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Show North Salt Lake Notifies County It Will Annex Winegar's Business By TOM BUSSELBERG FARMINGTON - One of the county's last major businesses in the unincorporated area could soon be part of North Salt Lake. THAT WOULD mean the loss of hundreds of dollars in sales tax revenue to the county that's seen a gradual dwindling of those funds as businesses and residences have been annexed, especially from the Val Verda area into Bountiful Bounti-ful or North Salt Lake. County Planner Barry Burton indicated at the weekend he'd received formal notification Friday from North Salt Lake officials of their interest in annexing Winegar's Warehouse Foods at 3371 S. Orchard Drive along with some adjoining residential property. STATE LAW necessitates the action, Mr. Burton explained, because of Winegar's intention inten-tion of expanding above the $750,000 limit that forces areas within a half mile of an adjoining city to request annexation. Some adjoining residential re-sidential property would have to be added to make the store's annexation contiguous with North Salt Lake. Utah law prohibits creating "islands" or areas of cities completely separated by unincorporated unin-corporated areas or other cities. THE RESIDENCES would be included in the city's annexed area to help "offset the impact to the county" of losing sales tax dollars that are collected by the grocery store with part being returned to the county, or point of sale entity. "There's no specific date when they said this would be done," Mr. Burton continued, noting signature approval must be obtained from a "simple majority" or just over 50 percent of the property owners before action could proceed. pro-ceed. If no formal protests are received, no hearing would be required before the county boundary commission, set up to help coordin ate annexations and hear complaints. THOSE PROTESTS would have to come from adjoining entities, including South Davis Water Improvement District, Davis County or Bountiful. The area includes a combination of some condominiums, higher-density developments as well as single family residences with Winegar's Wine-gar's previously indicating desire to build adjoining ad-joining commercial space in an April hearing before the county planning commission. COMMERCIAL areas are often tax revenue generators for government entities, providing both sales and property tax revenues vs. only the latter for residences. No comment had been received from North Salt Lake officials as of presstime. IN OTHER action before the county planning plan-ning commission, last week, the planning department de-partment staff was instructed to prepare guidelines guide-lines governing temporary commercial buildings, build-ings, such as small refreshment or flower stands. Mr. Burton said a request has been received for an icy-drink-type concession booth that would operate during the summer months in Winegar's parking lot, but said no regulations are in place specifically affecting those sorts of non-permanent, temporary facilities. WHILE ONLY electricity would be required with no foundation planned for the moveable building, planning commission members agreed a building inspection would be needed to assure proper construction and safety codes were followed along with specified time period limiting how long the facility would operate. There were concerns such facilities could degenerate into unsightly, unsafe places left unattended if not property regulated, although Board Member Kathy Redd stressed the many summer jobs provided by such facilities. |