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Bit ‘n’ Spur Rodeo Results See A3 TOOELETRANSCRIPT S T C BULLETIN S THURSDAY July 8, 2021 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 128 No. 12 $1.00 NEW CHIEF SWORN IN Lost snake still at large If sighted call dispatch, advise police CEILLY SUTTON of the containers the snakes STAFF WRITER were in was inadvertently An eight-foot-long boa con- knocked over, according to strictor has been on the loose Hansen. for almost a week in Tooele The animal control officer City after escaping its home on and the owner of the snake July 2. looked for the boa for over 90 The snake escaped from minutes, according to Hansen, a home in a neighbor- but were unsuccessful in find- hood on the east side of the ing it. city near 400 North and “Today we haven’t had Antelope Avenue on Friday, any sightings of the snake,” July 2, according to Jeremy Hansen said Wednesday. Hansen, Tooele City Police If the snake is spotted, com- Department’s public informa- munity members are encour- tion officer. aged to call dispatch at 435- “The owner of the snake 882-5600 and not approach called in to say that his eight- the animal. foot boa snake was missing “The snake is not really a from his yard,” Hansen said. hot weather snake,” Hansen “When the animal control offi- explained. “It’s not really cer got there, she learned that accustomed to this area but it the owner was having brand could have found a wet area. new windows installed on his The owner was hoping that home, so he took his snakes the snake went back inside the and put them out back to try home but he hasn’t had any to keep them out of the way.” luck finding it.” While in the backyard, one [email protected] CEILLY SUTTON/TTB PHOTOS Tooele City Recorder Michelle Pitt (top) swears in Adrian Day as the Tooele City chief of police at the City Council meeting on July 7. Chief Day (above left) hugs his wife, Tiffany, after being sworn in while his two sons look on. Tooele City Mayor Debbie Winn (above © 2019 GUILLERMO OSSA/SHUTTERSTOCK right) congratulates the City’s new chief of police. An 8-foot boa constrictor escaped from its owner in a Tooele City neigh- borhood. List of truck routes grows Lost Tooele County Council adds more roads to proposed truck route ordinance man still TIM GILLIE truck route ordinance at their Road, from I-80 to Vegas EDITOR June 22 meeting. Street; Ellerbeck Road, from The Tooele County Council According to the ordinance Lime Plant to Grantsville City expanded the number of roads it would be unlawful to oper- Line; Gold Hill Road, from missing that large trucks could travel ate a truck on a road that Ibapah Road to Pony Express on under a proposed truck is not designated as a truck Road; Grayback Hills Drive; Rock Morris disappeared two weeks ago route ordinance as they con- route, except under conditions Ibapah Road, from Gold Hills tinued to discuss the ordinance described in the ordinance. Road to Nevada state line; CEILLY SUTTON during their work session on Roads that were designated Mormon Trail, from South STAFF WRITER Tuesday night. as truck routes in the first Mountain Road to Grantsville The Morris family is eagerly seeking The County Council took draft of the ordinance were: City line; Puddle Valley Road; the public’s help in finding Rick Morris, a their first look at a proposed Aragonite Road; Burmester Rowley Road; South Mountain 32-year-old diabetic man who left home on Road and Stansbury Island June 25. Road. Around 1:00 a.m. on June 25, Morris’ At the request of Jed blood sugar dropped to dangerous levels, Bell, Tooele County Roads according to Mariah Morris, Rick Morris’ Department director, a revised sister. draft of the ordinance added “My mom noticed that Rick was acting dif- the following roads the list ferently early Friday morning,” Mariah Morris of designated truck routes: explained. “She took his blood sugar and it Bates Canyon Road, from was 37. She was having a hard time getting state Route 36 to the railhead; him to eat anything or getting him to go up Bauer Road; Erda Road from stairs to call the paramedics, if needed.” Fassio Egg Farm to Sheep Rick Morris’ mother, sister, and brother COURTESY MARIAH MORRIS Lane; Faust Road from Dunbar were able to get him to eat a sandwich at Rick Morris disappeared from his home two weeks Road to SR-36; Mercur Canyon 1:47 a.m. in hopes to raise his blood sugar. ago. Road; Pole Canyon Road, “Rick told my mom he loved her and she including, upon dedication by could go to bed,” Mariah Morris said. “She mind.” the state, the portion of cur- thought he was fine. He had a little conver- Rick Morris’ disappearance is strange rent state Route 138 that the sation with my sister around 1:55 a.m. My