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Stallions power past Aviators See A7 TOOELETRANSCRIPT S T C BULLETIN S THURSDAY February 11, 2021 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 127 No. 74 $1.00 City changes building height restrictions CEILLY SUTTON The Church announced STAFF WRITER 2400 North 400 West as the The Tooele City Planning location of the temple. Commission meeting approved When city staff learned that increasing the height limit on the temple, which was previ- religion structures in residen- ously going to be located in tial areas in the city during Erda, was going to be built in their Wednesday night meet- Tooele City, they began look- ing. ing at city code to see what During the meeting, Jim may apply to such a facility as Bolser, Tooele City community the city had never seen before, development director, pre- Bolser said. sented the proposed changes When city staff looked over to Section 7-2-8 and Table 3 of city code to see if there was Chapter 7-14 of the Tooele City anything in city code that Code. would not allow the temple “As you are all aware, on the to be approved, they found a 19th of January, The Church restriction on building height. of Jesus Christ of Latter-day “As you know, these facili- Saints announced the loca- ties are larger than you would tion of the Deseret Peak Utah consider a regular meeting PARKER DUNN/TTB PHOTO Temple inside of Tooele City An aerial view of the announced location for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Deseret Peak Temple. Tooele City is increasing the height boundaries,” said Bolser. SEE HEIGHTS PAGE A5 ® restriction on religious structures in residential neighborhoods to avoid conflict with the temple or other religious structures. LOVE IS IN THE AIR Salt Lake City Airport revises overlay plan for Tooele Airport Residential uses now included in zone nearest airport TIM GILLIE fathers existing residential EDITOR uses and allows for expansion A new overlay plan for the of existing residential uses, Tooele Valley Airport was according to airport planners. presented to the public in two The initial overlay plan online open house meetings showed no residential or “sen- this month. sitive uses” were to be allowed The new plan showed fewer in Zone A — the area closest to proposed restrictions in the the runway. area near the airport than in The new overlay plan the plan previously shared showed RR-5 and RR-10 as with the Tooele County plan- permitted uses and RR-1 as a ning commission. conditional use, in accordance The new plan was shared with Tooele County’s Land with the public in Zoom webi- Use Ordinance. Sensitive uses nars on Feb. 3 and 10. would still not be allowed in “We’ve listened to the con- Zone A. cerns we’ve heard and pulled Aviation compatible uses back,” said Brady Fredrickson, would be encouraged in Zone senior aviation planner with A. Salt Lake City. “We want to be Sensitive uses are described a good neighbor.” as uses that congregate people Fredrickson said the current in large groups, such as some plan takes no uses away from recreational uses, schools, or current land users. hospitals. KEITH BIRD/TTB PHOTO The new overlay plan grand- Maddie Sevy and Sandy Jefferies, Soelberg’s employees, stand in front of their Valentine display at Soelberg’s in Stansbury Park. SEE AIRPORT PAGE A5 ® Valentine’s Day is Sunday, February 14. Addiction recovery group provides help to those struggling CEILLY SUTTON nization based out of Salt Lake. McDonald believes Tooele treatment, detox, support reach at the Alano Club where associated with it. STAFF WRITER B.A.M recently developed needed an addiction recovery individuals in sober living, pro- people who were homeless or “We are working on work- A chapter of an addiction a chapter in Tooele County in group, because of the growing vide housing and shelters, and just down on their luck could shops to show people how recovery group that meets on December, because of the need number of addicts living here. host meetings for recovering come and get them. We had to deal with addicts, like if Saturdays in Tooele County for addiction recovery help. “Tooele is number two in addicts. pizza.” they have them in the fam- aims to destroy the stigma “Our main goal is to be a overdose deaths in cities in B.A.M also does outreach McDonald said that the ily, because we live in a time associated with addiction and safe space for addicts who are Utah,” said McDonald. “There projects. group plans to organize a proj- where most people are in con- provide support to those who seeking recovery and be able is definitely a need for this out “We have done an outreach ect helping the elderly who live tact with addicts. There is defi- are struggling. to provide