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Show In Bountiful Condominium Project Gets Preliminary Ok By GARY R. BLODGETT News Editor BOUNTIFUL -- Prelimin-ai7 Prelimin-ai7 approval was granted by the Bountiful City Council last Wednesday night to begin the first phase construction of a 204-unit condominium complex. com-plex. THE PROPOSED Turtle Creek complex by Prowswood Company is to be located at 740 South Main, across the street from the Bountiful City Hall complex and adjacent to the Post Office. . The on-again, off-again project pro-ject for the past couple of years will be developed in phases with the first phase to include 36 units, according to Mike Holmes, representing Prows-wood Prows-wood at the council meeting. HE SAID the complex will be started and completed as soon as possible because "we aready have a waiting list and we haven't even advertised." He said the Lund Floral and home will remain during the tirst phase of construction but I" i i asvwmiMm-. probably will be removed later to complete the project. ALSO, DEVELOPERS have been requested to provide left and right turn lanes off Main Street. City Manager Jack Balling said Main Street has been recently repaved and will be marked soon, to include the turn lanes. Action by the council to approve the complex followed a decision the night before by the Bountiful Planning and Zoning Commission to recommend recom-mend approval of the project A public hearing had been held earlier with no complaints from residents. IT WAS decided then, however, that the Palmer property on 500 South and 200 West will not be included in the condo complex. The condos will be constructed on slightly more than nine acres and will include two and three bedroom units in a price range from $55,000 to $90,000. Density of the complex will be about 22 persons per acre. compared to 26 allowed by the zoning ordinance for such a development, de-velopment, it was expalined. RECREATION facilities will include a swimming pool and tennis courts. The old Lund home may be used as a clubhouse for the project. Main Street and 500 South has long been a traffic congestion conges-tion area, but city officials did not place much concern on this problem last Wednesday night except to recommend that there will be no parking allowed on the west side of Main Street from 500 South to 900 South -- which will also include in-clude "no parking" north and south of the Post Office on the west side of the street. THERE WILL also be "no parking" allowed on the east side of Main from 500 South to 1500 South. The curbing will be marked and "no parking" signs erected. Motorists are also urged not to park on either side of Main from 900 South to 1500 South, but parking will not be restricted in this area, the council concluded. i-irl -i - 1 "-niB-ifi i uniLr |