because he didn’t do things he normally does state intends to dedicate to mom still thought he was a little low from the when leaving the house, according to Mariah the county; Sheep Lane from conversation, so she went to check on him at Morris. SR-138 to Grantsville; Silver about 2:30 a.m. and he was gone.” “Rick always locks his computer when he Avenue from southside Gravel After Rick Morris’ family noticed he was leaves it and he didn’t lock it,” she said. “Rick Pit to Mormon Trail Road; and gone, they began trying to search for him, but usually takes his backpack and insulin with the portion of SR-138 that will their search was unsuccessful because it was him when he will be gone for a while and be dedicated to the county, dark, according to Mariah Morris. everything he’d take and was left behind.” effective upon dedication. “Because his blood sugar was so low, he The Morris family are desperately seeking Bell also asked that Clive may have acted inebriated, drunk, argumen- the community’s help in finding Rick Morris. FILE PHOTO tative, happy, delusional, et cetera,” she said. A truck navigates on Bates Canyon Road. Bates Canyon Road will be a “He was most likely in an altered state of county truck route if the proposed draft truck route ordinance is adopted. SEE ROUTES PAGE A4 ® SEE MISSING PAGE A7 ® WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE BULLETIN BOARD B5 CLASSIFIEDS B7 THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY The story of OBITUARIES A6 the ‘Fighting Preacher’ See A8 100 99 97 99 100 97 95 70 70 63 66 70 70 66 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN THURSDAY July 8, 2021 OPEN SPACE Rezone recommended for 37.9 ACRES DROUBAY ROAD DROUBAY SR 36 ERDA WAY Erda planned community CATHOLIC CHURCH PARCEL all density of 3.5 residential units 10.0 ACRES Commission lowers recommended density per acre instead of the applicant’s requested 3.53 residential units per TIM GILLIE ways, infrastructure, open space acre. EDITOR networks, and the general locations During the June 16 planning com- The Tooele County Planning of districts — villages, towns, neigh- mission meeting, Colosimo explained NEIGHBORHOOD Commission voted to recommend borhoods, and business and research that Oquirrh Point will include 45.9 ACRES VILLAGE approval of rezoning nine parcels parkways, according to the County’s attached-unit residential and single- 28.1 ACRES in Erda totaling 356.84 acres from land use ordinance. family detached residential units RR-5 —rural residential with a 5-acre “But this body has chosen to along with some commercial devel- minimum lot size — and C-G — com- require a traffic plan at this time,” opment. mercial general — to the planned Miller said. A total of 10% of the residential OPEN SPACE 50.6 ACRES community zone. The planning commission was units, or 122 units, will meet moder- VILLAGE The planned community is to be concerned about sending a recom- ate income standards. 36.7 ACRES NEIGHBORHOOD known as Oquirrh Point, according to mendation for a rezone to the County The moderate income housing will (5 ACRE LOTS) TOWN CENTER 45.3 ACRES ROAD DROUBAY the rezone application. Council without a traffic study as be spread out in the development 9.2 ACRES SR 36 Joe Colosimo, the applicant, they recently had a rezone recom- instead of segregated in one area, 33rd Parkway submitted a plan showing 1,260 mendation returned to them from the according to Colosimo. residential units on property during County Council that the traffic study Colosimo said he would not TOWN CENTER NEIGHBORHOOD 15.1 ACRES OPEN SPACE 11.9 ACRES their planning commission’s June 16 was completed after the commission oppose raising that to 11% or 12%. VILLAGE 11.8 ACRES meeting. voted to recommend approval. Moderate income housing is 24.2 ACRES The planning commission tabled In general, the traffic study said defined in state code as “housing VILLAGE 11.5 ACRES the request during their June 16 that it was anticipated that the level occupied or reserved for occupancy until a traffic study could be submit- of service for the roads adjacent to by households with a gross house- ted. Oquirrh Point would be at Level B hold income equal to or less than The planned community zone has with the development. 80% of the median gross income for multiple stages of approval. The first Traffic engineers describe Level households of the same size in the stage calls for a description of the of Service B as a stable flow where county in which the city is located.” Sewer services will be provided by and donate a site for a school, total land area to be rezoned with the motorists still have a high level of The moderate income housing will Stansbury Park Improvement District, Colosimo said.