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Show E3oiiiiss Don TGie HHiDfls: By LE ANN ALLEN It is difficult to make decisions based on facts instead in-stead of emotion when the proposal is to build homes above the 5200-foot level, possibly pos-sibly to the top of the peak. THE BOUNTIFUL City Council faced this emotional crisis again when Maple Hills developers presented their proposal for planned unit developments in the Mueller Park area. Developers Ted Peterson and J. Golden Barton asked for conceptual approval of a 105-acre area showing a density den-sity of 2.4 residential units per acre. THE COUNCIL objected to the long-loop access road, expressing fear that it would not be adequate for emergencies. emergen-cies. "If 22-foot wide streets are permitted, there absolutely could be no parking on them, especially during snow removal," said City Engineer Jack Balling. THE DEVELOPERS agreed to the council's proposal to create a special taxing district to charge mountain dwellers more for snow and garbage removal, which would be more costly because of the elevations and slopes. There have been some agreements during the past two years as developers and council have searched for a satisfactory arrangement. The developers will provide the reservoir and a site for a needed fire substation. MR. BARTON says they could meet the ordinance on roads but would have to fill and cut the mountainside. The main benefit of the narrow road is preservation of vegetation. vege-tation. The developers tried to fit the plans into first the condominium con-dominium ordinance and then the R-l ordinance, seeming to take the best of both worlds, but it left the council in confusion. con-fusion. THEIR LEGAL counsel, Layne Forbes advised them to prepare a new planned unit development ordinance especially for the terrain. Mr. Peterson explained the problems of a delay in plans as there is a 30-day commitment from a New York Savings and Loan Company for $2 million. "Those things are timely and may not last," he Said. COUNCILWOMAN Phyllis Southwick compared investments. invest-ments. "I feel we have an investment in-vestment of another type. Our children and grandchildren will have to live with our decisions," she said. "I feel stampeded." She made a plea to wait for the city's moun-tainland moun-tainland study soon to be completed. The council tried to put the city's engineer Jack Balling on the spot, asking him for a recommendation on the plans. He said it could be done from an engineering standpoint but that he didn't want to make the decision. He asked the council to seek for an outside consultant to study it from the city's standpoint. PROFESSIONAL studies have been done on the hillside but have been seen from the developers viewpoint. "You can get anything out of studies that you want to," said a councilman. Mayor Morris Swapp asked for an executive session, closed to the press next week before council meeting. He stated his reason as "personality "per-sonality involvement where feelings could be hurt." There were several objections to the closed meeting. He said that all decisions would be made in public. |