resources for them,” here. I think it has to do with a out here where we get a lot in nursing homes. nitely a line between enabling The group is affiliated with said Ashton McDonald, who is lot of different things.” of clothing donations and The group helps spread and being too hardcore,” said Beyond Addiction Mosaic in charge of the Tooele chapter B.A.M helps those strug- emergency sleeping bags,” said awareness in the community —B.A.M — a non-profit orga- of the group. gling with addictions get into McDonald. “We did an out- about addiction and the stigma SEE ADDICTION PAGE A5 ® BULLETIN BOARD B5 CLASSIFIEDS B6 Swim team OBITUARIES A6 CORONAVIRUS TRACKER survives COVID SPORTS A7 See A3 Data as of February 10, 2021. Source: Utah Department of Health TOOELE COUNTY- Known Cases: 3,333 UTAH- Known Cases: 358,581 Hospitalizations: 216 • Deaths: 28 Hospitalizations: 14,054 • Deaths: 1,774 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN THURSDAY February 11, 2021 More on paint store coming to Tooele City Gateway Overlay. will deliver their materials, so the building footprint and also Sherwin-Williams “The purpose of this overlay they needed as much room as a parapet wall around half of is to ensure enhanced land- they could get there,” he said. the roof line that provides ver- builds new store scaping and enhanced building Aagard said that the appli- tical variation to the roof and CEILLY SUTTON architecture and parking lots in cants will be required to plant screens rooftop mechanical STAFF WRITER order to maintain an aesthetic flowers, shrubs, and trees to equipment.” The Tooele City Planning and pleasing entrance into comply with the North Tooele Council member Shauna Commission approved the Tooele City,” said Aagard. Overlay District. Bevan, said that she prefers to site plan for a paint store that The Overlay District also Aagard also said that with- have the applicants put mulch will be build next to Popeye requires that the Tooele City out a proper irrigation system, in, because the flowers, shrubs, Louisiana Kitchen on the city’s Planning Commission review the things planted there would and trees may not grow where north end. the site plan and the architec- not grow. they are planted. The site plan was submitted ture, according to Aagard. “Staff recommends that the Council members, Melanie to the city by Scott Smith, rep- Aagard presented the site planning commission approve Hammer, Matt Robinson and resenting Belterra Tooele, LLC. plan to the commission and this site plan with the added Chris Sloan didn’t agree with In January, the planning explained that the paint store condition that an irrigation sys- Bevan. commission unanimously voted would be 4,000-square-feet. tem be installed,” he said. At the end of the meeting, to approve the paint store, but It will be located close to state Aagard also said that the the commission decided that now the site plan for the store Route 36, with the parking lot applicants could decide to put applicants would be allowed to needed to be reviewed and located on the east side of the mulch instead of the flowers, choose if they wanted to add approved. building, he said. shrubs, and trees, as this would flowers, shrubs, and trees, or The new store, a Sherwin- The building is required to also comply with the rules mulch to the property, because Williams Paint and Paint have 14 parking stalls, which regarding the North Tooele the engineer, said that sprin- Supply retail store, will be the applicants plan to build Overlay District. klers were already added to the located south of Popeyes there, according to Aagard. Aagard explained the build- property. and North of the Tooele Access to the new paint store ing architecture to members of Justin Brady, council mem- Orthopedics Center in the will be from 400 east and the the planning commission. ber said that the site plan was vacant lot located at 2347 northern access of the store “The building is largely “quite nice” and the paint store North 400 East. will be shared with Popeyes. composed of stucco panels will be a great addition to the The property is zoned gen- The southern access into the consisting of three shades of city. eral commercial, according to building is needed for truck gray and scoring lines to break Construction on the store Andrew Aagard, Tooele City deliveries and supplies, Aagard up large expanses of one mate- will begin soon, now that the Southwest and southeast views from documents submitted to Tooele planner. explained. rial,” he said. “There is a brick site plan has been approved. City for the proposed Sherwin-Williams Paint Store to be built south of It is in the North Tooele “They have semi trucks that coat extending around half of [email protected] Popeyes in Tooele City.