approval. i m mm. m. .,, -m,,,, , ... , , j Dennis Wall, representative for Kstes Corp., registers frustration as he leaves Draper City Council meeting. |