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Sunday, October 28, 2018

Planning Commission Public Hearing


 Anita Weston, Reporter
Rich Civic Times

GARDEN CITY, Utah. October 3, 2018.  The Public Hearing began at 5 p.m.  There were three or four families at the hearing who were worried about a re-zone from C-3 to Recreational Residential on Lot 22.  Conestoga Ranch owns Lot 22 and wants to put two man-camp-style housing units as well as a two studio-style duplexes on this property to house their workers.  The families at the meeting were concerned with the type of buildings that are planned as well as the age of the workers who would be living there.  The workers will be young adults who like to party and have fun when they are not working.  The families were concerned about the neighborhood and being able to maintain a family-oriented area.  They were also concerned with late hours that younger workers seem to enjoy.

They also mentioned the dance hall that is just down the street that already brings many young people who are involved in drinking, drugs, and lots of noise.

Clark Thornock, the individual in charge of the employee at Conestoga Ranch noted that some changes had been made that would be more appealing to the neighborhood.  He reported that they would not be using man-camp-style housing units.  It had been decided to have five studio, one-bedroom duplexes instead of the man-camp-style housing units.  The units will be air-conditioned and have all been newly painted.  He is currently in the process of writing rules and regulations that the employees will be asked to follow.  These rules will be monitored closely.  He also noted that most of the employees do not have cars, so there will not be a lot of vehicles parked at this location.


1 comment:

Neighbor To the North said...

Which subdivision is this?

Curious as to how these workers will be any louder or stay up later than the typical tourists/summer residents that inundate GC every summer.

Also were the protesters trying to infer that these Conestoga workers are more likely to do drugs than the standard tourist because there's a dance hall close by?