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TOOELETRANSCRIPT S T C BULLETIN S THURSDAY May 21, 2020 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 126 No. 102 $1.00 Temple rezone gets first reading by Tooele County Commission TIM GILLIE The overall gross den- EDITOR sity of the housing would be The rezone request and mas- 2.66 units per acre, but that ter development agreement includes open space and the for the Church of Jesus Christ temple grounds. Lot sizes in of Latter-day Saints’ temple the accompanying plan ranged development in Erda will be from half-acre to 4,000 square- held over for a second reading feet. and possible action at the next The planning commission Tooele County Commission voted 5-0 to send a favor- meeting. able recommendation for the That’s what the County rezone request to the County Commission decided after Commission. discussing the plans for the The County had received temple development at their about 700 emails on the meeting on Tuesday night. rezone request, according to Suburban Land Reserve, a Jeff Miller, Tooele County tax-paying real estate invest- planning staff. ment affiliate of the Church Around 93% of the emails of Jesus Christ of Latter-day have been in favor of the proj- Saints, submitted a request ect with about half of those to rezone undeveloped land referencing only the temple owned by the Church that it with no comment about the has historically used for agri- proposed residential develop- cultural purposes on the north- ment, he said. west corner of state Route 36 Those opposed to the CLAYTON DUNN/TTB PHOTO and Erda Way from RR-1 to a residential development Former Toeele City Councilman Dave McCall, Tooele City Mayor Debbie Winn, statue scupltor Marvin Hitesman, and Larry Winters — a planned community zone. have largely cited opposition Vietnam Veteran and a Tooele City Parks Department employee at Tooele City Veterans Memorial Park on Thursday morning with the The proposed plan submit- to higher density housing, unveiled statue of a Vietnam veteran and his tracking dog. ted with the rezone request expressing a desire to keep shows 32 acres of open space, the area zoned RR-1. In rec- walking trails, and parks, a ommending approval for the pioneer cemetery, a farmers’ rezone, the planning commis- market area, the temple and a sion also suggested that the Statue unveiled at Tooele variety of housing styles total- ling 446 units. SEE TEMPLE PAGE A5 ® City Veterans Memorial Park Sculpture features a Vietnam soldier with Commission his tracking dog holds PUD appeal CEILLY SUTTON STAFF WRITER A bronze statue of a Vietnam veteran and his track- for second er dog was placed at Veterans Memorial Park in Tooele City on Thursday morning. reading, tables Marvin Hitesman, a local artist, along with a company called The Foundry created the $54,000 statue. rezone request The 8-foot-tall, nearly 5-foot-wide statue features a Vietnam veteran and his Labrador dog and can now be Future of Erda developer’s plans on hold viewed at the park. Hitesman said that he spoke to officials at Tooele City after TIM GILLIE At the request of Joe he had an idea to create the EDITOR White, a local developer, the sculpture. The Tooele County County Planning Commission Tooele City officials decided Commission held a resolution approved a planned unit to go through with the statue that would have denied the development – conditional use after speaking with Hitesman. appeal of the planning com- permit application for property “I was researching all of mission decision to approve a west of where Clayton Road the equipment that the guys PUD-CUP for a development meets Droubay Road in east in Vietnam wore and as I was in Erda for a second reading Erda during their Sept. 4 meet- doing that, I came across a during their meeting Tuesday ing. Labrador,” he said. “Most of night at the Tooele County The approved PUD-CUP the time you see shepherds. Building. plan called for 112 homes on So, I was like, what is the story They also decided to table a total of 113 acres. The site here? Then, I saw it was a action on a rezone request for plan showed 76 lots of approxi- tracker team.” the property that was involved mately one-half acre, 33 lots During the Vietnam War, in the appeal. of 1-acre or larger, and three certain soldiers volunteered “I think we should table this lots of one-third acre, with to go over to Malaysia and due to the complexity of the three agricultural preservation become highly trained, along issues, do some offline meet- parcels totaling 19 acres and a with their dogs — which were ings and discuss this,” said 2-acre park. usually Labradors — by the Tooele County Commissioner A group of Erda citizens British and the Malaysian mili- Kendall Thomas. appealed the planning com- tary. When they were finished Later in the meeting Thomas mission’s decision. The Tooele training, they would go back said, “Table this, bring it back County Commission heard the to Vietnam and begin their and let Joe (White) decide appeal during their Nov. 19, CLAYTON DUNN/TTB PHOTO service. what he wants to do ... (the Tooele City workers lower the Vietnam Memeorial statue on to its concrete pedestal in Veterans PUD-CUP or the rezone).” SEE REZONE PAGE A5 ® Memorial Park. SEE STATUE PAGE A5 ® INSIDE BULLETIN BOARD B3 CLASSIFIEDS B4 Grantsville gets NASCAR Letting go of HOMETOWN B1 ready for new coming back to anger OBITUARIES A8 building UMC See A4 See A2 See A9 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN THURSDAY May 21, 2020 New fitness center includes aerial silks They also will offer Saturday Mother and daughters open Trio Aerial Fitness morning classes. Aerial silks is the most popu- CEILLY SUTTON out there. Then we moved lar class that they will offer. STAFF WRITER out here and we decided that In aerial silks, the individual A new fitness studio in because we have been driving is hanging from secure fabric Tooele City that includes aerial into Salt Lake for classes for which is secured to the ceiling silks classes, Zumba, strength the longest time. At that point and acrobatic moves are per- and flexibility, and hoop and we decided that there’s noth- formed. barre classes will open on June ing out here like this so, let’s Right now, the studio is set 1. just open it!” up to social distance. After The three owners, a mother The studio will offer five each class, everything will be and her two daughters had different classes. They will disinfected and students will the idea to open up the studio also offer single class passes, be expected to stay six feet because they realized that monthly, punch passes, and apart from one another. Tooele County didn’t have a free trials. To find out more or to studio similar to theirs. According to Doust, classes reserve a spot in a class, you “We grew up doing gymnas- will mostly be offered on week- can visit trioaerialfitness.com tics,” said Ashley Doust, one of day evenings, but the studio or email them at trioaerial@ COURTESY TRIO AERIAL FITNESS the daughters. “We used to live does offer two morning classes gmail.com The aerial silks area of Trio Aerial Fitness. In aerial silks, individuals perform acrobatic moves while hanging from fabric suspended from the ceiling. in Salt Lake and took classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. [email protected] Grantsville prepares to construct new public works building MARK WATSON CORRESPONDENT Plans to update or replace Grantsville City’s public works administration build- ing became urgent after a fire damaged the building and destroyed important equip- ment back in August. City employees demolished the building at 336 West Main Street on Monday and Tuesday to get ready for construction of a new building. “Having a new public works administration building is going to be fantastic with the city growing and our work- load is increasing,” said James Waltz, public works director. Grantsville City Council approved a budget of $700,000 to replace the build- ing with an initial cost esti- mate of $640,000. PC Architects completed the floor plan, and requests for construction bids are sched- uled to go out in June or July, COURTESY GRANSTVILLE CITY according to Waltz. The build- Grantsville employees demolish the old public works administration building Monday. ing should be completed some- time this year. construction meetings, lunch- Street near the public works where you can swipe your The old building measured room, reception area, office building where farmers, busi- credit card and purchase COURTESY GRANTSVILLE CITY 1,100 square feet, but the new for an engineer and restrooms. nesses or residents can pur- water. It’s the only place in the Grantsville City improved its culinary water supply standpipe on Main building will be more than The City also has improved chase water. county where you can do that. Street. Residents can purchase water at the standpipe by using of a credit twice the size at 2,469 square a water standpipe on Main “It works like a gas pump The new standpipe is aestheti- card. feet. The facility will provide cally pleasing unlike the old The City plans a splash pad an office for the public works one. It’s very user-friendly,” for Hollywood Park this year director, an area to hold Waltz said. if it is able to obtain grant The City also opened its money to complete the project. four playgrounds at public “There is no other splash pad parks last Saturday after being in Tooele Valley,” the public TOOELE TRANSCRIPT forced to close in mid-March works director said.